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Conference
The Women in Publishing Summit is an annual online conference that attracts thousands of authors seeking to learn more about the craft and opportunities surrounding publishing. But it's more than that! It's a community of professionals and a tight knit group focused on empowerment, encouragement, and success. We have monthly webinars and events all year.
Webinars
In addition to the annual virtual conference, Women in Publishing also hosts monthly webinars to highlight our sponsors for continued education, exposure, and promotion throughout the year. These webinars average 500+ registrations (sometimes as many as 1000!).
Promotion
Before, During, and After the Women in Publishing Summit, we are committed to delivering value and showing our sponsors gratitude through extensive web, email, social media promotion, webinars and partnership. We pride ourselves on taking the extra step to showcase our sponsors, in a way that is not done for sponsors anywhere else. Our main page hosts commercials and videos from our Sponsors from the time the conference ends in March until September 30th.
Who Are The Attendees?
The Women In Publishing Summit is the online conference women authors and industry professionals can’t wait to attend. The attendees want to learn about new strategies to grow their business, the tools that will take them there and build the confidence into a profitable full-time career, all via their business colleagues. They are seeking connections with publishers, service providers, printers, marketing solutions, editing, graphic design, formatting – basically any tool that can help them in their writing and publishing or professional journey.
Our job is to play match maker between attendee and sponsor.
Attendees
The Women in Publishing summit attracts authors of all genres and levels of experience. We also have a large number of publishing professionals – publishers, editors, cover designers, formatters, book marketers, and more. We provide a wonderful community, with opportunities for networking, training, and getting the resources we all need to succeed and grow as authors and industry professionals. Our attendees have reported they need help in all areas of writing, editing, production, finding a publisher, marketing, and more.
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Already Published
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Writing and Don't Know What to do Next
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Considered intermediate/advanced; looking for support
- Fiction 42%
- Non-Fiction / Memoir 36%
- Children's/Middle 14%
- Other / multiple 8%
- 42,206 views Feb /March 2019
- 72,000+ views Feb/ March 2022
- 75,000 in 2023 Conference Promo
Online Views & Web Traffic
The Women in Publishing continues to grow and expand, year after year. We have more than 1000 paid ticket holders each year!
“We love being a part of everything the Women in Publishing Summit does! We've been a proud sponsor for years, and will continue!”
“Sponsoring the 2019, 2020, 21, 22, and 23 Women in Publishing Summit allowed us to introduce ProWritingAid to a whole new community of writers and software users.”
In response to one of our webinars:
“I watched five minutes of the Plottr webinar and jumped right over to buy the tool. These Sponsor webinars provide exactly what I need to know to move ahead in my author business.”
Platinum
0 Available- Naming rights as Title Sponsor for the Women in Publishing Summit. Every participant will see your name and logo on the website, main daily schedule link, and all applicable marketing materials.
- A one-hour solo kickoff webinar in October to introduce our audience to your company and our new sponsor for the upcoming conference.
- Clickable logo on all applicable pages on the website including the Events page from Oct 1, 2023 – Sept 30, 2024.
- Complimentary ”Exhibit Booth” on the website (featured from March – Sept 30th) where you can provide a short video about your company and a special offer.
- 1-Hour Featured Naming webinar slot Day 1 of the conference to educate our audience on how your product and services will benefit them. No other events will happen during this time slot.
- Ads – regular Facebook, Instagram Ads, and Google Ads, promoting the Summit and our Sponsors. This campaign generates on average 32,000 visits to our website in the month of February and March.
- Clickable full-page ad at the front of our conference workbook.
Gold
0 Available (2 total)- A one-hour solo pre-conference webinar in November to introduce our audience to your company and our new sponsors for the upcoming conference.
- Dedicated emails to our community about our Gold Sponsors and their services.
- Clickable logo on all applicable pages on the website including the Events page from Oct 1, 2023 – Sept 30, 2024.
- Complimentary ”Exhibit Booth” on the website where you can provide a short video about your company and a special offer. Will be the main page of the website from March – Sept 30, 2024.
- 1-Hour featured webinar slot during the conference to educate our audience on how your product and services will benefit them. No other events will be happening during this time slot.
- Ads – regular Facebook, Instagram Ads, and Google Ads, promoting the Summit. This campaign generates on average 32,000 visits to our website in the month of February.
- Clickable 1/2 page ad at the front of our conference workbook.
- Promoted sponsor in our membership program, WIP School
Silver
0 Available (5 Total)- A one-hour solo pre-conference webinar in December, January, or February to introduce our audience to your company.
- Clickable logo on all applicable pages on the website including the Events page from Oct 1, 2023 – Sept 30, 2024.
- Complimentary “Exhibit Booth” on the website where you can provide a short video about your company and a special offer. This will be active from March – Sept 30th.
- Dedicated emails about your company, services, and offer.
- 1-Hour block webinar slot during the conference to educate our audience on how your product and services will benefit them.
- Ads – Regular Facebook, Instagram Ads, and Google Ads, promoting the Summit. This campaign generates on average 32,000 visits to our website in the month of February and March.
- Clickable 1/4 page ad at the front of our conference workbook.
Bronze
6 slots (1 available)- A one-hour solo post-conference webinar in April – September to our full community / audience introduce our audience to your company.Complimentary ”Exhibit Booth” on the website with promo video or clickable logo and special offer. Remains on website from March – September
- Dedicated email to our full list about your company and services.
- 1-Hour block Q&A sponsor booth during the conference to answer questions from our audience on how your product and services will benefit them.
