Sponsor
a Social

Partner with The Small Town Social® for one of our monthly gatherings so you can get high quality leads, connections + customers for your business. This is a unique opportunity for you to get your brand in front of thousands of ideal customers within our local community, without exhausting your current audience or efforts.

Sponsoring a Small Town Social® is a high-profile package where ONE selected VIP sponsor gets prime real estate in event and marketing materials for the month of their designated gathering. This also includes an exclusive VIP networking experience for the sponsor to engage one-on-one with guests and potential leads. 

The promotional features for this package includes the following for you:

WEBSITE + EMAIL EXPOSURE

Event Page Display

  • Prominent sponsor feature blurb and logo placement on sign up page with social media and website links listed for the designated event

Email Marketing

  • Logo / banner placement at the top and bottom of the newsletter to all subscribers for the month (approximately 2 emails)

  • Logo / banner placement at the top and bottom in all event emails to guests (approximately 7 emails)

  • Dedicated section with a featured article, video interview, or product / service review (up to 500 words) in event one newsletter and one event email

  • Link or CTA directing traffic to the sponsor’s website or landing page in all emails.

SOCIAL MEDIA EXPOSURE

Social Media + Membership Platform Exposure

  • Sponsor shout out on Facebook event page for designated event with tags (if available)

  • Sponsor shout out in Facebook group for designated event with tags (if available)

  • Sponsor shout outs on Facebook Page and Instagram Profile (post, Story, reels, highlights, and/or pinned posts) with tags (if available)

  • Sponsor shout out in The Small Town Social’s VIP Membership Platform

EVENT EXPOSURE

In-Person Event Exposure 

  • Exclusive networking opportunity where sponsor can engage one-on-one with guests and potential leads

  • Sponsor brand name recognition on-site to include, logo or ad on display at check-in table (8.5x11in; stanchion provided)

  • Opportunity to display one coupon, promotion or leave-behind at check-in table such as pamphlet or stack of business cards

  • Sponsor’s name mentioned in the event introduction and conclusion, with the opportunity for sponsor to say a *quick* hello to attending guests as part of the brief introduction (60 seconds max)

  • Opportunity to host a raffle or giveaway on-site during event to capture email subscribers

(Total Value: $5,400)

Your Investment: Only $300!

A bit more about THE SMALL TOWN SOCIAL®

✦About The Small Town Social®✦

The Small Town Social® is a female networking community based in Pinehurst, NC founded by Certified Quantum Life + Success Coach, Liz Fleming, that helps grown women make great friends through thoughtfully curated gatherings, socials and other fun-tivities for females.

Liz started The Small Town Social® in March 2018 when she first moved to Pinehurst, NC + wasn’t sure how to make friends as a grown woman. Today, 7 years and over 100 events later, The Small Town Social® supports thousands of women throughout the area (and beyond!) with its popular socials, immersive personal + professional development workshops, off-site retreats inside of its VIP Membership Experience, and annual women’s gathering, GLOWCON. Today, The Small Town Social® connects and supports women throughout North Carolina and attracts guests from as far as Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York and Vermont.

Liz is a multi-passionate 2x business owner, mom, military spouse, entrepreneur, CEO, and Certified Quantum Life Coach who is passionate about helping ambitious women wake up to their own power and purpose, on purpose.

 ✦Our Audience✦

Our gatherings are for women only.

There are a lot of programs out there for everyone but our gatherings are designed specifically for women who are eager to build their connections and their confidence in a safe space together.

Our gatherings are for women from ALL walks of life.

The Small Town Social® welcomes women from ALL walks of life throughout Moore County, statewide, and beyond. This event supports all women, not just moms, military spouses, business owners or retirees. This wide variety of women is what sets our gatherings apart from other local networking events and opportunities.

Our gatherings are for women ages 21+.

The Small Town Social® supports a wide range of ages but our core demographic is women aged 35-65, who are eager to make new connections and explore opportunities to enhance their health, wellness and level up their current lifestyles.

