Want to win a biz award?

Hi friend -

I received some exciting news last week 👇🏻👇🏻

Yes, I was nominated for an RBC Women of Influence award - yay! Fantastic!! But let me ‘pull back the wool’ a bit on business awards.

If you’re anything like me and you’ve often sat on the sidelines wondering “how is she so lucky to get nominated for yet another award??”

Maybe you feel like you’re not running your biz “the right way” or “making enough money” but if you were, you’d sure AF be receiving nominations for biz awards.

Hmm.. 🤔🤔🤔

Well, as one of my fav speakers, Mel Robbins, likes to say, “Nobody’s coming for you.” Heh? What does this mean and why should you care?

I feel it is my job to tell you: in order to get a biz award, you need to get nominated. And unfortunately, it is highly unlikely that anyone is going to randomly go out of their way to nominate you for an award that will boost your business’ visibility and maybe even catapult you to a whole new level of national notoriety (aka $100k months, dream clients, waitlists for launches, etc).

They just won’t. Even if they love you. Time is in short supply for all of us…

In fact, let me get even more honest and confess that the way I received this nomination (and any other nomination you’ll see me get over the next little bit) is by doing the following:

Identifying a team member with some capacity for research
Assigning a task to that team member in Asana, voice note or email (“I’d like to get some biz awards… Can you research which ones I might be eligible for given that I’ve only been in business for about 16 months?”)
Team member compiled list of awards in a Google Doc
Team member and I discussed which awards I wanted to move forward with at our weekly check-in meeting
Team member nominated me for the award and completed application requirements
VOILA. Here we are today! Nomination email received. ✅

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Now, who knows if I’ll win. That’s a separate thing - I'm pretty sure hundreds of biz owners are nominated each year. But, also, who cares?

Like anything I do in my business, I always put in 100% effort and then I do my best to let go of my attachment to the result.

So, the next time you find yourself feeling green with envy that one of your fellow business owners received a fancy nomination or won another award and you didn’t, don’t. Just don’t.

Instead, use the steps above and GET YOURSELF THAT NOMINATION, friend.

If you’re interested in learning more about ways to boost your business’ visibility, let’s chat.

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And you guessed it - if you’re out there getting nominations and awards for your biz, that fee proposal convo with your next potential client is going to be a heck of a lot easier.

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