Friday 27 January 2012

We've Been Awarded The "Featured Business Resource" Award

Derek's Home and Business Blog has been awarded the ChooseWhat Featured Business Resource Award
I'm excited to announce that Derek's Home and Business Blog has been awarded the "Featured Business Resource" Award by ChooseWhat. This award not only distinguishes my blog as a "Featured Business Resource", but also distinguishes it as a go-to source for information regarding entrepreneurship and business-related topics.

ChooseWhat are a business located in Austin, TX that provides comparisons and reviews of services that help small companies save money and operate more efficiently. The Featured Business Resource Award is a new initiative by ChooseWhat that recognises and honours the most exceptional business resources. Out of the hundreds of blogs that were selected by ChooseWhat, only a small group were presented with this award.

I am so delighted and honoured that my blog has been recognised and to have received this award. What started out as a hobby is now so much more, thanks to the support of my blog followers, visitors and more recently, my guest authors. Having this wonderful support motivates me in creating and publishing more of the blog posts and articles that my readers have come to enjoy.

Providing tips and marketing information that helps small business owners is something that I really enjoy doing and I'm so happy that my blog has officially now become a recognised resource for business-related topics. Along with the dedicated support of my readers, this award is most appreciated and it's such an honour to have received it.

Thank you Sean at ChooseWhat for awarding my blog the Featured Business Resource Award and the badge you have presented me with will now take pride on the blog's sidebar for all to see.


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31 comments:

  1. Congratulations Derek, you deserve it!

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    1. Thank you so much Jessica. It's certainly an honour to receive such an award.

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  2. Stephen Williams27 January 2012 at 12:43

    Way to go Derek! You deserve all the recognition you can get. Your blog is awesome!

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    1. Well thank you Stephen, I'm so happy that you find my blog awesome...your compliment has certainly made my day :)

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  3. Congrats Derek you are becoming an authority blogger in your niche.

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    1. Thank you Auren and for stopping by to leave your valued comment.

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  4. All I can say is congratulations Derek. You are so busy and work so hard on your blogs and yet still have time to answer questions from silly billys like myself! Truly delighted for you. Keep up the good work.

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    1. Thank you so much Claire. It's always a pleasure to be of help to someone like yourself, so please do keep them questions coming :)

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  5. Great stuff! Congratulations, Derek! An award like this is certainly a boost and will motivate you to make your blog even better! Well done!

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    1. Thank you Corinne for the congratulations and this award has certainly given me a massive boost. It's so wonderful and an honour being recognised by such a respected source. This recognition will definitely motivate me to make my blog even better...no added pressure then :)

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  6. Congratulations Derek! Nothing like an award to put more fuel in your jet. Well done!

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    1. There certainly isn't :) Thank you Leah for stopping by and offering your congratulations.

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  7. Congratulations Derek on an immense achievement. It is very well deserved though and couldn't happen to a nicer person.

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    1. Thank you so much Elizabeth for the wonderful comment. What you have written means so much to me and it's real pleasure knowing you. Thank you again.

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  8. Good to know...it clearly shows that if your blog is good and useful it will be recognised...

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    1. It sure does and for all you wonderful bloggers out there, keep on writing as you never know when it could happen to you. Thank you Prasad for taking the time to visit my blog and to leave your valued comment.

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  9. Congrats, Dave. Good to see hard work and good insight rewarded.

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    1. Thank JB and for joining Bloggers Network. It's great to have you as part of the community. I hope you enjoy the group.

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  10. Congratulations Derek on outstanding achievement...very well deserved and in right time. :)

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    1. Thank you Abhisek...very much appreciated my friend :)

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    2. Before I forget Abhisek, I will send you a message next week with details on the logo that I want creating for my Facebook and Google+ blog pages. I know that you've been busy with your We Have a Story blog which is why I haven't sent one sooner to you. Thanks for doing this for me.

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  11. Congratulations, Derek! What a great recognition. Also, thank you for forming Bloggers Network.

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    1. Thank you Joan and for stopping by to leave me a comment. I'm really happy that you're part of Bloggers Network and I hope you enjoy the group. If you need any help at any time, just let me know.

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  12. Congratulation Derek.. what took them so long?? lol

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    1. I was thinking the same myself :) Thanks for dropping by Jim.

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  13. Okay, one more attempt with hopes that it publishes properly this time. I'm not going to try and remember my original comment because it was several days ago that I wrote it. I'll just say that this news made me very happy for you. You've worked so hard and helped so many people with your blog, your blogging group(s) and admin help (at Authentic Blogger helping me out!) and ready advice when any of us get tripped up with tech-ish issues. All of this and more makes you deserving of this recognition and I daresay it will be the first of many such accolades. Congratulations, my friend! :)

    - Dawn

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    1. Thank you so much Dawn for the wonderful comment and it's a real pleasure and an honour to co-admin at Authentic Blogger.

      I'm not entirely sure as to why the comment you did on Thursday didn't come through. I've heard that some visitors are still experiencing problems when commenting on blogs hosted on Blogger. I don't know if you have noticed, but I have a message in the commenting section on my blog explaining this problem and what to do if they do experience it. I did think it was very unusual for you not to comment but I decided not to say anything :)

      Thanks again Dawn for the wonderful comment and thank you for taking the time to re-post it, it’s very much appreciated my friend :)

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  14. Way to go Derek! You and your blog is one of the best out there on the net. Congratulations!

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    1. Thank you soooo much Bronzi, that's such a nice thing to say and I'm really happy that you enjoy my blog. It's people like yourself that make this blog all worthwhile. Thank you again!

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