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October 28, 2011

2011 Top Sales & Marketing Awards – It’s Time to Nominate!

Filed under: sales,selling — Paul McCord @ 4:57 pm
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This year’s online Top Sales & Marketing Awards ceremony takes place on December 15th, and this year there are three medals up for grabs in fourteen categories.

In addition, they will be inducting a further six “sales legends” into the “Hall of Fame” during the ceremony. So do please go across and nominate your favorites

How Will the Final Nominees Be Chosen?
With the exception of Top Sales & Marketing Article, the judges will select between six and twelve finalists (depending on the category) from all of the nominations made.

How Will Voting Take Place?
The public voting polls will be open at www.topsalesawards.com from 12:00 mid-day on November 18th until 12:00 mid-day on December 9th: Anyone is eligible to vote as many times as they like, and in as many categories as they wish, but there is a restriction of one vote per IP address per 24 hours.

Voters will be asked to register, but will only need to do this once.

How Will the Winners Be Chosen & Announced?
Public voting will only account for 50% of the total marks, and the other 50% will be down to the judging panel in each category. Each panel will consist of three industry experts.

Once each judging panel has made their decision, their marks will be passed to an independent adjudicator who will then verify the overall results in each category.

The names of the judging panel and the adjudicator will be announced before November 10th

The winners of the Gold, Silver and Bronze medals in each category will be announced during the live online ceremony on Tuesday December 13th, which begins at 12:00 mid-day Eastern (5:00pm GMT)

Places for the ceremony are free, and registration is open from November 10th on the home page at www.topsalesawards.com

They will also post the results on site from December 16th.

So, your first task is to pop over and nominate all of your favorites ……..

November 26, 2010

Won’t You Please, Please Help Me?

Filed under: Uncategorized — Paul McCord @ 11:55 am
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OK, maybe you’re not old enough to remember the Beatles lyrics to “Help,” but just like the Beatles, I need your help.

The Annual Top Sales Awards winners will be announced on December 16.  Between now and then you can vote for your favorites in 10 categories:

Top Sales Personality—nominees are Gerhard Gschwandtner, Jill Konrath, and Jeffrey Gitomer

Top Sales Book—10 nominees including Konrath, Art Sobczak, Anne Miller, Jeb Blount, Michael Johnson, Brett Clay, Craig Ellias and Tibor Shanto, Joe Sweeney, Eric Taylor, and myself

Top Sales Article—12 nominees including Gil Cargill, Kelley Robertson, Dave Brock, Joanne Black, Diane Helbig, Dan Waldschmidt, myself and 5 others

Top Sales Star—6 top salespeople—you have to read their bios

Top Sales Blog—10 nominees including Charlie Green, Ian Brodie, Dave Brock, Jill Konrath, Wendy Weiss, myself and 4 others

Top Sales Resource—10 nominees including Sales HQ, CanDoGo, Changing Minds, Sales Gravy, and 5 others

Top Sales 2.0 Solution—10 nominees including iSell, Jigsaw, IntroMojo, InsideView, PeopleMaps, and 5 others

Top Sales Tool—10 nominees including Whiteboard Selling, TimeTrade, Echosign, SalesCallPlanner and 6 others

Top Social Media Site—10 nominees including Twitter, Facebook, Bizsugar, Focus, YouTube, and 5 others

Top CRM Solution—10 nominees including Landslide, SugarCRM, Salesforce, Salesbloom, and 6 others

10 categories—all needing you to give your opinion.  And you can vote here.

Now to the important stuff—I’m nominated in three categories:

Bust Your Slump is nominated in the category of Top Sales Book.

The Sales and Sales Management Blog is nominated in the category of Top Sales Blog

One of my articles, “Sales Call Reports—Are They Worth the Hassle?” is nominated in the category of Top Sales Article.

I need your votes.  Should I be nominated in all of these categories—or in any category for that matter?  Probably not.  In fact, considering there are so many great books, blogs, and articles from this year, an argument can be made that none of the nominees should have been nominated.

Having said that, I need your vote.  Better yet, vote for me if you think I’m one of the top in the category or vote for your favorite. 

I’d very much appreciate your vote; I want you to vote no matter who you vote for.

So, head over Top Sales Awards and spend a few minutes voting—and remember, you only need to remember one name when you’re there

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