- No Purchase Required. To enter, go to www.dell.com.au/sbaward, fill in a Contest application, and submit the requested materials. Contest is available to small businesses that employ 100 or fewer individual employees or individual independent contractors (full or part-time) headquartered in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Some specific requirements will apply to entrants from various countries. See section [8] below for your country-specific rules. No government or quasi-governmental entities may enter. Person submitting application must be an officer or other authorised representative of the entrant. Businesses chosen to advance to the National Finalist round of judging described in section [5] will be required to verify the annual revenue submitted in their application. Winner and Finalists must submit unaudited financial statements from a certified practising accountant (CPA) by specified date or forfeit prize. A non-disclosure agreement (NDA) will be provided for both parties to sign to ensure privacy of financial data.
- Entrant will be required to demonstrate how the company has used information technology (IT) to deliver superior customer experience. They must 1) describe the innovative ways they use IT in their business to better serve customers(20% of score); 2) show how it has led to significant improvements in the experience of their customers (40% of score); 3) show how they use IT to better manage business operations (15% of score); 4) show how the innovative use of IT has affected the success of the business i.e. growth, profitability, cost reductions (15% of score); 5) tell how the company's use of IT creates a competitive advantage (10% of score). The judging panels made up of entrepreneurs, small-business experts and representatives from Dell and its partners will select up to 10 National Finalists per country, one National Winner per country, and one Global Winner.
- Award Submissions must be complete on or before 11:59 p.m. EST, April 3, 2009. All entries become the exclusive property of Dell and will not be acknowledged or returned. Judges decisions are final.
- In order to advance to Finalist judging, the top 30 to 50 entries per country, determined by Dell and its national partners, will be required to submit three customer testimonials and annual revenues for the past fiscal year. The additional information will aid in the Finalist and Winner judging sessions; see section [5] for additional details. Testimonials and 2008 revenues must be received between April 20 and May 1, 2009, at 11:59 p.m. EST. Ten National Finalists will be notified by email or phone by June 2009 and announced in July 2009. National Winners will be notified by email or phone by August 2009 and announced publicly in September 2009. (Note: individuals are not winners or finalists, only eligible companies as set forth in Rule 1.) The Global Award Winner will be announced in US Fall 2009.
- Judging Process and Prizes: Prizes will be awarded based on the results of three (3) phases of judging. PHASE ONE: Each country's Finalist judging panel will determine up to 10 country-level Finalists (up to 130 National Finalists selected worldwide) to be considered for that country's National Winner Award. Each of these National Finalists will receive a Dell business-class laptop computer with a maximum value of US$1500 and training vouchers from EXCOM Education to the value of AU$2370.These prizes cannot be exchanged for any cash amount under any circumstances and the Finalist must abide by any regulations or terms of membership imposed by the national partner. See section [8] below for your country-specific Finalist Award value. The National Finalist selected as the National Winner (13 National Winners total) forfeits their US$1500 laptop award for the National Award value. PHASE TWO: The second phase of judging will determine the National Winner. The National Winner panel of judges will review the applications, testimonials, and revenue data for each National Finalist and determine a National Winner. The National Winners receive a day scheduled by Dell with Dell experts and other regional winners to share best practices, including conference time with Michael Dell, subject to his availability. Dell will make arrangements for the company owner plus two staff people (3 people per National Winner) to travel to a Dell chosen location within the region. Up to two nights of lodging, meals, ground and air transportation will be paid for by Dell (average value of "Day at Dell" travel package is between US$4,500 and US$10,000 per company, dependant on air travel costs). In addition, National Winners will receive US$25,000 in technology and services from Dell to be used in Winner's business. Presented as a credit to be used for up to US$15,000 in Dell Small-Business products only at Dell on-line prices at time of purchase prior to Oct. 31, 2010, as well as Dell professional services based on Dell's assessment of customer's business needs (up to a maximum US$10,000 at standard Dell rates) used prior to Oct. 31, 2010. Finally, the Australian National Winner receive training vouchers from EXCOM Education to the value of AU$9000, one year membership to SEAANZ, and registration for 2 persons to the annual SEAANZ conference in Wellington, New Zealand in September 2009. These prizes cannot be exchanged for any cash amount under any circumstances