Time is running out for companies that want to participate in the 2011 Business Excellence Awards, with an upcoming deadline of June 30, 2011.

Interested companies can just click here …

Business Awards:  2011 Business Excellence Awards

… to enter the awards.

There are (13) categories to choose from including:

1) Entrepreneur of the Year
2) Best Retailer
3) Best Service Based
4) Best Turnaround Company
5) Most Innovative Company
6) Best Manufacturer/Wholesaler
7) Best eBusiness

In addition to the “Most Community Impact” category, additional categories include:

9) Best Customer Service Results
10) Best Start-up
11) Young Entrepreneur (35 and younger)

12) Fastest Growing Company
a.  Less than 10 employees
b.  Less than 50 employees
c.  Less than 100 employees
d.  Less than 500 employees

13) Best Overall Company
a.  Less than 10 employees
b.  Less than 50 employees
c.  Less than 100 employees
d.  Less than 500 employees

Deadline for entries is June 30 …

So get your entry in today!

The 2011 Business Excellence Awards announced entries are now open for the “Best Overall Company” category for this year’s event, which will take place at the conclusion of the 2011 Business Excellence Forum, hosted at Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami from August 19-20, 2011.

Business awards can be a great way to boost your company. If your company has had a great year, enter the 2011 Business Excellence Awards

The Business Excellence Awards honor the “best of the best” results in small and medium sized businesses from around the world, and represent an excellent way to showcase exceptional results for business owners, entrepreneurs, their teams and their companies.

To enter companies into the “Best Overall Company” category, visit:

Entry kit information here

… to request a download for entry into the awards.

The Best Overall Company category recognizes any company that demonstrate exceptional “best practices” that lead to outstanding results year-over-year.

There are (4) separate categories to enter for consideration:
A1. Less than 10 employees
A2. Less than 50 employees
A3. Less than 100 employees
A4. Less than 500 employees

Winning companies will receive a specially-designed 2011 Business Excellence Award trophy for the category, as well as local and national publicity for the company’s business accomplishments.

Additional categories for this year’s awards ceremony include:  Best Turnaround Company; Most Improved Company; Best Customer Service; Best eBusiness and Entrepreneur of the Year.

The 2011 Business Excellence Forum and the 2011 Business Excellence Awards are sponsored by ActionCOACH, the world’s number one business coaching firm.

The exclusive events are part of the company’s on-going commitment to innovation, business excellence and business re-education for owners and teams who operate and work in small-and-medium sized businesses.

In addition to the awards ceremony, the Business Excellence Forum will feature some of the finest speakers in the world of business, including Les Brown and ActionCOACH Founder, Chairman and President Brad Sugars.

Attendees will also have the opportunity to attend a number of workshops, breakout sessions and networking events.

Deadline for entries is June 30, 2011.

To learn more about the 2011 Business Excellence Forum, go to:

“Best Overall Company” Entry Request

For more information about the 2011 Business Excellence Forum, visit:

Registration Information

ActionCOACH is the world’s number one business coaching and executive coaching firm, with more than 1,000 offices in 32 countries.

There are some simple rules for anything in life.

If you never want to be late ever again, always be early.

If you always want extra money at the end of every month, always spend less than you earn.

If you want to lose weight, eat fewer calories and exercise more.

All very simple ideas, but not always easy to actually accomplish.

However, here’s a simple and easy strategy to start to grow your business today.

Simply raise your profit margins by at least 10%.

Now, this could be through a combination of lowering your costs (or better yet, raising your prices) … but you should be able to at least raise your margins on any (or all) of your products 10% easily and fairly effortlessly.

Focusing on your profit margins also gives you control over your business in a way that a more costlier strategy of generating more leads or new customers simply won’t give you.

Plus, you’ll learn some numbers and some truths about your business you may not have ever known before.

That’s not a bad thing … in fact, that’s a great thing.

Now you can make decisions based on information, and not guesses, assumptions or presumptions about what the numbers could be.

You can make decisions base on what the numbers are.

Start with your margins … and you’ll soon discover there are a lot of other ways and strategies you can use to grow your business.

But at least this strategy will give you a great – and profitable – place to begin.

Winning an award for your company can raise your profile in your community and help boost your reputation in your category.

It can also help you in your promotional materials and any type of marketing you may do for your company.

Here’s how you can enter your company in an international awards competition that costs nothing but can bring significant benefits to your company.

Just visit …

Business Excellence Awards

… and enter your company in the 2011 Business Excellence Awards, which will be presented on August 20, 2011 at the conclusion of the 2011 Business Excellence Forum.

When you visit …

Business Excellence Awards

… you’ll be able to enter your company’s contact information and receive an email with a link to the downloadable entry form.

You can choose to enter in any of (13) separate categories, including:

1) Entrepreneur of the Year
2) Best Retailer
3) Best Service Based
4) Best Turnaround Company
5) Most Innovative Company
6) Best Manufacturer/Wholesaler
7) Best eBusiness

In addition to the “Most Community Impact” category, additional categories include:
9) Best Customer Service Results
10) Best Start-up
11) Young Entrepreneur (35 and younger)

12) Fastest Growing Company
a.  Less than 10 employees
b.  Less than 50 employees
c.  Less than 100 employees
d.  Less than 500 employees

13) Best Overall Company
a.  Less than 10 employees
b.  Less than 50 employees
c.  Less than 100 employees
d.  Less than 500 employees

All winners receive their own trophy, as well as local and national publicity for their achievements.

