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The impact of business awards  The fear of failure and the perceived effort required contribute to avoiding entering awards, yet when we do, the experience is win-win regardless. So, why don’t we enter awards more freely? 📚Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/eeXwm-xq Association of Business Mentors (ABM)  Kerrie Dorman Mentoring for Business and in the Workplace.  #businessawards #awards #businessgrowth

Do you forget to celebrate your business’ successes? Once you’ve achieved something, it’s straight back into the next project to start or problem to solve. It’s so important to celebrate success - to keep you and your team motivated, to remind your clients or customers of your achievements and to leverage every opportunity to showcase what makes your business great. What if you find it hard to recognise your successes? You’re not alone. As humans, we are hardwired to focus more on the negative aspects of our lives than the positives. It’s why we recommend outsourcing the awards process to an agency like Green Door Co who can look at your business objectively. Gaining an outsider’s perspective on your achievements gives you a birds eye view of your business, helps you recognise your strengths and potentially enter your business into a variety of different awards that you may never have thought possible! ➡️ https://lnkd.in/g-B2d59j

Business awards add credibility to your organisation and there are so many to choose from. Award Judge Matt Alderton shares his tips to submit and leverage a winning entry. 🏆 #BusinessBlueprint #BusinessAwards #BusinessGrowth

Award submission tip #4: Take your time and be thorough ⏳ When preparing your award submission: Get the details right - double-check everything Revisit the form multiple times to ensure you've covered all bases Speak to everyone involved who can help you sell your nomination Don't rush - a well-crafted submission stands out Quality takes time.  How long do you typically spend on award submissions? #QualitySubmissions #AttentionToDetail #AwardStrategy

Being named an ‘award-winning business’ is not only a great way to promote your organisation, it's a great way to boost your public image and company morale as well. But, winning an award isn’t as straightforward as it might appear, and many businesses come up short when trying to write a compelling award application - that's where we come in! Find out more about how winning awards can help your business.. read our latest blog to find out... https://bit.ly/4gaorpQ #marketingexperts #ukmarketingagency #smallbusinessmarketingtips

Are you free tomorrow? Are you a bit unsure about winning business awards? Not sure if they might be out of your league, too hard, too expensive, or just not worth the time? I see this all the time, from every sized business, from entrepreneurs right through to teams in huge corporates. Now the size of your business is not going to make or break whether you win awards - but your mindset definitely will! I've worked with hundreds of people who have tried and failed, and are now put off awards. So it's time to let me show you another way. Let me help you make everything so much easier, with the attention winning can give your business. Why? Because winning changes everything: 🏆 It builds credibility with customers, clients, and investors. 🏆 It boosts team morale and creates a culture of success. 🏆 And let’s be honest, it gives you a personal boost, which everyone needs! Plus, the stats don’t lie: 85% of consumers say award recognition influences who they choose to buy from. So without recognition, are they going to choose you or your award-winning competitor? 😱 Tomorrow, I’m hosting a FREE workshop to unpack my proven ‘win formula’, based on my bestselling book ‘WIN!’. Here are the details: What: ‘HOW TO WIN’: Crack the code to winning awards When: Tomorrow, Wednesday 29th January 12 - 1pm GMT Why: In just one hour, you’ll learn:  ⭐️ How to know when you are ready to win  ⭐️ The secret formula to awards success  ⭐️ Which awards you can enter now to get a winning result in 2025 Kickstart your journey to thinking bigger, and to become a winner, because you absolutely deserve to, and just look at all the fun you could have celebrating! 🙌 I’d love to see you there! Click here to book: https://lnkd.in/ehkX94xj

There's a topic I've been meaning to write about for a while... and now, my LinkedIn connections the time has come, before the end of 2024.... ⌚ Best Buckle up🧡 Business awards🏆 (I can almost hear the gulp) I've banged the drum for a few years about local business acknowledgement and how totally AMAZING it is that businesses are recognised for their hard work with local business awards. However... I'm sharing with you the dark side. Majority* of them are BS! Total and utter bull. Why? 👇 🥸Ask for the criteria on which your business is judged .... and You'll be told "there isn't one" and "judges decision is FINAL!" 😳 We fell for this BS fakery this year after being "judged". The pompous old opinionated and arrogant judge was degrading, insulting, rude and a total biggot. when I raised concerns I was told "he wouldn't care what you think and is terribly influential, locally". Here's the thing - I couldn't give a stuff, I'm definitely not afraid to call him or the entire process out. here's our top tips; 🧡It's important to have a judging criteria 🏆It's important to have judges who are qualified 🧡It's important to have judges that understand businesses 🏆It's important to have judges that are prepared to ask questions if they don't understand 🧡Vital not to have an invested interest 🏆Judges with the appropriate moral compass and subject knowledge who can make an informed decision and not a bias decision 🧡People appointed as judges, understand the criteria and are appointed on merit and not on how much money they put into the organisation or business. 🏆Don't expect there to be any repercussions and it's not about being sore losers it's about running a business on a fare and level platform. *not all but the majority You'll see I posted about winning a national business award yesterday which is wonderful 🏆 and shows our professionalism but to us that means more than a corrupt fake favouritism type awards that we want absolutely nothing to do with. 🏆🧡🏆 You've been warned 🏆🧡🏆 #businessawards #cleanslate #rant

Client Testimonials > Awards I will die on this hill. It's not that awards are stupid. Validation from the community is nice. But we don't serve our community. We serve our clients. So, I focus on them. In business and life, I love this question... "Is the juice worth the squeeze?" • Awards 🤷♂️ • Client Testimonials 👍 Let's be honest, though... Projects are hard and sometimes disappoint. I dropped the ball on an important task just last week. Own up and get back on your mission. 95% of the time, they end successfully. When that happens... Testimonials 𝘢𝘳𝘦 the award. #customerexperience #entreprenuership #awards

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