In honor of the recent Emmy Awards, we decided to take a few minutes and post some tips for nominating awards for your favorite campaigns or clients.

1. Nominate your best work. Award nominations take time and money. Don’t just nominate every project you’ve worked on this year- concentrate your efforts on your best and brightest projects, employees or clients.
2. Be precise and to the point with your responses. As my college history professor would say—cut the fluff! (And be mindful of word count limits!)
3. Give real examples and quantitative results. Whenever possible provide concrete examples of success, especially quantitative results- sales, customers, visitors, etc.
4. Nominate in the correct category.  Most awards have multiple categories- make sure you are in the appropriate category for your project.  You may have the most amazing entry, but it won’t matter if you don’t fit the category guidelines.
5. Be unique and stand out!  Remember how many entries a committee member reads each day. Above all you have to show personality and stand out in content and presentation.