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Originally Posted by BarryStiefel  Well, not yet. Culturally, I think it's going to be a little hard for them to provide "free" technical support, even though just about everyone who would attend would have a support contract. I'm working on it with them. |
I see the dilema, maybe you can spin it as "15 minutes of free advice". If you were able to get a few really good people you'd have a good selling point.
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Originally Posted by BarryStiefel Yes, there seems to be some sort of cultural thing there. They seem very interested in Sales and Marketing, but when it comes to actually supporting the user community I see an opportunity for us to fill this need. |
Their approach does seem odd. It'll be interesting to see what level of interest they show vs what is actually given.
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Originally Posted by BarryStiefel If you choose one, it's $800 for the day, the second is $700 and the third is $600. $800/day seems to be consistent with the normal cost of Check Point training classes. |
My initial thought was if the pre-con sessions were cheaper you could draw a larger crowd for the conference as a whole. Seeing as how this is the first CPUG CON (that I know of) it would've been good incentive to get people to come. For example, SANS is an excellent training conference which now-a-days costs less than 700$ a day. That price is up from a few years ago where it was around $500 a day. My other concern is that if I do another more established conference I'll get more bang for the buck so to speak.
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Originally Posted by BarryStiefel Yes, it's a lot of work, but I'm enjoying doing it. I really want it to be a big success.
What role would you like to play at the conference? |
Still giving that some thought. :) I'd love to go and meet some cpug'ers and participate in some of the sessions, just not sure if that'll actually happen.