How to Win a Business Award (4 Steps to Increase Your Odds)

Business awards attract media attention and raise your profile. Here’s how to increase your chances of winning:

• Inquire about awards and nominations through your local chamber of commerce and trade groups.
• Complete applications for awards carefully. Profile your business, describe major challenges you have faced and overcome, explain your solutions.
• Submit your award entries well in advance of the deadline.
• When you win—and even when you are just nominated—write press releases about the awards and send them to local media.