VOTING IS NOW OPEN for the businesses YOU nominated for a Macaroni KID Family Favorite Award! Remember, these awards recognize the most loved local family favorite businesses in Auburn and Beyond!
Click HERE to VOTE for your family's favorite local Businesses!
What do you need to do?
Support your fam's favorite local businesses* by voting for them! We've compiled a list of family friendly categories including dance studios, summer camps, pediatricians, preschools, family photographers and many more. You all nominated your favorites and now voting is open for the top 3 nominated businesses in each of those categories.
Voting starts TODAY! From now through February 10, 2024 at 11:59 pm, simply show the love by voting for your favorite Central MA businesses! 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 vote. 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.
RULES
- Submit only one vote ballot per email address; please vote for businesses in at least five categories.
- To vote for 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 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.
