Winners Announced in 12th Annual Stevie® Awards for Sales & Customer Service

Posted by Maggie Gallagher on Mon, Feb 26, 2018 @ 10:02 AM

World's Top Customer Service Awards and Sales Awards Presented in Las Vegas

Winners in the 12th annual Stevie® Awards for Sales & Customer Service, recognized as the world's top customer service awards and sales awards, were unveiled on Friday night at a gala ceremony in Las Vegas, NV, attended by more than 600 executives from around the world.

The complete list of Stevie Winners by category is available at http://www.StevieAwards.com/Sales.

SASCS event pic.jpgDP DHL, with Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Award wins for activities in Argentina, Lebanon, the U.S., Vietnam, and other nations, was the most honored organization this year, earning the top Grand Stevie Award trophy for the fifth consecutive year. Other Grand Stevie Award winners, in descending order, include IBM, HomeServe USA, VIZIO Inc., Sales Partnerships, Inc., John Hancock Financial Services, FIS, Carbonite, Visualize, and Delta Vacations.

IBM won 10 Gold Stevie Awards, the most in the 2018 competition among Gold Stevie winners. HomeServe USA won six while Delta Vacations and GNResound won five each. Sales Partnerships, Inc. and Vizio won four. DHL Express Bangladesh, FIS, Mass Mutual Life Insurance Company, Mercer Consumer, Runzheimer, and UPMC Health Plan each won three. Winners of two Gold Stevie Awards include: Apttus, Birevim A.S., Carbonite, Comcast, Dell Technologies, Delta Airlines, DHL Express Vietnam, Gladly, GO Fuel Stations Inc., GuideWell Connect, Imparta Inc., ISN, John Hancock Financial Services, M Partners Ltd, MTM, Network Alliance, Samsung Electronics America, SAP America, ServiceNow, Sun Basket, TTEC, VXI Global Solutions, and Yapi Kredi Bank.

Leaders among multiple winners of Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevies include: Albridge, Allianz Global Assistance, BlueCat Networks, Druva Inc., eMoney Advisor, iHeartMedia, Nuance Communications, Overstock.com, Response, Rimini Street, SmartLinx Solutions, Wells Fargo Treasury Management Client Delivery, and Wyndham Vacation Ownership.

Winners in the People’s Choice Stevie® Awards for Favorite Customer Service, as determined by more than 124,000 public votes, which were announced on February 15, were also presented at the event.

The presentations were broadcast live via Livestream and are available to watch online.

The awards are presented by the Stevie Awards, which organizes several of the world’s leading business award shows including the prestigious International Business Awards® and The American Business Awards.

More than 2,500 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were evaluated in this year’s competition. Finalists were determined by the average scores of more than 150 professionals worldwide in seven specialized judging committees. Entries were considered in 89 categories for customer service and contact center achievements including: Contact Center of the Year, Award for Innovation in Customer Service, and Customer Service Department of the Year; 60 categories for sales and business development achievements, ranging from Senior Sales Executive of the Year to Sales Training or Business Development Executive of the Year to Sales Department of the Year; and categories to recognize new products and services and solution providers.

Sponsors of the 12th annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service include HCL Financial Services, Rant & Rave, Sales Partnerships, Inc., and ValueSelling Associates, Inc.

Topics: customer service awards, sales awards, stevie awards for sales and customer service, solution provider, business developement

Who's Coming to the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service on Friday?

Posted by Michael Gallagher on Mon, Feb 19, 2018 @ 12:31 PM

This coming Friday, February 23 we'll celebrate the 12th annual Stevie® Awards for Sales & Customer Service with a gala event at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada USA.  More than 600 professionals from around the world are expected for the presentation of the world's top honors for customer service, contact center, business development and sales professionals.  Grand, Gold, Silver, Bronze and People's Choice Stevie Awards will be presented in a wide variety of categories.

The presentations will be broadcast live via Livestream, starting at 5:15 pm Pacific time.  We thank our sponsors for their support of the event: HCL Financial Services, Rant & Rave, Sales Partnerships, Inc. and ValueSelling Associates Inc.

