Award Submissions

One of the best ways to advance your career or improve the image of your business is to win an industry award. Major awards at the state, national and international level start with a written awards submission. Great writing on the entry form can make a difference between winning and losing. This is true whether you’re going for an individual award or you’re applying for a project or company recognition.

Why you may not be winning awards you deserve

Many worthy nominees lose out in the first round because of the way the submission was written. There’s a lot to consider, which is why it makes sense to hire a professional award writer to improve your chances of winning. Our writers have years of experience judging international awards. They understand explicitly why many award entries fail, because they’ve been in the judge’s chair.

Some of the more common errors include:

• Spelling, grammar, punctuation, and word usage errors
• Failing to construct a narrative
• Going over word count
• Not providing evidence to back up your claims
• Littering your award submission with gobbledygook
• Sins of omission or avoiding discussing setbacks
• Misinterpreting the questions
• Including information not listed in the judging criteria
• Emphasising the wrong information
• Using industry jargon the judging panel doesn’t understand
• Using acronyms not known outside your industry
• Not answering questions or leaving questions blank
• Not understanding the purpose of the award program
• Not learning about the judging panel
• Not investigating past winners
• For individual awards, giving your team too much credit for your success
• For corporate awards, taking too much credit for a team effort
• Providing false information
• Not giving yourself enough time to develop a thoughtful award submission.

Getting to the judging finals

If you want to get to the next round of judging, and ultimately end up at the winner’s podium, the first step is to submit a solid entry to the judges. Our business award writing experts are experienced in creating winning entries.

We’ve collaborated for more than 10 years with the Business News and developed writing seminars for the Business News 40Under40 awards and the WA Business Awards. Our award submission writing services turn out winning entries every year in a variety of professional award competitions, including local, state, national and international award programs.

Award entry writing service from Typeset

A Typeset award entry consultant helps you:

• Find your story that will impress judges
• Showcase your talents and achievements
• Prove why you should win
• Advise on what to leave out of your submission
• Create an award submission of the highest journalistic quality
• Develop a professional biography you can reuse throughout the year.

Award submission writer process

Typeset has developed a process to guarantee the best results achievable for any award program.

1. Gathering information about the specific award
2. Conducting an interview – can be in-person, over the phone, or an online meeting
3. Writing the submission, ensuring everything is within word count. The first draft is delivered approximately two weeks after the interview.
4. Reviewing and revising the award entry to ensure every bit of detail is included to give the nominee the best chance of winning (approximately 1-2 weeks). Ideally two rounds of edits are required.
5. Final proofreading of the award submission (one-day turnaround)
6. Submitting the final draft in a Word document to the customer.

Each customer manages the award submission process by copying/pasting all necessary information into the awards platform.

Professional award writers from Typeset

Our professional award writers have been helping businesses and individuals get the recognition they deserve for more than 10 years. Here is a sample of the awards programs we’ve helped people win:

• Business News 40under40 Awards
• RISE Business Awards
• WA Business Awards
• WA Tourism Awards
• Women in Resources Awards
• Content Marketing Awards
• Wine Australia
• AIM Pinnacle Awards
• Telstra Best of Business Awards
• CIR Business Continuity Awards
• National Rail Awards
• Irish Healthcare Centre Awards
• Image Awards
• Opex Awards
• Public Finance Awards
• MEA Awards
• WANMEA Awards
• Australian Export Awards
• REIWA Awards

Get business award submission help

Find out how our expert award entry assistance can help you. Send us an email: hello@typesetcontent.com.