We're so excited that The 9th Annual American Business Awards gala is just a week and a half a way.  Have you gotten your tickets yet for the June 20 event in New York? 

The following organizations have already confirmed their attendance.  If you're a nominee and would like to join them, login to your account at www.stevieawards.com/aba.  If you're not a nominee but would like to be part of one of the business world's top events, contact us for ticket details.

ABS Associates, Inc. Rolling Meadows, IL           

Accenture, Chicago, IL                      

Acorda Therapeutics, New York, NY            

adBrite  San Francisco  CA               

AECOM Technology Corporation  New York  NY   

Aegis Electronic Group Inc.  Gilbert AZ

Affinnova, Waltham, MA

Agiliance  Inc.

Allen Interactions Inc., Mendota Heights, MN

AlliedBarton Security Services

AmberMcGown.com

American Express Business Travel  New York  NY   

American Support

Americas' SAP Users' Group  Chicago  IL

Approva Corporation  Herndon  VA

Assurant Solutions, Atlanta, GA

A-T Solutions Inc., Vienna, VA

AXA Distributors, LLC

Berkshire Associates Inc.  Columbia  MD

BlackLine Systems                      

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, Durham, NC                                         

BOXLIGHT, Belfair, Washington             

Braces By Burris  Jonesboro  AR                

BrainStorm Inc.  American Fork  UT             

Brendan O'Connell

Broadview Networks

Buckeye Partners  L.P.

Business TalkRadio Network

Cabell Huntington Hospital  Huntington  WV       

CACI International, Inc.

Cambium Learning Technologies  Natick  MA         

Capital Access Network, Scarsdale, NY

Cartus Corporation  Danbury  CT

Catapult Technology  Bethesda  MD

CIGNA Corporation

CitiusTech Inc.

Citizens Financial Group  Providence  RI           

CME Group  Chicago  IL                   

Content Master                           

Coverall Health-Based Cleaning System  Boca Raton  FL                   

Creative Lodging Solutions, Lexington, KY   

Definition 6, Atlanta, GA    

Dell  Inc.  Round Rock  TX

DeVry University

DHL Express  Tempe  AZ

DYMO Endicia

DYMO/Mimio Inside Sales & Sales Operations      

E Center, Inc.

eHarmony

Electric Insurance Company

Eloqua  Vienna  VA

EMKAY Inc.  Itasca  IL

Empire Today  Northlake  IL

EmpowHER Media  Scottsdale  AZ

Epic Media Group

Epicor Software Corporation  Irvine  CA

EXIT Realty Corp. USA  Woburn MA

F5 Networks  Seattle  WA

Flextronics International  Milpitas  CA

Fox Business Network

Gas Station TV

GPS Capital Markets  Salt Lake City  UT           

Groupon, Inc. Chicago, IL

Harris Corporation, Melbourne, FL

High Performance Technologies Inc.

Hilton Hotels & Resorts, McLean, VA

Homewood Suites by Hilton  Memphis  TN

Hubspan  Inc  Seattle  WA

Humana, Inc., Louisville, KY

IBM Netezza

Incredimeal.com

Infogroup

Information Builders  New York  NY

INSZOOM.COM INC.  San Ramon  CA

Integrate.com  Denver  CO

InterContinental Hotels Group, Atlanta, GA      

International Checkout Inc  Van Nuys  CA              

Investor Growth Capital             

iolo technologies                                  

John Hancock Funds  Boston  MA                  

KPMG LLP, Montvale, NJ

L-com Connectivity Products, North Andover, MA  

Leadership Vanguard 

Legacy, Washington, DC

LifeLock                            

MailerMailer  Rockville  MD                      

Makovsky + Company, New York, NY

Marriott Intermediary Partner Care  Omaha  NE          

MASERGY Communications  Inc.  Plano  TX

MBX Systems  Wauconda  IL

McKinley Marketing Partners  Inc.  Alexandria  VA     

Merisel

Microsoft  Redmond  WA

MicroTech, Vienna, VA

Modern Technology Solutions, Inc., Alexandria, VA

MonaVie, South Jordan, UT

Mondial Assistance USA  Richmond  VA

Moreover Technologies  Reston  VA

MOST Brand Development + Advertising

NIIT Technologies, Inc., Atlanta, GA

Noetix Corp.  Redmond  WA

Nutricap Labs  Farmingdale  NY

Overture Networks  Morrisville  NC

PeopleMetrics

Percussion Software, Woburn, MA

PetRays

PHH Arval

PlanSource  Orlando  FL

Prescription Solutions/UnitedHealth Group  Irvine  CA        

Quality Systems  Inc.  Irvine  CA

Reliv International  Inc.  Chesterfield  MO            

Richardson                                       

Rovi Corporation, Santa Clara, CA

Rush Communications

SCRA  Charleston  SC                            

SDL

SoftPro                                

SteelHouse  Los Angeles  CA                     

Summit Medical Group  Berkeley Heights  NJ         

Sungard

SurePayroll  Glenview  IL

Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare  Inc.         

