Re: Few personal notes about Canadian Closed
Jean, I will gladly and categorically say that I cannot claim any opinion I have about chess games/knowledge is superior to yours. However, I can just as categorically state that you are 100% wrong about sponsors; when my company sponsors anything, there is a very strict control and forecasting to determine what dollars and cents benefit is going to come out of it. Any successful company does exactly this with their sponsorship budget - any marketing executive going to a board of directors and stressing the main value of the marketing dollars as being "intangible" will not have a very long marketing career. Obviously, charitable donations is a different story.
It is very much not beside the point; in fact, it's the central crux of understanding how chess should present itself to businesses to seek money from them.
Sponsorship is a business partnership where both sides gain from a third party (the marketplace), and a situation where both parties have direct and measurable incentive to continue, and extreme effort is not required by either side to continue.
Donation is a charity act where the side receiving the "charity" must consistently and aggressively ensure that the relationship continues by constantly approaching the donator and pushing for resources.
Take this Empresa (whatever they do). If they accept that their money in this tournament is not going to result in $50K+ back to them, then it is encumbent on the tournament/organizers/players to continually justify to Empresa why they should keep paying. If it/they/you don't, eventually the company will find other, more profitable uses for their money.
Originally posted by Jean Hébert
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Whether you call it "sponsorship" or "donation" is beside the point
Sponsorship is a business partnership where both sides gain from a third party (the marketplace), and a situation where both parties have direct and measurable incentive to continue, and extreme effort is not required by either side to continue.
Donation is a charity act where the side receiving the "charity" must consistently and aggressively ensure that the relationship continues by constantly approaching the donator and pushing for resources.
Take this Empresa (whatever they do). If they accept that their money in this tournament is not going to result in $50K+ back to them, then it is encumbent on the tournament/organizers/players to continually justify to Empresa why they should keep paying. If it/they/you don't, eventually the company will find other, more profitable uses for their money.
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