Trying to convince your boss to send you to Confab? Considering sending the team? Here are some talking points to help get the time and budget you need.
Conferences are a huge investment of time and money. And while it can be tough to calculate the return on your investment, it’s pretty easy to measure the tangible benefits of attending Confab—and matching those benefits to your organization’s needs.
Keep up on the latest in content strategy
The conference lineup offers a group of the best and most knowledgeable speakers we’ve found in content strategy. Go ahead, check out the program. You’ll hear from super-smart peers and leaders in the industry.
Learn how others do work in the field
Between practical, hands-on workshops, real-life case studies, and conversations as you network between sessions or after hours, you’ll learn how all sorts of organizations are solving content problems.
Improve internal content processes, governance, and workflows
Is your content a mess? It’s OK to admit it—we’ve all been there. Confab is a place to air our dirty content strategy laundry and hear how others are overcoming challenges and improving their work.
Recruit new talent for your team
Let’s face it: Finding good content strategists is no easy feat. You’ll find smart, curious, capable candidates in this crowd.
Solve a current problem
Content migration into a new CMS? Aligning those pesky stakeholders? Too many audits, not enough time? Confab offers targeted sessions to help you solve specific challenges.
Reduce costs on content strategy work
Sometimes saving money means honing your own skills. Sometimes it means tracking down an outside consultant or agency with specialized expertise. At Confab, you’ll learn how to make smart decisions about content strategy investments.
Train others in content strategy
Companies tell us Confab is most valuable when you send a team, but that’s not always in the cards. Fortunately, most speakers share slides with registered attendees after the conference, so you can bring your fresh knowledge back to your group.
Accelerate your value as an employee
Hiring a new person with new skills is costly. When you look at it this way, increasing the skills of existing employees is a bargain. You’ll also learn to streamline your work and increase your productivity.
Know who can help when you get stuck
We live in an age of online networking, but there’s still no replacement for making meaningful connections in person. Once you know content strategy folks from around the world, you’ll have plenty of resources as you tackle tricky projects.
There are a lot of good conferences out there. Heck, there are a lot of good content strategy conferences out there. But Confab is the original conference dedicated entirely to content strategy. Trust us, we wrote the book on it.
Founded by Kristina Halvorson and produced by Brain Traffic, Confab is the world’s leading conference on the topic of content strategy. It’s an international gathering of leaders and practitioners who care deeply about doing great work and moving the discipline forward. You won’t find a more thorough, carefully curated event anywhere else.
What people are saying about Confab
Confab attendees are the people in organizations who care about making content better. They’re usually the strategists, designers, marketers, writers, editors, and communicators who are in the trenches every day, making content happen. They’re also the directors, managers, and principals who make the big strategic decisions about how to invest resources in content initiatives.
Whatever seat you have at the content strategy table, you’ll find that the people who come to Confab are genuinely wonderful humans. They come together to tackle new challenges and connect with like-minded people. They even share their #confabfeelings. (Seriously, it’s a thing.)
There are three pricing tiers for Confab registration, depending on your budget and availability: one day of pre-conference workshops, the two-day conference, or a full pass for all three days.
In addition to breakout sessions and/or workshops, each registration fee includes:
When you’re putting together your budget request, you’ll need to account for these additional costs:
If you’re registering as a group of three or more, just email us at info@confabevents.com for a special code to receive 10% off your team registration. Same goes for anyone at a nonprofit—email us and we’ll be happy to provide you with a 10% off code, too.
And consider signing up for our mailing list, where we occasionally send out limited-time sales and discounts for Confab registration.
If we haven’t answered all of your questions here, don’t hesitate to get in touch: info@confabevents.com. But don’t wait too long—seats are limited and often sell out well in advance of the conference.
Hope to see you there!