TelecityGroup, New York, NY

The Knowland Group  Lewes  DE

The Lincoln Electric Company  Cleveland  OH             

The Receivables Exchange  New Orleans  LA              

thebigword  New York City  NY                     

TIBCO Software Inc. Palo Alto  CA                        

Travelex Global Business Payments, Washington DC   

USANA Health Sciences  Inc . West Valley  UT             

uTest, Southborough, MA

ValueClick  Inc.  Westlake Village  CA     

Vérité, Inc.      

VerticalResponse  San Francisco  CA                   

Voices Heard Media                         

Weather Trends International                        

Webs, Inc, Silver Spring, MD

Webtrends  Portland  OR                             

WowWe Inc.  The Woodlands  TX                      

Xcelus  LLC  Provo  UT                            

Zayo Group, Louisville, CO

Zeno Group  New York  NY     

Robert Vandenberg is CEO of Lingotek in Draper, Utah, USA and will chair the final judging committee for the New Product Awards & Product Management categories of The 2011 International Business Awards.

Which innovations do you think will most improve businesses in the next few years?

I’m a huge believer in social media and how it is enabling a more transparent relationship between business and consumer.  The successful companies of the next few years will be those that use social media to engage with their customers, not those that resist it.

At the same time, increasing globalization will require all of us to be more aware and engaged with people of different countries, languages, and cultures. Companies will need to be able to understand those markets and communicate with them in order to grow.

What item of news recently caught your eye and why?

The phenomenal success of LinkedIn’s IPO underscores the value of permanent, transparent interconnections in professional relationships. Each of us now has the ability and tools to control our own professional brand.

If you could choose another profession, what would it be?

As someone who spends too much time on planes I would pick something that involved being outdoors. Being a ski bum in the winter and a sailing bum in the summer sounds ideal right now!

What quality or qualities do you most value in your business associates?

My top four are: curiosity, work ethic, maturity, and the ability to be proactive.

What do you think is the worst bad habit to have at work?

Negativity: Everyone’s a critic, but in the workplace you shouldn’t just complain, you should make the effort to offer a solution.

As someone at the top of your profession, what keeps you inspired or makes you hit the ground running in the morning?
I have the good fortune to engage every day with interesting people who develop creative products and solutions for real-world problems. I’m not a techie, but I learn about customers’ issues as they seek to expand into global markets, and I can discuss these with my technology experts.  It’s a great feeling when we are able to provide those customers with effective solutions.

About Rob Vandenberg

As CEO of Lingotek, Rob Vandenberg is driving the vision as the company looks to change the future of translation. He has never shied away from asking the tough questions that have led to greater understanding, insight, and a more progressive development of new products and services.

Prior to being named president of Lingotek in 2008, Vandenberg served as the company's vice president of sales and marketing, where he provided guidance and inspiration. Before joining Lingotek, Vandenberg served at the helm of several successful ventures. He cofounded and served as the CEO of LocalVoice.com, which was acquired by HarrisConnect in 2005. Afterwards, he was named as the vice president of sales and marketing for HarrisConnect. Prior to that venture, he started as one of the first 20 U.S. employees at INTERSHOP Communications. As a top-performing sales executive with national account responsibilities he helped build the company’s worldwide business: the INTERSHOP initial public offering was one of the most successful enterprise software company IPOs in US history (a $10 billion market cap).

Vandenberg holds a bachelor's degree in political economics from UC Berkeley. 

About Lingotek

Lingotek | The Translation Network gives enterprise business customers new ways to engage their global communities by providing trusted, rapid translations to grow business in a cost effective way. Its exclusive web-based Collaborative Translation Platform™ represents the next step in the evolution of translation through technology and community involvement. Today global organizations, intelligence agencies, and government entities use the platform, saving time and resources on projects ranging from a few pages to several volumes. Lingotek also offers professional translation services for companies. The company is based in Draper, Utah and is funded by Canopy Ventures, In-Q-Tel, and Flywheel Ventures.

