STR Success Con is a room of serious operators — self-hosts, co-hosts, hands-off owners, and managers — gathered around a structured playbook system and a single performance standard. Sponsors here aren't paying for hallway foot traffic. They're paying to be the named answer to one of the questions every operator in the room is already asking. Categories are exclusive. First come, first served.
You know the pattern. You buy the gold tier. You ship the booth. You staff it for two days. Three people scan your badge for the swag, one of them is from a college you've never heard of, and you go home with a spreadsheet of leads that won't open your email. The conference made money. You're not sure what you bought.
Conferences sell tickets to anyone with a credit card. Sponsors pay to access an audience that turns out to be half tire-kickers and free-content hunters.
You bought "Platinum." So did three of your competitors. The room can't tell you apart, and neither can the operators in it.
You sponsor the conference but you're nowhere on the stage. The coaches teach. You stand twenty feet away with a counter clicker. The expertise alignment never happens.
You're handed a CSV of badge scans, none of which were actually qualified, half of which are bad emails. Your sales team treats the list like spam — because it is.
No cycle. No return. No way to follow an operator from awareness to consideration to purchase over the year. One event, one shot, one disappointment.
We didn't survey sponsors and tweak the gold tier. We rebuilt sponsorship around what was broken — and we designed the room, the categories, and the cycle to deliver on every promise on this page.
Attendees come to STR Success Con to be graded against a single performance standard — top 25% at Build It, top 5% at Grow It/Scale It. The qualification is built into the curriculum. Sponsors aren't paying for badge scans. They're paying for the room.
One PMS. One wifi platform. One cleaner network. One insurance partner. One photographer network. One financing source. We protect your category because the room can't trust a recommendation it sees four versions of. First come, first served — and once your category closes, it's closed for the cycle.
At STR Success Con, a Session Sponsor isn't firewalled from the curriculum — they're aligned with it. A specific session, a specific Session Coach, a specific playbook, for a full conference cycle. The room learns the topic from the Coach. They learn the named answer to the topic's biggest tool question from the Sponsor.
The highest tiers get attendee data. Lower tiers get exposure. We don't pretend every sponsor gets the same access — we just tell you what each tier actually delivers, and you choose based on what you can convert.
Sponsors don't sponsor an event — they sponsor a cycle. Build It in September. Test & Activate in October. Grow It/Scale It in March. Test & Activate in April. Four touchpoints with the same room over twelve months. Awareness in September becomes consideration by October and trial by March. That's not a one-shot sponsorship. That's a sales cycle, engineered.
Sponsors should know exactly who they're paying to meet. The room is built for four operator types — and the standard is the same across all of them.
Owners running their own properties. Decision-makers for every tool, vendor, and partner in their stack.
Operating STRs for other owners, often across multiple portfolios. Decision-makers on behalf of the owners they serve.
Properties operated by someone else, but still the asset owner. Decision-makers when their manager comes back with a recommendation.
Some they own, some they manage. The fastest-growing segment in the industry.
Most conferences end when the lights come up. Sponsorship at STR Success Con doesn't.
Two days, twenty-two sessions, the foundational playbook for every pillar. Sponsors are in the room, on the agenda, in the content — depending on tier. Awareness becomes consideration.
Thirty days later, the room reconvenes virtually to review what worked, what didn't, and what's still on the bench. Sponsors aligned with the relevant pillar get visibility on the discussion of the work attendees actually executed — including, very often, with the sponsor's product.
Six months in. The standard moves up. Same pillars, same Session Coaches (mostly), same sponsors. Operators who tried your product in October come back in March with questions, results, or referrals. Trial becomes adoption.
Thirty days after Grow It/Scale It. The cycle closes. Adoption becomes referenceable customer stories. You walk into next year's sponsorship conversation with a year of room data and relationships you didn't have twelve months ago.
At most STR conferences, sponsors and content live in two rooms — the sponsor pays to be near the room where the teaching happens, but never inside it. We rebuilt that.
The highest-tier sponsorship pairs a company with a specific session, a specific Session Coach, and a specific playbook for the full cycle. The Coach teaches the standard. The Sponsor is named as a category resource attendees turn to when they're ready to implement what they just learned. The alignment is real — and the room can tell.
Mid-tier sponsors get demo windows inside the conference platform — not interruptions to sessions, but dedicated time inside the cycle where operators come to see the actual product work, hosted by the sponsor's team.
Sponsors are organized under the pillar their product or service most closely serves. A PMS sponsor lives under The Operations. A photographer network sits under The Property. A direct-booking platform aligns with The Marketing. The pillar association compounds across the cycle — sponsors get named alongside their pillar in every relevant playbook, every relevant session, and every relevant Test & Activate.
What sponsors do NOT get: the right to sell from a stage. The Coaches teach. The Sponsors get aligned. The line stays clean — because the moment the line blurs, the room stops trusting the recommendation.
Sponsorship is organized by exclusive category within each pillar. One PMS. One direct-booking platform. One cleaner network. One photographer service. One insurance carrier. One STR financing partner. The list of categories is below — and they fill on a first-come, first-served basis.
Categories include: STR financing, cash-out refi, DSCR lenders, CPAs for STR owners, insurance carriers, wealth advisors, tax strategists.
Categories include: design and furnishing services, photographers, inspection services, contractors and renovation partners, vendor management platforms.
Categories include: PMS platforms, channel managers, automation tools, cleaning networks, VA agencies, smart-home and security tech.
Categories include: guest wifi platforms, in-stay tech, guest communication tools, concierge services, hospitality training providers.
Categories include: direct-booking platforms, SEO services, CRM and email tools, social media services, photography and video for marketing, ad platforms.
Categories are illustrative. If your product or service serves STR operators and isn't listed above, the chat is open — we'll let you know if your category is open, taken, or available under a different pillar.
We don't sell platinum that's actually silver. Every tier on this page includes exactly what it says it includes — nothing more, nothing less.
Pairs your brand with one of the 22 sessions for the full conference cycle — September Build It, October Test & Activate, March Grow It/Scale It, April Test & Activate.
Pairs your brand with one of the five pillars across the full cycle — alignment with all sessions under that pillar, named association in pillar-level marketing, demo window.
Brand visibility across all four events of the cycle — homepage, agenda, attendee dashboard, breakout rooms. Demo window. Category exclusivity.
Brand visibility and category presence across the cycle. Discoverable by attendees inside the conference platform. The accessible entry point for companies who want to be in the room without taking the highest-tier position.
Categories close in the order companies commit. The longer a category stays open, the more likely it gets taken by the time you're ready to act. The chat is the fastest route to a real conversation.
We didn't build a conference and bolt sponsorship onto it. We built a curriculum, a cycle, a coaching system, and a standard — and we designed sponsorship to fit inside it the same way the coaches do: aligned, accountable, and earned.
If your company serves STR operators well, the room is going to be talking about you whether you're a sponsor or not. The only question is whether the room is talking about you by name, in the pillar where you belong, with the alignment the cycle is designed to create.