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MM AWARDS 2022
We’re here to celebrate the UK’s creative industry and give recognition to the nation’s Artists, Designers and Makers.
See below how winning an MM Award could help boost your creative business.
Enter up to 20 categories with the 1st Category FREE
2022 Judge
Natasha Francis
BBC BIDDING ROOM & URBAN VINTAGE AFFAIR
With over 20 years experience in sourcing, development and production, including brand set up and department set ups, Natasha now shares her knowledge and valuable contacts with like minded entrepreneurs. She has worked with many premium, casual and international designer brands, managing the whole product cycles from initial concept through to retail.
Additionally Natasha also runs her own award winning online lifestyle brand ‘The Urban Vintage Affair’, where she sources products, manages a creative blog and implements collaborations and media publications.
“Forever learning and forever experiencing, my mindset shifted several years back to take opportunities and ‘Do Things Differently’ and today, am one of the main Dealers on BBC1 Programme ‘The Bidding Room.’ Now my story begins and I am super excited to learn about your brand and be the special guest judge for The Biz Bubble Awards.”
the star prize
The ‘Maker of the year’ will receive:
£1000 to spend on BizBubble branding, design, website or advertising packages
One 2 One consultancy session with Brandstorm Consultancy
12 month business advertisment on BizBubble homepage
the category winner prizes
‘Maker of the Year’ and 10 category winners will receive:
- Complimentary winner logo and badge for use across all marketing
- Business website analysis report and guide
- Winners Media outreach - Press release, blog post & newsletter
- Featured business advert on BizBubble homepage for 1 month
- Lifetime prime listing & profile on the Bubble network directory
- Exclusive website placement in the 'Hall of Fame'
- Blog post interview posted on our website and social media platforms (with a collective following of 25k+)
- Advert on sidebar in the blog for 3 months to targeted audiences
the categories
Applications now open
Enter the categories that best represents your creative business.
This award recognises the wonderful work of secondhand, vintage and antique businesses who are keen to make a positive impact in their field.
Maker
of the year
This overall award will recognise the best of the best. The winner will be selected from the shortlisted entries from the other categories.
dates for the
diary 2021/22
The awards process begins on June 21st 2021 when all small creative businesses and sole traders all across the UK will be welcome to apply via the BizBubble website.
FAQS
The MM Awards is open to all sole traders and creative small businesses with no more than 20 employees.
There are many great reasons to enter the BizBubble or Modern Makers Awards.
GREAT EXPOSURE
Business awards are a great marketing tool. Just being shortlisted can improve brand awareness and promote your business to new customers. Short listers and Winners will maximise PR exposure by placing the award logo on all marketing materials including business cards, literature, email, website and social media.
NEW BUSINESS
Awards celebrate hard work and success and are great PR opportunities. It’s a chance to be recognised for all your hard work, winning a business or maker award can open doors to getting contracts or customers as well as finding new supply channels and breaking into new markets.
MORALE
Awards recognise the hard work and achievements of your business (and it’s employees) so winning one can help boost morale and improve motivation. Everyone gets focused on what’s great about the company they work for and can feel proud to be a part of it.
BENCHMARKING
Entering your business for an award can often make you look at your business from a different perspective, comparing yourself to competitors helps to evaluate your business to see how you could improve whether that be your branding, position, growth, customer service or strategy. Ultimately will help you think about ways you could be doing things better and identify areas for improvement which in turn could be more valuable than the award prize itself!
INCREASED CREDIBILITY
Being shortlisted or winning a BizBubble or Modern Maker award can act as a 3rd party endorsement for your business. They give a seal of approval to your business quality for potential customers, so can form part of your sales pitch as well boost relationships with suppliers. It’s a great way of differentiating your company from competitors and will send out positive signals to potential customers.
It’s FREE to enter your first category with code FREEENTRY
Additional categories are £10 each
Yes, you can enter into more than one category but a maximum of one entry per category will only be considered
25 February 2022 via our website and online media channels, more details to follow soon.
Head over to the application page HERE where you will tell us all about your business and choose which categories that suits your business the best
The People’s Choice Award is one of the categories. It is not available to apply to enter but if you enter into more than one of the other categories you will be automatically entered into the People’s Choice Award where your business will be up for the public vote.
You also receive a Business Listing on the The People’s Choice Page Directory which is great for some extra exposure for your business on the lead up to the awards.
It includes a featured image, back link to your website, social media links and business summary
Plus the Voting feature which allows people to vote for you and displays the number of votes online.
You can view the business entries so far here but the voting poll feature will be made live later this year (date tbc)
The winner will receive the same prizes as all the category winners. Seen here.
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