Which awards to enter? Boost’s awards planning & awards strategy service

From picking the right awards to enter, to selecting the strongest stories to submit, to ensuring deadlines are met, managing an awards strategy is a time-consuming and complex process. Our comprehensive range of awards strategy and awards planning services, supported by our unique Awards Planner online platform with its searchable database of over 5,000 awards, allows our awards experts at Boost to help you ensure the right stories are entered into the right categories of the right awards with the right evidence – all year.

Creating an online awards plan

For those wishing to answer the question “which awards should we enter over the next year?” this telephone-based service is ideal and very cost-effective. The service includes:

An initial 45-minute conference call to gain a clear brief of which awards to add to your draft plan.
A one-year licence to our unique cloud-based Awards Planner platform, in which you can search and select awards from over 5,000 in the database, traffic light awards and their categories, then view, edit and share your plan. You even receive automated reminder emails.
The setup of your online Awards Planner with (typically) between 20-30 tailored awards added.
A one-hour follow up decision-making call, during which we will help you pick the right awards using research carried out between the calls, and based on our 15 years of experience.
A finalised awards plan which can be edited by you, and all dates and links are kept up-to-date automatically. No more Word or Excel plans which go out-of-date almost as soon as they’re written!

Price: £985+VAT

Creating a thorough annual awards strategy

For those who wish to answer the question “which stories should we enter into awards?” as well as “which awards should we enter?” this service is ideal. It includes the following elements:

All the elements of the above service, including a one-year Awards Planner licence, with unlimited people having secure unique log in details to your account.
A comprehensive story review process, from a choice of formats from individual calls to a highly interactive group Strategy Planning Session (up to three hours, either in a room or using an amazing virtual platform so colleagues from other depts can join from anywhere in the world). This will establish all the projects, strategies, products, teams or individuals to put forward for awards.
A personalised Awards Strategy report, containing selected awards and a summary of the stories reviewed.

Price: from £1,655 + expenses (if applicable) + VAT

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Awards managed service

Winning one award is challenging. Winning a steady stream of the right awards takes substantial, ongoing effort and expertise – you need a thorough awards strategy, a process for continuously reviewing potential winning stories, while being able to write, evidence and present powerful written entries for each and every award in the plan – without any last-minute panics.

To help here, and allow you to focus on your day job, why not hand ownership of your awards strategy to Boost – and benefit from our 15 years of award entry management expertise? After all, this is our day job.

Our Awards Managed Service is there to take your initial planning service (one of the services already outlined above) one step further. It includes the following ‘pick and mix’ elements, depending on your specific needs and requirements going forward:

Creating & managing an annual awards strategy

Writing & graphic designing award entries

Rewriting award entries for other awards

Evidence gathering

Marketplace scanning - reviews of competitor wins & new relevant awards

Regular review calls & meetings

Unique online 'Awards Planner' & full searchable access to our 5,000+ awards database

Ongoing story assessments

Support in publicising wins

Reporting

Budgeting

Staged payments

Price: Contact us for a detailed quote* based on your bespoke needs.

*As our Awards Managed Service is a bespoke service, offering scalable and flexible levels of support, the annual fee will be confirmed once the initial planning service has taken place and plan agreed.

Please don’t hesitate to contact us for more information on any of the services listed on this page.

Which awards to enter? Boost’s awards planning and awards strategy service

From picking the right awards to enter, to selecting the strongest stories to submit, to ensuring deadlines are met, managing an awards strategy is a time-consuming and complex process. Our comprehensive range of awards strategy and awards planning services, supported by our unique Awards Planner online platform with its searchable database of over 4,000 awards, allows our awards experts at Boost to help you ensure the right stories are entered into the right categories of the right awards with the right evidence – all year.