If you are watching WCPune and wondering whether you should sponsor it, here are a couple of reasons that we feel will help you make a decision.
We do everything that every WordCamp and other web conferences do: excellent sessions, awesome speakers, great networking. And we do more:
#1 The largest WordCamp
With 500 participants from 6 countries, WCPune 2015 was the largest WordCamp in India in terms of the sheer size. With the same number expected for this year, it’s a chance to engage and interact with 500 enthusiastic WordPress professionals. Very few conferences will give you such a targeted audience, don’t you agree?
#2 The most progressive, inclusive, interactive and experimental WordCamp
It’s the only multi-track, multi-activity WordCamp in India. There’s something for everyone.
WCPune was the first to move away from traditional lecture like talks and continues to be the fisrt to start more interactive & experimental activities like Panel Discussions, Debates, QnAs, Interviews, BOF sessions, AMAs, etc.
We have more out of session and in the lobby activities, right where your booths are. It’s not just a conference, it’s a community gathering and event.
The only WordCamp in India with scholarships and discounts for women, students and other under-represented groups. We try our level best to include participants that you might never meet at other events.
It’s the only WordCamp in India that started sessions in Marathi & Hindi to ensure better participation and larger reach for you.
Don’t you think you should encourage such creativity and innovation? Won’t you like to be a part and one of the reasons for such an unparalleled experience for the WordPress community in India?
#3 Organised by the most active WordPress community in India
With regular meetups, workshops, training sessions, translation sprints, etc Pune WordPress Knowledge Exchange is the largest (more than 1500 members) and the most active community (more than one meetup a month) in India.
You are not just supporting one event but the whole community in their activities around the year. Simply put, Pune is where most of the WordPress action is! You don’t want to miss all this action, do you?
#4 Engagement by design, not by chance
WordCamp Opening event with Sponsors’ Bingo & Speaker Introduction Quiz will happen in the lobby where sponsor stall are located.
Bingo with Sponsors is an activity designed to make your interaction with attendees fun and engaging.
We started the selfie station at WordCamps in India and it was always crowded and the backdrop could include your brand. You get to be a part of social media posts that get shared organically way more than any advertisement that you’d ever spend on.
Why would you miss out such an opportunity?
#5 Strategic Table Location
We don’t just set a sponsorship area and place your table there and hope that people will come visit you. The organisers of WCPune give a lot of thought on how to make sure that our sponsors have the best chance to interact with the attendees and vice versa:
Your tables will literally be at the center of things, between the conference area and the food area and surrounding the Happiness Bar & Networking area.
Water stations and tea & coffee stations are strategically placed near sponsor tables so that you have more footfalls.
We’ll make sure you’re tired from talking and interacting with our participants by the end of the day! 😉 We’re sure you’d love that, won’t you?
#6 Meet business decision makers
The majority of attendees at WCPune 2015 (almost 250) identified themselves as developers or managers. Of the 160 odd tickets sold till now (and there’s still a month left), about 100 identify themselves to be in the same category. Add to that a number of self-employed bloggers and you’ve got a whole bunch of people who make or are are primary influencers in business decisions.
That’s almost the same as the total strength of most web related events in India. Where else will you find such a specific niche audience?
#7 You’ll be in good company
You’d get to meet your fellow sponsors who share the same enthusiasm for the WordPress community and probably are in the same business.
You get to network with Speakers and Organisers in a speaker-sponsor pre-event dinner. Each of them are leaders and influencers in their own right.
See the list of sponsors, speakers & attendees. Why would you want to miss that?
#8 Get massive pre-event reach
Our reach and engagement of social networks reaches 1000s on people with every post. Our website gets more than 500 visits daily. We reach more people organically via our marketing than many events do with massive advertising budgets. Wouldn’t you want to capitalise on such a reach?
#9 Fits your budget
Choose from a slot that’s comfortable and affordable for you:
- Gold: ₹50,000
- Silver: ₹25,000
- Bronze: ₹10,000
- Agency: ₹5,000
- Individual: ₹2,000
That’s a steal compared to any other web conference in India. If you can spend lakhs on big budget events and get much less, you surely can spend a couple of thousands and get much more organic engagement, we think. Don’t you agree?
#10 WordCamp Radio
A novel concept at WordCamps, we are going to have a venue wide Public Address system where we announce updates, scheduled activities and thank you’s to sponsors throughout the day.
You’ll reach everyone, no matter where they are at the venue, on the day of the event. Where else would you get that?
Head to our Call for Sponsors page to sponsor us today. If you’re still not convinced and need to discuss or clarify something, feel free to reach out to us using the contact form or mail to us at pune@wordcamp.org.