Sponsor Us;
Promote Yourself

chicago-sf.org is always seeking new opportunities to work with organizations and businesses for mutual benefit. Read on, or email us directly.

Audience & Exposure/Giveaways/Publishers/Fannish

Audience & Exposure

Major events:

• Monthly Social, forty to fifty attendees
• Pizza Excursions (monthly), variable 5-20 attendees
• Reading Group (monthly), 5-8 attendees
• Party at Windycon (annual), hundreds of attendees

Web traffic: Google Analytics records approximately 7,000 visits and 60,000 pageviews of the site between December 1, 2009 and February 28, 2010.

Giveaways for Placement

In return for merchandise of interest to our members, we can provide you with various levels of exposure on our monthly publication and website. With good doorprizes our members are sure to remember you fondly! Best suited for retail businesses and entertainment venues.

We offer Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum sponsorship levels.

• Bronze 5-10 dollars value:
  • Verbal announcement of sponsorship during giveaway at monthly social.
  • Acknowledgement on our monthly funsheet, a 17x11 newsletter distributed at the month's social.
• Silver 11-25 dollars value:
  • All the Bronze benefits as well as:
  • Acknowledgement on our website event announcement for that monthly social.
  • A 3.5x2 inch advertising space on our monthly funsheet.
• Gold 26-50 dollars value:
  • All of the Bronze and Silver benefits, as well as:
  • An advertising space doubled in size to 3.5x4 inches.
  • That's all the advertising space we offer on a funsheet, so you'll be the only graphic advertisement on the funsheet.
• Platinum 51 dollars value and above:
  • All the Bronze, Silver, and Gold benefits as well as:
  • A short text note proclaiming "Our [MONTH] Sponsor: YOUR BUSINESS/ORG NAME HERE" that links to your website will be included in the header of every page on our forum for the calendar month of your sponsorship.

Contact council@chicago-sf.org to arrange sponsorship.

Publicists and Publishers

Review copies, promotional giveaways, ARCs, and publicity information and flyers for genre events or announcements should be sent to us at:

chicago-sf.org Council
c/o Richard Riley
23576 N Melody Lane
Lake Zurich, IL 60047

Fannish Ad Exchange

The same space that we use to recognize commercial sponsors can also be booked for fannish organizations wishing to advertise their upcoming event. In return, we're looking for advertising credit in those organizations. Contact us now!