WHAT TO EXPECT

You must be asking yourself, what will this cost your company. RIVE will provide all online certification assistance tools, company assessment tools, and marketing tools for $999.

Today’s webinar will be 1.5 hours. You should have your pre-work checklist handy to make notes about those things you are lacking and will need to complete the process. A word of advice, some people get through this process within a week while others may take months. RIVE provides a webinar on demand allows you to move at your own pace. You can pause when you need to work on something and come back to pick up where you left off.

The free business user profile provides online tools and skills to:

A strong virtual presence to promote businesses
Create a company binder for certification documentation
Free virtual certification assistance tools
Free virtual company assessment tools

The low-cost entrepreneur user profile provides the items above plus online tools to:

Develop more effective marketing tools that include company fact sheet & basic brochure
Develop more effective networking skills and tools
Develop a customized, concise pitch under 5 minutes

You will find handy notes and short video clips along the way to help you understand the importance of each part of the process.

This will help you understand what a purchaser is looking for and why the content is important. You may even want to put yourself in the position of purchaser and how you would respond to a possible vendor responding as you would.

Additional costs to certification include:

Cost of time, 20-80 hours of your own personal time to complete this process;
Cost of purchasing XERO, for your financial records and the use of a bookkeeper and/or Certified Public Accountant;
Time and cost of incorporation;
Cost of HR Resources (in house vs. consulting vs. by payroll service);
Cost of legal fees to review contracts (mainly indemnification clauses); and
Cost of marketing collateral specifically targeted to contracting entities.