Sales Partnerships recognizes organizations demonstrating the highest ethical standards in sales

Winners of the 2022 Stevie® Awards for Sales & Customer Service were announced in February, but winners of one special category, sponsored by longtime Stevie Awards sponsor Sales Partnerships, were announced today.

The Sales Partnerships Ethics in Sales Award recognizes organizations for best practices and achievements in demonstrating the highest ethical standards in sales. Nominees submitted specific examples, case studies, practices, etc., illustrating why their organization should be considered an excellent practitioner of both successful and ethical sales. This year’s award looked at accomplishments since the beginning of 2020.

A review panel assembled by Sales Partnerships assessed the nominations in this category and chose the following winners for 2022:

GOLD STEVIE WINNER:

• Blackbaud, Charleston, SC USA

SILVER STEVIE WINNER:

• ATR International, Santa Clara, CA USA

BRONZE STEVIE WINNERS:

• Ace Office, Houston, TX USA
• AMOpportunities, Chicago, IL USA
• Augusta Precious Metals, Casper, WY USA
• Desiderate, Thirroul, NSW, Australia
• Groove, San Francisco, CA USA
• Inside Out Training, Brisbane, QLD Australia
• Raken, Carlsbad, CA USA
• The Speech Academy, Easton, CT and Somers, CT USA
• VMWare, Palo Alto, CA USA
  

Sales Partnerships, Inc., which provides turnkey, outsourced selling solutions, is a sponsor of the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service program for the sixth consecutive year.

Maggie Miller, president of the Stevie Awards, said she is looking forward to having the longtime Stevie Awards sponsor present these awards during the May 11 virtual awards ceremony of the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service: “We are gratified that Sales Partnerships has decided to recognize those who not only succeed in sales at their organizations but who do so in a particularly ethical manner. The judges were especially impressed with those organizations that increased their ethical practices while others were facing the hardships of COVID-19. We congratulate all the 2022 Stevie winners.”

The Stevie® Awards have announced the winners of Grand Stevie Award trophies in the 16^th annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service, recognized as the world's top honors for achievement in business development, customer service, and sales.

Nominees in the 2022 Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service were not able to apply for Grand Stevie awards directly. Winners were determined by a points system based on the total number of awards won in the program, with a Gold Stevie win counting for three points, a Silver Stevie win for two points, and a Bronze Stevie win for 1.5 points. 

This year’s Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Award winners in the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service were announced on February 28. All winners will be celebrated during a virtual ceremony on May 11.

Winners of the “Top 10 Awards” for 2022 – recipients of Grand Stevie Awards trophies - are:

1. DP DHL, with 92.5 points earned through winning nominations submitted by 26 DHL affiliates around the world. This is the tenth year in a row in which the multinational package delivery and supply chain management company, headquartered in Bonn, Germany, has won a Grand Stevie in the program, and the eighth year of the 10 in which they placed first on the list of most honored organizations.
2. IBM, Armonk, NY USA (61). IBM has won a Grand Stevie Award in the program for the sixth consecutive year.
3. Sales Partnerships, Inc., Broomfield, CO USA (41). Sales Partnerships has won a Grand Stevie Award for the fifth consecutive year as well as in 2016.
4. UPMC Health Plan, Pittsburgh, PA USA (26.5). UMPC also won a Grand in 2021.
5. Allianz SE – Allianz Services India, Kerala and Allianz Global Assistance, Richmond, VA USA (21.5). Allianz SE also won a Grand Stevie in 2020.
6. ValueSelling Associates, Rancho Santa Fe, CA USA (19.5). ValueSelling also won a Grand Stevie in 2021 and 2019.
7. Support Services Group, worldwide (19). Support Services Group also won a Grand in 2021.
8. TransPerfect, New York, NY USA (18.5). TransPerfect also won a Grand in 2021.
9. SAP, Newtown Square, PA USA and Walldorf, Germany (17.5)
10. HP, Inc., Boise, ID USA (16)

More than 2,300 nominations from organizations in 51 nations were considered in this year’s competition. Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Award winners were determined by the average scores of more than 150 professionals on eight specialized judging committees.

Sponsors of the 16th annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service include Sales Partnerships, Inc., Thought Leadership Leverage, and ValueSelling Associates, Inc.

Winners in the 16th annual Stevie® Awards for Sales & Customer Service, recognized as the world's top customer service awards and sales awards, were announced today. Stevie Award winners will be celebrated during a virtual awards ceremony on May 11.

