Let’s say you work for a company, but you want to go to the Southeast Creative Summit. What do you do? Pitch it to your boss, of course. Don’t like asking your overlords for things? I’ve made it easy for you here with a letter you can copy and paste into an email! Whoa, I did your job for you? Yep! Just copy, paste, adjust as you like, and send it off into the ether.

You’re a valuable employee, right? You want to keep adding value to the company? And the company wants to keep you around too. Having your organization send you to continuing education events each year is a great way to maintain mutual respect. Plus, the worst they could say is “uh, no” I guess! Doesn’t hurt to try.

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Hey Bossman,

I heard about a video production conference in Atlanta this October called the Southeast Creative Summit (www.southeastcreativesummit.com) and I think it’d be a great idea for me to go. There aren’t many educational video production conferences like this, and I haven’t found one as affordable or diverse.

It’s a three day conference over a weekend (October 25-27), so I won’t miss much work. They’re offering a lot of workshops I haven’t seen before, like aerial cinematography and producing. The things I learn could easily change the way we approach our project work here.

The workshops are being taught by people who are primarily working professionals in our field. A few of them have won Oscars or Emmys too, so I’d be learning from some of the best in the field. Everything in our industry is constantly changing, and I think conferences like this where I can learn from my peers are our best bet for staying ahead of the competition.

Atlanta is an easy city to travel to — the airport services tons of airlines, and the conference hotel is offering a really good discount rate at the moment. I also found a coupon code (trackmatte2013) to get $100 off registration for the Summit, so it’ll only cost $495 if I register before September 25th.

Maybe we could talk about this more and see if this fits into our budget? Thanks!

XXOO

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(Maybe not so much with the hugs and kisses at the end. But come on, give it a shot!)