Concurrent with the announcement of Finalists in The 2011 American Business Awards, including nominees in the new product awards categories, voting has opened in this year's People's Choice Stevie Awards for Favorite New Products.

Vote now at
http://peopleschoice.stevieawards.com/default.cfm?sitetype=P

Voting will remain open through June 3 for the year's best new products and services in 16 categories, including, among others

• Favorite New Consumer Product
  
• Favorite New Smartphone
• Favorite New Smartphone or Tablet App
• Favorite New Tablet
• Favorite New Media or Entertainment Product

Top vote getter in each category will receive a specially-designed crystal People's Choice Stevie Award trophy at the ABA's annual awards banquet in New York on June 20.

Voting Now Open for People's Choice Stevie Awards for Favorite New Products

Finalists were announced today in The 9th Annual American Business Awards. Companies as diverse as Apple, Groupon, General Electric, Procter & Gamble, and The Walt Disney Company are among those recognized.  Lists of Finalists by category have been published at http://www.stevieawards.com/aba. 

The American Business Awards are the nation’s premier business awards program. All organizations operating in the U.S.A. are eligible to submit nominations – public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small. 

This year’s Stevie® Award trophy winners will be announced during the annual gala on June 20 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York.  Tickets are now on sale.  More than six-hundred executives are expected to attend.  The event will benefit Camfed, which fights poverty and HIV/AIDS in Africa by educating girls and empowering women to become leaders of change.  The ceremonies will be broadcast nationwide by the Business TalkRadio Network.    

A record number of nominations were submitted this year with more than 2,800 from organizations of all sizes and from virtually every industry.  The ABAs include a wide variety of categories including management awards, new product awards, marketing awards, public relations awards, human resources awards, information technology awards, web site awards, and more.

Members of 10 specialized final judging committees will select Stevie Award winners from among Finalists in judging that will begin next week.  Finalists were chosen by business professionals nationwide during preliminary judging in April and May.

Voting opened today for the People’s Choice Stevie Awards for Favorite New Products, a component of The American Business Awards that invites the general public to vote for their favorite new products in a number of categories including Favorite New Smartphone, Favorite New Tablet, Favorite New Consumer Product, and Favorite New Smartphone or Tablet App.  Voting is open through June 3 at http://www.stevieawards.com/FavoriteNewProducts.peopleschoice.

What do you think of the list of this year's Finalists?

 About The Stevie Awards

 

Stevie Awards are conferred in four programs: The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service.  Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide.  Learn more about the Stevie Awards at http://www.stevieawards.com/, and follow the Stevie Awards on Twitter @TheStevieAwards.   

Sponsors and partners of The 2011 American Business Awards include Infogroup, IBM Netezza, American Support, Citrix Online, Epic Media Group, High Performance Technologies Inc., iolo technologies, LifeLock, Merisel, PetRays, SDL, SoftPro, and Vérité, Inc.

With the month-away launch of the call for entries for the 8th annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business, here's a profile of Debralee L. Goldberg, president and CEO of International Financial Data Services Canada in Toronto, named Best Canadian Executive in the 2010 Stevies for Women in Business.

Since joining IFDS Canada as CEO in 2006, Debralee Goldberg has compiled an impressive record as a female chief executive in the traditionally male- dominated world of financial services. IFDS Canada’s operating income has risen by nearly 300%, and the number of clients has grown by 30%. Three of IFDS Canada’s 10 largest accounts were signed on in 2009–10.

Debralee Goldberg’s impact as CEO extends beyond the usual operating numbers, however, and includes initiatives in technology, the environment, and community giving.

Debralee began her 30-year career as an entry-level call-center employee in a Boston bank’s mutual fund division. Over the next eight years, she earned a number of management-level promotions, took additional courses, and learned the mutual fund business. She then took a five-year break to raise her family.

After her return, she rose to the executive ranks of First Data Investor Services, a spin-off from American Express, and then joined Kansas City-based DST Systems Inc. before being tapped to run IFDS Canada.

Reducing Environmental Impact
Since arriving in Toronto, Debralee’s solid understanding of mutual fund operations has allowed her to contribute as a board member of FundSERV, the Canadian financial-funds network responsible for managing intercompany settlements. Her deep knowledge has also enabled her to identify and champion ideas to improve client relations and operating efficiency, and to reduce the environmental impact of IFDS Canada. For example, new smart-screen technology has eliminated the company’s need to print received forms for data entry. In addition to eliminating paper, this advance increased data entry productivity by 60% and reduced by 70% the number of items requiring quality review.