Below you'll find a list of the organizations currently registered to attend the event.  Before we get to that, though, note that entries for the 2019 edition of the awards will open in July.  Add your name to the mailing list and we'll email the entry kit to you as soon as it's available.

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60K Ltd. Sofia Bulgaria
Access One Inc Chicago IL
Achievers Toronto ON Canada
ActiveCampaign  Chicago  IL
Adestra  New York NY
Adobe Systems Incorporated  San Jose  CA
AFLAC Supplemental Insurance Columbus GA
Agilence Mt. Laurel NJ
AkSigorta Istanbul Turkey
Albridge  Pennington  NJ
AllClear ID Austin TX
Alliance Data Columbus OH
Allianz Global Assistance Richmond VA
Ally Bank  Detroit MI
American Airlines Ft. Worth TX
ARIIX  Bountiful  UT
Asurion Nashville TN
AWeber - Email Marketing Chalfont PA
BambooHR Lehi UT
Betta Group São Paulo Brazil
BIREVIM A.S. Istanbul Turkey
Borusan Otomotiv Ithalat ve Dagitim A.S.  Istanbul  Turkey
Bottomline Technologies Portsmouth NH
Brainier Solutions  Inc.  Minneapolis MN
Carbonite Inc. Lewiston ME
Care.com HomePay Austin TX
CareerArc  Burbank  CA
Chewy.com Hollywood FL
Cisco Systems Inc. San Jose CA
CKR Property Management  LLC  Houston  TX
ClearSlide San Francisco CA
Clio - Practice Management Software  Vancouver  BC  Canada
Collective Health  San Francisco  CA
Comcast Philadelphia PA
ComEd Oakbrook Terrace IL
Competence Call Center Vienna Austria
Con Edison New York NY
Convergys Cincinnati OH
Cross Country Home Services Fort Lauderdale FL
CSA Travel Protection-Generali Global Assistance San Diego CA
CSS Corp  Chennai India
CubeSmart Self Storage Malvern PA
DAT Solutions Beaverton OR
DataCore Software Fort Lauderdale FL
Dell Technologies  Bangalore  Karnataka  India
Delta Air Lines  Atlanta  GA
Delta Defense  West Bend  WI
Delta Vacations Minot ND
Deutsche Bank  London United Kingdom
DiCentral Corporation Houston TX
DISH Network Roseland NJ
Donan  Louisville  KY
Dorel Juvenile  Columbus  IN
Druva Inc.  Sunnyvale  CA
EMKAY Inc Itasca IL
eMoney Advisor LLC Radnor PA
Etech Global Services Nacogdoches TX
EXTRA Loyalty Solutions  Istanbul  Turkey
ezCater Boston MA
First American Database Solutions Santa Ana CA
FIS Jacksonville FL
Flight Centre Montvale NJ
Fluxx San Francisco CA
FreshBooks Toronto ON Canada
Future Generali India Insurance Company Ltd. Mumbai India
GEICO  Washington DC
GNResound  Bloomington  MN
GoDaddy Scottsdale AZ
Google Fiber Inc Mountain View CA
Grand Rounds  San Francisco  CA
Grosvenor Services Dublin Ireland
Grovo  New York  NY
GuideWell Connect  Jacksonville  FL
HCL Financial Services  Sunnyvale CA
HomeServe USA  Norwalk CT
Hospitadent Dental Group  Istanbul  Turkey
HUB International Chicago IL
IBM Armonk NY
iHeartMedia  Inc.  New York  NY
Imparta Inc. Austin TX
Infinity QS International Fairfax VA
Innovative Group Miami FL
InsureMyTrip Warwick RI
Intelenet Global Services Mumbai India
Intellis (formerly Warshaw Group  Inc.)
Intuit Inc. Mississauga ON Canada
iProspect  Boston MA
iQor St. Petersburg FL
ISN Dallas TX
Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality  Istanbul  Turkey
Jado Solutions  Chicago IL
Janek Performance Group  Las Vegas  NV
JB Bush  Newport Beach CA
