Winning an award is cool stuff. Ask any entrepreneur what it's like to be named “Rising Star”, “Best Spa Experience”, or “Top Small Business”, and you’ll find out just how much the recognition can mean for the business and its clients. Hatch PR will be talking with entrepreneurs who are quickly gaining exposure because of their willingness to enter competitions and share their leadership advice. Although winning isn’t everything, I have found that the journey is well worth the while, because when you do secure your first big trophy, it can mean a giant leap in your press campaign.
To kick off the awards segment of Hatch Talk, what better way than to spotlight a leader who actually works for a company that has BEST in its name, PFGBEST Senior Vice President, Communications, Pat Campbell. Pat won a Silver Trumpet Award for her distinguished achievement in public relations at the recent 50th Anniversary Golden Trumpet Awards. The Publicity Club of Chicago's 2009 Golden Trumpet Awards are the most prestigious awards program in the Midwest honoring distinguished individual achievement of public relations and communications. These coveted awards are presented for excellence in planning, creativity and execution.
Here’s what Pat told Hatch Talk about winning her Trumpet Award:
“After setting my New Years resolution on winning something – anything - I was very thrilled that one of my 3 submissions to Publicity Club of Chicago was of award quality. This is my first Trumpet Award and it was for our company’s first-ever annual report, which I wrote. Considering the number of categories, entries, competition and scale of our industry in Chicago, it seems like a miracle to have won anything at all! I was fortunate and very happy to have my friend Ann Higby of Hatch PR, and Lauren DeBueriis, the daughter of a colleague who just happens to be a recent DePaul graduate in PR studies, as my support network for this occasion. Ann has always been someone who has been a powerful networker and advocate for my dreams and aspirations, and both of us hope to have a positive impact on Lauren as she enters our world – Chicago style PR."
I hope to see all of you Hatch Talk blog readers entering some competition in the year ahead so you, too, can win something – ANYTHING!!!
Posts
