Advertising Awards

Next Wednesday, April 24, is the final entry deadline for The 2013 American Business Awards, the top business awards competition in the USA, and we thought it would be helpful for communications professionals if we provided some tips for winning advertising awards. (If you haven't already downloaded your entry kit, you can request an entry kit here and you will receive it right away.)

1. Review the categories.
We have several corporate awards categories including app awards categories, live event awards categories, video awards categories, website awards categories, corporate literature awards categories, PR awards categories, and marketing awards categories, among others that may be of interest to communications professionals.

2. Review past winner's entries.
2012 ABA Gold winners include Bloomberg Law, Carlisle & Gallagher Consulting Group, Fazoli's Italian Restaurants, Ford Motor Company, HubSpot, iolo technologies, Northwestern Mutual, SquareTrade, and Vemma Nutrition Company, among others. You can see the complete list of 2012 Gold, Silver and Bronze Stevie® Award winners here.

3. Pick who you would like to recognize and what for.
There are hundreds of categories to choose from as well as awards for individuals, teams, and departments. Click here to see the entire list of categories.

4. Contact us!
We want to help you highlight your organization's achievements. Contact us at help@stevieawards.com and we'll help direct you to categories that are right for your organization.

How will your highlight your organization in the 2013 ABAs?

The entry deadline for The 2012 International Business Awards, the world's premier business awards competition is 16 May. All individuals and organizations worldwide may submit nominations to The International Business Awards. If you haven't already done so, you can request your entry kit here.

Here are four tips for winning advertising awards in the 2012 IBAs:

1. Review our communications awards.
There are a number of other IBA categories that should be of interest to advertising professionals, including many of the annual report awards and other literature categories, website awards categories, app awards categories, video awards categories, and live event awards categories.

2. Pick who you would like to recognize and what for.
There are hundreds of categories to choose from as well as awards for individuals, teams, and departments. Click here to see the entire list of categories.

3.  Read 2011 IBA winning entries.
The 8th Annual International Business Awards were presented in October 2011 in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates. You can read 2011 winning entries here.

4. Contact us.
We want to help you highlight your organization's achievements. Contact us at help@stevieawards.com and we'll help direct you to advertising award categories that are right for your organization.

Looking for more ways to highlight your advertising success? We have several marketing awards and PR awards that may be of interest to advertising professionals.

The entry deadline for The 2012 American Business Awards, the premier business awards program in the U.S.A., is quickly approaching on Wednesday, April 25 and we thought it would be helpful for communications professionals if we provided some tips for winning advertising awards. (If you haven't already downloaded your entry kit, you can request an entry kit here and you will receive it right away.)

1. Review the categories.
We have several corporate awards categories including app awards categories, live event awards categories, video awards categories, website awards categories, corporate literature awards categories, PR awards categories, and marketing awards categories, among others that may be of interest to communications professionals.

2. Review past winner's entries.
Our 2011 ABA winners in the above categories include  IDEXX Laboratories, CME Group, XPLANE, Sun Life Financial Inc., Wellesley Hills, MA: One of the Best Kept Secrets of World War II, and Dawson + Murray + Teague Communications, among others. See all 2011 ABA winners here.

3. Pick who you would like to recognize and what for.
There are hundreds of categories to choose from as well as awards for individuals, teams, and departments. Click here to see the entire list of categories.

4. Watch our video, How to Enter The 2012 American Business Awards.
Get step-by-step instruction on how to submit your 2012 entries.

5. Contact us!
We want to help you highlight your organization's achievements. Contact us at help@stevieawards.com and we'll help direct you to categories that are right for your organization.

How will your highlight your organization in the 2012 ABAs?