Los Angeles Emerging Brands - Embrace Brand Sponsorships: Why your startup should sponsor an event

Leverage the power of collective credibility and real-life experiences with event brand sponsorships. SocialSet is a creative community and co-working space (shared creative space) in Los Angeles that hosts a variety of events, including influencer/brand networking mixers, gallery exhibitions, fashion shows, and short film screenings.


With as little as $150 per event, your brand gets exposure to your target audience – unlike other sponsorships that cost $2,000+ for a booth. At a SocialSet event, you’ll share sponsorship with only a handful of other sponsors, so that your message is seen and heard – not lost in the shuffle.


From title sponsorships to interactive brand activation booths, discover why brand sponsorships are an effective way to reach a high-quality audience and grow your business.

Photography Meetup Event (Collaboration with TGS Collective)


10 Reasons Your Brand Should Sponsor a SocialSet Event


Social media endorsement and experiential marketing are the new advertising for the modern consumer – and you get both when you sponsor one of SocialSet’s events. The benefits of brand sponsorships can be enormous:

1. Connect directly through powerful, IRL experiences with a targeted market of social media influencers, photographers, videographers, models, fashionistas, and other creative types.


2. Expand your brand’s online reach and exposure to socially driven, tech-savvy consumers through SocialSet’s active marketing across social media platforms.


3. Create goodwill in the local artistic community that strengthens your brand image and generates lasting support. 


4. Share your brand message via an innovative, aesthetic, and design-driven marketing channel with global reach.


5. Boost brand visibility across a wide spectrum of audiences who haven’t heard of your business before.


6. Establish your brand’s identity as a social, artistic, and cultural influence.


7. Gain new insights into your target market to accurately develop your content strategy and future marketing campaigns.


8. Identify potential social media influencers to collaborate with and build long-term relationships.


9. Generate high-quality leads, convert new customers, and increase sales of your product or service.


10. Free VIP event tickets for your team!


Sponsor an Event & Grow Your Brand with SocialSet

Would you like to know more about SocialSet’s upcoming events that are available for sponsorship? Do you have questions about our creative studio or unique artistic community? We would love to speak or meet with you to explore the possibility of future sponsorship. Please reach out and contact SocialSet today. 

#tgssocialset (TGS Collective Meet Up at SocialSet Studio )

“THE #TGSSOCIALSET MEETUP WAS HELD AT SOCIAL SET STUDIO AND IT WAS AS GORGEOUS AS IT LOOKS. POPS OF COLOR & ART MADE THIS SPACE SUCH A FUN PLACE TO CREATE! “

-Alex Morehouse, TGS Collective

Scroll to see some of the behind the scenes magic 📸🤘

SocialSet Studio was thrilled to host our first TGS Collective Meet-up. The 2 hour sessions were each filled with amazing talent: creatives, photographers, influencers, and models. The members of TGS Collective are so easy-going and collaborative, they truly make these sessions a warm, creative environment to work and create in. Look for more SocialSet and TGS Collective collaborations coming soon!

Thanks to Alex Morehouse (TGS Founder) for all these amazing photos!

MOST INFLUENTIAL MEMBER

Social Set is comprised of a magnitude of members in a ALL creative fields, and we wanted to pay tribute to our Most Influential Member TAJANA BUNTON-WILLIAMS. She has been a member since the early days of Social Set and since has educated members on the Entertainment Industry, hosted events, taught masterclasses and movement coaching plus more. 

Therefore Social Set would like to award her for her talent and contributions to THE SET in the year of 2018. 

What encouraged you to join?

-I had been in LA for about 3 years at that point, and was looking to expand my network. I had met plenty of people in the industry but felt that I had a lot that I wanted to give back as well as give to myself. I wanted to be able to invest in my work and dig into who I am as a creative, so this seemed like the perfect place to do so. 

Tell us a little about your professional journey as a dancer?

