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HELPING YOUR BUSINESS
It’s important to be noted for your efforts and the Readers’ Choice program enables your customers to cheer you on and express their gratitude.
What are the benefits?
The Readers’ Choice Awards were created to showcase local businesses and service providers that are the best at what they do in their community! Businesses get nominated in the popular categories for their services and goods. Those businesses nominated then get voted by the public for their favourite, loyal and best business or service provider.
word of mouth
Increase your presence in the community and strengthen your relationship with your existing customers. Since you and the public can nominate and vote, you can spread the word to a new and existing audience.
Stay Connected
By encouraging your existing customers to nominate and vote for your business you are easily able to stay in contact with them and encourage them to participate. Through social, in-person, newsletters and other channels you are using to engage with your customers.
bragging rights
Who doesn’t want to be the best. You are able to utilize your awards through any and all of your networks and advertising. People are more likely to use a product or service that is recommended and what better recommendation than being the best or a top award winner.
Program timeline
The Readers’ Choice Awards program is a yearly, local community recognition program. Click on the link below to find out when your community begins.
How the program works
There are three stages that total a 20 week duration for each community Readers’ Choice Awards program. The community decides the nominations and votes for the winners in specific categories.
Nominations
The program “Opens” with the nomination stage. People can go to their local Readers’ Choice Awards site and they can nominate a businesses or professional service provider of their choice in specific categories. People are encouraged to nominate all of your favourite businesses along with your favourite categories.
Voting
Once all of the nominations have been collected. The top nominees for each category are set up for the voting stage. The voting stage “Opens” with these nominees and you have the ability to go to your local Readers’ Choice Awards site and “Vote” for your favourite business. The top businesses in each category will be Awarded the Readers’ Choice Winners.
Winners
The Readers’ Choice Winners are decided by the total amount of votes received for each business per category. The ranking goes as follows: (1) Diamond (2) Platinum (3) Gold. The Winners will be published online on the Readers’ Choice Site and also in the local print publication (where available).