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

More than 2,300 nominations from organizations in 51 nations were considered in this year’s competition. Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Award winners were determined by the average scores of more than 150 professionals on eight specialized judging committees. Entries were considered in more than 90 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; more than 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, solution providers, and organizations’ and individuals’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic. New categories this year honor excellence in thought leadership in customer service and sales.

IBM of Armonk, NY USA and DP DHL, worldwide both won 11 Gold Stevie Awards, the most of any organization in the competition. Other Stevie winners with three or more Golds include Sales Partnerships, Inc., Broomfield, CO USA (eight), ValueSelling Associates, Carlsbad, CA USA (six), HP, Inc. Boise, ID USA (four), The Biz Dojo Inc, Calgary, Canada (four), UPMC Health Plan, Pittsburgh, PA USA (four), Allianz Services Pvt Ltd, Kerala, India (three), Nutrisystem, Fort Washington, PA USA (three), TransPerfect, New York, NY USA (three), and Voya Financial, Chandler, AZ USA (three).

Winners of two Gold Stevie Awards include athenahealth, Watertown, MA USA; Contact Lens King Inc., Chaplain, NY USA; Datasite, Minneapolis, MN USA; Dubai Municipality, Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Empolis Group, Kaiserslautern, Germany; Future Generali India Insurance Company Ltd., Mumbai, India; Michael Kors, New York, NY USA; Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA USA; Municipality and Planning Department, Ajman, United Arab Emirates; Optima Tax Relief, LLC, Santa Ana, CA USA; POWERHOME SOLAR, Mooresville, NC USA; PowerSchool Group LLC, Folsom, CA USA; Ruby, Portland, OR USA; SAP, Newtown Square, PA USA; Sber, Moscow, Russia; SoftPro, Raleigh, NC USA; Spinnaker Support, Greenwood Village, CO USA; Support Services Group, Lewis Center, OH USA; Talkdesk, San Francisco, CA USA; Templeton & Partners, London, United Kingdom; VakifBank, Istanbul, Turkey; and VMware, Palo Alto, CA USA.

Other organizations winning a combination of four or more Gold, Silver, or Bronze Stevie Awards include Abrigo, Austin, TX USA; Arise Virtual Solutions, Miramar, FL USA; Blackhawk Network, Pleasanton CA USA; CarrefourSA, Istanbul, Turkey; Clubspeed, Irvine, CA USA; EFG Companies, Irving, TX USA; Element Electronics, Winnsboro, SC USA; HireVue, South Jordan, UT USA; Intuit, Mississauga, Ontario Canada; Nuance Communications, Boston, MA USA; OpenGov, San Jose, CA USA; Optum Eden Prairie, MN USA; Princess Polly, Los Angeles CA USA; Pushpay, Redmond, WA USA; QNB Finansbank, Istanbul, Turkey; RAIN Group, Boston, MA USA; Toco Warranty, Los Angeles, CA USA; TTEC, Englewood, CO USA; Visualize, Birmingham, MI USA; VIZIO Inc., Irvine, CA USA; and WNS (Holdings) Limited, Mumbai, India.

The 10 most-honored organizations in the competition will receive Grand Stevie Award trophies. Those winners will be announced the week of March 14.

Beginning today through April 1, the public may vote for their favorite providers of customer service in the People’s Choice Stevie® Awards for Favorite Customer Service, an annual feature of the awards. Voting is open at http://peopleschoice.stevieawards.com. Winners of the People’s Choice Stevie Awards in multiple industries will be announced the week of April 4.

One category in the awards will continue to accept entries through March 11.  It is the Sales Partnerships Award for Ethics in Sales, which will recognize organizations for best practices and achievements in demonstrating the highest ethical standards in the sales industry.  Entry requirements for this category are outlined at https://stevieawards.com/sales/nominate-2022-sales-partnerships-ethics-sales-award.

Zwar ist die Teilnahmefrist der  Stevie® Awards for Sales & Customer Service 2022 bereits abgeschlossen, doch in der Sonderkategorie "Sales Partnerships Award for Ethics in Sales" werden noch bis zum 11. März Nominierungen entgegengenommen. 

Zum dritten Mal in Folge sponsert Sales Partnerships, ein führender Anbieter von ausgelagerten Vertriebslösungen, den "Sales Partnerships Award for Ethics in Sales". Mit der Auszeichnung werden herausragende Beispiele für ethische Vertriebspraktiken gewürdigt. Die Leistungen müssen seit Juli 2019 erbracht worden sein. 

