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We're often asked what is the difference between our advocate training program and others on the market?  As is true with all products, with disability advocate training, software and support, you get what you pay for!  There is absolutely no other advocate training program on the market that comes close to providing you with the depth of knowledge, creative business insights and unique operational techniques offered within our course.  We offer an exclusive curriculum that is both unique and proprietary.  You cannot acquire our proven operational methods from any other source.   

Like no other training program on the market, our course goes far beyond the fundamentals of just representing a disability claim.  Our program also focuses on the important business, marketing, operational and income boosting aspects of this service, that help you succeed regardless of location, experience or level of competition. 

We're the Advocate Innovators!

Disability Associates is responsible for 90% of the marketing and operational innovations currently being used in this field.  Our innovations include pen-point marketing and custom operational software.  Our software is not some slapped together applications created in Microsoft and called custom-made.  We offer real custom software planned, engineered and enhanced over a period of many years. 

We also created the case assessment process, fast track case development, non-medical case review, key point extraction, the advance fee structure, client referral networking, automated vocational analysis, Advocate specialization, argument analysis, SSA styled memorandums, the summery evaluation system, software based operational efficiency tools and much, much more! 

If you see an Advocate training company offering any of the above innovations by any other name, you know you're dealing with an imitator who can offer you nothing more than what could be gleaned from us.  Why waste your money on incomplete snippets of information when you can purchase the original materials in their entirety directly from us.  Although our materials may cost a little more, our unique innovations will enable you to earn a higher income with less work over a shorter period of time. 

Our training and operational techniques are more than just words on a website!  Without the hard-won business experience provided in our course, your chances for long-term success in this field are significantly reduced.   After more than two decades of making a profit in this field, Disability Associates is the only firm that has what it takes to help you do the same! 

Internet Training Mimics:  

In order to appear to have the same depth of knowledge and product variety, Internet training mimics will offer you similarly named products and services at a reduced price.  The Mimic's want you to believe that you're getting the same products for less money.  These look-a-likes do not have the substance or operational capabilities of our products.  By mimicking our approach, products and services, these firms are telegraphing their lack of knowledge, imagination and experience.  They're also inadvertently supporting our claim of being the best and most experienced training source in the industry.  After all, if we were not the best why would they mimic us? 

The Instant Gurus

An Instant Guru is a person or company who claims a high level of experience and expertise while simply gleaning their knowledge from others in the field.  For example, there is a firm in Texas offering products that are suspiciously similar to our original products.  A couple of years ago, this same firm had no software, no marketing, no advocate business experience and no idea how to operate a successful advocacy service.  

After reading our Seven Pillars text, this firm has tried to blatantly imitate our approach, hoping that you won’t notice the difference.  This firm began offering similarly named knock-offs of our products and services without any real understanding of the underlying techniques that make them work.

Material Updates:

Other trainers in this field only pretend to update their materials.  Outdated training materials are useless to an advocate and may cause significant problems for your service.  Disability Associates is the only firm that executes a complete course update on all training and operational materials every ninety-days.  Our dynamic update policy is designed to keep our students at the cutting-edge of this industry for years to come. 

Training from Auction Sites:  

We recently identified an individual on Ebay selling a version of our training program that was more than 10 years old.  This person has never been a customer of our firm and has no experience in this field.  He also failed to inform potential buyers that the materials were extensively outdated. Not only is outdated material useless to the purchaser, it could cause great harm to the person applying for disability benefits.  Using out-dated or altered advocate training materials may also result in legal and/or disciplinary actions against the user by Social Security.  With our company name on these prehistoric materials, we (not him) would be held responsible if problems arose.  Ebay agreed with us on this issue and removed the listing. 

Notice!
Disability Associates will not be held responsible for the contents of
any advocate training materials that were not directly purchased
from our firm.

The field of disability advocacy is dynamic.  It's extremely important that the training you receive is up-to-date and in compliance with current Social Security regulations.  Although we feel it's unethical to offer outdated information in this field, this person may sell this single copy as long as he boldly states the following disclaimer in his advertisement:  The materials are more than 10 years old, contain outdated information and discontinued items that are no longer sanctioned or supported by Social Security or the copyright holder, Disability Associates, Inc.

Anonymous Complaints

The new Internet get-even tactic used against individuals and businesses alike is the anonymous complaint.  Individuals and/or competitors will post unsubstantiated comments without revealing their identity or the true facts behind their statements.  When reviewing these comments, note the following:  Does the person making the comments hide his identity and location behind black-outs or PO Boxes?  Does he try to enlist others to take part in his scheme?  Does the person place the blame on others while rationalizing his own unethical behavior?  Was their a prior conflict that is the motive behind the disparaging comments?  Is the person an actual customer of the company he is disparaging?  These questions speak directly to a person's motive, character and credibility.  Before accepting such comments, contact the subject company for clarification.  In most cases you'll find that the disparaging statements are completely unjustified.
 

Public Domain Training Materials:

Little or No Experience:  

Training programs for disability advocates are popping up all over the Internet.  Many of these programs are created by those with appropriate sounding backgrounds, but no real experience actually representing disability claims.  Having worked for Social Security does not necessarily qualify a person to either practice or teach this subject to others.  Field experience is the key to success.  Once you've successfully represented several hundred cases, only then can you consider training others.  We've represented over 10,000 cases which is more than all other trainers combined.  Don't place the success of your service in the hands of a novice.  No matter how you look at it, there is absolutely no substitute for Disability Associates' more than two decades of representation, business and training experience.   

Irrelevant Experience:

There is an Internet training Guru offering advocate training based on his experience as a Social Security Examiner.  Examiners and other Social Security clerks are not qualified to offer training in this field.  In many states you can become an Examiner with little more than a high school diploma.  A Social Security Examiner is not allowed to make an independent decision in a disability claim.  All cases handled by Examiners must be reviewed by a medical and vocational specialist before he is allowed to complete a case.  Disability Examiners lack the critical knowledge and outside advocate experience needed to help you succeed in this business.  If Social Security won't allow an Examiner to make a solo decision, how wise would it be to entrust your training to a course based primarily on this background.

Checking out a Company

Given the nature of the Internet, it's important that you use objective and unbiased sources when checking out a company.  We provide both active student and professional references covering a period of more than two decades. 

Professional references like that provided by the Better Business Bureau are not about trusting a company or its products.  It's about having a reputable third-party arbitrator available to protect your interest in case the buyer - seller relationship goes wrong.  Be sure to check out a company's membership status and complaint history with that company's local BBB. 

The BBB will specifically state that a company is a member in its company report.  If a company is not a member of the BBB, you have little chance of recovering your money without costly legal action.  A company will not join the BBB because they are either hiding their years in business or are afraid of giving consumers an independent voice in distributes. 

If there are complaints logged against a company, the local BBB will have a record of those complaints.  A company's complaint history with their local BBB directly reflects that company's quality of service over the long haul.  You should always request a company's BBB membership status, years of membership and arbitration history.  A company with multiple complaints or arbitrations within a one year period may have significant problems.  

To acquire a BBB reliability report on Disability Associates, click on the BBB link below.  For a BBB member report by phone, call 303-758-2100 and press one.  Then enter our main company phone number 303-766-1111. 

For verification that you're doing business with the real Disability Associates Inc, make sure that the company website contains an active secure socket layer license.  Click the Verisign site security logo below.  If a company's website does not contain a Verisign secure socket certificate, you have no way of knowing who you're really dealing with.  For a fee-based Dun & Bradstreet report on our company, click D&B sign.