Our gatherings attract women beyond Moore County too.

The Small Town Social® supports the women in our local community but also attracts women from as far as Raleigh, Cary, Durham, Fayetteville, Raeford, and more. All are welcome. We have a few guests who travel hours to attend our monthly and annual gatherings and workshops.

 ✦Our Key Metrics✦

  • 1,600+ Facebook Group Members

  • 5,000+ Cross Platform Social Media Followers 

  • 5,500 Weekly Instagram Impressions

  • 293% Average Increase in Follower and Non-Follower Activity

  • 800+ Active and Highly-Engaged Email Subscribers (we frequently purge our list of dead leads, bots and spammers every to keep our audience authentic, reliable and to boost our open + engagement rates for you)

  • 50+ New Subscribers Per Month

  • 51% Email Open Rate

  • 75+ Average Number of Interested Guests for Published Facebook Events

  • 65+ Average Number of Sign Ups for Socials

  • 30 Average Show Up Rate for Socials (50% split between new and returning guests)

  • 40+ Members in Private VIP Community

**The above numbers, specific to The Small Town Social®, are frequently tracked and continually growing. These metrics also don’t take into account additional exposure totals specific to GLOWCON or Founder, Liz Fleming’s, personal brand, from content that she’s often known to cross promote to her cumulative and growing audience of over 10,000 individuals across her email, social media, and podcast platforms.**

Perks of Partnering

DIVERSE + ENGAGED AUDIENCE. 

Our gatherings are specifically designed to attract and serve a very niche audience of local women across Moore County and surrounding areas. If you’re a local business owner then this sponsorship opportunity is the best way to get in front of a concentrated audience of your target consumers, allow you to attract more foot traffic into your shop or visits to your online store, and grow your overall fan-base, following and bottom-line. The Small Town Social® provides a highly unique opportunity to connect directly with local women who are known to make approximately 90% of the purchasing decisions for their family. This is not your stuffy average networking event that only touches a handful of random social media followers or business executives in dated pant suits. This is a strategically facilitated gathering focused on connecting women that’s full of newcomers and AMAZING brand loyals and hosted by a fast-growing company that supports over 5,000 women (and counting!) throughout the state.

EASY FOR YOU.

We’ve done our job to attract your ideal local customer to this event and offer you up on a silver platter to them for an entire month. Instead of paying for short-lived and expensive social media ads that publish to a cold audience with little return, you have the chance to jump in front of a niche group of local women who are already interested and in your target market. Being a sponsor for The Small Town Social® makes it easy for you to explore new connections you wouldn’t otherwise have had the exposure to AND convert an incredibly warm audience into customers ASAP without having to continually empty your pockets or hunt them down on your own or on the internet.

HIGH-QUALITY LEADS.

There are many individual and unique opportunities to connect during our gatherings that enhance your digital marketing exposure and lead generation opportunities. Guests arrive at our gatherings eager to connect and are often inspired to deepen every connection they make. Registrants and attending guests are active, warm leads who are eager for more, especially if they meet a business owner who has something amazing to offer them.

During networking events of this nature, guests are often ready to take action on-site. They’re no longer in the exploratory phase. They’ve invested their time and energy in attending, they’re inspired and excited to take the next step or try something new. The Small Town Social® is known to excite guests in a way that keeps them wanting more from those they know, like and trust, especially fellow locals.

EXCLUSIVITY = ZERO COMPETITION.

This is currently the only sponsorship package The Small Town Social® offers and each gathering is exclusive to one sponsor. That means all eyes are on you and your business only. Zero competition, zero worries. For the entire month you get the VIP treatment from us and can use that focused time as our partner to level up your local exposure as we continue to grow.

TESTIMONIALS

  • “I love partnering with The Small Town Social® for their women’s networking events! The women are all there to lift each other up and provide a support network.”

    - Samantha, Built Babe Fitness 

  • “As a sponsor for The Small Town Social®, I’m blown away by Liz’s level of organization. I have never worked with a brand that was so thought through in every aspect. Liz does a stellar job in the planning, communication and execution of her women’s networking events. I look forward to working with her again!”

