Brand Camp ’10 theme centers round entrepreneurial thinking so I thought a blog post that fosters that mindset to attend Brand Camp would be a great topic.
How do you fund your vision? Whether you run a start-up, work for someone or have entrepreneurial aspirations life revolves around problem solving. History celebrates the great minds that use creative capital to get to their end results.
Brand Camp is a great event (with great speaker: Olivier Blanchard, PR Sarah Evans, Wayne Sutton, Peter Shankman, Lynne D. Johnson, and CD Vann) so I thought it would be cool to provide strategies to help people attend Brand Camp ’10 for free. I have listed a few options from micro financing to having a garage sale.
Conference Website Link: www.BrandCampU.com
1. Go Fund Me
Go Fund me (http://www.gofundme.com) is a way to raise money for your ideas and dreams via Micro-financing. People are willing to support events or causes that they believe in. Start by putting together a list of educational, career and networking benefits. A recent example of this is Heather MacDonald who raised $419 to attend the #Epic #Tweet-up in Detroit. Surely you can raise $75.
2. Employer Sponsorship
Employee Driven
Most companies are looking for ways to grow their social presence be proactive pitch your employer. Become the brand ambassador for your company and but together a business case of how a day at Brand Camp will benefit the company.
Employer Driven
Employers looking to integrate social media into their marketing mix should understand this is not just the job of one person. You can equip your employees/staff with the tools needed to become more knowledgeable using social networks for business. Employers can sponsor three or more employees for a small investment of $75 a ticket.
3. Corporate Sponsorship
Put together a proposal for a company that you will represent at Brand Camp by blogging and tweeting for them. Be creative maybe you can wear a company shirt and become a human billboard and create some social capital they can use Flickr, Twitter ,etc.
4. Garage Sale (Estate Sale)
For high society folks that don’t attend garage sales you can call it an ‘Estate Sale’. What is the difference? Typically it is zip code driven cities like Grosse Pointe take these events very seriously. Find some cool things at your house/apartment/condo that needs to be cleaned out or that closet which is full of items you have been meaning to get rite of. Before it gets to cool create a sign, tweet about it and post it to your Facebook status. Let your friends know what your goals are and you will be on your way to Brand Camp.
5. Collecting Bottles (in Michigan $.10/per bottle)
Now the most labor intensive option of them all is collecting returnable bottles in the state of Michigan. So lets break this down so $75 dollars means 750 bottles so if you develop a bottle collecting strategy for three-weeks which breaks down to 250 bottles. If you work 3-days a week for 8-hours a day for a month (You will need two other friends to purchase tickets at the same time to get the $75 rate.)
Let us know the creative way you are funding your way to Brand Camp!
