We look forward to revealing and celebrating the Gold, Silver and Bronze Stevie® Award placements, from among the Finalists announced earlier this year, at Friday's 18th annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, Nevada USA.  

These are the world's top honors for achievement in business development, customer service and sales, and are one of the nine Stevie Awards programs.

More than 400 nominees and their colleagues, family and friends will attend Friday's event.

Finalists were determined by the ratings of more than then 200 professionals worldwide on seven specialized juries.

Entries for the 2025 edition of the awards will open in July.  Join the mailing list to be sent the entry kit when the competition opens.

Here is the list of organizations that will be represented at Friday's awards banquet.

Accela
Accurate Background
Achievers Solutions Inc.
ACT (Advanced Call Center Technologies)
ActiveCampaign
ADP
ADP Retirement Services
Afiniti 
Agile Cloud Consulting
Aires
AireSpring
Akamai
Alight Solutions
Allianz Global Assistance
Allianz Services Pvt Ltd
AlphaSense
Apexus
Autodesk Construction Support Team
Avetta
Banco do Brasil S.A.
Banco Popular Dominicano
Bandwidth
Bank of America
BeneCard PBF
Benefitfocus
Blissful Body Aesthetics 
Brainier Solutions
BrainStorm 
Budget Rent a Car
Canva
Capital Rx
Cathay Life Insurance Company
Cisco's Industry Solutions Group (ISG)
Cisco Systems 
CivicPlus
CleverTap
Cochlear
Community Health Choice
Con Edison
Curriculum Associates
Datacore Software
Datasite
Demandbase
DirectEmployers Association
Docupace
Dun & Bradstreet
EasyCep 
eMoney Advisor
ezCater
Firmex
Fleetio
Frontier Communications
fullthrottle.ai
Heavy Construction Systems Specialists (HCSS)
HireVue
Hotwire Communications
IBM
Imparta
Innovature BPO
Inspiro
Integrity Solutions
IntouchCX
Intuit 
Itaú Unibanco
itel
iTrustCapital
Janek Performance Group
Justworks
Kimberly-Clark Professional
Kobie
Law School Admission Council (LSAC)
LiveRamp
MediaRadar, Inc.
MetTel
National Spine & Pain Centers / TouchPoint One
NAVEX
Nova Healthcare Administrators, Inc.
Okta
Omnisend
OpenGov
Optima Tax Relief, LLC
Output
Percepta
Planet
PowerSchool 
Premier Bankcard
PrimeRx
Proforma
Purpol Marketing Limited
Pushpay
Qualitest Group
Rimini Street
Sales Partnerships
SAP SE
SCAN Health Plan
ServiceNow
Showdown Displays
Southwest Airlines
Splunk Inc
Support Services Group
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
TELUS Smart Security & Automation
TIAA
TM HCC WorldTrips
Toco Warranty
Trupanion
TTEC
Turo
Unitedhealthcare Provider Service Operations
UPMC Health Plan
Valley Bank
ValueSelling Associates
Visualize
VIZIO Inc.
VMware (Broadcom)
Voya Financial
WebCE
Western and Southern Financial Group
WNS (Holdings) Limited
Xylem 
Your Health Idaho
ZenBusiness

We're pleased that this Friday, March 3 we'll be able to stage the first live awards ceremony of the Stevie® Awards for Sales & Customer Service since 2020.

The gala culmination of the 17th annual honors for achievement in business development, customer service, and sales will take place at Caesars Palace in Las  Vegas, Nevada, and will be attended by more than 400 Finalist nominees and their guests from around the world.  Tickets are still on sale.

Finalists in the competition, announced on January 25, were determined by the average scores of more than 170 professionals worldwide in seven specialized judging committees.

The Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Award placements of the Finalists will be revealed during Friday's presentations.

Here is the list of organizations that will be represented at Friday's event, as of February 27.

