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How to Become a Florida Construction Continuing Education Provider

The State of Florida requires all certified and registered contractors licensed by the Construction Industry Licensing Board (CILB) to complete 14 hours of continuing education biannually to renew their construction trade license. Those licensed contractors who fail to complete their continuing education requirements by the license expiration date may face non-renewal or disciplinary action. This requirement has been in effect since December of 1993 for Florida construction contractors.

First you will need to write or compose 14 hours of continuing education courses in total. One hour is defined as 50 minutes of classroom-course work excluding breaks or recesses.

The following are the core or required construction continuing education courses and are one hour in length: workplace safety, business practices, workers’ compensation, laws and rules, an advanced module approved by the Florida Building Commission, and wind mitigation (This requirement is only for the General, Building, Residential, Specialty, Roofing, Glass or Glazing construction contractors). The remaining 8 (or 9) hours can be of any general topic that would be of interest to a licensed construction professional. Any course topic that is a sales presentation or promotion will be denied approval.

Next you will need to register with the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) on form DBPR CILB 4354-1. This form requires the usual information about the business name, address, telephone number, type of business organization, etc.

The registration form wants you to detail for each individual construction continuing education course the following information: the course syllabus, course description, course topic, course timeline, course objective, and the evaluation method. Next the DBPR and CILB require the name of each instructor and their qualifications. Typically this is five or more years of trade experience detailed on a resume for each instructor submitted with the registration application. An exception is made for instructors with less than five years of experience; they must have a 4 year University degree or graduate degree in their field of study and be an active licensed contractor.

The fees are $250 for the continuing education (CE) course provider application and $25 for each hour of CE course instruction.

There is a section inquiring about any individual’s criminal background, any court judgments regarding dishonest dealing or fraud, and if you have ever been denied a State license or if you have had any State license revoked or suspended.

Upon receiving your approved course-provider number and course identity number(s) you can begin to offer your continuing education courses to construction contractors. Any promotion materials must list your continuing education course provider number and each assigned number identifying the individual CE course.

After a student completes a course you will be required to keep the following data:

The time, date and place each course is completed
The name & address of each instructor and their qualifications
Name, address and registration/certificate number of each course participant
Sign in/sign out sheet used at the site listing name, license number and signature
Internet courses require the registration information, access logs, and completion date in lieu of sign in sheets
Internet courses need proof of student’s identification verification data, password, and mother’s maiden name
Course syllabus for each course

After a contractor completes a CE course you will be required to issue a certificate of completion. This must have their name, their contractor certification or registration number, the course provider name, the course name, the date course offered/completed, the total continuing education hours and if the course included workers’ compensation, workplace safety, business practices or wind mitigation. All continuing education course attendance records are required to be kept for 4 years.

As a continuing education course provider you must electronically provide to the DBPR the list of attendees within 30 calendar days of the completion of the CE course or prior to the licensee’s renewal date, whichever occurs sooner.

Additionally please read the Florida Administrative Rule Chapter 61G4-18.

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How To Discover Your PERFECT Home Based Business – The Second Of Seven Keys – It Is Easy

What makes an opportunity PERFECT? In the first article we learned that the “P” in PERFECT stands for “Profitable.”Key Number Two
The first “E” in PERFECT stands for “Easy.” No, “easy” doesn’t mean you won’t have to work at all. There is no free lunch. Don’t believe it if someone says they have done all the work for you and all you have to do is buy their system, sit back, and watch the money roll in. It does take work to start and build any successful business. But, the PERFECT home based business should be relatively easy and can even be a lot of fun.”Easy” Means:
•Something that you are passionate about or love doing.If you really love doing something, and that is the core of your home business, you will be a lot happier and the work required will seem easier to you. You will also be much more likely to stick with your business when you run into obstacles that will certainly come along.If you not only love something, but also know a lot about it, you will have a much better chance of success in a market related to your passion. You will “speak the language” of your customers. That will help you develop better relationships with them resulting in more sales now and in the future. Starting and building your home business around something you love will make it easier for you and it will be fun too.•A business process that can be automated or systematized.If everything you do in your business has to be done over and over again by you and you alone, you will not succeed for long, or your business will stay small. A PERFECT home based business will enable you to automate many of the business tasks after you do the initial work to set up the necessary processes.•Your product is easy to pack and ship at low cost, or fulfillment of the order is done digitally.The easiest home business lets you “ship” your product to the customer digitally in the form of a digital file over the internet or by e-mail. This also results in the highest profit because the cost to create and deliver a digital product is peanuts.•Requires less than 20 hours per week after the initial set up period. You may work 20 to 60 hours each week to start and set up your business for the first month or three. But, a PERFECT home based business will only require 20 hours or less of your time each week after the initial set up period.•Totally doable by anyone. If you have to be a genius or marketing wizard to succeed, it isn’t a PERFECT home based business. Thousands of “regular Joe’s” are making big money in a PERFECT home business and you can too. Find a business that you are comfortable doing, or find a mentor who will teach you everything you need to know about starting and succeeding in the home based business you choose.So, a PERFECT Home Based Business must be EASY. And, it must be PROFITABLE too. More to come in the rest of this article series.Read the other articles in this series, or Click Here For Your Free Report: Discover The PERFECT Home Business.

A Guide on Successful Product Creation and Internet Marketing

Product creation in Internet marketing is getting stiffer and stiffer nowadays owing to tough competition between Internet-based businesses. Putting up a new product requires plenty of brainpower and finances along with an ability to take risk. With that, even if you have the product well-set already, you have to position it strategically in the Internet landscape for others to notice. You should get the interest of Web users and turn them to actual customers. Aside from the usual physical products, many different products that thrive well on Internet marketing include E-books, membership sites, and video lectures.

The long and difficult process of product creation begins with ideas. They are easy to get – compared to the effort that comes with analyzing the market for that idea. Before the idea turns to a product, businesses often spend money, even amounting to millions of dollars, to ensure the success of the new product that emerges from an idea. Businesses undertake many types of market research and surveys before releasing their products to the public. Now, you may think that because your business is small, you can’t afford research or you don’t have to do research; you can and you should. The Internet allows you to disseminate materials needed for your market study to many people at once without your having to spend a cent.

It is a common maxim in business: Look at your destination first before mapping out your journey. So what are the goals you intend to accomplish with your product creation ventures? The everyday travails of your business may make you forget the end in sight. On the other hand, prepare to entertain new developments that come to your mind in your product creation. Your conception of a product may have started this way, but a few tweaks here and there along with some market research results and it ends up another way. Take it as the result of a creative process, not as a failure to reach your goal. After all, your product creation activities are intertwined with a long-term goal that you should strive to sustain at your utmost: profit generation. So if your less profitable initial idea evolves to a more profitable product, be thankful!

With your product made up already, start doing some aggressive Internet marketing. A product purchase typically comes after more than five times a customer is exposed to an informative call-to-buy message. Thus it is important to get the contact details, like the e-mail address, of potential customers who are on the brink of a sale. Use the results of your market research to determine the demographics to which you should concentrate your marketing efforts.

With consistent product creation, you can make an inventory of your products that you can market in due time. Just keep making products – the moment you succeed in making and marketing a product, customers are surely wanting more from you, so give it to them. Keep them on your side through constant product creation.

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