Similarly, a new touch-screen solution now allows IFDS Canada mailroom associates to distribute incoming documents without printing and attaching paper routing instructions. This innovation has reduced monthly mailroom paper use by 50%.

Debralee is raising environmental awareness in other ways at IFDS Canada. She created a green-initiatives committee, has reduced travel with the use of VOIP and other e-meeting technologies, conducts annual green-awareness campaigns, and has supported distribution of reusable thermal lunch bags, drink bottles, and coffee mugs to all employees. As part of her personal commitment, she walks to work nearly every day.

Improved Technology
Technology improvements introduced under Debralee have reduced IFDS Canada’s carbon footprint and resulted in the deployment of these technologies by IFDS affiliates. They also contributed to IFDS Canada’s two software awards in 2009 and 2010: Best Use of Technology at the Canadian Investment Awards, and Progress Software’s SaaS Excellence Award.

Under Debralee’s leadership, the company continues to seek new ways to improve, spending more than $20 million annually on research and development.

Corporate Giving
Debralee recognizes the importance of giving back. In 2010, IFDS Canada’s charitable giving was on track to rise 350% over 2008. Employee participation in the same period increased nearly 50%.

Today IFDS supports more than 25 charities, including the Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario, Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, University Settlement, the Hospital for Sick Kids, HopeSpring Cancer Support Centre, and United Way.

Upon receiving her Stevie Award for Best Canadian Executive last November, Goldberg commented: “I am very much honored to be recognized by the Stevie Awards for Women in Business. Not only as the rare woman in a male-dominated world of financial services, but also as it reinforces the value of—and our commitment to—increasing customer satisfaction, increasing operational efficiency for our clients, contributing to worthy charities, and reducing our carbon footprint.” 

About Debralee Goldberg
Debralee Goldberg has risen from her first job as a mutual-fund call-center associate to CEO of IFDS Canada, where she demonstrates leadership in business growth and efficiency, R&D, green initiatives, and corporate giving. Prior to IFDS, Debralee spent 25 years in the mutual fund industry with Boston-based banks and services companies First Data Investor Services and DST Systems Inc.

As an alumna of Boston University College of Arts and Sciences, Debralee is an active member of the alumni board, the parents’ council, and the dean’s advisory board at her alma mater. She has been married to Bill Goldberg for 29 years and has two sons, Harrison and Benjamin. Their favorite family activity isskiing. A certified chef, Debralee enjoys cooking and reading in her spare time.  

About IFDS Canada
IFDS Canada is one of Canada’s largest transfer agencies, with over 500 employees and more than 10 million unit holder accounts. It has become a global leader in business process outsourcing and application services. IFDS Canada clients include a mutual fund managers, wealth managers, insurance companies and banks. The company is a joint venture of State Street Corporation and DST Systems Inc.  For more information visit www.ifdsgroup.com.

With tomorrow (April 27) as the final entry deadline for The 2011 American Business Awards (you'll find the entry kit online), we thought we'd inspire those of you working feverishly to prepare your entries with a tale of one of last year's Stevie Award winners, to show you that your hard work can pay off.

Nutricap Labs of Farmingdale, New York, received a Stevie Award for Best Overall Company of the Year-Up to 100 Employees in the 2010 ABAs. Here we profile the company and its founder, Jason Provenzano.

Jason Provenzano, president and founder of Nutricap Labs, founded the company in 2003. Yet despite the lagging economy, this startup company has achieved revenue growth in excess of 2,900% since 2005, with annual sales reaching $16.2M in 2010.

In accepting the Stevie Award last June, Provenzano said: "This award represents all of the hard work that I and my team have put into our company over the last eight years. I truly believe that we have the best company and the best people at Nutricap Labs, and this award is proof of that."

The company bases its success on services that go beyond the basic manufacturing of their products.  These include:

Turnkey Solution
Nutricap Labs offers its clients a one-stop-shop that provides the highest-quality manufacturing services, in-house label and packaging design services, and order-fulfillment/drop-shipping services for either wholesale or retail. In conjunction with storing client products in its warehouse, Nutricap Labs’ real-time order-fulfillment system allows clients to place orders via a web
portal, and an in-house packaging team will pack and ship the product directly to their customers. This full-service manufacturing solution not only provides clients with the assurance that their orders are being handled by a reliable, professional team of experts, but also allows them time to focus on marketing and building their own businesses.

Fast Turnaround
Nutricap Labs guarantees that quote requests submitted by customers are turned around in 24 to 48 hours, and products are delivered in as little as two to three weeks. Product advisors work with clients from beginning to end to ensure that the product the client receives meets their exact specifications.

