Stevie® Awards for Sales & Customer Service Category Spotlight: Sales Achievement
IN BRIEF: Most Searched-for Organizations in July; Apply to Judge
How to Leverage Awards to Build and Expand Your Brand
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Stevie® Awards for Sales & Customer Service Category Spotlight: Sales Achievement
We invite your organization to submit nominations to the 2024 (18th annual) Stevie® Awards for Sales & Customer Service, the world’s top honors for customer service, contact center, business development, and sales professionals.
The early-bird entry deadline, with reduced entry fees, is October 11, 2023. The final entry deadline is November 8, but late entries will be accepted through January 24, 2024 with payment of a late fee.
Two new categories in this group for 2024 will recognize achievement in sales automation and in the implimention of sales self-service systems.
All organizations worldwide are eligible to submit nominations to the competition: large and small, public and private, for-profit and non-profit. Nominations may be submitted by individuals or organizations.
The 2023 competition received more than 2,300 nominations from organizations of all types in more than 50 nations.
The 2024 awards will recognize achievements since July 1, 2021. Eligible nominees include departments, teams, and professionals from around the world who work in customer service, contact centers, business development, and sales. New products and services and solution providers used by those professionals are also eligible.
Once a month in this space we list the five most-searched-for organizations on Stevie Awards websites during the prior month. Here are July's top five:
You're invited to apply to be a judge for one or more Stevie Awards programs.
Some of the perks of being a judge: you'll see how many individuals and organizations are innovating and achieving success, your bio and photo will be featured on the awards website, and you'll receive a certificate of appreciation suitable for framing.
How to Leverage Awards to Build and Expand Your Brand
We are accepting nominations for the 20th annualStevie® Awards for Women in Business, the world's top honors for female entrepreneurs, executives, employees, and the organizations they run.
All organizations worldwide are eligible to submit nominations: large and small, public and private, for-profit and non-profit. Nominations may be submitted by individuals or organizations. The final entry deadline is Wednesday, August 23.
According to guest blogger Jenn Donovan, Director of Social Media and Marketing Australia, applying for awards should absolutely be integrated into your marketing strategy, as award wins—and even finalist placements—can exponentially boost an organization's brand awareness and showcase expertise in their space.
If you want due credit in your space, if you want to become the “go-to person” in your industry, or if you simply want to “up” your competitors and stand out from the crowd, then entering awards is 100% the way to go, she advises.
Not only do you get leverage, she says, but a huge benefit you get from applying for awards can be found in the process of crafting and preparing the submission applications themselves. By taking time to look back at what you have achieved, where you have come from, and where you are now, you’ll gain a better appreciation of your achievements.
In the full article, Jenn details all the ways you can make the most of your participation in awards programs, such as how to update your physical and digital company information across your platforms and how to develop content around your award to use in promotional materials.
Mahe Zehra Husain, aka “MZ,” is a trained mathematician, data scientist, serial entrepreneur, and artist. At the age of 31, MZ became Pakistan’s youngest woman tech CEO, leading an award-winning software house, FiveRivers Technologies (FRT), dominating a heavily male-dominated space and rewriting history.
Since then she has led the company to catapult to the eight-figure mark with 400% growth in a short span of five years. From a small services firm, with a handful of employees, they now stand at 170 employees, encouraging diversity and inclusion and promoting women technologists.
Very few tech firms have woman-friendly policies in Pakistan, but MZ made sure FRT didn’t follow suit. She has mentored over 124 women technologists and grew her female workforce by 50%.
FRT has become one of the top software firms in Pakistan, winning several national and international awards. They provide data science analytics, develop e-learning software, and have now ventured into virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things.
FiveRivers Technologies CEO Mahe Zehra Husain won a Silver Stevie Award for Best Female Entrepreneur in Business Services among organizations with 11 to 2,500 Employees in the 2022 Stevie Awards for Women in Business.
