BT Home Business Award

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Do you run a business from home? Or do you own a home based business? If so, now is your big chance to impress your employees, clients and customers by winning the BT Home Business Award.
The winner of the BT Home Business Award and the shortlisted entrants will receive national and regional recognition for successfully running a home based business, have your business endorsed by an expert panel of judges, and get the opportunity to receive national and regional press coverage for receiving this accolade.
You can use this award to impress potential investors, raise your company profile, shine above the competition, and gain kudos and credibility in your industry by winning this award and help you attract the best staff.
You will also have a chance to be included in the Home Business E Book.
And of course, by winning you will receive a collection of valuable prizes to help your business prosper and thrive!
The BT Home Business Award
Entrants to this category should be running a Home Based Business, large or small for more than six months.
BT Business Prize
The winner of the BT Home Business Award will receive £1,000 worth of BT Business services to help
their home business get ahead.
BT Business is committed to offering small businesses advice and services to help them focus on what they do best, whilst we take care of the technology.
Businesses can choose from a complete range of IT and communications services from BT Business to help them solve a wide range of problems, including controlling costs, building an online presence and how to better run their operations. For more information please visit www.business.bt.com.
Sponsors
Remote Employment is proud to bring you this collection of fabulous prizes for the winner.
Remote Employment Prize
The winner will receive a one year subscription from Remote Employment to help them support their business.
Remote Employment specialises in posting jobs, home business agent opportunities and home based franchises for people who want to work from home or have a home based business.
Vitis PR
The winner will receive a PR Consultation to the value of £300 from Vitis PR that will include an asse
ssment of the winning company's existing PR activity and working with the company to identify PR opportunities.PR Consultation to the value of £300!
Vitis PR is an award-winning virtual PR agency specialising in technology and corporate public relations that specialises in high impact PR for start-ups and SMEs.
Sorath Marketing
The winner will receive a marketing consultation worth £200 from Sorath Marketing.
This half a day consultancy will go through planning, customer care, strategy or specific campaigns – whichever is most relevant to the winner's business.
Julie McKeown, from the Sorath Partnership, is a Chartered Marketer and works mainly with smaller businesses to help them survive and grow. She has recently launched a support and mentoring package at an affordable price for businesses with 5 or less employees.
In 2HR
The winner will receive a Human Resources Consultation worth £375 from In 2 HR.
In 2 HR Ltd provides HR advice and guidance to small and medium sized business, helping them resolve a wide variety of issues from a practical and hands-on perspective. 
They can help a business resolve recruitment and employment problems, give advice on legal compliance, develop employee and team performance as well as providing cost saving ideas.
Business Lawyers
The winner will receive a Legal Consultation worth £300 from Business Lawyers comprising a review of the winner’s terms of trade or alternately website terms of use, privacy policy and data protection compliances together with online terms of sale. 
Business Lawyers offer businesses and individuals a viable alternative to the traditional "high street" legal practice offering by way of legal advice.
Many of the many of the qualified solicitors and staff are teleworkers and Business Lawyers understands the demands of small home businesses and staff working remotely. For more information please visit business-lawyers.org.
KODAK ESP 9 All in One Printer
The winner will receive a KODAK ESP 9 All-in-One inkjet printer valued at £250.
With so many of us now working from home, it's more important than ever for equipment to be multi-functional and affordable. The brand new KODAK ESP 9 All-in-One inkjet printer is a perfect example, h
ome workers can print, scan, copy and fax with ease.
Additionally, secure Wi-Fi printing lets you print from anywhere in the home to one cost-efficient printer. Kodak is offering a home based business the chance to win this stylish printer to help set up your ideal home office.
For more information visit Kodak Online.
Total Prize value so far £13,625!
BT Home Business Criteria:
* Must run a home based business in the UK and Ireland.
Please answer as many of the following questions as possible, your answers will be used to get a bigger picture of your application.
1. Demonstrate Your Home Based Business.
* What does your business do? When did your business start up? What is innovative or unique about your home based business? Give an example of a challenge you have had to overcome to get your business started.
2. Why should you be Home Business of the Year?
* Why does your business deserve to win the BT Home Business Award? * What impact have you made on commerce or customers?
3. Your Home Business in Action.
* How many employees do you have? * What percentage are home or remote workers?
Other useful information.
Here are some additional points you might like to tell us about:
Are you involved in any eco issues related to remote working? For example - are you doing anything to reduce your carbon footprint in your home office?
What remote technology drives your business?
Tell us about your home office - is it a spare bedroom, study, garden shed or something else?
What is the biggest impact remote or home working had on your business? Please give details of why you feel you have the most engaging home business.
If you need any help or have any enquiries, please Email Remote Worker Awards.
How to Enter
Whether you are a Remote Worker or Home Worker, a Home Based Business or Employer of remote workers or home workers, you should enter the Remote Worker Awards! Go on, enter now!
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