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Me and Sam

Some screenshots of my experience in trying to register my small business with sam.gov

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August 28, 2012
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Transcript

  1. Registering on SAM.gov Tuesday, August 28, 12

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  12. My first point of confusion- now what? Tuesday, August 28,

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  13. Tuesday, August 28, 12

  14. Tuesday, August 28, 12

  15. Maybe the FAQs will help... Tuesday, August 28, 12

  16. Tuesday, August 28, 12

  17. Tuesday, August 28, 12

  18. Plenty of things required that I don’t know Tuesday, August

    28, 12

  19. Starting with my DUNS number Tuesday, August 28, 12

  20. Tuesday, August 28, 12

  21. Call or email? A little weird, but okay. Tuesday, August

    28, 12

  22. Hey at least they warned me. Tuesday, August 28, 12

  23. While I wait for a response, I’ll carry on. Tuesday,

    August 28, 12

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  29. 5 relatively painless steps later Tuesday, August 28, 12

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  32. Tuesday, August 28, 12

  33. (OT: exactly 9 characters, no special chars. That’s a password

    cracker’s dream.) Tuesday, August 28, 12

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  38. Tuesday, August 28, 12

  39. This was one of the most surprising requests. Unless I

    knew I was destined for a contract, I would not have continued. Tuesday, August 28, 12

  40. Tuesday, August 28, 12

  41. I have no idea Tuesday, August 28, 12

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  43. Tuesday, August 28, 12

  44. I don’t know what that means, but sure Tuesday, August

    28, 12

  45. Vaguely recall NAICS, but don’t know mine. Tuesday, August 28,

    12

  46. software development: nope. Tuesday, August 28, 12

  47. web design: nope. Tuesday, August 28, 12

  48. application development: nope. Tuesday, August 28, 12

  49. Internets: nope. Tuesday, August 28, 12

  50. computer: bingo! Tuesday, August 28, 12

  51. Tuesday, August 28, 12

  52. information technology: nope. Tuesday, August 28, 12

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  55. Tuesday, August 28, 12

  56. Then sam.gov went down for a little while... Tuesday, August

    28, 12

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  64. Tuesday, August 28, 12

  65. Oops. Not sure how I did that. Tuesday, August 28,

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  66. I’ll have to look these up... Tuesday, August 28, 12

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  71. Tuesday, August 28, 12

  72. Hmm, phone wasn’t marked as required. Tuesday, August 28, 12

  73. Or “facsimile” as we used to call them. Tuesday, August

    28, 12

  74. N/A to me (luckily) Tuesday, August 28, 12

  75. I reviewed all my info and clicked Submit... Tuesday, August

    28, 12

  76. But could never get past this point. Tuesday, August 28,

    12

  77. And so I eventually gave up. Tuesday, August 28, 12