About The Mom's Choice Awards®
The Mom's Choice Awards® is known for establishing the benchmark of excellence in family-friendly media, products and services. This annual awards program recognizes authors, inventors, companies, parents and others for their efforts in creating quality family-friendly media products and services. Learn more.
A Mark Of Distinction
Parents, educators, librarians and retailers rely on our evaluations when selecting quality materials for children and families. The Mom’s Choice Awards seal helps families and educators navigate the vast array of products and services and make informed decisions. Learn more.
Our Esteemed Panel Of Judges
An esteemed panel of judges includes education, media and other experts as well as parents, children, librarians, performing artists, producers, medical and business professionals, authors, scientists and others. Click here to see a sampling of our panel members.
ATTENTION Publicists & Marketing Pros
Are you making awards programs a part of your marketing/publicity strategy? You should! Notable awards program like the prestigious Mom's Choice Awards can help gain positive media attention for your book, product or service.
Why The Mom's Choice Awards?
There are several factors that set us apart from other programs, but the top two are:
1) Your book, product or service is judged by your target market (parents, educators, librarians, media specialists, retailers and others)--NOT by your industry peers.
2) We do an incredible job of marketing and promoting our Honorees. Check out these testimonials!
Learn why the Mom's Choice Awards is a GREAT value for your marketing/publicity investment!
More than 250 categories. Click here for a complete list!
Enter by May 1st and SAVE!
Use one of the following promotion codes.
EB-100 = $100 off the entry fee
EB-AD = Enter one item or category and get a second item or category for free
Sorry, these promotions cannot be combined or used with any other offer.
Please visit the website for complete details.
Distinguish yourself and your work and join this prestigious awards program!
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Call For Entries- Mom's Choice Awards
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Book Expo America 2009
Mom's Choice Awards® Honorees and Alumni: Book Expo America is just around the corner! Don’t miss out on this dynamic event that generates positive exposure for your award-winning book/product.
Make arrangements now! Visit the Mom’s Choice Awards Alumni Webstore for special offers—many expire Friday, April 24th, so don’t delay!
*There is NO better exposure for your book/product!
*These filmed interviews make a great commercial / trailer for your book/product.
Is this your first experience with Book Expo America? Click here to learn everything you need to know.
We hope you’ll plan to visit the MCA Booth #345 on Friday, May 29th from 10-Noon. Greg Mortenson, author of the sensational book Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace One School at a Time (115 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List and currently #1) will be making a special appearance and signing copies of Entro®--The Mom’s Choice Awards® Magazine.
We look forward to seeing you there!
~Tara Paterson
Monday, April 20, 2009
Mom's Choice Awards 2009 Updates
The Mom's Choice Awards® is currently accepting submissions for 2010. Enter your product, book, service or company and distinguish yourself from all of the others on the market. Entries will be accepted now through October 1st, 2009.
Join us in our booth at Book Expo America May 29th-31st. Book Expo America is the largest publishing event in the United States and hosts several industry leaders. We will also have a special guest with us Friday May 29th from 10- noon, so don't miss your opportunity to be a part of the excitement.
There is still time to book your interview spot with me at Book Expo. All interviews will be taped and available for upload on the internet. Currently, we are filming on Friday May 29th and Saturday May 30th so reserve your spot now; space is limited!
We would like to thank the sponsors who have graciously offered us their support.
- Smithfield
- Wachovia Securities
- Webiob
- JetBlue Airlines
And a special thanks to our partner in advocating family- friendly entertainment, the Dove Foundation.
Make sure to pick up your copy of the Mom's Choice magazine Entro at Book Expo or reserve a copy through MomsChoiceAwards.com.We look forward to seeing you soon!
~Tara Paterson
Friday, March 28, 2008
Letting Go In Order To Grow
It was 2004 when I was approached by a colleague and friend of mine, with the idea for creating an awards program approved by moms. He was familiar with the various businesses I had established in the mom niche, so it just made sense- why not a program to honor the things mom's feel are important? We collaborated on a name and the Mom's Choice Awards was born.
I spent the first couple of years marketing heavily to the book market and attended several Book Expo conferences, encouraging authors and publishers to submit their products. It was exciting and exhausting at the same time, but the rewards were great. Our recipients began to share the impact receiving our award had on their product and one even received interest in the form of a T.V. show. How amazing it was to know we were truly having an impact on people's lives and their creations, all at once.
2007 proved to be more challenging than past years, because we were truly growing beyond my personal capability. We contracted with a remarkable company who brought the image of the Mom's Choice to new heights and the realization began to set in- I was not capable of taking this much further on my own. In the fall of last year, I was faced with a decision that proved to be a difficult one. I had a choice to make- continue to develop the MCA within the box of my limitations or let it go so it could grow. It wasn't an easy decision to make as I had formed an emotional attachment to my creation and the feeling it evoked, but in the end, it was the only choice that made sense.