-I have been dancing professionally for 7 years now. Things moved pretty quickly for me, as soon as I got my first professional job which was the Lion King the rest just kept rolling in. I worked on a bunch of UK TV shows and danced and toured with Kylie Minogue, Iggy Azalea and Lily Allen, and then decided to move to the States and since being here I’ve been fortunate enough to dance at the Grammys, BET Awards, MTV Music Awards, iHeart Awards, Tidal, VMA’s , Coachella and toured with Janelle Monae and Beyonce. Its been such a whirlwind.

What advice would you give to someone looking to pursue a professional dance career?

-I would certainly say that you must be persistent, everyday is an opportunity to invest in your craft. Also the past few years I’ve learned that there are many jobs that only dancers can do well, and its good to take every opportunity. From Choreography to Movement Direction, to Body Maintenance, the list is endless. As it isn’t an easy line of work, and to consistently make money and earn a living from it is even harder, but totally achievable. I trained really hard classically and commercially and made myself available for opportunities. I always thought positively and never once doubted my abilities. I think its so important to be your own biggest fan and believe in your talent. You have to believe in yourself and walk, talk and dance with that confidence. The more people you meet the better, as relationships are tremendously important too. Stay focused, stay hungry and don’t allow NO’s or obstacles to get in the way.

What things do you have to look forward to in 2019?

-I’ve been working with Janelle Monae for over a year now and we just performed at the Grammy’s on Sunday where she was actually nominated for Best Music Video, and the video was one that I did Movement Direction on which was super exciting, with more cool performances and projects coming up this year. However whats really cool is that I’ve been doing a lot of talks at seminars and teaching. Giving back and educating is equally as important, which is why guess I won this award haha! I’ve been asked to judge a few dance competitions this year, and teaching and talking on a few panels at the world’s biggest dance event MOVE IT which still is mind blowing to me as I used to attend this convention every year growing up. And the CEO and COO of Social Set and I have been in talks of how we can develop our relationship and other ways in which I can educate aspiring performers, and host and judge events and competitions, so yea, I’m super excited to see where it will lead and what changes I can make in the industry.  

Find Tajana at

www.tajanabwilliams.com

IG - Tajanatokyo

2019 Instagram Trends: Tips to stay ahead of the game

By Guest Blogger Tori Nucci @Tori_Nucci

This article contains excepts from Tori’s original blog on torinucci.com - Tori Nucci is a Content Creator based in Los Angeles.

What does 2019 look like for Instagram?

Although there are still a few more [days] left in 2018, I feel like the holiday season makes people start looking forward to a new year, new you. This year, 2018 was the year of excuses in terms of Instagram growth. All over the Internet, people are asking “why is my Instagram not growing?” to which people reply with:

1. the Instagram algorithm changed and no longer featured a chronological feed

2. you’re not following enough people (just to unfollow them in a few days)

3. you have to find the hashtags that fit your personality and engage with those daily!

Honestly, it’s all a bunch of b.s.… like remember when social media was fun?

What 2019 Will Look Like for Insta

This year, we can definitely expect influencers to have a dominating presence on the platform; however, “micro-influencers” are the “new” thing. (I put new in quotations because they aren’t really new, it’s just going to be much more common to scout accounts with a smaller following than a larger one.)

1. Brands will reach out to smaller micro influencers for promotional posts

2. Content will rule everything else. period.

3. Less emphasis on AMOUNT of followers and more emphasis on QUALITY of followers

4. Treating Instagram like it’s Facebook (cause it pretty much is now).

Brands will reach out to accounts that may have a smaller, more loyal and engaged following.

Think about it: if some random account you follow with hundreds of thousands or millions of followers posts something that you find interesting, are you seriously going to DM them asking more about it before making a purchase, or are you going to keep scrolling? You’re probably not going to inquire about anything because chances are, they aren’t going to answer! Reaching out to authentic supporters of a product or brand is the only way to go. People who know and trust these people are going to reach out to them directly and ask more questions because at the end of the day, word of mouth is still the most powerful marketing tool.

