What You Are Going To Miss
This is a very simple thought I have here for you to digest…
If you are an IT Pro serving SMB and you are not at the New Orleans conference, you will be missing opportunities for yourself and your business that I can’t even begin to calculate
By way of a disclaimer, I should mention that I’ve been fortunate enough to be asked to speak at the SBSmigration.com IT Pro conference, which officially starts May 25.
I say fortunate because that means I’ve been involved in some of the planning calls for this conference, and it’s been an eye-opening experience.
I’m beyond impressed with the interchanges and exchanges of ideas that have already taken place before anyone other than Jeff has even thought about setting foot in New Orleans.
I really believe the SBSmigration.com conference will set a bar for quality that will be very difficult for anything that follows to match, let alone surpass.
And, I will also tell you this…
Altho there isn’t an outright ban on PowerPoint at the SBSmigration.com conference, you will be lucky to see more than 3–5 slides in any given presentation.
The tagline for this conference really should be:
How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Present Without Powerpoint
In fact, this conference is shaping up to be absolutely UNMATCHED from the perspective of cost vs. value. Here’s a 15 point “tale of the tape” I slapped together regarding the NOLA conference for us landlubbers…
- Conference cost (non-cruise) = $295
- Meals included = 6 (Friday jazz reception, Saturday breakfast annd lunch, Sunday breakfast, lunch and riverboat dinner cruise)
- Entertainment events included = 3 (Friday jazz reception, Saturday Bourbon Street Balcony party, Sunday riverboat dinner cruise)
- Pre-conference events = 1
- Cost of pre-conference events = $0 (registration required)
- Speakers and content providers who are recognized community leaders and experts = 30
- Countries represented = 5
- Members of SBS Dev Team attending = 5
- Members of MS Team attending = 8
- Vendor sponsors = 14
- Vendor booths onsite = 2
- Street parades = All you can see from the Bourbon Street Balcony on Saturday night
- Opportunities to say Bon Voyage and really mean it = 1
- Minutes you have to meet people, make contacts, and jam your brain full of new ideas and knowledge = 4,320
- Same thing, except in seconds = 259,200
You don’t have to be a CPA to calculate the value there. And you don’t even have to be Eric Ligman to come up with a catchy slogan for it either:
For less than half the per-minute cost of a long-distance call to India, you could instead spend a couple of days in New Orleans to get invaluable advice, make new friends, and gain amazing business contacts, while coming away with more inner peace than Ghandi
According to Nancy, you can show up in NOLA and register at the door for this conference. So it isn’t too late. Drop Nancy a line and she’ll help get you signed up TODAY!
So now, my final question to you is…
Why in the world haven’t you signed up yet?
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