Access One Inc, Chicago, IL
ADP Retirement Services, Florham Park, NJ
ADP, Alpharetta, GA
Aisera, Palo Alto, CA
Aleva Stores, Rochester Hills, MI
Alight Solutions, Lincolnshire, IL
Align Technology, Morrisville, NC
Align Technology, Tempe, AZ
Alteryx, Irvine, CA
American Airlines, Ft. Worth, TX
America's Preferred Home Warranty, Inc, Jackson, MI
Anexa BPO, Mexico City, Mexico
Archer Integrated Risk Management, Overland Park, KS
Arise Virtual Solutions, Miramar, FL
Avetta LLC, Orem, UT
Banco do Brasil SA, Brasilia
Banco Popular Dominicano, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Be a Legend, Inc., Gilbert, AZ
Brainier Solutions, Edina, MN
Budget Rent a Car, Saudi Arabia
CGS, New York, NY
Church & Dwight, Ewing Township, NJ
Cisco Systems, Diegem, Belgium
CivicPlus Technical Support & Training, Manhattan, KS
Collective Health, Lehi, UT
Curriculum Associates, Billerica, MA
DataCore, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Datasite, Minneapolis, MN
DHI Group, Inc., Centennial, CO
DirectEmployers Association, Indianapolis, IN
Dotdigital, London, United Kingdom
EFG Companies, Irving, TX
ERA Environmental Management Solutions, Montreal, QC Canada
FIS, Jacksonville, FL
Fourth, Austin, TX
Fusion Connect, Atlanta, GA
Givelify, Indianapolis, IN
GoHealth, Chicago, IL
Hectre, Auckland, New Zealand
Highmark Wholecare, Pittsburgh, PA
HireVue, South Jordan, UT
Hotwire Communications, Fort Lauderdale, FL
HP Inc, Paris, France
IBM, Armonk, NY
Inspiro, Makati City, Philippines
Instructure, Cottonwood Heights, UT
Integrity Solutions, Nashville, TN
IntouchCX, Winnipeg, MB Canada
Intuit, Toronto, ON Canada
iQor, St. Petersburg, FL
Jane App, North Vancouver, BC Canada
Janek Performance Group, Las Vegas, NV
Jenzabar, Boston, MA
Justworks, New York, NY
Karaca Züccaciye A.S., Istanbul, Turkey
Kimberly Clark Professional, Roswell, GA
Kira Talent, Toronto, ON Canada
KnowBe4, Clearwater,FL
Laivly, Winnipeg, MB Canada
LegalShield, Ada, OK
Limitless, London, United Kingdom
Link-Systems International, Inc., Tampa, FL
Linode, Philadelphia, PA
Major League Baseball Advanced Media, New York, NY
Melanie Pina Palo Alto, CA
MetTel, New York, NY
Michael Kors, New York, NY
Modern Campus, Camarillo, CA
MONAT Global Corp, Doral, FL
Muck Rack, Miami, FL
NetApp Inc., San Jose, CA
Noom, New York, NY
Nutrisystem, Fort Washington, PA
NYC Deferred Compensation Plan / NYCE IRA, New York, NY
Omnisend, Vilnius, Lithuania
OneCause, Carmel, IN
OpenGov, San Jose, CA
Optima Tax Relief, LLC, Santa Ana, CA
Optum, Eden Prairie, MN
Output, Los Angeles, CA
Percepta, Dearborn, MI
Perceptyx, Temecula, CA
PowerSchool Group LLC, Folsom, CA
PREMIER Bankcard, Sioux Falls, SD
Product Madness, London, United Kingdom
PT Telkom Indonesia (Persero) Tbk, Jakarta
Purpol Marketing Limited, Chippenham, United Kingdom
Pushpay, Redmond, WA
Qualitest Group, Bridgewater, NJ
Quantum Health, Dublin, OH
Radformation, Inc., New York, NY
Sales Partnerships, Broomfield, CO
SBI Cards and Payment Services Limited, Gurgaon, India
ServiceNow, Santa Clara, CA
SoftPro, Raleigh, NC
Splunk, San Francisco, CA
Support Services Group, Inc., Waco, TX
Symetra Financial, Bellevue, WA
TCS America, Edison, NJ
TELUS Smart Security & Automation, Vancouver, BC Canada
The Trade Desk, Ventura, CA
TIAA, Charlotte, NC
TIM Brasil, Rio de Janeiro
Toco Warranty, Los Angeles, CA
TradePending, Carrboro, NC
TRUMPF Inc., Farmington, CT
United Development Company, Doha, Qatar
Uniters Group, West Palm Beach, FL
UPMC Health Plan, Pittsburgh, PA
ValueSelling Associates, Carlsbad, CA
Veeam, Atlanta, GA
VMware Inc., Palo Alto, CA
Voya Financial, Gilbert, AZ
WalkMe, San Francisco, CA
WebCE Dallas, TX
Western and Southern Financial Group,  Cincinnati, OH
Whatfix, San Jose, CA and Bengaluru, India
WorldTrips, Carmel, IN
Zywave, Milwaukee, WI 