    - Angela, Karma Spa Lounge + Beauty Bar

  • “As a female-owned local business that primarily employs women, I knew that The Small Town Social® was a great fit - empowering women and supporting women is our jam! Liz is very organized and easy to work with, and we enjoy meeting face-to-face with local women in our community.”

    - Krissy, Be Our Guest Travel Company

✦ What Makes a Great Partner ✦

Our enhanced and exclusive sponsorship package is designed to help you STAND OUT and stand in your power as a woman AND a woman in business. Our partners include product and service-based industries that serve and support women including: health and wellness, nutrition, self-care, skin-care, personal styling, jewelry, clothing and retail, handbags, travel, salons, jewelry, books, plants and gardening, and more. 

At this time we do not accept multi-level marketing business models, religious or politically-affiliated organizations of any kind into our sponsorships. Out of an immense amount of respect for our partnering venues we also consciously choose not to partner with any competing area restaurants or watering holes at this time.

We love working with various coaches and service providers but strive to partner with sponsors that are not a conflict of interest to our current community and business models (including Liz as our resident and go-to certified life coach for all of our programs). 

It’s our top priority that the businesses we do partner with *get* and *respect* our audience on all levels. Great partners don’t bully, spam, harass or treat our gal pals like icky car salesmen.

For these reasons, all interested sponsors are carefully considered, vetted and selected with an immense amount of care through our application process to ensure the potential partnership meets our needs and results in a smooth and beneficial outcome for all of those we love to serve.

✦ OUR Partners ✦

Built Babe Fitness
Blue Water Beauty
Southern Pines Massage
Bloom Precision Aesthetics
Forever Jules Permanent Jewelry
ARTworks Vass
Meet On May Co-Working
Process Cycling
Cabi Styling
Lindsay Foreman Wellness
Abby Hiller Wellness
Sam & Sea Artistry
Hollyfield Design
Karma Spa & Beauty Bar
Karen Griffith Styling
Pinehurst Surgical Clinic
Be Our Guest Travel Co.
R.Riveter
Hazel & Grace
Meghan Barnard Yoga
Crystals and Timber
Sandhills Nanny Co.
Cookies by Jay
Village Soapsmith
Lolly’s Lens Photography
Lumen Creative Co.
Mary Stone Music

 FAQs

  • Submit the form below and we'll be in touch. Thank you so much for your interest!

  • We’re interested in partnering with diverse individuals and businesses that are female-owned or operated and primarily support women and women’s health/wellness/beauty/nutrition as our gatherings revolve around the lifestyle needs for women. We give priority to Moore County, North Carolina female and BIPOC owned businesses.

  • That’s awesome and we’d love to hear more! We host 12 socials per year, one per month. Our venue list is carefully curated and currently at capacity but we are always open to making new connections and supporting as many local businesses as possible, so drop us a line via the application below and we’ll be in touch!

  • Submit your application and then we can chat. This is the only way we can access your contact information and get in touch. We do not accept sponsors outside of this application process at this time, including via DM. If you’re interested, submit an application. We typically respond within 3-5 business days. Serious inquiries only. 

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TESTIMONIALS

  • “I love partnering with The Small Town Social® for their women’s networking events! The women are all there to lift each other up and provide a support network.”

    - Samantha, Built Babe Fitness 

  • “As a sponsor for The Small Town Social®, I’m blown away by Liz’s level of organization. I have never worked with a brand that was so thought through in every aspect. Liz does a stellar job in the planning, communication and execution of her women’s networking events. I look forward to working with her again!”

    - Angela, Karma Spa Lounge + Beauty Bar

  • “As a female-owned local business that primarily employs women, I knew that The Small Town Social® was a great fit - empowering women and supporting women is our jam! Liz is very organized and easy to work with, and we enjoy meeting face-to-face with local women in our community.”

    - Krissy, Be Our Guest Travel Company