--- title: 4 Tips for Winning Blog Awards in The 2012 American Business Awards description: The Stevie Awards shares 4 tips for submitting blog awards entries in The 2012 American Business Awards. image: https://blog.stevieawards.com/hs-fs/file-13813325-jpg/images/rss-feed-resized-600.jpg --- [![stevie-awards-full-logo](https://blog.stevieawards.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Stevie%20Awards%20Blog%20Theme%20Files/stevie-awards-full-logo.png?width=347&height=70&name=stevie-awards-full-logo.png "stevie-awards-full-logo")](http://stevieawards.com) Click to View Posts by Stevie® Awards Categories # 4 Tips for Winning Blog Awards in The 2012 American Business Awards Posted by [Liz Dean](https://blog.stevieawards.com/blog-awards/author/liz-dean) on Tue, Mar 27, 2012 @ 12:30 PM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) The entry deadline for The 2012 [American Business Awards](http://www.stevieawards.com/aba), the premier business awards program in the U.S.A., is **tomorrow, Wednesday, March 28.** You can [request your entry kit here](http://www.stevieawards.com/pubs/general/72_194_904.cfm) and you'll receive it right away. Here are four tips to help you make the most out of your [blog awards](http://www.stevieawards.com/pubs/awards/403_2179_21306.cfm) entries: 1. **Review all of the [blog award](http://www.stevieawards.com/pubs/awards/403_2179_21306.cfm) and [website awards](http://www.stevieawards.com/pubs/awards/403_2179_21306.cfm) categories.**![Blog Awards](https://blog.stevieawards.com/hs-fs/file-13813325-jpg/images/rss-feed-resized-600.jpg?width=150&height=150&name=rss-feed-resized-600.jpg) We have dozens of awards to highlight your favorite blogs and [best websites](http://www.stevieawards.com/pubs/awards/403_2179_21306.cfm). 2. **Download our** ***[10 Tips for Winning Web Awards in the Stevie® Awards](https://blog.stevieawards.com/10-tips-for-winning-web-awards-in-the-Stevie-Awards/) *****tipsheet. **Our tipsheet will provide useful tips and tools for submitting winning entries. 3. **Use the 2011 Stevie-winning entries as models.** We post all Stevie-winning entries as examples to help you get inspired on your submissions. We recommend that you emulate their style, tone, and structure.  [Click here](http://www.stevieawards.com/pubs/awards/403_2183_21006.cfm) to go to the list of 2011 Stevie winners and Finalists. 4. **Submit entries in one of our other ***communication awards***** categories.** In addition to our [web site awards](http://www.stevieawards.com/pubs/awards/403_2179_21306.cfm), we have several other award categories that may be of interest to communications professionals including [app awards](http://www.stevieawards.com/pubs/awards/403_2179_21308.cfm), [video awards](http://www.stevieawards.com/pubs/awards/403_2179_21309.cfm), [corporate literature awards](http://www.stevieawards.com/pubs/awards/403_2179_21307.cfm), [annual report awards](http://www.stevieawards.com/pubs/awards/403_2179_21307.cfm) and [live event awards](http://www.stevieawards.com/pubs/awards/403_2179_21310.cfm). ***Don't panic if you're not going to make the March 28 deadline; entries can still be submitted through the final deadline of April 25 with a late fee of $35.00.*** Topics: [app awards](https://blog.stevieawards.com/blog-awards/topic/app-awards), [live event awards](https://blog.stevieawards.com/blog-awards/topic/live-event-awards), [video awards](https://blog.stevieawards.com/blog-awards/topic/video-awards), [website awards](https://blog.stevieawards.com/blog-awards/topic/website-awards), [corporate literature awards](https://blog.stevieawards.com/blog-awards/topic/corporate-literature-awards), [American business awards](https://blog.stevieawards.com/blog-awards/topic/american-business-awards), [blog awards](https://blog.stevieawards.com/blog-awards/topic/blog-awards), [blog award](https://blog.stevieawards.com/blog-awards/topic/blog-award), [best websites](https://blog.stevieawards.com/blog-awards/topic/best-websites), [communication awards](https://blog.stevieawards.com/blog-awards/topic/communication-awards), [web site awards](https://blog.stevieawards.com/blog-awards/topic/web-site-awards), [annual report awards](https://blog.stevieawards.com/blog-awards/topic/annual-report-awards) ### Request an entry kit for one or more of the stevie awards programs [Remove my information](https://blog.stevieawards.com/blog-awards/bid/73682/4-Tips-for-Winning-Blog-Awards-in-The-2012-American-Business-Awards#) Entry kit will be sent to you by email. 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