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2014 Macaroni Kid West Palm Beach Gold Daisy Awards

Nominate your favorite local businesses!

July 25, 2014
Whoo Hoo! Let the nominations for the 1st Annual Macaroni Kid West Palm Beach Gold Daisy Awards begin!


  
Throughout the year, Macaroni Kid brings you the scoop. Now it is YOUR turn to tell us YOUR family’s top go-to choices to enrich, entertain, and EXHAUST your kids. We want to know about the businesses that just plain make your life easier as a parent! Let’s make this a FUN way to highlight the wonderful local businesses that make West Palm Beach a fabulous place to live, shop, eat, and play!


  
How Do You Get Started?

 
From now through August 14, 2014, simply nominate your favorite businesses! Nominate as many or as few businesses as you would like. Businesses must be located in the West Palm Beach area. Only one submission per email address please; you must be a subscriber to the newsletter to nominate. You can subscribe HERE.
 

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What's In It For You?

 
Nominate your favorites and you will be entered for a chance to win a $25 gift card to Whole Foods Market, compliments of Macaroni Kid West Palm Beach. We will be drawing one winner during the nomination and one during the voting periods! 
 
What's In It For The Businesses?

  • Feel free to promote this contest to your loyal customers on your website, social media, and more!
  • Need materials to help you get the word out? Email deborahg@macaronikid.com for all the goodies!
  • WINNING businesses will not only receive bragging rights that they were chosen by West Palm Beach area families as the BEST in the business, but also inclusion in an article announcing the winners in each category and subcategory, a 2014 Macaroni Kid Gold Daisy Award certificate and window cling to display at their place of business, a "Winner" logo for their website AND
  • Winners in each Subcategory will receive year-long recognition in our Macaroni Kid Business Directory ($200 value)
  • Winners in each Main Category will receive year-long recognition in our Macaroni Kid Business Directory, and three featured articles in e-newsletter and corresponding website ($500 value)
  • The business that receives the most over all votes will win four week- long business spotlights in the slideshow feature at the top of our website (and prime spot in the e-newsletter) ($1000 value)!

CLICK HERE TO START NOMINATING!
 
SCHEDULE:
  • Nominations will be open from July 24, 2014 until August 14, 2014 at 11:59 PM.
  • Voting will be open on August 21, 2014 and end on September 11, 2014 at 11:59 PM.
  • Any votes cast after the dates and times indicated will not be counted.
  • Winners will be announced on September 18, 2014 
RULES:
  • Readers may nominate as many or as few businesses as they would like. You must nominate in at least five categories to be eligible for the prize drawing.
  • Businesses may nominate themselves.
  • The top five businesses receiving the most online nominations in each category will move on to the voting round starting August 21, 2014.
  • Categories receiving nominations for fewer than five different businesses will have fewer nominees moving on to the voting round.
  • Businesses must be located in West Palm Beach.
  • To nominate or vote for a business, you must be a subscriber to the Macaroni Kid West Palm Beach newsletter. You can subscribe HERE.
  • Only one submission per email address please. Only valid email submissions will be counted.
See complete Official Sweepstakes Rules HERE.