Any time you spend money to attend a conference, you should be evaluating the value of the ticket price. Prestige Conference is no exception.

We recognize that there are lots of events in this industry to choose from, ranging from big name conferences with price tags in the $1000+ range to local WordCamp events that fall in the $30-40 range. That’s a big difference in price tag, and it’s worth looking at what value you’ll get from each of those tickets.

We want to help make it easy to understand the value behind attending Prestige Conference.

What’s Included With Your Prestige Ticket

There are, of course, the easy things to list that you’ll receive with your Full Conference ticket:

• Access to all conference sessions
• Lunch both days
• Conference swag
• An invitation to our exclusive after party at Westwerk Design
• Access to all session recordings for 6 months after the event

We run a single track for our event, so you don’t have to miss out on any of the talks. We build in time between sessions to take breaks and network with other attendees. (The after-party is also a great option for more networking.) Plus, we professionally record the talks, so that when you can’t quite remember something a month after the event, you can re-watch the session or section at your leisure.

Save Yourself A Trip (Or Two. Or Three.)

We’ve hand-picked each of our presenters to include some of the most successful business owners and entrepreneurs in the digital marketplace. We fly them in from all over the country to present at Prestige. If you wanted to see each of them separately, you’d likely have to fly out to 2 or 3 different events, assuming they’re speaking at any other events at all this year.

One of the things we love most about our speakers is that they are approachable and ready to answer your questions. These are folks that have already been through the trenches themselves. They’ve built businesses from the ground-up and they’re still growing. They’ve learned valuable lessons both on what works and what to avoid when growing your enterprise, and they’re ready to share it with you.

Why Isn’t Prestige A Free Event?

Conferences take a lot of work to execute and plan. They also have expenditures, including venue fees, catering costs, signage, photography, promotion, and the like. Sponsors help offset those costs, but at the end of the day, the organizers have to make sure they have the funds necessary to cover their bases and still pull off an amazing event.

Community-centric events that rely on the donation of time and talent from their members will usually have lower overhead costs, and thus are able to offer smaller ticket fees. Professional events that source speakers outside the local community tend to have higher overhead costs, since they often at least cover a travel stipend for each speaker, if not a speaker fee as well.

Ticket fees also serve another purpose. Attendees who invest in their attendance are more likely to show up, engage with the speakers, network with other attendees, and take advantage of the value the organizers provide by putting together the event.

Unlike business conferences that charge $500 or $1000 per ticket, with Prestige, we focus on more intimate events with specifically curated speakers that allow us to keep the ticket prices to a much more reasonable $200.

A Final Word On Value

At our Las Vegas event earlier this year, Andrew Norcross made the comment that if you’re not able to afford basic business expenses, you don’t have a business, you have a hobby. Prestige Conference isn’t a basic expense, but it is the type of investment that will help catapult your growth, help you land bigger clients, and reduce costs by improving your business processes. For us, that’s exactly the type of value we want to offer our attendees, and we can’t wait to have you join us in Minneapolis this August.

 

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