John Hancock Financial Services  Boston MA
Kansas Turnpike Authority  Wichita  KS
KT Seoul South Korea
Learning Tribes Miami FL
Legacy.com Evanston IL
ListenFirst New York NY
LoftSmart  New York  NY
Loop Communications  Charlotte  NC
MarketBridge Bethesda MD
Marriott Intermediary Partner Care Omaha NE
MBX Systems Libertyville Illinois
MediaRadar Inc. New York NY
Medical Guardian  LLC  Philadelphia  PA
MetTel New York NY
MHT Partners  San Francisco CA
Mitsubishi Electric US Inc Visual and Imaging Systems Division Cypress CA
Mixpanel San Francisco CA
Moody's Analytics New York NY
Mozy by DELL  Draper  UT
MTC Performance Schaumburg IL
MTM  Lake St. Louis  MO
National Insurance Corporation of India  Kolkata India
NCR Corporation  Duluth GA
Network Alliance  Inc.  Reston  VA
Nisbet Associates  Cambridge United Kingdom
nThrive  Alpharetta GA
Nuance Communications Inc. Burlington MA
Oi S/A  Rio de Janeiro  Brasil
OmniUpdate Camarillo CA
OneCause Indianapolis IN
OneWest Bank  Pasadena  CA
Optum Eden Prairie MN
OptumRx Costa Mesa CA
Other World Computing  Woodstock  IL
Overstock.com  Midvale  UT
Park Place Technologies  Cleveland  OH
Periscope Data  San Francisco CA
PlanGrid San Francisco CA
Prov International Tampa FL
Pushpay Holdings Limited  Redmond  WA
Rant & Rave  Coventry United Kingdom
Response Lindon UT
Riva CRM Integration  Edmonton  AB  Canada
Riversource Life Insurance at Ameriprise Financial Minneapolis MN
RizePoint Salt Lake City UT
Runzheimer Waterford WI
RXBAR Chicago IL
sahibinden.com Istanbul Turkey
Sales Partnerships  Broomfield CO
Samsung Electronics America  Ridgefield Park  NJ
Sandler Training  Kansas City MO
SAP America  Newtown Square  PA
SAP America Newtown Square PA
SCAN Health Plan Long Beach CA
SelectAccount Eagan MN
ServiceMax  Pleasanton CA
ServiceNow Santa Clara CA
Seven Corners Carmel IN
SGEi Las Vegas NV
ShopKeep Inc. New York NY
Simpson Healthcare Executives  LLC  Old Lyme  CT
SmartLinx Solutions Edison NJ
SoFi Healdsburg CA
SoftPro Raleigh NC
SolarWinds Austin TX
Sprout Social  Chicago  IL
Standard For Success Cloverdale IN
Stanley Black&Decker Türkiye  - Istanbul  Turkey
Stewart A Xerox Company Mount Laurel NJ
Sun Basket  San Jose  CA
Sungard Availability Services Wayne PA
Symetra Bellevue WA and West Des Moines IA
Teachable New York NY
Tel  Salvador Brazil
The SAVO Group Chicago IL
Travelzoo New York NY
TTEC  Englewood  CO
Ultimate Software  Weston  FL
United States Equestrian Federation Lexington KY
UnitedHealthcare  Minnetonka  MN
UPMC Health Plan Pittsburgh PA
USHEALTH Group Inc. Fort Worth TX
V Digital Services  Phoenix AZ
Value Prime Solutions  Rochester NY
ValueSelling Associates  Rancho Santa Fe CA
Verified Volunteers Fort Collins CO
Visualize  Birmingham MI
Vivint Solar  Lehi  UT
VIZIO Inc.  Irvine  CA
VMware  Palo Alto CA
VPay Plano TX
VXI Global Solutions  Los Angeles  CA
Wayfair  Boston  MA
Wells Fargo Treasury Management Client Delivery San Francisco CA
WePay a Chase company Redwood City CA
Wheels Inc. Des Plaines IL
Wolters Kluwer's ELM Solutions Houston TX
WP Engine Austin TX
Wyndham Vacation Ownership  Orlando  FL
Zelis Payments Clearwater FL

 

Topics: customer service awards, sales awards, stevie awards for sales and customer service

