The
Good Web Guide is taking entries for its second Website of the
Year Award, aimed at all small businesses and organisations. The
awards are a fantastic way to get recognition for your business, so
there's no reason not to enter!
Moneysupermarket's Simon Nixon, won the award
last year with his new project: Simonseeks.
He said:
"It was a great honour to be recognised as Website of the Year
in The Good Web Guide Awards last year, especially as we have only
been going for just over four months. It was a real boost to the
team, both in the office and our community of writers, who all work
incredibly hard to make simonseeks.com a success."
Sites will be judged on a variety of areas, including design,
originality, and content.
The prizes
So here's the part you're waiting for, what do you win?
The winning site will win a number of prizes, which include
£1,000 cash to spend on the business, £500 worth of advertising on
thegoodwebguide.co.uk, and loads more. The winner will attend the
awards reception at The Royal Institution, presented by former BBC
Dragon and founder of School for Start ups, Doug Richard.
The judges
Our very own Shaa Wasmund was one of last year's judges, and
this year's include:
- Sophie Cornish - Co-founder of Notonthehighstreet.com, a multi-award winning
shopping site, which supports over 1,500 small businesses. Watch
her Smarta interview here.
- Sarah Beeny - Founder of private property
website, Tepilo.com, and dating site mysinglefriend.com. Sarah also presents Channel
4's Property Ladder. Watch Sarah talk about her businesses here.
- Mark Glynne-Jones - Founder of the Jump to
consultancy in 1994, following a career working with a number
of the UK's leading marketing and design colsultancies.
- Jamie Murray-Wells - Founder of GlassesDirect.co.uk, the largest online
prescription glasses store, and new venture HearingDirect.com. Watch Jamie's Smarta
interviews here and here.
How to enter
Entrants have until 19th of September to nominate a website (and
yes, you can nominate your own!). A shortlist will be released on
4th of October, and the winner will be announced at the 2010 Awards
Reception in London during Global Entrepreneurship week (15-19th
November 2010).
Click here to submit a
site
For more information contact Emily Jenkinson or Arabella Dymoke
at award@thegoodwebguide.co.uk
for more information, or telephone 020 7402 6412
Click here for the full terms and
conditions.