Winning business awards can help your business get noticed. Check out some of these great business award opportunities to receive recognition for your company:

The Webby Awards have been called the "Oscars of the Internet." Awards are given for excellence in web design, creativity and functionality in over 60 categories including blog, health, lifestyle, community, fashion, sports, travel, weird, and youth. The awards are presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. Deadline for the 9th annual awards in 2005 is already passed, but you can visit their website to be notified of next year's contest.

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The Stevies Awards for Women Entrepreneurs delivers awards for 18 categories such as Best Company, Best Entrepreneur, Women Helping Women award, Best New Product and more.

The Stevies Awards also offer two additional award competitions:

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The folks at InsideBlogging.com hosted their first Business Blogging Awards in 2005 and indicate there will be more contests coming soon. Some of the categories for the competition included Best: Overall, Small Business, PR, Leadership, and Entrepreneur Blog. 

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The Small Business Administration offers awards in regional offices. Locate the office near you by visiting their website at http://www.sba.gov/index.html.

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