Entries for the 2024 edition of the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service will open this July.  Get your entry kit for the 2024 awards.

Entrants Can Submit Nominations in the Top Sales and Customer Service Awards Through February 2

By popular demand, the Stevie® Awards have extended the final entry deadline in the 16th annual Stevie® Awards for Sales & Customer Service to Wednesday, February 2. The original entry deadline was January 12. These are the world’s premier awards for sales and customer service professionals, teams, and organizations.

Entry kits and complete details on the competition are available at http://www.StevieAwards.com/Sales.

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. The 2022 awards will recognize achievements since July 1, 2019.

Winners will be announced on February 28, 2022. Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Award winners will be celebrated at a virtual awards ceremony on May 11.

The Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service feature more than 150 sales awards, customer service awards, business development awards, new product awards, and solution provider awards categories. Entrants may submit any number of nominations to any number of categories.

New this year, for all categories the submission requirements have been extended to allow nominations to include accomplishments for the past two years instead of one.

There are many new categories for 2022 including Sales Engineer of the Year, Sales Support Professional of the Year, Virtual and Pre-Sales Professional of the Year, Remote Sales Innovation of the Year, Sales Employer of the Year, and an entirely new section of categories to recognize Thought Leadership achievements in business development, customer service, and sales.  Explore all of the categories here.

The Stevie Awards is also pleased to present the Ethics in Sales Award, sponsored by Sales Partnerships. This category has no entry fee. This award recognizes organizations for best practices and achievements in demonstrating the highest ethical standards in the sales industry. Entrants can submit specific examples, case studies, practices, etc. that illustrate why the organization being nominated should be considered an excellent example of best practices in sales. This award is based on activities in 2021. 

Stevie Awards President Maggie Miller states “Every year our judges grow more and more impressed with the submissions in the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. We encourage any organization who wants to be recognized for their achievements since July 2019 to request an entry kit to see which categories would best highlight those successes.”

Winners of the 2021 edition of the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service included American Red Cross, Blackbaud, Inc., Carbonite, Cisco Systems Inc., ClassicCars.com, DHL Express, ElectronicArts, GoDaddy, IBM, John Hancock Financial Solutions, Land O’Lakes, Mailchimp, Modern Campus, Nasdaq Governance Solutions, Nutrisystem, Paylocity, SoftPro, Travelzoo, ValueSelling Associates, VIZIO, Inc., Vodafone Turkey, and more.

The 2022 competition will be judged by more than 150 professionals around the world.

Winners in the 14th 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, Nevada USA, attended by more than 570 executives from around the world.

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

IBM, with 52 Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Award wins, was the most honored organization this year, earning the top Grand Stevie Award trophy. Other Grand Stevie Award winners, in descending order, include DP DHL, HomeServe USA, Sales Partnerships, Inc, Delta Vacations, Cinch Home Services, Dell Technologies, DenizBank Financial Service Group, WNS (Holdings) Limited, and Allianz Global Assistance.

