We just returned from our inaugural Career College Association Annual Meeting. Vegas was a great venue and the participants and vendors were very energetic and upbeat. We are live with our first career college, the Laboratory Institute of Merchandising (NY), and we were excited to participate in our first conference. We were also excited to welcome our new team member, Frances Pileggi, to the team!

Since the dawn of the student loan crises, schools have been paying much more attention to their costs. Payment Planner, Overture Technologies' web-based self-service financial aid solution, has the ability to help improve student acquisition and lower the cost of delivering financial aid. The idea of turning on a "virtual financial aid office" that could work with any FAMS (Banner, PowerFAIDS, Datatel, PeopleSoft, etc.) was very interesting to the schools. The bottom-line benefits were immediately apparent.

BTW, if you think leaving from the East Coast early in the morning of the conference and returning on the red-eye on the evening after the conference is a good idea, think again! Very bad traveling decision!

Members of our sales and marketing team at CCA.