Die Präsidentin der Stevie® Awards, Maggie Miller, freut sich, dass der langjährige Sponsor der Stevie® Awards diese Auszeichnung erneut überreichen wird. "Wir sind begeistert, dass Sales Partnership beschlossen hat, diejenigen auszuzeichnen, die in ihrem Unternehmen nicht nur erfolgreich im Verkauf sind, sondern dies auch auf besonders ethische Weise tun. Die Jury ist gespannt auf die Nominierungen für Ethics in Sales."

Füllen Sie das folgende Formular aus, um mehr über den Ethics in Sales Award zu erfahren und eine Nominierung in diesem Bereich einzureichen, können Sie füllen. Für diese Auszeichnung wird keine Anmeldegebühr erhoben.

Fred Kessler, Gründer und CEO von Sales Partnerships, sagt: "Wir freuen uns, dass die Stevie Awards Nominierungen bis zum 11. März entgegennehmen, anstatt wie ursprünglich vorgesehen bis zum 2. Februar, um denjenigen mehr Zeit zu geben, die eine öffentliche Anerkennung für die ethischen Vertriebspraktiken ihres Unternehmens suchen."

Die Gewinnerinnen und Gewinner in dieser Kategorie werden im März bekannt gegeben und bei der virtuellen Preisverleihung der 16. Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service am 11. Mai geehrt.

Alle Details zu den Stevie® Awards for Sales & Customer Service finden Sie unter www.StevieAwards.com/Sales.

Nominations for the 2022 (16^th annual) Stevie® Awards for Sales & Customer Service, considered the world’s top honors for customer service, business development, and sales professionals, were accepted through February 2, but one special category will continue to accept nominations through March 11. Because the awards ceremony will be held virtually in May, the Stevie Awards have extended the nomination deadline for this one special category.

For the third year in a row, Sales Partnerships, a leading provider of outsourced sales solutions, will sponsor The Sales Partnerships Award for Ethics in Sales. The award will recognize outstanding examples of ethical sales practices since the beginning of July 2019.

To learn more and submit a nomination for the Ethics in Sales Award, complete the form below. There is no entry fee for this award.

Sales Partnerships founder and CEO Fred Kessler says, “We are pleased that the Stevie Awards will welcome nominations through March 11 instead of the original February 2 deadline -- giving more time to those looking for public recognition of their organization’s ethical sales practices.”

Winners in this category will be announced in March and honored during the 16^th Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service virtual awards ceremony on May 11.

Complete details on the 16^th Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service are available at www.StevieAwards.com/Sales.

Nominations for the 2022 (16^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 February 2 at http://www.StevieAwards.com/Sales.

For the third year in a row, Sales Partnerships, a leading provider of outsourced sales solutions, will sponsor The Sales Partnerships Award for Ethics in Sales in the program. The award will recognize outstanding examples of ethical sales practices since the beginning of July 2019.

To learn more and submit a nomination for the Ethics in Sales Award, complete the form at https://stevieawards.com/sales/nominate-2022-sales-partnerships-ethics-sales-award. There is no entry fee for this award.

Sales Partnerships founder and CEO Fred Kessler said, “We welcome this opportunity to once again recognize those organizations around the world that have demonstrated the highest ethical standards in the practice of their successful sales solutions.”

President of the Stevie Awards, Maggie Miller, says she looks forward to having the longtime Stevie Awards sponsor present this award again. “We are thrilled that Sales Partnership 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.”

Winners in this category and the rest of the sales and customer service categories will be announced in late February and honored during a virtual awards ceremony on May 11.

Complete details on the 16^th Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service are available at www.StevieAwards.com/Sales. 

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.

• DJO Healthcare Solutions provides quality orthopedic products, software solutions, and services. 
• MotionMD, the company’s technology platform, has become a market leader and a winner of numerous awards.
• The Customer Success Team has helped bolster the company’s customer retention rate by providing expertise and knowledge.

About DJO Global

DJO Global’s business unit DJO Healthcare Solutions is a provider of quality orthopedic products, software solutions, and services. DJO believes activity is key to supporting patients’ return to a healthier lifestyle, better treatment outcomes, and improved healthcare economics for all. DJO delivers a complete orthopedic continuum of care from performance and mobility to surgical intervention and postoperative rehabilitation. 