IBM won 17 Gold Stevie Awards, the most in the 2020 competition. Other winners of three or more Stevie Awards include: American Airlines, Autosoft, Inc., BlueCat Networks, Inc., BNY Mellon’s Albridge, Buildium, Bounteous, Carbonite, Inc., Chorus.ai, Clarabridge, Concentrix, ConnectiCare, Constant Contact, CoverMyMeds, Covestic, Cvent, Inc., Druva, Enterprise Fleet Management, GoDaddy, Guidebook, Inc., HCL America, Inc., Industrial Security Integrators, Intuit, John Hancock Financial Services, Korea Representative, Lexmark, Loopio, Inc., Mailchimp, Merrill Corporation, Michael Kors, Mobile Labs, MRO Corp, NCR, Nextiva, Nuance Communications, Inc., OneWest Bank, Optima Tax Relief, LLC, Pushpay, QNB Finansbank, RAIN Group, Rimini Street, SAP, SoftPro, SolarWinds, Spinnaker Support, StarHub Ltd, Sun Basket, Tani, The Audacious Agency, The Brooks Group, Tivity Health, Travelzoo, TTEC, Türkiye Vakıflar Bankası T.A.O., UPMC Health Plan, ValueSelling Associates, Veeam, Verimatrix, VIZIO, Inc., VODAFONE TURKEY, VXI Global Solutions, Wells Fargo Treasury Management, Wheels, Inc., Willis Towers Watson, and xneelo.

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

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

More than 2,600 nominations from organizations in 48 nations were evaluated in this year’s competition. Winners were determined by the average scores of more than 180 professionals worldwide in seven specialized judging committees. Entries were considered in 106 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; 72 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.

Entries for the 2021 Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service will open this coming July. The entry kit may be requested at www.StevieAwards.com/Sales.

The 14th annual edition of the Stevie® Awards for Sales & Customer Service, the world's top honors for achievement in customer service, business development, and sales, will be staged this Friday, February 28 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada USA.  More than 600 executives from around the world will attend for the presentation of the Grand, Gold, Silver, Bronze, and People's Choice Stevie Awards.

Finalists in the competition were announced in mid-January, but the Gold, Silver, and Bronze placements in each category will be revealed during Friday's presentations.  The results were determined by the ratings of more than 180 professionals worldwide on seven juries.

Winners of the People's Choice Stevie Awards for Favorite Customer Service, determined by a worldwide public vote, were announced last week.

Entries for the 2021 (15th) edition of the awards will open in July.

Here is the list of organizations that will be represented at Friday's event.