Deadline for entries for the 2011 Business Excellence Awards is June 30, 2011.

Just visit:

Business Excellence Awards

… and enter your company today!

Bloomberg Businessweek put this interesting video up on its website about unemployment in Ireland, and how it doesn’t seem to be going away anytime soon.

Watch here. How do you think Ireland’s economy can be helped? Is there anything business coaches and small business owners can do?

More and more people throughout Ireland are commuting for a job. Many are commuting much further in the country itself while some are actually travelling out of the country to secure employment. This is clearly a symptom of Ireland’s struggling economy and shows the lengths people will go to in order to find a job that puts food on the table. But there has to be a better way, a closer to home way, for us to make a living… and there is. It all starts with the business coaches from ActionCOACH.

You may think business coaches are plentiful, but finding the right kind of business coaches is as difficult as ever. Not all business coaches are the same. Some are just glorified consultants and some don’t have the resources or training to make it as business coaches.

There is only one way to be sure that you are working with the best business coaches in the world and that is by working with ActionCOACH.

Business coaches trained by ActionCOACH are a breed apart from the rest for a number of reasons. ActionCOACH has business coaches all over the world, helping companies of all kinds. Thanks to that network of outstanding business coaches, no company has more resources, or more answers, than ActionCOACH.

ActionCOACH trains each of its business coaches in every aspect of business ownership imaginable. From marketing to Cashflow to team training, customer service and everything in between, the business coaches at ActionCOACH are well versed in what every business needs to grow and succeed.

So how can this help the commuter who travels hours every day to and from work? Well, if you are in that boat, have you considered starting a business for yourself or even ways to get your job done in a timely manner so you can spend more time with friends and family?

Business coaches can help in these areas, especially if you have a great idea for your own business, but don’t know where to start. So what are you waiting for? Are you tired of the long days working for someone else, if you’re lucky enough to have a job at all? If that sounds like you, get with the best business coaches in the world immediately.

Social media is one of the most lucrative avenues for marketing any small business and Ireland has the technological infrastructure to make marketing through social media a winning proposition for your business.

Despite the recent economic peril, Ireland is still one of the wealthiest nations in the world and the Irish people are a smart and cultured group with an average age in the mid 30’s. Because of these factors, Ireland has a strong and extensive communication landscape and an educated customer base that knows how to use new technology, both of which can help your business grow.

There are just over 4 million people in Ireland, but there are over 5 million cell phone accounts and over 2 million conventional phone lines. There are also over 100 commercial radio stations in Ireland and almost 3 million people use the internet on a regular basis.

So how can this information help your business?

Growing your customer base is something every business wants to do and the many media forms available should make it easier than ever to reach the market you want.

With so many internet and cell phone users in Ireland, social networks like Facebook and Twitter or geo-based social networks like Gowalla offer any small business myriad chances to connect with customers and drive their business.

The economy in Ireland has been sputtering, but by using the marketing resources available, any company can find its niche and create a business that thrives.

Contact ActionCOACH today to find other methods of social marketing that will grow your business.

Ireland has been hit as hard as any nation by the world-wide recession. After a decade of inflation and high costs, prices in Ireland are finally moderating. This is good news but the country needs to guard against complacency if it is to truly rebound.

One of the best ways for businesses to avoid complacency is by working with a Business Coach because a business coach holds business owners responsible for their actions while providing tools and strategies to consistently grow the bottom line.

In Ireland, much of the price moderation we’ve seen is due to the shrinking severity of the recession. But as things slowly get better, it is critical that we act now to put structural changes in place to ensure that prices do not rise again and erode competitiveness when the economy returns to growth.
Making structural changes isn’t something that just the government should do. These changes need to be made from the ground up, in every small business in Ireland.

What are the changes you need to make in your business to ensure your competitiveness and sustainable growth?

Sustainable growth in Ireland will require a substantial improvement in cost competitiveness and strong productivity in all parts of the economy.

During the past decade, Ireland experienced a significant loss in cost competitiveness reflecting a combination of higher price inflation in Ireland and an appreciation of the euro against the

currency of some of our main trading partners.

Since January 2008, Ireland has regained some of its lost cost competitiveness as domestic inflation remains below that of our main trading partners and the Euro has weakened.
To grow even stronger in Ireland, we’ll need to take advantage of all the opportunities presented to us.

If your business hasn’t called ActionCOACH and discussed what a business coach can do for your business, you’re missing the boat and your growth could lag behind that of your competitors.

Business Mentors come in all shapes and sizes but a Business Mentor’s impact should be universal to all businesses.

Working with a business mentor should bring accountability to any business but ActionCOACH business mentors bring much more to any relationship.

An ActionCOACH business mentor also has strategies to help you reach your goals.

Do you need to find balance between your business and your personal life?

A business mentor should be able to help you find that balance, but only an ActionCOACH business mentor has proven strategies that not only help you achieve balance, but increase your productivity.

You may think working with a business mentor isn’t right for you but everybody should understand that the right business mentor can only help you and your business. That is why, if you’re going to work with a business mentor, you should only use a business mentor you can trust.

If there isn’t someone who can serve as a business mentor in your life already, why not find a certified business mentor who has been trained by the best business mentoring company in the world, ActionCOACH?

If you need to find balance and increase productivity, find your own ActionCOACH business mentor today.