You need to be in it, to win it! If you have not done so already, please check to see if your company has been nominated in EACH of the APPROPRIATE categories. Check HERE.

If you do not see your company name, then simply complete the process to nominate your company in each of the appropriate categories, or contact us. Once we review your submission, we will approve within 24 hours. After which, any VAR, MSP or ITSP can vote for your company! Your company will now be seen by every voter in your categories! (Vendors who nominate themselves do not count as an actual vote. Only Canadian VARs, MSPs and ITSPs may vote for this award).

Over 500 vendors are already nominated in 90 categories! Voting has been open since November 1st, 2015 and will end January 14th, 2016. The awards will be handed out in a ceremony on February 4th, in Toronto starting at 6:00 PM. You may register to attend with your channel team.

It will be a fun social networking opportunity where you get to meet your peers and celebrate a job well done! It’s only once a year when channel partners get to vote for their favorite vendors for doing a great job! Winning is big and it means a lot to the vendor and its channel team. It is a great star to have on your channel record!

Get out your partners to vote for YOU! Just send them this link and ask them to please vote! —>: http://e-channelnews.com/choiceawards.php

This is our 9th annual Reseller Choice Award. It has since become the largest such channel survey in Canada. The entire Canadian channel will receive at least 50 requests to vote, plus many more from vendors and distributors who are reaching out to their partner base to vote for them.

If you would like to be a sponsor or donate a prize of the “thank-you-for-voting draw”, please click here to learn more.

Please mark this date on your calendar to attend: February 4th, 2016.  Register here. It is FREE to attend! (Space is limited so reserve your seat early). A welcome reception with drinks and food will be provided for FREE!

Our ecnTV crew will also be there taping video interviews. If you would like to tell the entire channel something, then this is a good time because it is also FREE! Just book an interview time when you arrive. Video interviews are streamed on www.ecntv.tv and www.e-channelnews.com for up to one full year. Other channel news media will be there such as channelbuzz.ca Leverage this opportunity to get some national news media coverage in the channel!

What happens when you win a Reseller Choice ward?

You get bragging rights as the best in your category in the Canadian Channel! Your colleagues and management will be impressed. Other VARs and MSPs will take notice. You also get some solid national news media coverage in the channel. You may also publish one news article in www.e-channelnews.com and do a video interview for www.ecntv.tv as well as the other news media properties that are present. You get a cool award and pictures take back to show your colleagues and management. Socialize with your entire channel partner base to spread your good news. All you have to do is to get out your channel partners to vote for you!

What happens when you do not win?

Well, it is still a good thing for you because you can know exactly how the channel ranks your company through their eyes. It gives you a report card to help you do better next year. It helps you to see how your competitors are ranked as compared with you. It helps you to see how your competitors may be gaining or loosing support in the channel. You get some good business intelligence to help you improve your channel business! You can also do a video interview to communicate your message to the entire channel.

OH YES, there IS MORE…

Come earlier in the afternoon (starting a noon) of the same day of the Awards Ceremony on February 4th, to attend the 4th annual Channel Manager Summit at the same location! You will get some great insights about the channel, including the top 10 IT predictions for 2016 from IDC; Latest data research on the Canadian IT channel; Ask your questions to a panel of 3 leading VARs and MSPs looking to help vendors understand what they really need from them to build stronger partnerships; And, pick the brains of our panel of channel experts as they present the latest and greatest channel development programs and tactics.

You will go back with a refreshed understanding of the channel and a few ideas to build a bigger, better and stronger partner network in the future! Learn more! It is FREE to attend.

See you on February 4th, 2016!