DAYTON, OHIO, October 13, 2008 - At the annual Assembly of Better Business Bureaus in Boston last week, your Better Business Bureau serving Dayton and the Miami Valley was honored with three national awards. It received the Council of Better Business Bureau’s Outstanding BBB Award for Internet-Based or Related Programs. The award was in recognition of your BBB’s Search Engine Solutions (SES) program. In addition, it recieved two awards for the largest volume of businesses becoming BBB Accredited.
A leader in innovation, the Search Engine Solutions program - which was developed, is headquartered, and is operated by your local BBB - is being used by BBBs and businesses across the nation and Canada. The program is a cost effective solution to help businesses be more visible. Listings for BBBs and participating businesses on the SES program have been seen on Google over five million times. In most cases, the people seeing those listings would never have seen your BBB in their searches without this program. The program brings consumers, BBB Accredited Businesses and your BBB together in the most used online search marketplace.
Your BBB was also honored for having the most businesses in your BBB’s category become Accredited between August 1, 2008 and July 31, 2009 - a record-breaking year for your BBB. (Today, 125 BBBs serve the U.S. and Canada. These BBBs are divided up into seven categories based on number of businesses in a BBB’s service area-number of businesses as supplied by the U.S. Census Bureau). BBB Accredited Businesses, which abide by your BBB’s Standards For Trust, are an elite, trusted group of Miami Valley businesses.
John North, BBB President and CEO, says, "It’s an honor to be recognized nationally for our local efforts in the Miami Valley. We recognize there is no better time than now to be a BBB Accredited Business and those that have earned that prestigious distinction are looking for ways to promote it. These awards reinforce this. These awards demonstrate your local BBB is a first-rate organization operating on the leading edge, bringing real value to the marketplace."
These awards aren’t your BBB’s only recent honor. It was announced in September that it’s a winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Award for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility. The Sloan Awards honor organizations of all sizes and all types in the Miami Valley and across the country using workplace flexibility as a strategy to increase workplace effectiveness and yield positive business results. It will be honored by local award sponsor the Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce at a board meeting on November 18.
About Your BBB
Your BBB, the leader in advancing marketplace trust, is an unbiased nonprofit organization that sets and upholds high standards for fair and honest business behavior. Businesses that earn BBB Accreditation contractually agree and adhere to the organization’s high standards of ethical business behavior. Your BBB provides objective advice, free business BBB Reliability ReportsTM and charity BBB Wise Giving ReportsTM, and educational information on topics affecting marketplace trust. To further promote trust, your BBB also offers complaint and dispute resolution support for consumers and businesses when there is difference in viewpoints. The first BBB was founded in 1912. Today, 125 BBBs serve communities across the U.S. and Canada, evaluating and monitoring more than four million local and national businesses and charities. Please visit www.bbb.org for more information about your BBB.
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