• Learn “everything worth knowing” about the 8(a)
application process from EZCertify, who has prepared and reviewed
thousands of successful applications
• Discuss what it means to be 8(a) certified with individuals
who have “been there” having operated among the largest,
most successful 8(a) company’s in the history of the program
• Find out why being 8(a) certified can give you a tangible
competitive edge over even the “big guys”
• Dispel the myths about the program that have been created
by persons, even some within the SBA, to keep you from applying, despite
your qualifications and right to be certified
• Find our whether or not you are really qualified to be 8(a)
certified, once and for all
• Identify the specific items about you and your company that
the SBA will likely challenge when you submit your application, unless
you address these in your original submission
• EZCertify shall guide you through the NEW online 8(a) application
process, pointing out the issues, challenges and shortfalls in the
process that you must avoid to have your online application accepted
by the SBA.
• EZCertify shall provide you with your own 8(a) Application
Package Notebook, in the same form provided to our “full-price”
8(a) Package Preparation Service clients.
This shall ensure that your application is organized in a way, i.e.,
table of contents, checklist, tabs and section separator sheets that
will contain everything that the SBA evaluators will look for and
where in your application they can easily find it.
• We shall assist you to complete every data field of each form
that is required within the application, including of course, the
SBA Form 1010, “Application for 8(a) and SDB Certification.
• We shall demonstrate how you must respond to any question
on the SBA Form 1010 to which you have disclosed applies to you, your
other team members or your company.
• We shall review every enclosure document that is included
on the SBA’s checklist of documents required to accompany your
application and equally important, will tell you which documents you
must provide, even though they are MISSING from the SBA’s checklist.
• We shall tell you and assist you to evaluate the acceptability
of the specific data items that are contained within each enclosure
document (e.g., company and personal Federal tax returns) that the
SBA will seek to extract from these documents.
• We shall review your company’s financial statements and
show you how they may have to be changed to be acceptable to the SBA.
• We shall show you how to prepare your own personal financial
statements, tell you where the “SBA traps” are within these
statements, and coach you personally how to avoid or overcome any
personal financial issues that will get your application challenged.
• We shall show you what a successful “economic disadvantage
narrative’ must consist of and will provide you with both a template
to assist you in the preparation of this document required of ALL
applicants, as well as coach you how to prepare your own narrative.
• For those individuals who are not members of what are called
“designated groups”, Black Americans, Hispanic Americans,
Asian Pacific Americans, Sub-Continent Asian Americans and Native
Americans, e.g. Caucasian Women, and Service Disabled Veterans, we
shall show you what a successful “social disadvantage narrative”
must consist of and will provide you with both a template to assist
you in the preparation of this document required of you, as well as
coach you how to prepare your own narrative.
• For those applicants who have not been in business for at
least two full years, with revenues in each of these two years, as
evidenced by Federal tax filings, and who meet each of five qualification
criteria, we shall show you what a successful “Request for a
Two-Year Waiver” must consist of and will provide you with both
a template to assist you in the preparation of this document, as well
as coach you how to prepare your own waiver request.
We have two Seminars to choose from:
Falls Church, Virginia
• When – Wednesday, September 17, 2008
• Time Schedule – 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
• Where – Mariott Fairfiew Park
3111
Fairview Park Drive
Falls
Church, VA 22042
703-849-9400
(Get
Directions)
(Link
to Hotel Website)
Tampa, Florida
• When – Friday, September 26, 2008
• Time Schedule – 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
• Where – Tampa Airport Marriott
Tampa
International Airport
Tampa,
FL 33607
813-879-5151
(Get
Directions)
(Link
to Hotel Website)