A5 Solutions
Access One Inc
Achievers
Agero
AireSpring
Aksigorta
Alliance Data
Allianz Global Assistance
American Airlines
Anexa BPO
Arch Mortgage Insurance
ARIIX
Arkansas.gov
Arzum
Ascentis
Autodesk Construction Solutions
Aweber
AWS
BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Europe S.A.S.
Barclays
Beltone
BlueJeans Network
BMC
BNY Mellon's Albridge
Bounteous
Carbonite, Inc.
Care.com HomePay
CGS
Challenger
Chorus.ai
Cinch Home Services, Inc.
Cisco Systems
CivicPlus
Clarabridge
Cogito Corporation
Command Alkon
Compeat
Con Edison
Concentrix
Conectys
ConnectiCare
Constant Contact
Consumer Reports
Contact Lens King Inc.
CoverMyMeds
Covestic
Cricket Wireless
CyberScout
DataCore Software
Daxko
Dell Technologies
Delta Airlines
Delta Vacations
DenizBank Financial Service Group
DHL Express
DHL Express Mexico
doeLEGAL
Dorel Juvenile
Druva
Dynamic Enterprise Solutions
ECI Software Solutions
EFG Companies
Elevation Home Energy Solutions
EmblemHealth
Enterprise Fleet Management
Envoy
Etech Global Services
ExakTime
ezCater
FCM Travel Solutions
First Advantage
First American Database Solutions
Fiserv
Front
Fundbox
Further
Gainesville Health & Fitness
Grazitti Interactive
Guardian Protection Products, Inc.
Hanzo Archives
HCL Technologies
HCSS
HireVue
HomeServe USA
HUB International
IBM
Integrity Solutions
Intellis Labs
Intuit
iQor
iWave
Janek Performance Group
JDA Software
Jobber
John Hancock
Kira Systems
Kraft Heinz
Kristin Aduna
Learning Pool
Learning Tribes
Legacy.com
Lexmark
Linode
Listrak
LivePerson
Mailchimp
MarketBridge
MediaRadar, Inc.
MEDIATEL DATA SRL
Merrill Corporation
MetTel
Michael Kors
MRO Corp
MTM
Multifamily Utility Company
NCR
Nestle USA
NIC, Inc.
Oi
OmniUpdate
ON24
OneCause
Optima Tax Relief, LLC
OptumCare
Ortho Clinical Diagnostics
OxBlue Corporation
PAi
Panera Bread
Paycor
PipelineDeals
PJ Nisbet & Associates, Ltd
Purchasing Power, LLC
Purpol Marketing
Purpol Marketing Limited
Pushpay
QNB Finansbank
Quantum Workplace
RAIN Group
Rakuten
ReceptionHQ
Regalix
Revenue Storm
Ricoh USA, Inc
RxBenefits, Inc.
Sales Partnerships
SBI Cards and Payment Services Limited
SCAN Healthplan
ServiceNow
SIBME
SIMONA Boltaron
Sisense
Sitel Group
SoftPro
SolarWinds
SolarWinds MSP
Strikedeck
Sun Basket
Support Services Group
Support.com
SurePayroll
Sydney and West Painting and Rope Access Pty Ltd
Tata Consultancy Services
Teachable
Tealium
The Crypsis Group
The Western & Southern Life Insurance Company
TIAA
Tivity Health
Travelzoo
TTEC
Tyson Group
UPMC Health Plan
UserTesting
V Digital Services
Valley Forge Fabrics
ValueSelling Associates
Veeam
Vengreso
VENZA
Verimatrix
VIPKid
Visualize, Inc.
Vodafone Turkey
Vpay
VXI Global Solutions
Wells Fargo Treasury Management Client Delivery
Wheels Inc.
Willis Towers Watson
Wolters Kluwer's ELM Solutions
Wolverine Worldwide Contact Center
World Travel Holdings
xneelo
Xvoyant

Nominations for the 2020 (14th annual) Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service, considered the world’s top honors for customer service, business development, and sales professionals, will be accepted through January 9 at StevieAwards.com/Sales. Late fees will apply for nominations, but no entry fees or late fees will apply for nominations to a new category to recognize leadership in transforming consumer engagement models, sponsored by HCL Technologies.

The Leader in Transforming Consumer Engagement Models category will recognize outstanding examples of individual leadership and innovation in the field since July 1, 2018. As in all other categories in the competition, nominees may submit a written essay or case study of up to 650 words describing their ethical sales practices and achievements or a video of up to five minutes in length, illustrating the same.

Only those with a promotion code supplied by HCL Technologies may submit nominations to the category. To inquire about getting the promotion code, email mohit_si@hcl.com.

HCL Technologies is a next-generation global technology company that helps enterprises reimagine their businesses for the digital age. Their technology products, services, and engineering are built on four decades of innovation, with a world-renowned management philosophy, a strong culture of invention and risk-taking, and a relentless focus on customer relationships.

HCL Technologies is a long-time sponsor of two other Stevie Awards programs, The American Business Awards® and the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, but this is only the second time that the firm will sponsor the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Maggie Gallagher, president of the Stevie Awards, is looking forward to having the longtime Stevie Awards sponsor present this award. “We are gratified that HCL Technologies has decided to use this Stevie Awards platform to recognize those individual executives who excel in using technology to transform how organizations delight their customers.”

Finalists in this and all other categories, based on the ratings of more than 150 professionals around the world in the judging process, will be announced on January 16. The Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Award placements from among the finalists will be revealed at a gala event at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on Friday, February 28.

The final entry deadline for the awards is January 9.  GET YOUR ENTRY KIT NOW!

