Your company can join the hottest non-stop land-based poker tournament event yet! World Poker Showdown is known for affordable, fun poker tournament events in exciting Caribbean destinations like St. Maarten, Costa Rica, and deluxe Poker Cruises. WPS is a natural way to market your poker business to our perfect target captive audience.
Players that attend our events all play online, and here is your chance to market to them! Sponsoring a WPS event is a great way to send online players to your own land-based event.
Your WPS Sponsorship Package includes the following:
* PRE- EVENT MARKETING ON YOUR WEBSITE
Run WPS Satellites- Run a series of small satellites with a full poker vacation as the prize. (You choose the value. Suggested is air and hotel and entries into selected tournaments including main event. WPS is available to help you put this together.)
Satellite Promotion - Your satellites will be plugged in selected printed and online advertisements giving players a reason to sign up and play on your site before the event. Typical plug: WPS St. Maarten satellites now being run on the folllowing sites: xpoker.com, ypoker.com, and zpoker.com.
WPS Logo Use- Use our WPS branded logo on your website as needed.
* PRE-EVENT PRINTED MEDIA
Printed Media - WPS will advertise the events in assorted poker magazines in which sponsors logos and satellite info will be promoted.
Printed Handouts - WPS will print promotional WPS cards and coordinate their distribution in several key places. Cards will include sponsors logos and satellite info.
Direct Mail - WPS will direct mail players
* PRE-EVENT ONLINE MEDIA
Online Promotion at WorldPokerShowdown.com- Sponsors will be promoted on the official WPS website, and will have multiple live link opportunities from the WPS site back to their own websites. You will also receive inclusion in the WPS Online Satellite Directory where players can find what sites they can play satellites to win the cruise package.
1,000 Clicks‚- In addition you will be given internet advertising links on more than 100 poker-related websites, with text links promoting your online satellites and providing a live link back to your cruise promotion page on your website. WPS sponsors will get text links put on poker-related sites until they get 1,000 clicks to their website.
E-newsletters - WPS sponsors will have logo included in email newsletter mailings to our poker player database.
* MARKETING AT THE EVENT
Tournament Event Sponsorship - Sponsors will have a tournament event named for them (ie: PokerX.com $500 Buy In No Limit Tournament.). We suggest sponsor offer an appropriate added prize (optional) to the top finishers in the form of online funded accounts (with cashout restrictions) to the prize pool.
Sit and Go Sponsorships - Sponsor Sit and Go Satellites during the two week-long event. They will be verbally promoted as the XSite.com $50 Sit and Go by director. In addition to the normal prize pool, top finishers would receive an account or other suitable award on sponsor's site to encourage trial.
Table Felts Logos- Sponsors will have their logo placed on table felts.
Hotel Room Players Package- Sponsors have option to supply printed and other promotional materials for hotel package inclusion which all players who register through our travel agency will receive in their cabins. Materials may include brochures, bonus codes, shirts, CD's, magazines, etc. Materials must be delivered to destination prior to first day of tournaments.
Premium Passout- In poker room, sponsors are authorized to pass out t-shirts, caps, cd's, calendars, mugs, and other promotional items.
Picture at Winners Presentation- Promotional photo opportunities with the winners of the various events.
Sponsor Hostesses- Sponsors can bring hostesses to work the poker room dressed in appropriate promotional attire. Related expenses are responsibility of sponsor.
Formal Thanks- Sponsors get formal thank you during farewell cocktail with players.
To summarize, this is a comprehensive promotional package before, during, and after the actual event. For sponsorship package pricing details or to get more information on how to become a sponsor of one of our land-based events or poker cruises in the future, please contact us through the convenient form on our contact page.