Success stories from our business award winners

When it comes to winning a business award, there’s nothing quite like standing on the winner’s podium, giving your acceptance speech to a supportive crowd. But in order to experience those few minutes of bliss, you first need to win the award – and the best way to do that is to engage Proof Communications to assist. Our crack team of award writers has produced hundreds of award winners over the years and we get just as big a kick out of our clients’ wins as they do. Business awards come in all shapes and sizes and are invariably hotly contested. That’s why it’s so important to find the ‘wow factor’ in your business and make sure the judges get the message loud and clear. Working with a professional award writer is essential and one sure fire way of doing just that. Read on to find out why two of our many happy clients chose to work with Proof Communications, Australia’s premier award writing experts.

Scooping the pool

Pedzi Mawande is founder and Managing Director of Brisbane-based strata management company, The Community Co. He knew his business was far superior to so many other participants in the sector and was keen to formalise his company’s position by winning the prestigious Strata Community Association (SCA) Awards. Trouble was, Pedzi and his team had limited time to devote to writing submissions. ‘My working day is so busy that, much as I wanted to win, I simply couldn’t devote enough time to the process,’ says Pedzi. ‘We’d written a few entries inhouse in previous years but sadly, we weren’t successful so it was time to change it up a gear.’ It was important to Pedzi that the Proof Communications award writer interviewed several team members to get a true understanding of the business and what ‘made it tick’. Says Pedzi, ‘It was just great to be working with a professional writer who understood that it was vital to emphasise the human side of our business. This is an intensely competitive industry and our people-centric ethos is what sets us apart. That came out strongly in our entries and clearly struck a chord with the judges as we won Best Senior Strata Manager and Best Strata Management Company (Medium) in the SCA Queensland awards.’ But there was more good news to come. The Community Co won both categories again several months later at the SCA Australasia Awards – a huge achievement for Pedzi and his team. Pedzi believes their wins were because the writer understood The Community Co’s points of difference. ‘Proof Communications was an extraordinarily safe pair of hands. We felt very comfortable working with them, especially because the writer grasped that we operated very differently to our competitors and was able to tell our story in a way that was really compelling.’

Translating the technical

Global engineering consultancy giant, Aurecon, has worked with Proof Communications for over a decade. A large part of its marketing strategy when taking on some of Australia’s most important and iconic engineering projects is to achieve formal industry recognition by winning prestigious national and international awards. For Aurecon’s Marketing and Communication Business Partner, it was important to find a writer to take away the award writing burden from the engineering teams. ‘For us, Proof Communications has been a godsend. I know that once we’ve discussed the brief that we can leave everything in their hands; I don’t have to be constantly checking up to see how the writing is going. That’s invaluable to me as I’m frequently on the road.’ Additionally, translating often very technical material into ‘award ready content’ was a must. ‘Often our submissions can be very heavy on technical content so we need a writer who can readily grasp the terminology and get a good basic understanding of what the project is about. On top of that, they need to be able to describe the benefits that come from all that high tech engineering. It’s not enough just to list the facts of however many tons of concrete were used to build a bridge. The writer has to able to describe the beauty to be found in the use of that concrete too, and that’s where Proof Communications excels. They know how to make often dry material sound interesting and there’s a real knack to that.’ We’ve helped these clients to win important industry awards and we can help your business to win too. If you’d like to know more about how Proof Communications can help you create award entries that will see you take home the glory, then get in touch today or give us a call on 02 8036 5532 or 0448 566 377 and we’ll be happy to assist.