Verizon Wireless Innovation Contest Has $10,000 Top Prize

Verizon Wireless is looking for Arkansas customers who want to show off their innovation in exchange for a potential $10,000 top prize.

Verizon Wireless is accepting entries from its customers for its 2013 Wireless Technology Innovation Awards for small and mid-sized businesses headquartered anywhere in Arkansas.

Verizon business customers of any variety – including mom-and-pop firms and non-profits – are welcome to participate. Companies must have 500 or fewer employees to qualify.

The contest is designed to highlight how mobile technology has improved efficiency, saved money and elevated customer satisfaction. Corporate sponsors for the awards program include Alcatel Lucent, Samsung and Blackberry.

“We are offering a great prize to show how Verizon and that business can impact their bottom line and improve productivity,” said Schawnee Hightower, associate director of enterprise sales in Verizon Wireless’ South Central Region.

Hightower cites as examples restaurants that use apps to promote customer discounts or menu selection or construction firms that alter blueprints on the job site through smart tablet technologies.

JUDGING CRITERIA
Businesses entering the Wireless Technology Innovation Awards should share their initial business challenges and explain how they creatively implemented Verizon Wireless technology and solutions to solve problems within their business.

Participants must show the benefits of the solutions employed and explain how they have positively affected their business or organization.

Verizon Wireless will accept entries for the Wireless Technology Innovation Awards through Aug. 31, 2013. Verizon Wireless executives and local business leaders will evaluate the entries and winners will be announced at an awards ceremony in October at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock.

For more information on the contest and to submit an entry, visit the official Wireless Technology Innovation Awards site at www.vzwinnovationawards.com.

While the $10,000 top prize is the highlight perk, there is also a runner-up $5,000 cash award. Hightower said a $1,500 contribution will also be made to a designated non-profit.

The winning companies or organizations will also be featured in a Verizon Wireless Technology Innovation Awards video, which will highlight each winner’s business, services or products and how they incorporated wireless technology into their business.

You can view a full interview with Hightower on the subject and other news of note from Verizon Wireless below.