Content is Queen.

not king. queen. Who you are outside of social media is, and always will be king. Most of the people with a crazy large following are either singers, actors, supermodels, athletes, etc. Aka, they have lives outside of social media that involve people already watching them, so social media really paves the way for people to watch them….even more. Which is why content is queen.

If you aren’t already famous for something,

you better have dope content.

Let me preface this with saying that if you seriously don’t give af about your Instagram game, then your content can just be you doing average, everyday things, but don’t complain when you don’t get tons of followers wanting to see an awk picture of you at Disney World. Here’s a content checklist:

• Be consistent with posting often. Aim for 3 times a week at minimum.

• And don’t just post random things to qualify for that 3 times a week rule.

• Make sure each picture is cohesive to some sort of theme. There’s tons of apps to schedule and preview your photos and see which look best side by side. I honestly love moving photos around; it’s quite fun.

• Lighting. Lighting. Lighting. It’s honestly everything. Especially for someone like me, who operates with just my iPhone camera 

• *CAPTIONS*  Say something you mean! And mean what you say. People, and especially you, can tell if what you’re portraying is really you on social media. So dig deep and think about what it is you want to say. If you were to die in a week (sorry, I know, morbid), everyone would be looking at your social media posts, reading your last captions. Do you want the captions to say rap lyrics, or something from the heart? If you can’t think of anything, don’t stress. Just be real and tell a story about taking the picture. It’s okay to be vulnerable and put yourself out there.

Forget about your follow/unfollow sh*t

A huge benefit of YouTube is that you can’t see how many accounts someone is subscribed to, which leads to people freely subscribing to accounts that they actually genuinely enjoy. On the contrary, people are so obsessed with having this “ratio” on Instagram, following less people than the amount of followers they have. We’re all guilty of this; however, following a ton of accounts just to unfollow them really doesn’t work anymore… and hasn’t since like 2015. Instead of wasting time doing this, focus your energy on creating content or genuinely engaging with the followers that you already have. At the end of the day, it’s social networking

which means you have to be social.

In the real world, if you would just go up to someone in public and give them your number, then block the number, people aren’t going to trust you…and you’re going to look really weird. Buuuut. If you were to compliment someone, then start a conversation about that similar interest, there you go. You have just made a friend. As childish and elementary as this sounds, it really works this way on social media, just as it does in real life. Don’t be snooty. If you really love someone’s content, just tell them! Hopefully that person actually responds and a mini social media relationship can form from it.

In 2019, less emphasis will be put on the amount of followers an account has, for reasons mentioned before, but also because… well, Facebook bought Instagram.

Closer, More Meaningful Relationships

If you think about it, when Facebook bought Instagram, changes were already put in place. The algorithm changed, making it so you would see posts from the accounts you actually engaged with, and pretty much eliminating all the rest from your life. This leads to larger influencers receiving less engagement on their posts, as well as a slower growth in followers. In 2019, more of this “family” type of algorithm is sure to be in place, as people are complaining about seeing influencers everywhere promoting  products he/she may or may not even like or use, and Facebook owners wanting the platform to behave more of a close, genuine network instead of a platform for stalking celebs. Think about it. No one cares about how many Facebook friends they have– imagine if this was the direction Instagram went in. I know, that’s extreme, but at the end of the day, it really all boils down to engagement. How many “real” friends do you have engaging with your posts? Do you respond?

The algorithm knows all

Tori recently dipped in to our “Plastik City’ event…. her captions say it all ;)

2019 is all about creating quality content.

If you have any thoughts about what 2019 is going to bring for Instagram influencers and any changes in the platform in general, let me know in the comments! I’d love to hear from you– even if it’s a difference in opinion.

Imagine if we started posting all the bad things that happened to us, instead of making life seem dope 24/7

See more at torinucci.com

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SocialSet invites guest bloggers to contribute articles on the following topics: influencer trends, real-life “influencing”, instagram marketing, social media, and more. To be a featured guest blogger, submit your content to: jt@socialset.com