Reach Out - Touch & Be Touched

I'm beginning to learn the power of social media. I used to think that if I posted something, my 600+ friends would see it. That in itself is pretty good publicity. However, I'm seeing that the reach goes way beyond that.

Could your business benefit from an extra 1200 to 1400 people knowing about it? That's how many people were reached in each of the first two weeks of our Portraits of Hope Facebook page. The page generated over 300 "stories" With nearly 200 fans in the first two weeks, many of them posted links, comments, and photos from the page on their own "Wall" reaching their friends. According to our Facebook stats, over 1400 people saw those stories the first week, and over 1200 the next. Collectively, our Fans have over 50,000 friends. Only about 1/4 of the Fans of the page are my own Facebook "friends," another testimony to the reach of the project. But when you add to that, the additional wall posts I place on my personal page that are seen by my own friends (nearly 700), and the nearly 400 fans of the Carr Portrait Art page, that reach is greater still.

When you support the Portraits of Hope:

1. You will touch the lives of cancer survivors by helping provide them with a portrait of themselves with someone special who helped them through their illness and treatment process. (And believe me, it is a process).
2. You will touch many more lives by helping raise money for the fight against cancer. The money raised will fund a display that will raise awareness and additional money. Any sponsor money raised over the cost of the display and images will be donated to the Peggy and Charles Stephenson Oklahoma Cancer Center to provide services to cancer patients.
3. Your business will be listed on the display as a sponsor, be mentioned in promotions for the display, which could include mentions on the radio promotion for the premiere of the display. (KOMA is on board to promote the event). And you will be listed as a sponsor on the Portraits of Hope page and mentioned in Facebook posts and on Twitter with your name going out in front of literally 1,000s of social media users.

There are three levels of sponsorship, and the amount of publicity given to sponsoring businesses will be determined by their level of sponsorship. Please contact Carr Portrait Art if you would consider sponsoring this project and would like more information.