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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!

Meet the speaker: Carl Hancock

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Carl Hancock

Carl Hancock knows a thing or two about the power of WordPress and how different plugins can extend the powerful CMS to accomplish just about anything. He’s the co-founder of Rocketgenius and creator of one of the most successful commercial plugins in the marketplace: Gravity Forms.

One of the great things about Carl is his ability to give and receive advice, even when it’s not the easiest thing to say or hear. He understands that there’s often a learning experience to take away from negative criticism; one that can help you identify issues to create solutions that can take your business to a whole new level.

Carl was part of our Expert Business Panel at the 2014 Prestige Conference in Minneapolis. We’re very excited to welcome him back as a speaker to Prestige Las Vegas, discussing the business background of his commercial plugin success.

In 3 sentences or less, please describe what you do for a living:

I get to build WordPress products for a living. How great is that?!

Why this career and not something else?

I’ve been working with computers since I was in Elementary School and began doing internet development when dial up was king so there has never really been “something else” as far as career goes.

When did you figure out what you wanted to be when you grew up?

I’ve always been involved in technology but I wanted to get involved in creating a startup when I got fed up with dealing with poorly made decisions by people running the companies I worked for before I co-founded Rocketgenius.

Once you figured out what you wanted to do with your career, how did you start making things happen?

I went all in from the beginning. I withdrew from college on the first day of classes and accepted a job with a startup halfway across the country when I was 18.

Who were your most valuable mentors and how did you connect with them?

From a startup perspective, the 37Signals blog and books that they published inspired me to quit my job and start my own company.

What’s coming up next for you?

Expanding the Gravity Forms ecosystem and taking it places that people within the WordPress community may not expect.

Any industry predictions for 2015?

The WordPress API will be huge.

What book(s) are you reading right now?

Killing Pablo by Mark Bowden and The Startup Playbook by David Kidder and Reid Hoffman.

Favorite “guilty pleasure” song or band that you can’t help but rock out to?

Rodrigo y Gabriela.

Name one thing you’re looking forward to for Prestige Conference Las Vegas:

The people.

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.