We have been so impressed with what some of our delegates have achieved this year, and realize that they need to be recognized for their use of the tools and skills that they have acquired.  So we are announcing the First Annual Niche Training Awards.

Go ahead and nominate yourself, or ask your friends (or tell your staff) to nominate you in any of the following categories.  You can also nominate other people or business that you know who have been on our training or who are clients of ours.

These are the categories:

1. The Facebook Fundi
2. The LinkedIn Leader
3. Best Blogger
4. Most Creative Use of Social Media – Art and Skill come together
5. Proudly Shameless Self Promoter Award – Not ugly bragging but demonstrating expertise so that the client knows your value to them
6. Most Social Spin out of an unexpected opportunity – Can you be quick on the draw?  Social media is real time.
7. Good ROI from Social Media – This is where strategy and follow up count.
8. The Shout Out Award – For online support of other businesses’ social media activity.
9. Special Mention for anything, well, special

In the Special Mention category, please feel free to mention anyone in South Africa who is using social media well, whether we have anything to do with them or not.  We want to recognize and hold up good standards to strive towards for ourselves and for our clients and delegates.

Nominations are open until the 15 November.  We will then look at the entries and choose winners in the various categories.

To Nominate someone, please send us an email with the name of the nominee, business or project name and relevant social media account.  Then add some motivation why that person deserves to win.  This is me writing (Charlotte), so blatant self promotion is totally acceptable.  Step up and proclaim what you have learned and why you are proud of it and nominate yourself.  The prize is worth thousands, of smiles.

Please also feel free, in fact it would be anticipated, that you also mention the nominations on the Niche Training Facebook Page and / or Twitter account.

We are really looking forward to seeing the nominations rolling in.