The race to CMEpalooza Gold sponsorships has become a curious annual phenomenon, right up there with Antarctica’s Blood Falls. Inevitably, not long after we put the wraps on CMEpalooza Fall, we’ll get an email from a handful of folks asking if their organization can reserve a Gold sponsorship for next year’s iterations of CMEpalooza.
“Sorry,” I tell them. “There are no ‘sponsorship savsies.’ You’ll have to wait until the formal release of next year’s sponsorship prospectus, at which time it’s first come, first served.”
To even the playing field even further, we’re taking the unusual step here of announcing the release date for the 2024 sponsorship prospectus (geez, I feel a little like Taylor Swift. Look out Travis). It’ll happen at approximately 10 am ET on Monday, Dec. 4.
Here is what will happen:
- At 10 am ET, the 2024 sponsorship prospectus will be made available on the Sponsor tab of our website. We may put out another blog post – we’ll see if we feel it’s needed.
- At the same time, we’ll send out a pithy email that includes references to Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Derek Warnick (now that’s an unlikely trio) (note from Derek: Not as unlikely as if you had included Kant. That guy sucks all the fun out of a room.) to our top-secret mailing list of past and prospective sponsors. If you don’t get an email from us, it’s nothing personal, and you can still secure a CMEpalooza sponsorship. All of the info you need will be on our Sponsor tab at the time this email goes out.
- Once these two things happen, you can then email me and ask about securing a sponsorship for 2024. While you can secure any level of sponsorship at this time, it’s our limited, higher-end sponsorships that tend to go quickly. So if you think you are interested, I wouldn’t recommend waiting too long.
Of course, watch this blow up in our faces, we’ll get zero emails on Monday, and people will laugh at us. It won’t be the first time (note from Derek: nor the last).
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