Marketing Support
Nutricap Labs has a team of in-house designers that can assist customers with their graphic design needs. From logo creation to the design and printing of direct mail post cards and product inserts, this team will go the extra mile to make sure that the customers’ products stand out in the marketplace.

Mentoring & Educating
Provenzano is dedicated to educating his peers so they can benefit from his fifteen years of experience in the nutraceutical manufacturing industry. As a member of Vistage, Provenzano meets monthly with other local business owners so that, as a collective, they can solve problems, become better leaders, make better decisions, and achieve better results.

Additionally, in May 2010, Provenzano conducted a webinar designed to educate owners of dietary supplement product lines on the importance of GMP certification that was attended by more than 1,200 people.

Giving Back
“While I’m extremely grateful for the success my company has enjoyed over the years, I believe it is extremely important for any business owner to give back to his or her industry and community,” said Provenzano. “Over the years we have contributed to numerous local and national charities, and my hope is that our efforts have made a positive impact on at least one person’s life.”

Some of the charities that Nutricap Labs has partnered with over the past few years include:

• Vitamin Angels
Nutricap Labs is a proud sponsor of Vitamin Angels, a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to mobilize and deploy private-sector resources to advance availability, access, and use of micronutrients to newborns, infants, and children in need.
• The American Red Cross in Greater New York
Over the past three years, Nutricap Labs has partnered with the American Red Cross of Greater New York to provide food, water, and medical supplies to earthquake victims in Haiti and–most recently–to those affected by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. As a result of fundraising activities such as casual dress days, bake sales, and cooking competitions, the employees of Nutricap Labs have raised over $1,000 for the people of Japan. Recently, Jason Provenzano announced that at the end of April he would personally match the total amount of money that his team raised.
• Make-A-Wish Foundation
In the spring of 2009, Nutricap Labs partnered with the Suffolk County, New York Chapter of Make-A-Wish Foundation to grant the wish of a local child.
• The Belmont Child Care Association’s (BCCA) Anna House
Nutricap Labs is a proud sponsor of Anna House, a 7,500-square-foot child-care center inside New York's Belmont Park. The BCCA is a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to creating and sustaining a child-care center for the benefit of families working in New York's racing industry.

About Jason Provenzano
Jason Provenzano founded Nutricap Labs in 2003 after he recognized the need for a one-of-a-kind company that could offer turnkey nutraceutical solutions and superior customer service. Nearly a decade later, Nutricap Labs is the only nutraceutical manufacturer that offers manufacturing, packaging, labeling, and
order fulfillment services under one roof. Despite facing stiff competition, Nutricap Labs has built a stellar reputation for itself by providing clients with fast-quote turnaround times and GMP-certified products such as tablets, capsules, softgels, and powders.

Provenzano is a proud member of Vistage and currently resides in Massapequa, New York, with his wife and four children.

About Nutricap Labs
Nutricap Labs is a leading provider of in-house nutraceutical services such as manufacturing, labeling and packaging design, and fulfillment. Founded in 2003 by Jason Provenzano, Nutricap Labs is a two-time Inc. Magazine Inc. 500 honoree and was named the 42nd fastest-growing company in America in 2009. Additionally, Nutricap Labs has partnered with several local and nationally recognized charities such as the Make-a-Wish Foundation, Vitamin Angels, and The American Red Cross in Greater New York.

Want to win a Stevie Award in The American Business Awards as Nutricap Labs did?  You won't if you don't enter.  You'll find the 2011 entry kit here.  Need more time to submit your entries?  Request a short deadline extension.

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Preliminary judging is now open for The 2011 American Business Awards, and you're invited to participate.  See the introduction and application page on the ABA web site. 

If you're a working professional with experience in your discipline, you'll be assigned categories related to your expertise.  The ABAs have many different categories: PR awards, marketing awards, HR awards, customer service awards, web awards, management awards, and more.

Preliminary judging will continue through May 8.  This important stage of judging determines the Finalists, which each year represents the top 30-40% of all entries submitted.

The judging system is designed to be used online, and you can do as much judging as you'd like, day or night, in the categories assigned to you.

Even if you've already entered or plan to enter the ABAs this year, you can still participate in the judging process, because you can still judge categories in which your organization is not an entrant.

As a judge you learn how other organizations are achieving great things, and you'll have another significant accomplishment to add to your own resume.  You'll be recognized on the ABA web site and in the awards dinner program.

