Host Community Choice Awards

Everything your organization needs to run a best of contest from nominations to winner announcement without a dedicated staff member to manage it. Proxi handles the ballot, the voting, the lead collection, and the results so you can focus on celebrating your community and reporting the wins to your board.

Build Your Ballot

Choose your award categories, set your nomination and voting dates, and configure email collection and voting frequency. Whether you are running a best restaurant award, a best local business contest, or a full community choice awards program with dozens of categories, the ballot builder handles it in minutes.

Promote & Vote

Share your ballot via social media, email newsletters, and QR codes. Send voting reminders to keep participation climbing. The more your nominated businesses promote their own listings, the more votes and leads your organization collects -- at no extra effort on your end.

Gather Nominations

Open nominations to the public or curate your own slate of nominees. Community-sourced nominations drive early engagement, get businesses invested in the outcome, and give participants a reason to share the contest before voting even opens.

Celebrate the Winners!

Track live vote counts from your organizer dashboard, export results, and announce your winners with confidence. The data you collect during nominations and voting becomes a valuable lead list your organization can use long after the contest ends.

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Three reasons your board will love this program

Engage Your Community

People love to vote for local favorites and share their picks. A best of awards contest or readers choice program pulls community members to your website, keeps them engaged for minutes at a time, and generates the kind of organic social sharing your organization cannot buy. Nominated businesses rally their customers to vote, which multiplies your reach with zero additional marketing spend.

Generate Targeted Leads

Every voter submits an email address to participate. Every business that wants to win promotes the contest to their own customers. The result is a high-quality, highly engaged email list that grows with every contest you run, full of community members who are already invested in local businesses and organizations. That is the most valuable lead generation tool your chamber or Main Street organization has access to.

Collect Sponsorship Revenue

Best of contests are one of the most reliable non-dues revenue programs a chamber or community organization can run. Nominated businesses want visibility. Sponsors want their logo in front of an engaged local audience. Proxi makes it easy to offer sponsored categories, featured placements, and ballot sponsorships that put real cash in your organization's budget, not just goodwill.

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Examples of 'Best of' Campaigns

From best local business awards to readers choice contests and neighborhood recognition programs -- here are some of the most popular ways organizations use Proxi to run community choice awards.

Best of Local Businesses

Chambers of commerce use Proxi to run annual best of local business awards that engage members, grow the email list, attract sponsorships, and generate the kind of visibility that drives new membership. Categories like Best Coffee Shop, Best Hair Salon, and Best Bookstore get businesses rallying their customers to vote, which means more traffic, more leads, and more buzz for your organization.

Best of the Neighborhood

Main Streets and downtown districts run neighborhood best of contests to recognize beloved local spots, drive community pride, and give residents a reason to engage with their neighborhood in a new way. Vote for the best park, the best event, the best hidden gem and watch your social following grow as neighbors share their picks.

Best Tourist Attractions

DMOs and visitor bureaus run best of tourist attraction contests to surface hidden gems, generate earned media, and create shareable content that promotes the destination. Winners become proof points in your tourism marketing all year long.

Best of Arts & Culture

Arts organizations, cultural districts, and media companies run best of arts and culture contests to celebrate local creatives, drive gallery and venue foot traffic, and generate the kind of community pride that turns casual residents into active local advocates.

Best of Health & Wellness

Health and wellness best of contests generate strong engagement because participants are passionate about their favorites. Gyms, studios, practitioners, and health food businesses promote heavily to their loyal customers, bringing new voters and new leads to your organization with every share.

Best Decorated

Seasonal best of contests like holiday decoration awards are a low-lift way to generate engagement during key community moments. Neighborhoods compete, families share, and your organization gets a timely spike in website traffic and email list growth right when you need it most.

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Become the talk of the town!

A best of awards program is one of the highest-return programs a chamber, Main Street, or community organization can run. It grows your email list, sells sponsorships, engages your members, and generates the kind of community buzz that money cannot buy. Proxi makes it self-serve, fast to launch, and easy to repeat every year. Start building your ballot today.

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