This Second Edition has been updated with even more comprehensive information on the industry. The best-selling first edition came as the result of many requests from clients, students and participants in the numerous workshops of the Sponsorship Unit has run, for recommended reading material on sponsorship. You will still find that most of the information contained in this book is original. This easy-to-read text provides practical tips, examples and a dozen comprehensive checklists. The book includes: Practical ideas and insights on how to attract sponsorship; A thorough understanding of sponsorship, its uses, and the reasons why companies sponsor; Skills to identify potential sponsors and what their assessment procedures are likely to be; Practical advice on how to approach a corporation for sponsorship and prepare the necessary proposal; Tips for getting the contract right; Proven methods for keeping sponsors happy; Latest methods for evaluating sponsorships.

The Sponsorship Handbook is a practical guide to sponsorship aimed at practitioners both working for sponsoring companies and those searching for sponsorship. Using the tools, techniques, advice and best practice advocated in this book both sponsors and sponsor seekers will benefit from better servicing and activation once a sponsorship is implemented, with metrics that enable data-based accountability rather than hearsay. "Everyone in the sponsorship industry, from the biggest events and properties to the smallest, are benefitting from the increasing knowledge, data availability, metrics and professionalism in using sponsorship. The Sponsorship Handbook is a part of that process which we hope will bring future success and proven sound results to all in the complex and exciting world of sponsorship." —Luis Vicente, Head of Partnerships, Manchester City Football Club "An indispensable reference for any marketer who is keen to build his/her brand using sponsorship; the new ascending way to empower brands." —Faisal Al-Dail, Saudi Post

Twelve Step Sponsorship is the first truly comprehensive look at sponsorship, a role recovering people benefit from both as sponsees and ultimately as sponsors. Sponsorship is a rich and enduring part of tradition of Alcoholics Anonymous. Twelve Step Sponsorship delivers both the theory and practice--how to do it and why--in a clear, step-by-step presentation. Written by the author of Getting Started in AA, a widely acclaimed guide for the newcomer to the program of AA, Twelve Step Sponsorship is the first truly comprehensive look at sponsorship, a role recovering people benefit from both as sponsees and ultimately as sponsors. Twelve Step Sponsorship includes informative sections that deal with: finding a sponsor and being a sponsor. Twelve Step Sponsorship offers a welcome reinforcement to the tradition of "passing it on" from one generation of sponsors to the next.

A Guide to teaching the 12 Steps. The Sponsor's 12 Step Manual is an (independent) approach to delivering the program of A.A. that will help people learn faster and remember more. The manual uses a six-point method of teaching to reinforce learning and to increase comprehension and promote awareness of the Steps to its fullest extent. The process starts with understanding the language used in the Steps and progresses on to an in depth study of what is in the literature and how it applies to an individual. The six levels also cover self reflection and creativity with the final level of each Step looking at how a sponsee may carry the message to a newcomer. This is not a 'stand alone' book, for it to work you will also need to have access to A.A.s Big Book and The 12 Steps and 12 Traditions. Now available in a NEW WORKBOOK EDITION.