DESCRIPTION
This award recognises a business that is a one-person show – you’re in charge of the books, marketing, and everything else as WELL as the doing – and your business absolutely rocks the (King Gee) socks off the competition!
ELIGIBILITY
To be eligible, your business must:
- Be a registered, bona-fide Aussie trade business, and
- Employee-free (ie consist of purely you, flying solo in the business).
*By sole trader we don’t mean that you’re registered as a sole trader. This category is for the one-person bands out there
HOW TO ENTER
These awards are relaxed – we’re focused on the information you share, not how you share it.
While there are more questions (as the overarching award), there’s absolutely no pressure.
- Want to write? No essays are required, just tell us in your words why your business has been killing it.
- Prefer to record a video? Go for it! Nothing flash is needed – a selfie stick or phone propped on a trestle table is fine.
THE COST
There is a $75 entry fee to apply for this category
THE SUBMISSION
Your submission consists of two parts.
Part 1 (required): Written or recorded answers to the following:
- Business overview (start date, how long you’ve been the owner, size, and general history)
- Business description (products and services, examples of excellence)
- What’s success to you? What successes have you had in the last year?
- How do you promote your business?
- What’s your approach to training and self-motivation?
- What do you do to ensure a great client experience?
- What’s your approach to safety and environmental management?
- How does your business engage with and support the local community
- What have been your biggest challenges and how have you managed them
- Describe your growth (turnover, client acquisition and/or retention, service provisions, and/or assets, etc)
- What makes you Australia’s Top of the Trade?
There is no minimum word count. Each answer box has a maximum word limit.
If you prefer to answer the questions in video format, upload the file at the end of this section and type VIDEO in each of the written answer box. The maximum total length of combined video answers is 10 minutes.
Part 2 (required): Support material to visually illustrate your submission. This can be anything that will provide context to your submission, such as photos, awards, financials, marketing examples, testimonials, analytics reports – anything!
Maximum of 5 supporting files. If any videos, maximum length of each video for supporting material is to be 0.30 secs.
Acceptable file types
Image: jpg, gif, bmp, png, psd
Video: 3gp, avi, flv, mov, mp4, mpg, rm, wmv
Audio: mid, midi, mp3, mpa, ra, wav, wma
Documents: doc, docx, txt, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx, pdf
The (boring) fine print
- All information is strictly confidential.
- Only Australian-registered trade businesses are eligible.
- Nominees will be assessed by independent judges who rely solely on the information provided, including answers to questions, support material, and interviews (if necessary).
- Nominees must agree to abide by the decisions of the Tradies in Business Excellence Awards.