Run Your Own Camp: Finding Sponsors
// April 18th, 2009 // Comments // Run Your Own Camp
We have received a significant number of questions on how to run a freelance camp. In order to help as best as possible, Dmitry and I will be writing a series of articles detailing the lessons we have learned over the past year.
Running your own camp is a pretty straight forward process! The bar camp model is quite well documented and we borrow heavily from it. Dmitry is gathering a number of blog posts and will begin making a basic checklist.
There are two questions that comprise most of the emails we get: “How do I find Sponsors?” and “How do I get people to come?”.
To kick it off, I wrote a post last month on my own blog to help answer questions regarding finding sponsors: http://blog.shaneandpeter.com/2009/03/19/finding-sponsors/. I am re-posting the article below with a few modifications:
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