Deadline rapidly approaching for national Ruby Slipper Award set to honor an outstanding home-based business owner
National award seeks to honor a home-based business owner. With 52% of the US businesses being home-based, it's time home-based businesses get the recognition they deserve.
Contact: Janet Drez
480-899-3090
www.aperfectsolution.com
National Ruby Slipper Award to honor an outstanding home-based business owner
Chandler, Ariz.(PRWEB) October 16 2003-- Often seen wearing her own pair of ruby slippers, Janet Drez has created the prestigious national "Ruby Slipper Award" to honor an outstanding home-based business owner. Why ruby slippers? Because, according to Drez, "there's no place like home" for home-based business owners.
Drez -- veteran home-based business owner of A Perfect Solution, SBA 2002 Home-Based Business Advocate of the Year and chairwoman of the Home-Based Business Council -- created this award to honor an outstanding individual home-based business owner. With SBA stats now touting 52% of US businesses are home-based, the award will also raise the awareness about the substantial and significant economic, cultural and relational impact of home-based businesses and will continue to raise the bar for home-based business owners.
"Many national small-business awards disillusion me because their financial, revenue and employee criteria preclude most home-based business owners from winning," said Drez. "But it's obvious today that home-based businesses play a significant role in our economy, as well as making it possible for people to enjoy the flexible lifestyle they're looking for today."
The only requirements for the Ruby Slipper Award are that an applicant must:
1. Be the owner of a home-based business.
2. Have been in current business for at least two years,
3. Be a member of a community, business or women's association or organization.
The Ruby Slipper Award recipient will be selected by an independent, national judging panel. The application questions include business overview and personal story, leadership of the company, community involvement, the most rewarding aspect of owning a home-based business, the greatest challenge faced by the business owner, and any advice the applicant would give to someone considering starting their own home-based business.
The $25 application fee covers administrative and prize costs. Deadline for applicants is December 1, 2003. The award will be presented at a hot-air balloon ceremony in late January.
All Ruby Slipper Award applicants will receive a free autographed copy of Janet Drez's book, "Putting The Pieces Together: A Christian Woman's Guide to a Successful Home-Based Business".
The winner will receive:
Round trip airfare to Phoenix, AZ
One night's hotel accommodation
A hot air balloon ride
Presentation of the Ruby Slipper Award - a hand-crafted, one-of-a-kind ruby slipper created by fabric artist Laurie Fagen of Chandler-based Fagen Designs, herself a home-based business owner.
For more information and to apply, visit www.aperfectsolution.com and click on The Ruby Slipper Award; or call Janet Drez, 480-899-3090.
###
|