Serving All Your Video Ad Needs with SpotX

Posted by Maggie Gallagher on Tue, Feb 13, 2018 @ 02:45 PM

Media owners look for technology they can trust to help them gain complete control over monetized content with video advertising. SpotX is a company in the United States that considers themselves to be a one-stop solution, offering modern ad serving and sophisticated programmatic capabilities with an entire suite of integrations and ad units across all devices. This work has led them to win the Gold Stevie® Award for “Maverick of the Year” in The 2017 American Business Awards

Getting the message across

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SpotX is a video advertising and monetization platform with 20 offices across the United States, Europe, Latin America, and Asia-Pacific. Their technology powers modern ad serving, programmatic enablement, and other advanced video monetization tools for a variety of different media owners, such as PBS, Spotify, E.W. Scripps, Zynga, and Conde Nast. In October 2017, RTL Group, a leader across broadcast, content and digital, completed its 100% acquisition of SpotX which is currently combining its business with smartclip, a sister company. SpotX was founded in 2007 by Mike Shehan and Steve Swoboda, CEO and CFO respectively, and has nearly 600 employees.

Exceptional leadership

Publishers use SpotX to connect all of their demand sources—ad networks, DSPs (demand-side platforms), trading desks, and exchanges—creating a single place where media owners have complete control and actionable insights to maximize revenue. Mike Shehan is excited about the attention they’ve received.

“This award has helped us elevate our Chief Revenue Officer in-market and highlighted his exceptional leadership across members of our global team.”

Shehan continues on about how the Stevies specifically impacted their Chief Revenue Officer.

“Our Stevies winner, Sean Buckley, was named Chief Revenue Officer at SpotX last year at the age of 29, making him the fourth C-level executive at our company. Sean's tenacity and deep knowledge of the complex ad tech industry have contributed to his rapid rise and we're thrilled to have such a dynamic leader as a member of our team.”

Adapting to the Future

SpotX is deeply involved in the ongoing industry discussion around the rise of OTT video and the rapid adoption of programmatic advertising across desktop, mobile, and connected TV devices. “We've gained an early foothold in the burgeoning Asia-Pacific region, where mobile adoption over the last few years has spurred enormous growth in video advertising,” says Shehan.

As a leader in the over-the-top (OTT) video space, SpotX continues to drive home the importance of understanding how media buyers and sellers think about OTT advertising. In February 2018, the company announced detailed insights about the current state of video advertising on OTT in a report called “TV is Total Video: Predicting OTT and the Future of Video Advertising.” SpotX also announced a strategic integration with JW Player to launch Video Player Bidding, a new way to help reduce video latency and improve monetization for publishers with just one click.

SpotX is also a strong proponent of the server-to-server bidding model for ad inventory, aiming to educate the industry on the many benefits and efficiencies that it provides for media owners. Shehan comments on an organizational change they made that helped solidify their success today.

“We united the departments that serve our two distinct groups of customers under central leadership, spurring collaboration across our global teams.”

The adaptability of leadership in making sure that you’re always innovating and staying ahead of the competition is crucial in the world of video, and SpotX is all about “X marks the spot.”

Topics: Advertising awards, video awards, American business awards, maverick of the year

Winners Announced in 2018 People’s Choice Stevie Awards for Favorite Customer Service

Posted by Maggie Gallagher on Tue, Feb 13, 2018 @ 10:00 AM

Votes Determine Public’s Favorite Customer Service Providers of the Year

Winners of the 2018 People's Choice Stevie® Awards for Favorite Customer Service, a worldwide public vote, were announced today. Voting was conducted from January 19 through February 9, with the highest number of votes deciding the winners in 13 industry categories. More than 124,000 votes were cast this year.

All organizations honored in the Customer Service Department of the Year categories of this year’s Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service were eligible to be included in voting for the People’s Choice Awards. The Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service, now in their 12th year, are the world’s top honors for customer service, contact center, business development, and sales professionals.