I made the decision to allow the Mom's Choice to take on wings of her own and released the attachment I had to solely operating the program. Today, the awards is climbing to new heights as we form partnerships with company's like the Dove Foundation and Wachovia Securities and I am happy to say I have more pride and ownership in this company than I ever expected.
I want to honor and thank the Mom's Choice team for all of their hard work in making my dream a greater reality than I ever could have imagined.
Stay tuned, because the momentum we are building this year far exceeds my expectations and I am proud to be a part of such a great organization!
~Tara Paterson
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Why Should You Enter The Mom's Choice Awards?
There are many awards' programs out there and we understand it can be challenging to decide which one's to enter. We offer a variety of unique opportunities for our entrants in an effort to make the decision making process a bit easier.
Upon receiving a Mom's Choice Award, you can expect to receive:
- An award certificate and a supply of the beautiful MCA embossed seals
- A product review in Entro® – The Mom’s Choice Awards® Magazine
- National press release listing your book/product (we also offer a model for creating your own press release)
- Product reviews posted on Amazon.com and BN.com
- Product promotion via the Mom’s Choice Awards® website with links to your website and Amazon.com
- List your product in the Mom’s Choice Awards® webstore
- Your testimonial included in the Mom’s Choice Awards® interactive testimonial gallery
- Lifetime membership in the prestigious Mom’s Choice Awards® Alumni Honor Roll
- Cooperative advertising opportunities
- Product promotion opportunities at BookExpo America and the ABC Kids Expo
- Honorees interviewed and filmed for media distribution at BookExpo America and the ABC Kids Expo
- An interview which will appear on the Mom's Choice Founder's blog
- Product promotion to retailers and other strategic partners
15% off Webiob services (interactive online books, product trailers, and other services) - 50% off the review fee for the Dove Foundation’s Family Approved Seal
- For a small licensing fee – the MCA Image Pack – everything you need to promote your status as an MCA honoree on your book cover, product packaging, website and promotional/marketing collateral
And more!
To find all of the services included here, visit- www.MomsChoiceAwards.com for more information. Plus, you always have access to me, the founder of the Awards! I will be at BEA, interviewing all of our fine alumni and recipients and I look forward to meeting you.
-Tara Paterson
Monday, March 24, 2008
What Does An Award Bring Your Product?
When you win an award for your book, product or service, it is an exciting experience full of potential to increase sales and acknowledgement within your industry.
Here are some benefits of winning an award courtesy of the Jenkins Group:
- Increases credibility
- Increases visibility
- Gives you new material for press releases, brochures and other marketing collateral
- Renews enthusiasm of sales and marketing team
- Use of logo and stickers on books and promotional material
So how can you use this honor to your advantage and how can you put your new stickers and logo to use? Use your award honor on:
- Press releases
- Book covers
- Press kit covers
- Catalogs, brochures, post cards, flyers, book marks, other materials
And don't forget to place the logo on your:
- Web site
- in your signature line
- on your business card
If you are scheduled to do an interview mention you have been selected as a recipient of a special award and make sure when your team makes a sales call, he/she refers to your award winning honor.
Who knows, you may be the next recipient or alumni with a show on PBS. Dewey Doo-It did it, you can too!
Regards,
Tara Paterson
Friday, March 21, 2008
Congratulations to the 2008 Mom's Choice Awards' Recipients
I would like to personally congratulate all of the 2008 MCA recipients! Welcome to our community of award winning creators and we look forward to seeing you all at Book Expo where I will be personally interviewing past and present recipients. It is always our pleasure to recognize outstanding products, and this year was no exception.
Among the most outstanding children's books were-
- Dance In A Buffalo Skull by the South Dakota State Historical Society Press
- R Is For Rhyme by Judy Young, Sleeping Bear Press
- Priscilla McDoodleNutDoodleMcMae Asks "Why?" by Janet Mary Sinke, My Grandma and Me Publishers.
Congratulations to this year's top honors in children's literature and to all of our other honorees!
Founder,
Tara Paterson
Contest Giveaway
To enter to receive your free autographed copy of my book, send me an email at founder@justformom.com. Each month I will select one email at random to receive a copy.
Founder's blog
- Tara Paterson
- A Certified Coach for Parents of Intuitives, Tara Paterson is raising four highly intuitive children with her husband. She is also the co-author of the book- Raising Intuitive Children, a syndicated columnist, parent advisor, and author of 100 plus parenting and spiritual articles. In 2004, she launched Moms In Print, a publishing company that assists “mom” authors. The following year, she created the Mom’s Choice Awards®, which assists mothers in selecting products and services for their families.
Paterson has appeared on CBS 48 Hours, the Today Show with Katie Couric, CNN with Anderson Cooper, the Early Show, and she is the founder and spokesperson for the Mom’s Choice Awards and an expert blogger for the Partnership for a Drug Free America.
She has been featured in the Washington Post, Newsweek, the Loudoun Magazine and quoted in the USA Today and Parenting Magazine. She has also been interviewed on several radio programs and has appeared as a spokeswoman on several national TV affiliates across the country.
