 Hey Gubcon Giants family, it's your host Eric Coffey and His mini co-host Maria All right, Maria And so today we are here discussing with you some new changes that we're making Behind the scenes with Gubcon EDU. We want to share it with our audience our subscribers our family First and foremost as always so today we're going to discuss our free course that we designed we built We've added some lessons to it and we want to talk to you today about that free course and some of the new lessons That have been added So like Eric said it's all about the free course today So this is directly to those people that were in the art in the same shoes that I was about a year or two ago Everyone that wants to get started. I hear a lot of it from youtube comments to text messages to emails and phone calls I want to get started. I'm so excited, but Where do I start? What do I do? What do I do next? All those simple questions are answered in one place and that is our free course We took my normal brain and all those questions I had and put it all in one place But as time goes by we have more people coming in with more questions Telling us exactly what you need and this course is especially for you For all your questions to be answered and as time goes by we are only getting better We're putting in all these new items in there to answer those specific questions So it's time to find out all about the free course. So I am here to ask Eric about our free course So first and foremost you can find our free course at free govconcourse.com That's free govconcourse.com. It costs you nothing to sign up No credit card. You just put in your name and your email address and you sign up And then once you do that you'll have access to all of the on-demand lessons Immediately, so it's not going to take you day by day like we used to do in the past You're going to have access to it. It's inside of a formal lms learning management system So you would be able to go through Each particular section and learn about what it takes to get started to get registered absolutely free Now we've had experiences with people charging folks out there for registration and setup What do you think about that maria? Don't do it. Please don't do it I tell everyone don't do it And if you are at least try to do it on your own It's free again There's a few people out there that are here to tell you it's free Registry and getting everything set up. It's free. Don't pay anybody to do it. It's not that hard I did it everybody else did it and we come from so many different backgrounds and educations But it is super duper duper simple So don't pay just take the course and it walks you step by step by step. I did it I went through the videos they used to be on youtube and I pause the screen I look at my window make sure they both look exactly the same and I go on to the next step It's that easy. Just follow it. Make sure everything looks the same and keep on going And as of today, there's probably been about 6000 businesses who've gone through this free course and lessons And even if you believe that Eric I've watched your free videos on youtube and I've got a handle for this It doesn't hurt to go through the modules anyways because you're sure there's something on there that you missed Something that you didn't quite grasp and you will gain some additional knowledge. And by the way, it's what? Free You can't beat free so again If you're on youtube and you see some of the videos that may be in a member's only section Or that have been moved away from the youtube channel for some referring links They're probably in either the free course the paid course We have added In the last two weeks more than 13 on-demand videos inside of our free course So even if you were in the course previously We've since added 13 new videos in the free course things like top legal issues Does a government buy what I sell Things about sam registration impen All of these things that you need to know when you're going through the process Up to the point of getting registered for sam and then we even threw in some of the paid course content As a sample so you can see what's in store inside of our paid course But again today, we just want to talk to you about because I I feel as though we have not Elaborated on what's included inside the free course And a lot of people may or may not be aware of it because I'm still receiving questions of where do I start? And so what I want to do is kind of make sure that you've had it in one place I know I have 400 plus videos on youtube and maybe that's daunting task for some people Maybe it's overwhelming. So inside of the free course you can go step by step From a to z on what it takes to get registered and get your business going As you guys know I was a teacher and I tell all my parents the foundation of kindergarten is essential Think about it like that. This is your kindergarten This is your time to set that foundation to learn all those Necessary skills those necessary steps that you need to be successful without that strong foundation It's not going to happen. You're going to struggle. So even if you did it do it again Get all those foundational skills all those lessons all that knowledge in order to go on to the next step So take advantage of this of this free course and let if you don't know what's in it, let's find out So Eric, what should I expect in the free course? So what you should expect in the free course is first and foremost An explanation of what government contracting is All right, so we go through we break down what government contracting is I give an example of that We actually made like a cartooners type video that gives you a very elementary style example In a