Hawkeye Management Presents: The 2012 Small Business Excellence Awards

Posted on: 02-2-2012 Posted in: Miscelaneous

Small Business!!! If you’re a small biz owner like me or you work with small biz owners then you’ll probably agree with me that they are the best people in the world. Wearing lots of hats, multi-tasking, managing cash-flow, dealing with surprises, head of HR, dealing with challenges, looking to grow, dealing with more surprises…the list goes on. It can be a hectic life but, if you’re like me, you wouldn’t change it for the world.

So we decided that we wanted to kick the 2012 year off with a bang and what better way to do so than with an awards contest! We are doing a play off the Oscars, which are on February 26^th, by holding our own Hawkeye Management Small Business Excellence Awards. These awards are going to measure six different categories within the small business space. Vote for your favorite nominee in the following categories:

Most Influential Female

Most Influential Male

Best Small Business Blog

Best Original Tweeted Content

Best Small Business Resource Website

Favorite Shark in the Tank (from the popular ABC show Shark Tank)

Each video below announces the nominees in their particular category. Thank you for participating and let the voting begin!

Hawkeye Management 2012 Small Business Excellence Award Categories and Nominees:

Most Influential Female:

-Anita Campbell |@SmallBizTrends Founder, CEO, and Editor-in-Chief of Small Business Trends

-Amy Cosper |@EntMagazineAmy Vice President and Editor-in-Chief at Entrepreneur Media Inc

-Melinda Emerson |@SmallBizLady Small Biz Coach & Author of Become Your Own Boss in 12 Months

-Rieva Lesonsky |@Rieva Founder and CEO of GrowBiz Media
Watch Video Here!

Most Influential Male:

-Brock Blake |@BrockBlake CEO of Lendio.com

-Dan Schawbel | @DanSchawbel Founder at Millennial Branding & Author of Me 2.0

-Joel Libava | @FranchiseKing Franchise Guru & Author of Become a Franchise Owner

-David Garland | @TheRiseToTheTop Creator and Host of The Rise To The Top

Watch Video Here!

Best Small Business Blog:

-Brian Clark | @copyblogger CEO of Copyblogger Media

-Smallbizbee | @SmallBizBee Matthew Ringer, Entrepreneur from s mallbizbee.com

-Lisa Barone | @LisaBarone Co-Founder of Outspokenmedia.com

-Liz Strauss | @lizstrauss Founder of SOBCon
Watch Video Here!

Best Original Tweeted Content:

-Pete Cashmore |@mashable Founder/CEO at mashable.com

-John Jantsch | @ducttape Small Biz Marketing Guru & Author of Duct Tape Marketing

-Carrie Wilkerson | @barefoot_exec Author and Host of The Barefoot Executive

-Chris Brogan | @chrisbrogan President of Human Business Works

Watch Video Here!

Best Small Business Resource Website:

-Inc Magazine | @Inc

-Entrepreneur Mag | @EntMagazine

-USA Today Money | @USATODAYmoney

-HubSpot | @HubSpot

-Small Business Trends | @smallbiztrends
Watch Video Here!

Favorite Shark in the Tank:

-Daymond John | @TheSharkDaymond

-Barbara Corcoran | @BarbaraCorcoran

-Mark Cuban | @mcuban

-Kevin O’Leary | @kevinolearytv

-Robert Herjavec | @RobertHerjavec

Watch Video Here!

Voting is going to begin today and be held through midnight on February 23th, 2012. The winners will be announced on Friday, February 24^th right here on your favorite blog (in the whole world right). So be sure to get your votes in!

Winners will receive prizes! These prizes will consist of a special gift assortment from Hawkeye Management. Each winner for the male and female categories will also win a Social Media Sales Growth Package offered by Outbound Exc ellence , Inc.

Get your Nominee Badge Here!

About the Author

Tom Gazaway
Tom Gazaway is the founder & CEO of Hawkeye Management. He is a frequent guest with a variety of groups throughout the United States on topics of personal credit, business credit, debt capital solutions, and business lines of credit. Tom received his Economics and Business degree from Westmont College in Santa Barbara, CA. At Hawkeye Management we are small business lending consultants specializing in unsecured business lines of credit and unsecured business loans. We work with a network of local, regional, and national lending institutions that provide these unsecured lines of credit and unsecured loans. We navigate the ever changing banking and lending terrain for you and find the best possible solutions to meet your individual and business needs. We provide expert consultation to each client so you can make intelligent, well-informed decisions.

Carol Tice | Make a Living Writing02-21-12

Great contest, Tom! Really hard to pick my vote in several of those categories…and not just the one with Entrepreneur mag in them!

Toughest is probably my favorite Shark. Daymond’s so cool. I LOVE Kevin because he’s a disciplined investor and doesn’t care what people think about him. But I had to go with Barbara — she’s just so smart. As you may know I had a chance to interview all 6 of the regular Sharks, which was a blast.

Wish you had Lori Grenier on there though who’s been guesting recently, though, I might have voted for her. She’s got great product savvy and you can tell all the inventors are dying to work with her.

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Tom Gazaway02-23-12

Hey Carol,
Thanks for your thoughts. You definitely have a bias for the Small Biz Resource category and I agree that the Shark category is a tough one. The winners are getting announced tomorrow and we had a lot of votes so hopefully everyone has had some fun with this like we have. We put up the contest before Lori Greiner made her first appearance. I really like her though and she has no problem getting with the other sharks when things get serious!
Thanks again Carol…check out the results tomorrow!

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My Homepage05-09-12

Hey! Fine post! Please keep us posted when I can see a follow up! 310421

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