Nominate yourself or a friend for the 2013 Enterprising Women of the Year Award, and plan now to attend our Awards Celebration, April 3-4, 2013 at the Ritz-Carlton Fort Lauderdale (with April 3 workshops and match-making event at Office Depot headquarters in Boca Raton, FL).

If you are interested in receiving international recognition for the outstanding work you do as a woman-owned enterprise, consider nominating yourself for the 2013 Enterprising Women of the Year Awards.

Award winners will be recognized at a gala awards dinner in Fort Lauderdale on April 4. (Please see the Enterprising Women of the Year Awards page on our Web site for more information on the two-day celebration to honor our winners and guests.)

Winners will be recognized in the following categories:

• woman-owned enterprise with up to $1 million in annual revenues;
• woman-owned enterprise with more than $1 million and up to $5 million in annual revenues;
• woman-owned enterprise with more than $5 million and up to $10 million in annual revenues;
• woman-owned enterprise with more than $10 million and up to $25 million in annual revenues; and
• woman-owned enterprise with more than $25 million in annual revenues.

You may apply for the award if you have been in business at least three years and you meet any of the following three criteria:

• your company is at least 51 percent owned and managed by a woman;
• you are a woman who owns, manages and controls the business with a partner, and you own at least 33 percent of the business; or
• you are a woman entrepreneur who leads a company that has obtained venture capital and, as a result, you now hold an equity position of less than 51 percent in your company.

Award winners receive recognition for themselves and their businesses through local, national and international publicity. Every winner and finalist will be profiled in Enterprising Women magazine.

Please note: All nominations must be received by no later than midnight on Friday, Nov. 30, 2012. Winners will be notified in early December.