Serendipity repeats. Please vote for NDH! Take a break from the Presidential election heat and root for the locals. We are thrilled – wait better yet ecstatic – and graciously accept our second year as a Delaware Small Business nominee. This year, our hyper-local community magazine has received 2 nominations Best Marketing and Best Woman Owned Business via the Delaware Small Business Chamber Blue Ribbon Awards.

2016 marks our 5th year as a small business in North Delaware and we couldn’t be more proud and humbled by this recognition. YOU are what makes our site happening each and every day – we are so very grateful for your loyalty, trust, connections and viewership! We know you have a lot of options and this opportunity to serve our community is one in a billion! We pinch ourselves often. Just two home town Delaware girls(+  a guy est 2015) striving to share all that is positive, compelling and happening in and around our local northern communities.  If you don’t know us yet, Welcome! Meet our happening team.

DSBC Blue Ribbon Award Nomination Details

NorthDelaWHEREHappening.com has been nominated as

Best Marketing

• Awarded to the DSBC member business that shows excellence with their complete marketing campaign, using all sources, including online to get out their brand or message to the general public. This category will have a Judge’s Choice and a People’s Choice winner.

Best Woman Owned Business

• Awarded to the DSBC member  business that is a majority woman-owned business that shows excellence in customer service and offers exemplary service or products.

If you think we have delivered in these two categories(wink, wink), PLEASE VOTE for NorthDelaWHEREHappening.com and help us SHINE ON! Takes just a few minutes. Vote once per IP address/device. Voting ends at 11:59PM on Friday, March 4, 2016.

“The Blue Ribbon Awards gives DSBC a chance to applaud and promote the vital network of small businesses in Delaware,” said Bob Older, DSBC founder and president. “These winners exemplify the hard work and dedication it takes to operate a small business successfully. Also reflected is the impact they have on the audiences they serve, who show their appreciation by voting.”

About NDH

Established December 7, 2011, NorthDelaWHEREHappening.com (aka NDH) is your FREE source for everything happening in New Castle County, North Delaware. Enjoy hyper-LOCAL coverage of community, restaurants, events, people, places,  and everything else fun & exciting in the area. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram & Pinterest; join in the conversation, and be the first to know What’s Happening and WHERE in North Delaware! Check our weekly weekend guide for all our top picks for What’s Happening every weekend. Produced by LOCALS, for LOCALS, about the LOCAL area.

Three years awarding thousands of locals. NDH is host to The Happening List – the only people’s choice contest centric to New Castle County, Delaware with 260+ categories spread over 13 groups like beauty, wellness, food, drink, people, places, pets, services, weddings and more. 

Two years recognizing 50+ local people. NDH honors more LOCAL Movers & Shakers DE, celebrating the achievements of North Delawareans who are making an impact in our communities.

About the DSBC Blue Ribbon Awards

80+ small business nominees within 17 categories from “Franchise of the Year” and “Customer Service of the Year” to “Emerging Business of the Year” and “Best Woman & Man Owned” recognizing the best in small businesses and larger companies that work with local small businesses in Delaware.

DSBC will recognize members & staff in these 17 categories.

Best Restaurant of the Year  (People & Judge’s)
Community Involvement Award   (Judge’s Only)
Customer Service of the Year  (People & Judge’s)
Emerging Business of the Year
Franchise of the Year
Home Based Business of the Year
Non Profit of the Year
Best Retail    (People & Judge’s)
Best Veteran Owned
Best Service Related
Best Marketing    (People & Judge’s)
Best Website      (People & Judge’s)
Best Woman Owned
Best Man Owned
Most Memorable Member  (Members only voting)
Member/ Ambassador of the Year
Administrative Support Person (Internal Panel Vote)

Please GO VOTE for all UR Delaware Small Biz FAVs!

Please vote for all your LOCAL small business favorites. Takes just a few minutes. Only one vote per IP address/device accepted. Voting ends at 11:59PM on Friday, March 4, 2016. Winners will be announced at the DSBC Blue Ribbon Awards Brunch on April 7, 2016 at Executive Hall in Newark. Cast your VOTES here. 

2016 DSBC will have the first Member/Ambassador of the Year Award. They will also have the People’s Choice Award for many of these categories, and have added a Judge’s Award for several categories for a more prestigious award. The Judge’s Award will be judged by 3 leaders in the business community. To purchase tickets to the Awards ceremony,  go to DSBC Blue Ribbon Awards Brunch.

About DSBC

The Delaware Small Business Chamber(DSBC)  is focused on supporting local small businesses throughout the state of Delaware and the surrounding areas. Our belief is that small business should be considered around 50 employees or less and not the 250 to 500 as defined my many other groups. We offer programs and opportunities for small business owners to meet and work with their peers to help start, build and maintain their companies.

Our members consist of these small businesses as well as larger organizations that want to work with the backbone of the future – Small Business.

DSBC will also help businesses with developing programs and events that will help member businesses showcase their services & products to their peers, their potential consumers, and to larger business to encourage the bigger companies to do business locally. For more information, visit www.dsbchamber.com