- Clickable logo on all applicable pages on the website including the Events page. Remains active until September 30, 2024.
- Ads – Regular Facebook, Instagram Ads, and Google Ads, promoting the Summit. This campaign generates on average 32,000 visits to our website in the month of February and March.
- Clickable logo in conference workbook.
Session
6 (0 available)- A one-hour solo webinar to our entire WIP Summit Community outside of the conference to introduce our audience to your company.
- Dedicated email to our list about your company and services.
- Complimentary ticket to the Conference and breakout room during Networking Sessions to answer questions.
- Complimentary ”Exhibit Booth” on the website with promo video or clickable logo. Remains main page of website from March – September.
- Clickable logo on on all applicable pages on the website including the Events page. Remains active until October 1, 2023. This site receives on average 30,000+ visits each month during February.
- Clickable logo on sponsor page in conference workbook.
Coffee Chat / Networking Sponsor
Only 4 Slots (1 available!)- Huge hit in the 2023 Conference!
- Coffee chat sponsors are highlighted during our most popular session – coffee chats! (Networking sessions)
- We’ll play a short video (up to 2 minutes) about your company and provide time for Q&A with the attendees interested in learning more!
- Clickable logo on all applicable pages on the website including the Events page. Remains active until September 30, 2024. This site receives on average 30,000+ visits each month during February and March alone.
- Clickable logo on sponsor page in conference workbook.
Friend
Many Slots Available- Clickable logo on on all applicable pages on the website including the Events page. Remains active until September 30, 2024. This site receives on average 30,000+ visits each month during February and March alone.
- Promo video or clickable logo on the main page of the website – active March – September.
- Clickable logo on sponsor page in conference workbook and website.
Sponsorship Results
We offer a variety of sponsorship levels in order to meet the needs of both our sponsors and our attendees. What we have found is that any level of sponsorship garners a minimum of 200 highly engaged and eager website clicks. The clicks data is an average number of clicks to the sponsor website as we track them through our links. This does not include data on people who visited the website without going through our tracked link. It also does not include the number of people who clicked on and registered for sponsor webinars. The data on the clicks is only one small piece of the results. We have high attendance rates in the webinars with the sponsors. The average webinar registration is over 500 per webinar with 120-200 live attendees. We also have a large number of people go directly to sponsor websites after they have spoken with them in the actual conference. Based on the amount of returning sponsors we have each year and their feedback, we know our sponsors are gaining new clients and sales from our attendees.
Website Clicks
Platinum & Gold
Silver
Bronze
Current Sponsors Include
What You Need to Know About the Women in Publishing Summit
The Women in Publishing Summit is the first of its kind. A summit FOR women BY women. The month of March was chosen specifically because it is Women’s History Month, and marketing will be focused around women’s achievements as well as how we can work together to help women with the dream of publishing or growing their business with a book achieve that goal.
2024 is the 7th annual Women in Publishing Event. Our event continues to grow each year with increased ticket sales and engagement.
Our first event resulted in over 8,000 registrants and over 20,000 unique views to the online conference over a one week time frame. In 2019 we tripled our registration rate and more than doubled the online views just shy of 54,000 in the month of March. The online views for the 2022 promotions were 72,000+! In 2020 we moved from a free summit to a paid conference, and have consistently had over 1000 ticket holders each year. In our post conference survey from 2023, 79% said they will definitely return in 2024!
More importantly, our sponsors received great web traffic. All levels garnered at least 200 clicks, but our Gold and Platinum level sponsors received over 1100 clicks to their website and offers.
How We Market This Event:
We focus on getting the word out to women who are interested in writing a book AND publishers and experts in the industry who may also be in need of, or can refer your services to their clients. We accomplish this by delivering Facebook Ads, regular newsletter broadcasts to our email list of 20K+, announcements in our large communities, paid banner advertising, social media marketing, podcast appearances and guest posting, and search engine marketing techniques. Then we explode all of that with a stellar affiliate marketing program offered to all of our participants and other supporters of the conference. The affiliates take our messages and images to blow up their own social media about growing, learning, and sharing the good vibes. Our sponsors benefit greatly as our message reaches over 1 million eyes through these efforts.
Our marketing venues include but are not limited to:
- Social media communities of over 200,000 – plus those of our non-speaker affiliates
- Direct mailing to our own, our sponsors’ and our speakers’ databases
- Podcasts, webinars, and other guest appearances
- Facebook Ads and other social media ad campaigns
Get your word out to the female writing/editing/marketing/publishing/distribution industry and become a sponsor today. The sooner you get on board, the higher exposure you’ll receive even before the event starts!
Important Dates:
- October 2023 – We’ll begin to ramp up our website and social media activities, announcing speakers and sponsors for 2024 and kick off with our first major Sponsor webinar.
- November – Early bird / Black Friday ticket sales & Sponsor webinar.
- January 2024 – Turn on Facebook ads. We invest heavily in ads which have brought in over half of the ticket sales each year starting in 2020.
- March 6, 2024 – Event starts!
- April 2024-September 2024 – monthly webinars with our Sponsors (Bronze level & up)
The WIP Summit is the online conference that women writers, publishers, and professionals in the industry can’t wait to attend. They want to learn about new strategies, tools, and services to help them learn and grow as authors and professionals in the publishing industry. We strive to connect them with the people, tools, and services that will help them get there.
Social Impact
Our sponsors benefit greatly from our dedicated following and expert mix of Facebook ads, email broadcasts, paid advertising, social media marketing, podcast appearances, guest posting, and search engine marketing techniques.
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