The recognition guide

How to Get Your Business Recognized in Your Community

If you run a good business here, people should know your name. This is every award, vote, and feature worth pursuing, written out honestly, including the ones that are not ours. No fees to be listed here, no favors traded. Read what each one is, when it happens, and how a neighbor actually enters.

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Community vote

Business of the Month

Every month the community picks one business that keeps coming up in conversation. The honoree gets a written feature, a profile spotlight, and a permanent place in the honoree archive.

How to enter

You do not apply. Neighbors put your name forward by recommending you. Ask happy customers to leave a recommendation on your profile, and when independent voices keep landing on the same name, that name gets picked.

Chosen at the start of each month

Get Recommended

Award

The Annual Awards

The yearly community awards. Neighbors nominate and vote by category, and winners get a winner page, a badge, and a feature story.

How to enter

Register your business in the right category, then share your voting link with customers. Voting is free and open to everyone, one vote per category per day.

Nominations in the summer, voting in the fall, winners announced in December

See the awards

Magazine feature

Featured Articles

A written feature about your business, built from a real recommendation and a short interview. It lives on your profile, in the newsroom, and can be printed for your wall.

How to enter

Start with the free article funnel. Answer a few questions, approve the draft, and the story publishes under your business profile. No membership required for the first one.

Open year round

Get Your Free Article

Around Your Community

We have not verified any outside awards for this area yet, and we would rather list nothing than list something wrong.

Know a local award we should include? Tell us

The simplest place to start is a story about your business, written from a real recommendation. The first one is free.

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