🏆 My top tips for awards

Last week, I had a call with a university acquaintance way back from my time running the Enterprise Society. He reached out to me on LinkedIn to help him with his awards application after seeing my LinkedIn post announcing that I had been invited to judge the UK Start Up Awards.

He runs a successful, funded, start up called Gilley and found the advice to be very useful.

Following that call, I realised that the advice was relevant for all freelancers and all small/medium businesses across every country and I decided to share it here for free with you.

Awards are an easy win for you and your business. Yes, you are award-worthy.

Here are my top tips for applying to awards: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WGCffDgHjXNzRQNkVM6kNijZed9helPzOn3SXsrxjDc/edit?usp=sharing

ACTION: Find and apply to an award (1.5 hours)

Usually, finding and applying to awards is a task that is assigned as a ‘regular repeat’ for a VA. They can find and apply to them on your behalf quickly and easily. However, I do recommend writing the application yourself the first time.

There will be relevant free awards to apply to for your area and your business type. It is quick and easy way to build credibility and leverage PR.

Winner in 2022 with my other business, ZeroSmart, now invited back as a judge

I shared this in my Work Smart Wednesday newsletter. Want the full set of related insights? You can read them here: https://worksmartwednesday.substack.com/p/work-smart-wednesday-february-21

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