And if you're one of the two preliminary judges who score the most entries, you'll be offered two tickets to the June 20 award banquet in New York.

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Eighth Annual International Business Awards Announces 2011 Call for Entries

The Stevie® Awards today issued the call for entries for the Eighth Annual International Business Awards, the world's premier business awards competition which last year attracted nominations from more than 40 nations.

All individuals and organizations worldwide -- public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small -- may submit nominations to the IBAs. The early-bird entry deadline, offering discounted entry fees, is 12 April. The final entry deadline is 11 May. Late entries will be accepted through 8 June, and results will be announced in early July. Entry details are available at www.stevieawards.com/iba.

The Stevie Award trophy, made by the company that makes the Oscar and other major international awards, is one of the world's most coveted prizes. Stevies are conferred upon top-scoring nominations in each category, as chosen by an international judging panel of more than 150 business leaders.

The International Business Awards recognize achievement in every facet of the workplace. Categories include

• Management Awards
• Company of the Year Awards
• Customer Service Awards
• Human Resources Awards
• Information Technology Awards
• Marketing Awards
• New Product Awards
• Public Relations Awards
• Web Site Awards, Smartphone and Tablet App, and other media awards

For a full list of categories visit: http://www.stevieawards.com/pubs/iba/awards/171_695_3021.cfm.

"The International Business Awards are the preeminent indicator of achievement in the global business community," said Michael Gallagher, president of The Stevie Awards. "Each year we celebrate the achievements of individuals and organizations who are making a positive difference for their customers, their shareholders, their employees, and their communities."

2011 honorees will be celebrated at the 8^th annual awards banquet on Tuesday, 11 October at the Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi, hosted under the patronage of H.E. Sheikha Lubna Al Qassimi, Minister for Foreign Trade, United Arab Emirates.

The 7th Annual International Business Awards were presented in September 2010 in Istanbul, Turkey. Honorees included Accenture, Bank of Montreal, Cisco, Coca-Cola Icecek, Edelman in Indonesia, Nokia Corp., Samsung Electronics, and Thomson Reuters, among others. 2010 results are summarized at http://www.stevieawards.com/pubs/iba/awards/408_2633_20484.cfm.

To request an entry kit for The 2011 International Business Awards, visit www.stevieawards.com/iba.

About The Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in four programs: The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about The Stevie Awards at http://www.stevieawards.com/, and follow the Stevie Awards on Twitter @TheStevieAwards. 

Sponsors of The 2011 International Business Awards include IIR Exhibitions, the Korea Business Communications Association, Netezza Corporation, and Smart Reader Worldwide.

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We've pleased to introduce the new mobile homepage for the Stevie Awards, the world's premier business awards.  Please try it now – go to www.stevieawards.com on your smartphone.

From now on, most everyone around the world who visits a web page on the stevieawards.com domain on their smartphone will be greeted in their native language with a general introduction to the Stevie Awards that offers the opportunity to receive more information by email about one of our four awards programs, including

The American Business Awards

The International Business Awards

The Stevie Awards for Women in Business

The Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service

The languages included in the first edition of our new mobile homepage include Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.  We’ll be adding other languages in time.

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March 31 is the final entry deadline for The 2011 (9th annual) American Business Awards, the premier business awards competition in the U.S.A.  Late entries will be accepted through April 27 with payment of a late fee.

If you haven't yet reviewed the 2011 entry kit, you'll find it online here. We also recommend that you watch the video How to Enter The 2011 American Business Awards.

The ABAs have categories to recognize achievement in all facets of the American workplace, from the executive suite to the shop floor.  Types of categories include:

• Overall Company/Organization Awards
• Management Awards
• Corporate Communications & Public Relations Awards
• Customer Service Awards
• Human Resources Awards
• Information Technology Awards
• Marketing Awards
• New Products Awards (and Product Development categories)
• Support Awards
• Web Sites, Blogs, Annual Reports, Videos, Live Events, and other types of media

2011 Finalists will be announced in mid-May, and this year's Stevie® Award winners will be announced at the 9th annual awards banquet at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City on Monday, June 20. Finalists are not required to attend to win.

The ABAs are one of four Stevie Awards competitions.  While the ABAs are open to all organizations operating in the U.S.A., the other three programs are open to entries from all organizations worldwide.  The other competitions are The International Business Awards, the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service, and the Stevie Awards for Women in Business.

If you have questions about The American Business Awards or any of the other Stevie Awards competitions, please contact us:

The Stevie Awards
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+1 703-547-8389