Sponsors

Thank You Westwerk x3!

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Westwerk

We’re very excited to share our enthusiasm for Prestige Conference sponsor Westwerk. Beyond being a great partner and believing in us from the very beginning, they’re also a phenomenally talented team specializing in strategy, creative, and development.

Some awesomeness you should know about them:

They’re an award-winning agency based locally here in the Twin Cities.

  • They won SEVEN Summit Creative Awards earlier this year. They took home one gold, three silver, and three bronze awards in this year’s competition, which honored the best in design from 23 countries and more than 5,000 entries.
  • They also won THREE Creativity International Design Awards this year, bringing home one platinum/best in category, one silver, and one bronze.
  • Did we mention the American Web Design Awards yet? Because they won two of those this year, too.

They’re hosting our after-party.

  • Cocktails
  • Foosball
  • Fun!

Two of their partners are presenting a session together this weekend.

  • Travis Totz spoke on our panel in Minneapolis last year. We’re excited to have him speak again at our event.
  • Nick Pelton is new to Prestige, but excited to share his knowledge with our attendees. What more could we ask for?

You get to experience their design yourself!

  • They designed our conference t-shirts
  • They also designed this very site

We can’t wait for you to meet Westwerk this weekend at Prestige Conference. Be sure to stop by their sponsor table to help express our thanks for their support!

 

 

Sponsor Highlight: Gravity Forms 3x Awesome

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Gravity Forms

If you polled the Prestige Conference planning team, they’ll all agree that Gravity Forms is their plugin of choice for WordPress forms. And we’re not just saying that because they’re a 3-time sponsor of our event. We each use Gravity Forms on an almost-daily basis, from super basic contact forms and questionnaires to complex conditional logic and hidden fields for a variety of applications.

 

Gravity Forms is much more than a contact form for your site. In fact, contact forms are just the tip of the iceberg for their capabilities. You can build complex forms in minutes with their drag-and-drop field placement. You can save forms in-process to continue later. There are a bunch of advanced fields and notification options. And there are add-ons to allow you to integrate and automate many functions, such as setting up auto-responders and drip campaigns for new contacts with AWeber or MailChimp, allowing customers to purchase products through PayPal or Stripe, integrate with FreshBooks for invoicing & accounting, and much, much, much more.

It’s easy to see why over 1 million WordPress sites are already using Gravity Forms. Their product is one we really believe in, and we’re honored that they believe in our event so much that they are returning as a Primary Sponsor for Minneapolis 2015!

Sponsor Highlight: Pressed

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Pressed

Looking to launch your own white-labeled managed WordPress hosting brand? Pressed has you covered.

Pressed is the easiest way to launch your own fully managed WordPress hosting brand that you can feel good about hosting your customers and clients on. Pressed offers a dedicated platform, completely optimized for WordPress websites, on rock solid infrastructure that can be white-labeled for your brand.

The best part is that you never have to manage a single server, handle security updates, manage billing or even deal with customer support! Pressed handles all of this for you, including offering support to your customers - so they can get the help they need when they need it, and you can get a good night’s sleep.

Pressed has partnered with Prestige Conference as our after party sponsor. Be sure to stop by their table at the conference to say hi, charge up your devices at their complimentary charging station between sessions, and connect with them at our after party on Saturday night.

Sponsor Highlight: GoDaddy

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GoDaddy

Prestige Conference is proud to welcome GoDaddy® as a returning sponsor for our Minneapolis event. These guys know WordPress, and they’re huge supporters of the community. You may have seen their evangelists attending and speaking at WordCamps, answering questions on the forums, and participating in the various WordPress Facebook groups.

Their blog, The Garage, is a great resource for design, development, and everything in between. Their managed WordPress hosting has become increasingly popular over the past year, and their latest offering for WordPress devs, GoDaddy Pro, offers an easy interface to access and manage multiple clients accounts & products from a single dashboard.

GoDaddy’s mission is to radically shift the global economy toward small businesses by empowering people to easily start, confidently grow and successfully run their own ventures. With more than 12 million customers worldwide and 57 million domain names under management, GoDaddy gives small business owners the tools to name their idea, build a beautiful online presence, attract customers and manage their business.

Be sure to stop by GoDaddy’s table at Prestige Conference Minneapolis and help us share how much we appreciate their support!

Welcome to Vegas WP Engine!

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Welcome to Vegas WP Engine!

WP Engine

Prestige is pleased to announce that WP Engine, the premiere fully-managed WordPress hosting platform, is returning as a sponsor for our Las Vegas event.

WP Engine is built on a solid foundation of security, scalability, speed, and support that offers their customers peace of mind that their sites are in good hands when managed on their hosting platform. They offer the features that serious business owners demand in the world of fast-paced Internet business growth and expansion. Their agile enterprise platform moves at the speed of the market, constantly adjusting and responding to the needs of your business and your customers.

In addition to being great leaders in the WordPress ecosystem, they’re also committed to giving back to the community through sharing expertise and original contributions, local community involvement, and active participation in WordPress events such as Prestige Conference.

We’re honored to have their support as a returning sponsor, and can’t wait to share more about their services at our Las Vegas event. If you haven’t bought your ticket yet, be sure to grab one on our Ticket Page.

Welcome Back Gravity Forms

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Contact forms for WordPress don’t get any easier than Gravity Forms. That’s why we’re proud to announce they are a returning sponsor for Prestige Conference Las Vegas.

Gravity Forms

Over a million sites use Gravity Forms. With their easy-t0-use premium WordPress plugin, they take the drudgery out of custom form building. Gravity Forms allows you to quickly and easily integrate with a variety of third party services such as PayPal, AWeber, MailChimp, FreshBooks, and many more. You don’t even need programming knowledge to use it.

There’s a reason why Chris Lema called Gravity Forms “the best WordPress plugin ever.” And he’s not alone. WP Explorer calls it the “WordPress plugin of choice for many power users and developers.” Through a commitment to innovation and development, Gravity Forms consistently lands on developer “must-have” and “best” WordPress plugin lists.

We’re honored to have the support of Gravity Forms for our Las Vegas Prestige Conference event.

New Prestige Sponsors + Awesome Pricing News

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Good News, Everyone!

When Kiko and I started this endeavor, we had one goal in mind, and that was to make the very best WordPress conference possible. Because of that, we had a specific budget we had figured that included the best location, live streaming, recording, great swag, amazing after-party, and of course, travel expenses for the speakers. That number was higher than what it was for a WordCamp, and so we set the ticket prices accordingly.

Because we had to cover these expenses, the ticket prices were higher than we’d have liked. Our goal was to augment the ticket prices with sponsorships, but we were being careful.

Guess What?

Good News, Everyone!

Thanks to the generosity of our sponsors, including WPEngine joining Gravity Forms and Press75 as primary sponsors, we are able to swing permanent early-bird pricing for everyone! The deadline for early-bird tickets will come and go, and the price won’t change.

That means you’ll be able to get a ticket at payday next week, or after you finish up that big project next month, without adding weight to the family budget. Yay!

But I Was an Early-bird Buyer! What About Me?

If this is you, we got your back. We appreciate your investing in us and believing in us right away, so we’ve got something special that you, our early investors, will get the day of the conference. We appreciate every one of you, because you proved to us the value of what we’re doing. If you were planning to purchase today and hadn’t gotten to it yet, we’ll include anyone that purchases today in as our early adopters.

We’ll also be reaching out the early-bird streaming ticket purchasers in the next couple of weeks because we have something to send you too.

If you purchase any ticket before 12am pst, you’ll be included in the VIP program.

Thank you to every one of you for being awesome. We’re looking forward to October 3rd and 4th.