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Prestige Conference is the hottest WordPress business event to come to Vegas, so we’re not surprised you want to show off that you’ll be attending.
You can grab the embed codes for the badges below. Don’t forget to Tweet us at @PrestigeConf or use the official conference hashtag #PrestigeConf to let us know you’re excited about the event!
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At Prestige Conference, we’re all about helping you build your business. That’s the basis of everything we do. To help you get 2015 off to a strong start, we’ve put together a Boost Your Business package giveaway.
During our 2014 Minneapolis conference, we asked our speakers to share their top book recommendations for entrepreneurs. From that list, we’ve picked 3 titles to give away:
Recommended by Jake Goldman of 10up:
Decisive - Chip Heath & Dan Heath
Recommended by Matt Medeiros of Slocum Studio:
Running Lean - Ash Maurya
Recommended by Jennifer Bourn of Bourn Creative:
Book Yourself Solid - Michael Port
Beyond just giving away a few awesome book titles, we’re also including access to the speaker session recordings from Prestige Conference Minneapolis. The video access is valid for 6 months and gives you the ability to stream talks from:
When you add it up, the value of our Boost Your Business package is $139. Entry is easy - simply use the Rafflecopter form below. We’ll draw a winner on January 31, 2026 and notify them via email.
We are thrilled to be able to offer scholarships for the 2015 Las Vegas Prestige Conference thanks to our partnership with MailChimp.
We were truly blown away by the interest in the program. Thanks to additional from MailChimp, we are pleased to offer a 6th scholarship spot for this event.
After a careful review and deliberation by our selection committee, Prestige Conference is proud to announce the winners of the Las Vegas MailChimp Women In Tech Scholarship program.
All winners have been notified via email with information on the next steps needed to register for the conference.
Thank you to everyone that applied!
Simply stated, there aren’t enough women in technology. According to CompTIA, only 24% of US IT professionals are female.
Burning Glass Technologies Labor Insights reported over 500,000 IT job openings were available in the US in the last quarter of 2013. That’s half a million jobs in areas such as cyber security, web design, network management, data analysis, and software development.
This gender inequality is also present within the WordPress community. We’re seeing more women attend and even speak at these events, but they still make up less than half of the audience. How do we change this under-representation?
Diversity of skills and backgrounds can only benefit the WordPress ecosystem. New eyes on projects, fresh perspectives, and different communication styles can help move us forward by leaps and bounds. As part of our goal to encourage audience diversity, we’re excited to partner with MailChimp to offer five scholarships to our Las Vegas conference February 27-28, 2015.
Knowing what we do about the typical gender ratio that happens at tech conferences, we’re trying to encourage more women to attend our events. One way we’re doing this is by inviting female industry leaders to speak at every conference we put on. Another way we’re encouraging women to participate at our Las Vegas event is through our partnership with MailChimp to provide scholarships for women in tech.
Each scholarship covers one full conference pass (up to a $199 value). You’ll receive access to the Friday night Expert Business Panel, all Saturday Speaker sessions, lunch, and the infamous Prestige Conference After Party.
The deadline to apply for a scholarship is Friday, January 9th, 2015. Head on over to our MailChimp Scholarship Page to submit your application now.
Know a woman who could use a boost to help build her business or career? Please share this scholarship opportunity with them!
Call for applications! @MailChimp #WomenInTech scholarships are avail for our next conference. http://t.co/eOy9BcTWOv
— Prestige Conference (@PrestigeConf) January 2, 2026
During the Prestige Conference Expert Business Panel in Minneapolis, moderator Matt Medeiros asked the panelists which business books they would recommend for our audience of entrepreneurs. His question prompted a new Prestige tradition to ask all of our top entrepreneur speakers to share their favorite business books.
Recommended by Travis Totz of WerkPress:
You’re My Favorite Client - Mike Monteiro
Recommended by Carl Hancock of Gravity Forms:
Zero%20to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future![]("http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=liwile00-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00J6YBOFQ',)
Recommended by Reid Peifer of Modern Tribe:
Let My People Go Surfing - Yvon Chouinard
Recommended by Jake Goldman of 10up:
Decisive - Chip Heath & Dan Heath
Recommended by Matt Medeiros of Slocum Studio:
Running Lean - Ash Maurya
Recommended by Toby Cryns of The Mighty Mo! Design Co:
The 4-Hour Workweek - Timothy Ferriss
Recommended by Jennifer Bourn of Bourn Creative:
Book Yourself Solid - Michael Port
Bonus recommendation from Jennifer Bourn:
Youtility - Jay Baer
Recommended by Lisa Sabin Wilson of WebDevStudios:
The Leadership Challenge - James Kouzes & Barry Posner
Bonus recommendation from Lisa:
Rework - Jason Fried and David Hansson
Featured image photo credit: Abhi Sharma on Flickr
You’ve already bought your ticket to Prestige Conference.
