Benefits Package
"X" indicates that service is
part of membership
* Not
part of standard membership package. Special pricing
structure based on length of time of the
commercial/advertisement and the required bandwidth.
Benefits Descriptions:
Nationwide
Advertising –
Your
membership provides you with the ability to be part of a
nationwide community. National recognition of your company
instead of regionally or locally.
Teaming
Opportunities –
For the
majority of small companies, the opportunity to team with
other businesses is a ‘no-brainer’. Teaming opportunities
increases the companies chance of generating revenue or
building past performance.
Ability
to provide content –
Providing quality content is a way to have your company recognized. It
also provides a rich community where everyone can learn and
thrive.
Mentor
Protégé –
Prime
Contractors (Large Corporations/ Sponsors/ Graduated 8a) are
always looking for quality small businesses to mentor. The
benefit to prime contractors is opportunities to bid on
contracts that they were set aside for small businesses.
Ability
to find service providers in your location –
For small businesses or any business, the ability to find quality
service providers in your area can be difficult. We
pre-qualify the service provider prior to be accepted into
the community. This saves you time and money. This is two
things that all business can appreciate.
Subcontractor
Opportunities –
Members can solicit other companies in the community, who have won a
contract award, for an opportunity to participate as a
subcontractor.
Prime
Contractor Opportunities –
Many times small businesses could bid on a contract request, but they
realize they are not qualified to be seriously considered
for the award. Members of the community can band together
to form a formative team that could compete and potentially
win the contract award.
Participate
in Referral Program –
Know any quality small businesses that you would recommend to join the
community? How would you like to be paid for referring a
quality small business? We know that the best way to find
other quality small businesses is through members
recommending businesses that they have prior experience
with. We want to reward you!
Nominate
5 free small businesses –
As a ‘Gold’ sponsor – your sponsorship qualifies you to nominate 5
small businesses to join the community. This gives the
sponsor the opportunity to actively assist in the
development of these businesses. In addition, you can find
new small businesses by accessing the nationwide database.
Nominate
20 free small businesses -
As a ‘Platinum’ sponsor – your sponsorship qualifies you to nominate 5
small businesses to join the community. This gives the
sponsor the opportunity to actively assist in the
development of these businesses. In addition, you can find
new small businesses by accessing the nationwide database.
Access
to place Advertisements –
As a member, you are eligible to post in our advertisement section.
Email
account –
We offer
you one free email account. This can be an anonymous
account, if you wish.
Full
Search Query Access –
The
ability to access a nationwide database for small
businesses, service providers, training tips, angel
investors, financial investors, etc. is invaluable. In
addition, we want every member to actively provide feedback
to help us improve the query functionality.
Limited
Search Query Access –
With our free membership, you have limited access in our member
section, but full access to our public information.
Advisory
position –
We want to
hear from you. If you are a subject matter expert in your
discipline or a person who is advocate for change, we want
your participation in an advisory position. (To be an
advisory member, one must be invited by management of
8aportgov or be nominated by another member of the
community).
Post
Resume –
We want to
provide college graduates, individuals’ looking for new
positions or individuals’ looking of second career after
retirement to post their resume.
Access
to job position database –
Looking for an employee? Post a job description.
Participate
in focus groups –
The community will be at its’ best, if members participate to enrich
all aspects of the community. Join a focus group!
Access
to online training –
We know
that learning something new never stops! For those new
small businesses, we want to increase your survival rate
through educational online training/materials. If you are a
subject matter expert or extensive experience in your
discipline, we want you to provide content to assist in the
education of others in the community.
Add comments to Blog
Section –
We believe that all businesses can enhance their fellow members in the
community by adding quality content to the blog.
Add
comments to Forum Section –
We want members to voice their opinion in the forum on subjects. It is
important to participate, if you want to be heard. You
might even learn something.
Access
to regulatory legislation –
We want our members to stay current on legislation that could impact
your business or ‘how’ you do business.
*Eligible
to post video commercial –
Want to make a commercial to promote your
business core capabilities to a nationwide audience?
Seeking employment and want to sell yourself by advertising
your skills and/or experience to a local, region or
nationwide market in a short video?
