A plan to build the Fox Valley Forge sponsor experience the right way — where every partner's logo is pixel-perfect and every listing is a polished mini home page. We build all of it; the sponsor's only job is to review and approve.
Prepared for Mike Weyant & Mallory Gagliardi · Draft for review
The reference page (Wasco Athletics) is the common approach: a tidy grid of logos that link out. It's fine — but it treats sponsors as decoration. We can make the Forge sponsor page a genuine value platform that partners are proud to be on and want to renew.
Your non-negotiable, and rightly so. A sponsor page is only as premium as its worst logo. Every partner logo will be delivered in a razor-sharp format that stays crisp at any size — cleaned up, or fully redrawn, when what we're given isn't good enough.
No blurry PNGs, no jagged edges, no off-brand colors. If a sponsor hands us a low-res logo pulled off a business card, we redraw it so it's crisp at any size — from a favicon to a stadium banner.
Gather the sharpest available logo — from the sponsor or public sources. Their effort: none.
Already clean vector → just normalize. Anything blurry or low-res → clean it up.
Rebuild it crisp with sharp edges and brand-accurate color, in a stays-sharp-at-any-size format.
Zoom-test for sharpness, then the sponsor reviews and approves before anything goes live.
Two tools, matched to the logo — a professional redraw service ($14/logo) and AI. No in-house hand-drawing. My recommended default is the highlighted row.
| Approach | Best for | Quality | Cost / speed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sponsor's own logo file (their original design file) |
Any sponsor who already has a proper logo file | Perfect — just normalize colors & export | Free · minutes |
| AI redraw / cleanup Recommended | Blurry or low-res logos — most cases | Excellent — sharp, flat, brand-accurate; keeps the design faithful | Low cost · same-day |
| Professional redraw service | Trickier logos that want a human touch | High — professional redraw | $14/logo · ~24–48h |
Every result is checked at high zoom for sharpness and brand-accurate color — and nothing publishes until the sponsor has seen and approved their logo.
Click any logo and it opens a polished mini home page for that sponsor — built entirely by us from public info, so the listing actively promotes them instead of just crediting them. No forms, offers, or files to chase.
An auto-scrolling marquee of sponsor logos at the bottom of the homepage — exactly as requested. Pauses on hover, each logo clickable to its spotlight. We'll reuse the smooth infinite-carousel we already built for the Leadership section.
On the sponsor page, logos sit in an even grid — all cleaned and normalized to the same visual weight, so a big brand and a small shop both look sharp and intentional side by side.
We source and prepare everything — logo, photo, copy, and details. The sponsor's only step is a quick review and a thumbs-up before it goes live. Easy to say yes, easy to renew.
This is the pitch that helps the club close and renew sponsors — because the page gives them things a logo grid never could, with no work on their end.
Many small sponsors don't have a strong website. Their Forge spotlight can be the sharpest, most professional page they have online — and we build it for them.
Forge families are exactly the local customers these businesses want, seeing a polished listing — not just a logo in a grid.
A real link from a fast, well-known community site gives each sponsor a small, genuine boost in Google searches for their business.
We handle the logo, photo, copy, and setup. The sponsor reviews and approves — that's the whole ask. Easy to sign, easy to renew.
Engineered so adding the 30th sponsor is as easy as the 1st — and so it stays fast, accessible, and on-brand.
Every sponsor lives in one simple list, so the page, spotlights, and homepage banner all stay in sync. Adding a new sponsor is quick and clean — no rebuild.
Every photo and logo lives on a high-speed content-delivery platform and is automatically sized for the web — so pages load fast on any phone or computer.
Images load only as needed, everything works by touch and keyboard, and text stays easy to read — so the page is quick and usable for everyone.
Each sponsor is set up so Google and other search engines clearly understand their business — a little extra visibility, at no extra effort.
Most visitors are on phones. Grid, banner, and spotlights are designed for touch first, then scaled up.
Forge navy/gold/crimson throughout. Adding or updating a sponsor is a small, well-scoped task under the maintenance plan.
The whole point: keep the steps on the sponsor's side minimal — ideally none. We source and build everything from the best available info; the sponsor simply reviews the finished spotlight and gives the OK.
Review and approve. Every logo, photo, and detail is sent for a final OK before it goes live — nothing publishes without their sign-off. If there's ever one thing we genuinely can't source, we'll ask for that single item and nothing more.
Sequenced so we can start the moment Mike's sponsor list arrives, and launch in a clean, reviewable order.
Mike sends the sponsor list — names and websites are enough. We start sourcing logos, photos, and details for each.
Clean up every logo to a crisp, stays-sharp-at-any-size format, and set up one shared, fast-loading home for all sponsor images.
Build the even logo grid and the mini-home-page spotlights, all from one simple list — and set up to be search-engine friendly from the start.
Add the auto-scrolling logo banner to the bottom of the homepage, wired to the same sponsor data.
Send each finished spotlight for review, make any tweaks, and collect the OK — nothing goes live without it.
Zoom-test every logo, check phones, links, and readability, then publish the approved sponsors.
This is a substantial build; it fits naturally under a pre-pay maintenance block, with per-sponsor logo work billed as it comes in. We'll scope hours once the sponsor count is known.
A ready-to-send invite for a prospective sponsor — it does the explaining and shows them exactly what they'll get. Click Copy Email, paste into Gmail or Outlook, swap the [bracketed] parts, and send.
Hi [Sponsor Name],
I'm reaching out from Fox Valley Forge Soccer Club. We're adding a sponsor page to our website, and we'd love to feature [Business Name] on it.
Instead of a plain wall of logos, every sponsor gets their own polished “mini home page” on our site — a sharp version of your logo, a professional photo, a short write-up, your hours and location with a map, and one-tap links to your website, directions, and phone. Your logo also scrolls in a banner across our club homepage.
Here's what your feature would look like:
Example: a sponsor's mini home page on our site.
And the sponsor lineup on the page:
Every logo is cleaned up razor-sharp before it goes on.
The best part: we do all the work. We'll put your feature together for you and send it over for a quick look. The only thing we need from you is a “looks good” before it goes live — that's it.
If you're open to it, just reply and we'll get started. I'm happy to share the simple sponsorship details separately.
Thanks so much,
[Your Name]
Fox Valley Forge Soccer Club
forgesoccerclub.com
Tip: Copy Email keeps the images and formatting when you paste into your email — the two screenshots come along automatically.