and the Winner must abide by any regulations or terms of membership imposed by the national partners. See section [8] below for your country-specific Winner Award value. The National Winner selected as the Global Winner forfeits their US$25,000 technology award for the Global Award value. PHASE THREE: The third phase of judging will determine the Global Winner. The Global Winner panel of judges will review the applications, testimonials, and revenue data for each National Winner and determine a Global Winner. The Global Winner will be featured in a global entrepreneur's summit, including conference time with Michael Dell, subject to his availability. Dell will make arrangements for the company owner plus one staff person to travel to the summit (location to be announced). Up to two nights of lodging, meals, ground and air transportation will be paid for by Dell (average value of summit travel package is between US$4,000 and US$8,000, dependant on air travel costs). In addition, the Global Winner will receive US$50,000 in technology and services from Dell to be used in Winner's business. Presented as a credit to be used for up to US$30,000 in Dell Small-Business products only at Dell on-line prices at time of purchase prior to Oct. 31, 2010, as well as Dell professional services based on Dell's assessment of customer's business needs (up to a maximum US$20,000 at standard Dell rates) used prior to Oct. 31, 2010. Finally, the Global Winner will receive a lifetime membership to the International Council for Small Business (ICSB) and engagement with Endeavor's network of business leaders and high-impact entrepreneurs in emerging markets worldwide. This membership cannot be exchanged for any cash amount under any circumstances and the winner must abide by any regulations or terms of membership imposed by ICSB. (Global prize value is approximately US$70,000). No cash or prize substitutions or transfer of prizes, except by Dell, who reserves the right to substitute a prize or prize component at its sole discretion with cash or another prize of comparable or greater value. Winner's technology and services purchases from Dell must be used in Winner's business; Dell reserves the right to limit Winner's technology and services choices to those that can be used in Winner's business.
- Dell, ICSB, Endeavor and NFIB assume no responsibility for lost, stolen, delayed, damaged or misdirected entries or for any failure of the website during the entry period, for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer on-line systems, servers, access providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any e-mail or entry to be received by Dell on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any website, or any combination thereof including any injury or damage to an entrant's or any other person's computer related to or resulting from entering or down loading any material in connection with this contest. Dell, ICSB, Endeavor and NFIB reserve the right, in their sole discretion to cancel or suspend this contest should a virus, bug or other cause beyond the reasonable control of Dell corrupt the security or proper administration of the contest. Any attempt to deliberately damage any web site or to undermine the legitimate operation of this promotion is a violation of criminal and civil laws, and should such an attempt be made, Dell reserves the right to seek remedies and damages to the fullest extent permitted by law, including criminal prosecution.
- Except where prohibited by law, Winners and Finalists consent to the use of entrant's name and logo and entrant materials (with the exception of confidential financial information) in publicity, advertising and promotional materials for Dell and/or ICSB, Endeavor, NFIB, EXCOM Education and SEAANZ without further compensation, and agree to cause entrant principals to appear, by name and photograph, in such materials. Submission of an entry further constitutes the entrant's irrevocable assignment and transfer to Dell, ICSB, Endeavor, NFIB, EXCOM Education and SEAANZ any and all rights, title and interest in and to the submission including, without limitation, the copyright and all intellectual property rights and the right to publish and exploit the submission in any and all media worldwide, without limitation and without compensation to the entrant, and entrant may or may not be attributed as the source of the entry material.
- Country Specific Requirements: Applicants from AUSTRALIA must be a for-profit, limited liability company, limited liability partnership or other partnership, or sole proprietorship formed pursuant to the laws of Australia, and in good standing in the relevant jurisdiction. Australian National Finalists receive a Dell business-class laptop computer with a maximum value of US$1500 and training vouchers from EXCOM Education to the value of AU$2370. Australian Finalist prize value is approximately US$3150. The Australian National Winner receives US$25,000 in technology and services from Dell to be used in Winner's business, training vouchers from EXCOM Education to the value of AU$9000, one year membership to SEAANZ, and registration for 2 persons to the annual SEAANZ conference in Wellington, New Zealand in September 2009 valued at approximately AU$2000. National Australian prize value is approximately US$33,000.
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