format that is easy for anyone to understand Once we explain what government contracting is we then discuss What kinds of things you can expect when getting involved in government contracting So a lot of times even some of my students that have our paid students who did not go through the free course We we don't discuss that in a paid course because we assume that you've already went through that and learned those lessons So again, like Maria said, this is the foundation This is the beginning of what it takes and a lot of people skip over the foundation And then when they get into a contract situation like I had someone today They have to go back to the elementary scope the basics, right? So it doesn't matter what sports you're in what activity you have to do the basics, which is practice This is your practice. Okay before you go out there and you start bidding contracts And you think you've got it based on a couple videos that you've watched a couple speeches or talks that you've heard a webinar to Go to the basics and make sure you understand the fundamentals the foundation Setting up your business right getting your business set up That's so critical Even if you're not ready today to start doing government contracts Set up your business because by the time that you are ready a year from now 18 months from now having that business Formulated and created at that time is going to make you leave some balance above other people because why now you've got One year history 18 months of history even if you did nothing When you have to qualify for a loan or qualify for any type of Financial services or even some of the certifications There may be a minimum period of time that you have to have been certified in business So again, we talk about setting your business up setting up your your counting right getting registered Setting up your sam profile, right? A lot of people have set up sam profiles But if you're like me and maria you're probably receiving emails from third party vendors telling you that you did not set up your sba profile Or your dsbs, right? So again, how do you set up your sba profile? Which is the second part of sam? Okay, so how many people actually did that correctly? So we go through that stuff of setting that up and then we discuss past performance versus corporate experience because why a lot of us out here who are new to business Have our corporate experience and We don't have past performance for the thing we want to do So we go through and we discuss past performance versus corporate experience Which you can and cannot use under capability statements and so forth. So again, that was a very fast 90 second overview of it but It's packed. I mean it's packed full of content And it takes you step by step and again We've heard nothing with positive feedback. We actually surveyed for the last two years We've been surveying students who come out of there and ask them What additional things do we need to add and I mean the feedback that we've been getting from people back is It's just phenomenal. It's tremendous. So everyone has learned something to gain value out of it Sign up today get registered and also You know, if you feel as though, hey, Eric, I'm beyond that phase We do have the paid course for those that want to go into the paid version as well But again today, we're on here just to share about the free course because I feel like we have not placed enough emphasis on that Um, you know about the books that we have, you know about the paid course that we have We know about all the other things, but we have not came on here to discuss the free course In the last probably year or so. So I want to come on today. Share that with everyone I brought Maria over here so she can come in at her two cents three cents and help everyone so that we can Those persons that are new that are just starting to learn about us They're just starting to watch us that are just seeing our content today Who may not have seen the old content. I want you to know free gov concourse.com Is where you can visit will also have an inside of the content of this video And before we leave I just want to address One issue because a lot of people want to come into this as a consultant This is also for you Even though you want to be a consultant you need to sound knowledgeable and the way you gain that knowledgeable talk Is by having that foundation. So even though you're going to be a consultant Yeah, you don't have to be registered and sent but you know what your client does You're done this number your sba profile all that information You're going to take and put it on to the client because more than you know And the fact that they see that you know even how to get into your sam's profile because you know what my client There was expired. They had no idea even how to log in So I think those things are very very important because take all that information, you know And that's how you're going to show your value show that you're knowledgeable in this field So take full advantage of it. I'm telling you like the free course Has helped me tremendously like I wish I had that at the beginning because I went into your advanced course and No clue. I understood maybe a percentage of it all But taking steps back and having that foundation of where to get started is very very important And like I said, it's free Everything's in one place. It's there for you to make the time if you're an early morning person Do it in the morning in the afternoon when your kids are playing with any single time It's all in one place for you to go So stop making those excuses stop asking where do I start because it's in one place and It's free Thank you guys. Be good. Bye. Stay safe