Nominations for the 2020 (14^th annual) Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service, considered the world’s top honors for customer service, business development, and sales professionals, will be accepted through January 9 at StevieAwards.com/Sales. Late fees will apply for nominations, but no entry fees or late fees will apply for nominations to a new category to recognize leadership in transforming consumer engagement models, sponsored by HCL Technologies.

The Leader in Transforming Consumer Engagement Models category will recognize outstanding examples of individual leadership and innovation in the field since July 1, 2018. As in all other categories in the competition, nominees may submit a written essay or case study of up to 650 words describing their ethical sales practices and achievements or a video of up to five minutes in length, illustrating the same.

Only those with a promotion code supplied by HCL Technologies may submit nominations to the category.  To inquire about getting the promotion code, email mohit_si@hcl.com.

HCL Technologies is a next-generation global technology company that helps enterprises reimagine their businesses for the digital age. Their technology products, services, and engineering are built on four decades of innovation, with a world-renowned management philosophy, a strong culture of invention and risk-taking, and a relentless focus on customer relationships. 

HCL Technologies is a long-time sponsor of two other Stevie Awards programs, The American Business Awards® and the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, but this is only the second time that the firm will sponsor the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service.  Maggie Gallagher, president of the Stevie Awards, is looking forward to having the longtime Stevie Awards sponsor present this award. “We are gratified that HCL Technologies has decided to use this Stevie Awards platform to recognize those individual executives who excel in using technology to transform how organizations delight their customers.”

Finalists in this and all other categories, based on the ratings of more than 150 professionals around the world in the judging process, will be announced on January 16. The Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Award placements from among the finalists will be revealed at a gala event at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on Friday, February 28.

The final entry deadline for the awards is January 9.

Nominations are open for honors to be presented in Las Vegas on February 28

Nominations for the 2020 (14^th annual) Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service, considered the world’s top honors for customer service, business development, and sales professionals, will be accepted through January 9 at StevieAwards.com/Sales. Late fees will apply for nominations, but no entry fees or late fees will apply for nominations to a new category to recognize ethical sales practices, sponsored by Sales Partnerships.

The Sales Partnerships Award for Ethics in Sales will recognize outstanding examples of ethical sales practices since July 1, 2018. As in all other categories in the competition, nominees may submit a written essay or case study of up to 650 words describing their ethical sales practices and achievements or a video of up to five minutes in length, illustrating the same.

Sales Partnerships, Inc., which provides turnkey, outsourced selling solutions, is a sponsor of the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service program for the fourth consecutive year. Founder and CEO Fred Kessler says, “The Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service has grown to be the premier honor for sales professionals worldwide, and it’s proven to be an outstanding platform on which Sales Partnerships can interact with sales leaders in a wide variety of industries. When we were approached about sponsoring an award for ethics in sales, we immediately accepted. The Sales Partnerships’ Award for Ethics in Sales recognizes companies who, like us, understand that being the best performing sales force also means having an uncompromising focus on selling ethically.”

Interested in entering the 2020 Stevie Award for Sales & Customer Service?

Maggie Gallagher, president of the Stevie Awards, is looking forward to having the longtime Stevie Awards sponsor present this award. “We are thrilled that Sales Partnerships has decided to recognize those not only who succeed in sales at their organization, but who do so in a particularly ethical manner. The judges are eager to read through these Ethics in Sales nominations.”

Finalists in this and all other categories, based on the ratings of more than 150 professionals around the world in the judging process, will be announced on January 16. The Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Award placements from among the finalists will be revealed at a gala event at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on Friday, February 28.

Complete details on the competition, including how to participate, are available at www.StevieAwards.com/Sales.

Top Sales Awards and Customer Service Awards Deadline November 13

The Stevie Awards, organizer of the world’s premier business awards programs, is accepting entries for the 2020 (14th annual) Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Entry kits and complete details on the competition are available at http://www.StevieAwards.com/Sales.

All customer service, contact center, business development and sales departments, teams and professionals worldwide are eligible to be nominated, in addition to new products and services and solution providers used by those professionals. The 2020 awards will recognize achievements since July 1, 2018.

