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As always, the process begins with your nomination. You can nominate yourself and as many other QuickBooks ProAdvisors as you feel are worthy of consideration. After we close nominations, you'll be advised about the receipt of your nomination and the timeline for formal application submission.
Let me stop right here and remind you: You cannot be considered for this award if you're not a currently "Certified" QuickBooks ProAdvisor. We use Intuit's definition for that.
- You must either hold a current QuickBooks Online certification which are valid for only a 365-day period, or
- You must have earned a QuickBooks Desktop certification within any one of the three most current certification years: 2018, 2017 or 2016.
A word to the wise: There is only one person you can count on to nominate you for this award, and that is yourself.
After the nomination process is closed, Insightful Accountant will notify nominees when they can proceed to the next round of the process which is the formal application process. Up until last year we required all nominees to complete the standard application to proceed.
But as with last year we will again be offering a 'short form' of the application. If you have been in our Top 100 in either 2017 or 2016, you'll have the option to complete an "Update Application," which is designed to give us the latest details regarding your certifications, clients and other key other factors. This information will be used to update your highest score from the prior two applications for use in this year's scoring process.
Nominees for 2018 who have not been in the Top 100 during for either 2017 or 2016, as well as any nominee eligible for the short update application but who chooses not to use the 'short form', will complete our regular "Full Application" in order to proceed.
At the close of the Application process, all nominees having completed either the "update" or "regular" applications will be advised as to the remaining steps and time line associated with the selection process.
The thing to think about right now is 'nomination' because you cannot even be considered for these awards if you're not nominated, so we encourage "self-nominations." Let's face it – nobody knows you as well as yourself.
If you garner 1,000 other nominations from your colleagues, that's great. But please don't get left out just because someone else failed to nominate you.
And let me add one other thing here that I was recently asked about. Some people think if their practice is solely QuickBooks Online based or that they only have QBO ProAdvisor certifications that they can't compete. That just isn't so.
Each year we recognize a Top QBO ProAdvisor within our top 10 categorical winners,and that category stands on its own merits. So don't rule yourself out just because you're a QBO Only ProAdvisor and didn't nominate yourself.
Best of luck to all of you. Out of all the QuickBooks ProAdvisors in the world, I'm once again looking forward to meeting the "Best of the Best" in 2018.