Peoples choice.jpgThis year’s People’s Choice winners, who will each receive the coveted crystal People’s Choice Stevie Award, are:

  • Airlines, Distribution, Transportation: DHL Express Bangladesh
  • Computer Hardware: Dell Technologies
  • Computer Services: Dell Technologies - Advanced Resolution Group
  • Financial - 100 or More Employees: John Hancock Financial Services
  • Financial - Up to 100 Employees: Care.com HomePay
  • Healthcare/Pharma: Zelis Payments
  • Leisure & Tourism: Travelzoo
  • Other Industries: CubeSmart
  • Public Services & Education: Standard For Success
  • Retail: Chewy
  • Software - 100 or More Employees: Carbonite, Inc.
  • Software - Up to 100 Employees: FieldEdge
  • Telecommunications: Loop Communications

Nicknamed the Stevie for the Greek word “crowned,” the awards will be presented to winners at the 12th annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service awards banquet on Friday, February 23, at Caesars Palace Hotel in Las Vegas, NV. Tickets for the event are now on sale. More than 600 executives from around the world are expected to attend. The presentations will be broadcast live via Livestream.

Sponsors of the 12th annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service include HCL Financial Services, Rant & Rave, Sales Partnerships, Inc., and ValueSelling Associates, Inc.

Topics: customer service awards, stevie awards for sales and customer service, customer service department

Manatee Holdings Advances Sustainable Fishing Practices for the World

Posted by Maggie Gallagher on Mon, Feb 05, 2018 @ 03:40 PM

As the global population increases, the oceans continue to suffer from overfishing. Since 1977, Manatee Holdings Ltd. has pioneered the use of sustainable aquaculture as an environmentally conscious way to meet the global demand for seafood while preserving the Earth and respecting the natural ecology necessary for marine life.

Based in British Columbia, Canada, Manatee Holdings is striving to meets its mission: to create the most environmentally beneficial food production operation on land or sea around the world, specializing in harvesting gourmet foods from the sea. Most of these foods are used in the sushi market.

manatee.jpgLourdes Gant, winner of the Silver Stevie® Award for Woman of the Year in The 14th Annual International Business Awards, is co-owner of Manatee Holdings with her husband, Eric Gant. Ms. Gant has been recognized internationally for her efforts in leading Manatee Holdings to develop environmentally conscious production practices in response to ocean acidification and overfishing. Canada magazines PROFIT and Chatelaine have recognized her as one of 100 Top Female Entrepreneurs—#84 in 2012 and #5 in 2014.

“I like to call myself a blend between serious business acumen and open-minded joy,” Gant states.

She works to find a successful balance in her career and her invigorating personal life, realizing they are not mutually exclusive.

Walking on fire, breaking an arrow with her throat, and splitting a board with her hand are just a few of her epic accomplishments. Some of her other feats include scaling the Burma Bridge and Possum log,;rapelling down high cliffs; zip-trekking in Canada; parasailing in the Bahamas; skydiving in Hawaii; swimming with dolphins in Mexico; and hiking the Andean mountains with llamas. The list goes on!

Beyond her personal accolades, Ms. Gant has earned a bevy of professional credits from auditing certifications from the International Register of Certified Auditors (IRCA) to earning her MBA and CPA. 

She say her keys to success are maintaining a positive attitude, intuition, and following a higher purpose. Here are the 10 best habits accompanying her beliefs in transformational learning:

  1. Accomplish
  2. Be consciously in charge of your way of life
  3. Duality (often described as yin and yang)
  4. Excellence
  5. Fact finding
  6. Integrity with self
  7. Kaizen (Japanese for “change for better”)
  8. Leverage
  9. Passionate mentoring
  10. Living with purpose

Ms. Gant resides in Royston, British Columbia, with her husband and their son, Elan, but they enjoy travelling to different tropical countries for the winter. She practices yoga and swimming. She also practices Taekwondo with Elan. Her philanthropic efforts go beyond environmental preservation. She recently visited orphanages in Peru with the "Give and Grow" program. 

Ms. Gant is constantly seeking experiences around the world and using those experiences to transform herself. This outlook has helped her to develop Manatee Holdings Ltd. into the most environmentally beneficial food production company on land or sea.

Topics: International business awards