Happy New Year, MacKID Friends!
We're kicking off 2024 with our Family Favorite Awards. Auburn Macaroni KID Family Favorite Awards recognize the most beloved local businesses for kids and families in Auburn and beyond - We want your family to help us choose the best of the best!
What do you need to do?
Support your fam's favorite local businesses* by nominating them! We've compiled a list of family friendly categories including dance studios, summer camps, pediatricians, preschools, family photographers and many more.
Nominations start TODAY! From now through January 16, 2024 at 11:59 pm, simply show the love by nominating your favorite Central MA businesses! Nominate as many businesses as you would like. This is your chance to support all of those awesome local businesses you go to all the time and that other parents need know about!
To keep it fair, only one submission per email address please; you must be a subscriber to Auburn Macaroni KID to nominate. It's free to subscribe! You can subscribe here.
What else can you do to show your support?
Share this article on Facebook with your friends! Help us spread the love by sharing with your friends, family, and favorite local businesses!
And don't forget to share this page with those businesses you adore to ensure they get the word out!
What's in it for the Businesses?
After the nominations are in, Macaroni KID subscribers will then be voting for the winners. We will announce the finalists and winners of each category in upcoming newsletters. The winning business in each category will receive free listing in our Business Directory for yearlong recognition, a digital badge to use on their website and socials, a 2024 Macaroni KID Family Favorite Awards certificate, plus the honor of knowing that local families think they are the best!
The local business with the highest number of votes overall will win a 3-month advertising package with Macaroni KID Auburn!
Are you a local business owner? Feel free to promote this contest on your own client lists, newsletters, website, and social media!
The Family Favorite Awards Schedule:
- Nominations are open from January 1 through January 16, 2023.
- Starting January 20, 2024, you can vote for the businesses that moved onto the voting round. Only the top 3 businesses in each category will be selected for the voting round.
- Voting will close on February 10, 2024.
- Winners will be announced on February 14, 2024.
Click HERE to nominate your family's favorite local Businesses!
RULES
- Submit only one nomination ballot per email address; please nominate businesses in at least five categories.
- To nominate a business you must be a Macaroni KID Auburn MA email subscriber, to sign up click here.
- Votes with invalid email addresses will not count and may disqualify the nominee from winning. It is against policy to place a vote using any email address other than your own.
- Only the top 3 nominations in each category will be selected for voting. If through the nomination process only one business was nominated in a given category, it will be considered the automatic winner and voting is not necessary
- Macaroni KID Auburn MA families will then vote on their favorites and one winner from each category will be selected.
- Macaroni KID Auburn MA confirms AND validates each email to ensure authenticity.
- Macaroni KID Auburn MA reserves the right to eliminate votes that are deemed to be invalid or have interfered with the fair administration of this contest.
- *All businesses must be locally owned in the Auburn, Charlton, Douglas, Leicester, Cherry Valley, Millbury, Oxford, Rochdale, Webster, Dudley, Sutton, Southbridge, Northbridge, Whitinsville or service the area.