The entry deadline is November 13, but late entries will be accepted through January 10, 2019 with payment of a late fee. Finalists will be announced in mid-January, and the Gold, Silver and Bronze Stevie Award placements revealed during a gala awards banquet on February 28 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

Interested in entering the 2020 Stevie Award for Sales & Customer Service?

The Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service feature more than 150 sales awards, customer service awards, business development awards, new product awards and solution provider awards categories. Entrants may submit any number of nominations to any number of categories.

New categories for the 2020 competition include Sales Enablement Program of the Year, Sales Incentive Program of the Year, White Paper or Research Report of the Year, Customer Service Training Professional of the Year, Customer Service Training Team of the Year – External or Internal, Best Customer Engagement Initiative, and Customer Service Training or Coaching Program of the Year.

2020 will see the return of the People’s Choice Stevie Awards for Favorite Customer Service, a popular feature of the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service in which the general public may vote for their favorite providers of customer service, from among all finalist nominations in the Customer Service Department of the Year categories.

Winners of the 2019 edition of the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service included 1-800-Flowers.com, Bank of America, Birevim, BNY Mellon's Albridge, ClassicCars.com, Comcast, Dell Technologies, GoDaddy, HomeServe USA, SolarWinds, Southwest Airlines, Vivint Solar, VIZIO, Inc., and Wolters Kluwer's ELM Solutions.

The 2020 competition will be judged by more than 150 professionals around the world.

The payment environment is becoming more diverse as many vendors are able to offer different methods for payment solutions. BluePay, a provider of technology-enabled payment processing for merchants and suppliers of any size, offers fast and secure payment processing solutions to fit every business’s needs. The leading single-source payment technology from BluePay has been helping businesses for over 15 years by streamlining functions, reducing operating costs, and increasing revenue. This is why they’ve won the Gold Stevie in the Best Product or Service of the Year category, a Silver Stevie for Company of the Year, and a Bronze Stevie in the Customer Service Team of the Year category.

Pleasant Paying

Being a payments technology company means staying ahead of the curve by developing solutions for new ways to pay like Apple Pay, PayPal, and wearable technology to purchase goods and services with ease. Jennifer Seebock, Marketing Coordinator at BluePay, says their merchants grow their businesses by offering the services they need to attract new customers.

"Through point-of-sale, online, mobile, and software integration, we proudly serve over 47,000 merchants and process $14 billion in transactions annually.” BluePay is headquartered in Naperville, Illinois, with offices in Chicago, Maryland, New York, and Toronto.

Recognition

Receiving payments online can be risky business as technology advances and electronic theft becomes more complex. Seebock relays why BluePay takes this seriously and considers winning awards as a way to celebrate hard work and genuine innovation.

"Winning Stevie Awards benefits our entire organization and provides opportunities to tell the world BluePay is a great company and offers leading products and services."

She goes on to say prospects are more inclined to choose their company for payment processing knowing they are recipients of such prestigious awards. The awards provide a sense of confidence for their merchants, partners, and financial institutions.  They also increase brand awareness.

"We have a goal to increase our brand awareness through award recognition, and the Stevies were on top of our list."

Charitable Culture

BluePay believes one of their differentiators is their company culture. They recently raised funds for U.S. servicemen and women through the Wounded Warrior Project. The president of the Canadian division is doing the Race Across America (RAM) with Team True Patriot Love to raise funds for the Canadian Armed Forces. Seebock details how they donate time and efforts to important causes.

"We recently implemented a program for charitable time off and corporate donation matching to encourage our team to give more to their communities. For over eight years, we have contributed a percentage of our profits to the Chicagoland Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation and have "pink" parties in October."

Frictionless Service

BluePay also engages in fun activities like Blackhawks games, Bulls games, golf outings, summer picnics, and off-site meetings to encourage creativity. With a common goal to be the leader in payments technology, all their teams work closely with "Voice of the Customer" surveys and formulate teams to address concerns or bridge the gaps in their processes to make working with BluePay frictionless.

"We’re proud to have a high-performing workforce delivering outstanding services and solutions."

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Interested in winning a Stevie Award for Best New Product or Service? Or maybe for Customer Service?