DJO Healthcare Solutions’ technology platform, MotionMD has become the market leader in its space, winning an Edison award for innovation, earning HITRUST Security recognition for four years in a row, and doubling Software as a Service (SaaS) revenue over the last year and currently at 3.5 million patient agreements, across 28 thousand providers at over two thousand locations. The Customer Success Team is considered a core driver of growth and a key competitive advantage. 

MotionMD’s Customer Success Team

The Customer Success Team was created over the past two years to support the DJO Healthcare Solutions team with MotionMD from SaaS to invoicing to cash collection, as well as other customer success feedback metrics. 

Staffed by industry-experienced DJO employees, this Customer Success team offers coast-to-coast support for the most effective knowledge-sharing, analytics and data, and response time. Instant feedback and early alerts allow the team to work hand in hand with product managers, implementation leads, and developers to provide seamless customer service. 

In addition to the financial and operational contributions this team has made over the last year, DJO has also received numerous emails from customers who are absolutely thrilled with the experience and responsiveness. DJO’s customer retention rate is currently 99%+ since this time last year.

DJO Global won a Silver Stevie for Customer Service Awards Success Categories - Customer Service Success - Technology Industries in the 2021 Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service®. 

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• FORDATA is a secure file-sharing solution that provides Virtual Data Room systems to Central and Eastern European economies 
• The company responded to COVID by providing free services to companies in need and fundraising thousands of dollars  

About FORDATA

FORDATA’s History

In 2009, three college friends decided to import a business idea from London and change the digitally belated Polish mergers and acquisitions market by introducing the first Virtual Data Room to Polish customers. The shift involved providing assistance to million-dollar transactions, securing best-kept corporate secrets online, and comforting investors who were used to making their decisions to buy by looking through thousands of files stored in a locked room - not online. As a result of the massive change,
FORDATA shifted the way Polish M&A businesses operated. 

In just a few years, FORDATA had become a standard of dealmaking in Poland, trusted by Deloitte, KPMG, PwC, Dentons, and the biggest Polish state and private companies - and is developing a presence abroad as well.

In 2019, FORDATA had been long-trusted by international investment advisors, insurance companies, and the Treasury of Poland and other countries. Currently, FORDATA is CSR-conscious and aligned with the strictest regulations of the EU and international markets.

FORDATA’s COVID-19 Response

When news of the coronavirus broke, FORDATA faced incredible pressure to continue helping others. The company provided free service to companies in crises and fundraised over $15,000. Companies in need were provided with services to restructure, run audits, find financing and new partners, or simply survive the transition to a remote work environment, which became the new normal to banks, advisors, and auditors. Everyone needed a virtual tool to stay safe and cut costs while also saving time and working efficiently. 

Today, FORDATA continues growing and providing critical services to the economy. 

FORDATA won a Bronze Stevie for COVID-19 Response Categories - Most Valuable Response by a Business Development Team in the 2021 Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service®. 

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• AIP Consulting collects valuable data and turns it into better customer experiences for businesses around the globe
• AIP created innovative technology pre-pandemic that gave them a head start over competitors who were struggling to adapt to the COVID crisis

About AIP Consulting 

AIP Consulting is a market research agency that helps organizations collect valuable data and turns it into better experiences for customers. AIP Consulting also offers customer experience technology solutions, adding value to businesses by effectively tracking and analyzing customer feedback. Founded in 2016, the company operates in Cyprus, Greece, Romania, and Ukraine. AIP’s services include mystery shopping, digital contacts, focus groups, face-to-face surveys, feedback collection tools, and data analysis.

Beginning in 2019, AIP Consulting started connecting with startups from around the globe in order to develop the company’s services and instill a culture of diversity within the organization. AIP created a suite of technologies around CX in an era that coincided with low ability to use traditional services due to social distancing guidelines in order to improve customer service and collect valuable feedback that was vital to brands, especially during the pandemic. These services gave AIP a head start over competitors who were trying to adjust and catch up during COVID. 

AIP Consulting increased its revenue by over 180% in 2020 in the midst of the COVID crisis due to prepping with a pre-pandemic operational model that outshone competitors during the crisis. AIP is projected to increase revenue by another 200% in 2021 by helping develop the brand as a strong, all-encompassing agency in all things CX. 

AIP Consulting won the Silver Stevie for Business Development Achievement of the Year - Services Industries in the 2021 Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service®. 

Interested in entering the 2022 Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service?