The world’s best sales people, departments, and executives were honored in the second annual Selling Power Sales Excellence Awards on December 6 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

The awards were jointly presented by Selling Power magazine, the leading sales management publication with 145,000 subscribers in 67 countries, and the Stevie® Awards.

Winners of multiple Stevie Awards include Careerbuilder.com, Direct Alliance Corporation, Genentech, Heartland Payment Systems, and Marriott International.  Other notable winners include Best Buy for Business, Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, Dow Jones, FedEx Services, International Paper, MeadWestvaco Corporation, Salesforce.com, Schering-Plough, Sherwin-Williams Company, Valpak, and WebEx Communications.  A complete list of Finalists and Stevie winners by category is available at www.stevieawards.com/sales. 

More than 400 entries from companies of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted for consideration in more than 40 categories including Best Run Sales Organization of the Year, National VP of Sales of the Year, and Sales Representative of the Year.

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Bernice Maria Paolozzi is an international business developer based in Dublin, Ireland who won the 2007 Stevie Award for Best Entrepreneur in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) in the 2007 Stevie Awards for Women in Business presented by Infiniti. The awards were announced on November 12 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

We recently spoke with Bernice about her career in the international business arena. She shared with us tips on how to open up new markets overseas, and offered her thoughts on common mistakes that companies make when doing business in other countries.

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Bernice Maria Paolozzi...

Sponsorships are now available for The 2008 American Business Awards.  Associate your company with the leading business awards competition in the United States.  Gain visibility with hundreds of thousands of high-level executives from companies across the country. 

We have sponsorships starting from $7,500, and they all offer:

• The opportunity to submit an unlimited number of entries to the 2008 ABAs without having to pay entry fees
• Exclusive advertising and co-registration privileges on the American Business Awards web site and in Stevie Awards email newsletters
• The right to name, select recipients, and present one or more honorary Stevie Awards
• The opportunity for one of your company's executives to announce Stevie Awards in the sponsored categories during the nationally-broadcast awards ceremony on June 12.

Download the menu of 2008 sponsorship packages and advertising opportunities (359K PDF file)

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March 31 : Final entry deadline for 2008 American Business Awards

April 30 : Last day late entries will be accepted for 2008 American Business Awards

May 9: Final entry deadline for 2008 International Business Awards

June 6: Last day late entries will be accepted for 2008 International Business Awards