You’ve tweeted us @PrestigeConf about your excitement with hashtag #PrestigeConf.
Now you’re wondering what else you can do to show the world how excited you are to attend Prestige this weekend.
We’ve got the answer - geek out with these fabulous Prestige Conference badges!
WordPress is an open source software that’s constantly changing & improving through contributions from a very active developer community.
Whether you’re a developer yourself, a designer, or someone that uses WordPress for your business, stay up-to-date on the latest WordPress news by tuning in to these podcasts.
In alphabetical order:
Apply Filters is a podcast dedicated to WordPress development. Hosts Brad Touesnard and Pippin Williamson share their experiences in the development world, including development in WordPress core, plugins, and themes. They also bring in guests and occasionally cover the business side of WordPress.
The DradCast is a video podcast featuring Dre Armeda and Brad Williams. Each week they feature a guest host and discussion of all things WordPress, including WordPress news, upcoming events, and the WordPress community in general.
Just like their name implies, this podcast covers everything WordPress but the kitchen sink. Hosted by Adam Silver, this podcast is his way of giving back to the WordPress community that has supported him through the years.
The Matt Report is a WordPress business podcast created and hosted by Matt Medeiros. Matt has interviewed hundreds of WordPress professionals throughout his career, and his podcast is full of great information on WordPress entrepreneurship, startups, and freelancing.
*If you’d like to hear Matt Medeiros live, he’ll be speaking at our upcoming Minneapolis event. Ticket info: PrestigeConf.com/Tickets
Please Advise
Please Advise is an occasional live podcast by Mike McAlister, Jake Caputo, and Chris Molitor. As commercial theme developers, they are able to speak expertly on topics related to theme industry, theme development, and WordPress in general.
WordPress Breakdown with BobWP
Bob Dunn is a professional trainer. His podcast teaches beginner and intermediate users the strategy, marketing, and design side of WordPress.
The WordPress Chick’s Podcast
Kim Doyal is “The WordPress Chick” and her podcast focuses on “WordPress happiness made easy.” Her show discusses WordPress themes, plugins, publishing, and more.
As anyone using WordPress knows, there is a massive collection of free and premium plugins that have been created by and for the WordPress community. Created and hosted by John Overall and Marcus Couch, the WordPress Plugins from A to Z podcast regularly reviews new and updated plugins to help you find the best tools for your site.
WordPress Tips & Tricks by Steve Hart is gaining some popularity and momentum. Steve has a great personality and is able to deliver useful content in short bursts. Each podcast is typically 5 minutes or less, though some do come in closer to the 10 minute mark. His recordings stay on topic and deliver great value for those looking to expand their WordPress knowledge.
WordPress Weekly is a WPTavern podcast hosted by Jeff Chandler and Marcus Couch and recorded live each week at 9:30pm EST on Wednesday night. WordPress Weekly focuses on industry news with supplemental interviews and discussion.
This professional WordPress podcast is hosted by Doug Yuen and David Hehenberger. The podcast focus is on providing valuable information for WordPress professionals, including designers, consultants, developers, and even end users that run their businesses on WordPress.
WP Elevation interviews successful entrepreneurs in the WordPress industry. Their business podcast focuses on ways to help you build a successful WordPress enterprise.
WP Watercooler is a live video roundtable discussion hosted by WordPress developer Jason Tucker. This weekly show discusses what’s happening in the WordPress community and how WordPress has changed people’s lives and their businesses.
Your Website Engineer is a podcast created and hosted by Dustin Hartzler that, each week, provides a simple approach to creating high quality websites with WordPress. His goal is to inspire you to do great things with WordPress. Each week, he tackles a new topic to help small business owners build their WordPress websites.
This is Alexis. She’s my daughter, and along with my beautiful wife Sonya, she’s my world. She’s precocious, rambunctious, incredibly intelligent, and interested in every technology she can get her hands on (surprise!). She loves to put on her own headphones, grab her play laptop and “work with daddy.” I know being a developer would give her a great life, so I want to do everything I can to prepare her for that life if she decides she wants it.
Yesterday, we announced that we’ve agreed to give a portion of our proceeds to an amazing organization doing great things for veterans and WordPress, Happy Joe. It fits perfectly because Kiko has a passion for helping veterans, and James Dalman is doing great things for Veterans with WordPress.
My daughter was weighing heavy on my mind when deciding what organization my portion of the charitable gift would go to. I asked my Minneapolis developer friends what the *best* organization was that is teaching young women to code. It was a loud and unanimous recommendation: Katie CoderDojo. This organization is run by Rebecca Schatz, and they are helping an entire generation of teen girls learn to love code. Rebecca is an incredible, passionate woman who has a love for programming and kids. It’s a perfect fit for our vision and we can make a real difference in the lives of young women in Minneapolis.
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