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How to Convince Your Boss to Send You to CFUnited

« H E Other :: Charlie Arehart :: email
posted Wednesday, 8 June 2005

By now you've probably heard about the upcoming CFUnited conference, the premier CFML technical conference, happening over 3 days at the end of June, in the DC area. It's quite different than it's been in years past, yet some still need some convincing. Here are "10 points" from an email that Michael Smith has shared to those on the CFunited mailing list. It may benefit other readers too:

How to convince your boss to send you to CFUNITED

I (Michael Smith, organizer of CFUnited) have received some feedback from some people having difficulty convincing their boss to send them to CFUNITED.

Here are ten reasons for going that you can tell them:

1. Three full days of training usually costs $1200, CFUNITED is only $649 - about a half of the cost!

2. To buy books on the 18 talks you can attend at CFUNITED could cost $50 each or $900. Again CFUNITED is cheaper and you get both a printed handbook and a CD-ROM of the talks, plus you can ask the authors questions too!

3. You will learn so much at CFUNITED that when you come back you will be much more efficient at programming . If you are even 5% more efficient then CFUNITED will pay for itself ten times over!

4. You can take any existing programming problems you have to the CF Doctor and CFDJ Panel at CFUNITED for a quick answer and save yourself time when you get back to the office.

5. Half the battle in programming can be knowing that a solution exists at all. By seeing and hearing about a wide range of techniques you will be prepared for future problems and be able to solve them in less time!

6. The people you meet at CFUNITED can help you by bouncing ideas with you and for you to compare how your organization does programming vs other organizations.

7. You can pick the brains of the 50 nationally know speakers and ColdFusion authors who are speaking at the conference.

8. You can get live in person demos of your favorite ColdFusion add on vendor's software and ask their staff questions.

9. You can hear about the latest news on yet to be released Macromedia products that might affect your business in 2005.

10. You can save $100 by registering before 6/10/05 when the late registration price of $749 goes into effect.


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