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 Giving customer service and
sales professionals the opportunity to be recognized for the
results they achieve every day for their customers and
companies, the 3rd annual Stevie Awards for Sales
& Customer Service (formerly called the Selling
Power Sales Excellence Awards) is now accepting entries.
The online entry kit for the Stevie Awards for
Sales & Customer Service is available at http://thestevies.com/EntryKits/SASCS08/
EntryKit.html.
The entry deadline is October 15. Late entries
will be accepted through November 14 with a late
fee.
All for-profit and non-profit organizations worldwide are
eligible to submit entries. There are 27 categories for
customer service professionals, including Contact Center of
the Year, Award for Innovation in Customer Service, and
Customer Service Department of the Year; as well as 41
categories for sales professionals, ranging from Global Sales
Leader of the Year to Sales Training Program of the Year to
Sales Department of the Year.
The 3rd annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer
Service will be presented at a gala banquet event in Las Vegas
in early February 2009.
The winners of the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer
Service in 2007 included Best Buy, Careerbuilder.com, FedEx,
Genentech, Heartland Payment Systems, Marriott International,
Richardson, Salesforce.com, and Sales Partnerships.
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Finalists in the 5th annual
Stevie Awards for Women in Business, an
international competition recognizing the accomplishments of
outstanding women executives, business owners, and the
companies they run, will be announced
tomorrow.