Intuit “Love a Local Business” Official Rules

I have entered our business address (not P.O. box, just number and street) and I am told it is "not a mappable address".  Any suggestions?  The address is correct and can be mapped on any maps website.

When the contest starts over, do I have to re-nominate my business? Or is it automatically 'rolled over' to the new contest?

None of the 4 box links on this page work:  http://lovealocalbusiness.intuit.com/playbook  I wanted to look at the detailed information.  Please help.  Thanks!

Hi, thanks so much for your site! We nominated our business yesterday (my son helped post and we discovered a typo in our name)! Oops! Sorry! How can I correct the typo, please? It IS Groovy on Grand Design Studios, but the name for Fans to see and the link is Groovy on Grand DesiHn Studios. Anyway you could please Et me know how to change the H to a G, without losing our votes so far. Thansk so much! Intuit is the best!

I am trying to remove the automatic reminder from fanminder. It said we could drop it at any time and I cannot find where to go to do that. Please advise.

How do I see where our business ranks for the number of votes if they are not in the top ten? I thought I had that figured but now I can't find where to see that.Thanks

@KayHi Kay,Thank you for your interest in the Love A Local Business program. Currently this contest is open only to U.S. residents which means that your business would not qualify. I'm really sorry and I wish you and your business lots of success.@CarolHi Carol,Thanks for your question. While the rules don't specify how the grant money is to be used, the goal of the grant is to help small business owners grow their business. Past grant winners have used this money to expand their business by either hiring new employees, offering new services or marketing their business.@ MartaHi Marta,I'm sorry you're having trouble with the nomination process on our site. Our tech team is looking into this and I will send you a note to your personal e-mail when this has been resolved.Thanks, betsy

we nominated our business Community Empowerment and Opportunity Center for the month of March. It does not come up when the fans follow the link. I also noticed that the name is fragmented into 2# different nominations. could you please look into this so our fans can find our business when they follow the link. regards, Marta executive director of Community Empowerment and Opportunity Center

What are the requirements for using the grant? does it have specific requirements for hiring or expanding purposes only? Or can you use the grant for anything?'

I am an American, residing in Canada...my business is online and therefore international. I have so many American clients from Miami, Fl...to San Francisco,C...to Boston, Ma. These people have visited my place both in person and online. They have supported me with financial donations...because I am "between" countries...I have very little support from either side for grants etc. I live in Canada mostly because I have a same sex partner to whom I am legally married here. How can I nominate My Business...Windows to the North Gallery...an art gallery dedicated to honouring women artists both locally here in Canada as well as internationally. Please let me know.. I currently represent more than 30 woman and I am doing them a service promoting their amazing art. Thank you.

Hello everyone:@ MarcilThe January winner was announced on February 8th, click on the recent winners tab to learn more.@ MonicaThe January winner was already announced and the February winner will likely be announced the week of 3/5.@ MartaOur tech team has migrated all of the votes from the lower case business name to the proper account. You should see this change reflected in your total votes. Our team is working on removing the lower case version of the business so you don't run into this issue again.Thanks, Betsy

our non profit was entered in with upper case letter Community Empowerment and Opportunity Center, two of our nonprofit fans left votes with lowe case letters and both votes are not being shown with the proper nonprofit count Community Empowerment and Opportunity Center, how can we transfer those votes to correct header. please contact us and advise us, Marta executive director/Community Empowerment and Opportunity Center

Does anyone know when they announce the winner? Thanks!

Hello, Is this contest still running ?! Any updates about January’s winners ?! Thanks

Hi Jean,I've asked our IT team to look into this. We will let you know once it's resolved.Thanks, Betsy

Someone shared my link to vote on their FB page which led to one of that person's friends voting on my link for someone else's business. After that happened, when I'm logged in to check my status/votes, my business name is gone and shows as "Sarajane Case Photography" instead of what it should be: "Jean Moree Photography" and there are votes for me (that were originally there) and votes for the other business all mixed up under my original listing. There is no way for me to fix it. I sent 2 emails to the intuit people at LoveALocalBusiness@Intuit.com on January 30th with no response. So, my listing is all messed up and no one will fix it.

Thanks for the reply. My Business name is Burkhart Lawn Care. We have had 10 or 15 Custumers said they voted thru the text. We are a very small business and need all the help we can get. Thanks, Billy Burkhart

Can you tell me if Blaums Outdoor Solutions Inc. Have nominated themself fot this drawing period. I have been talking with in my comunity for neighbors to vote for this local buisness we would all love to see him win! Please let me know as soon as possible Thank You

Hi Marie,I've asked our tech department to look into this issue and I will let you know once it's resolved.Thanks, Betsy

I enrolled my business New Moon Haven and then rolled over the votes to this current voting period and when I just checked my votes, it has a different business name at the top. A competitor none the less. How did this happen? My existing votes are mine because most of them have our store name in them. Can you help me with this?

Hello everyone:@MarcilThanks for your note. Winners are selected randomly by ePrize, our contest administrator. While greater fan votes increases the odds of a business being selected, the process is random and doesn’t guarantee that the business with the highest votes will win.@ f.Yes, in order to be eligible, the business will have to nominate themselves for each contest period. This contest period runs from Jan.1-Jan. 31, 2012. I just checked our database and it doesn't look like the businesses that you list above have submitted their own nominations. In order to be eligible, they should do this before the end of this month.@ BillyI'm sorry your customer votes are not showing up. Can you please provide your business name and tell me if your customers voted via our website or text voting? These pieces of information will help us investigate the problem.Thanks, Betsy

I have had several Custumers vote that is not showing up?

As I understand the rules, the business must nominate itself. Is that once for this contest period--Jan. 1-Jan. 31, 2012. Or, is it once during this 3-month cycle?How can we tell if our favorite businesses have nominated themselves? Does it show somewhere on the site or must we contact the businesses? I would like to know specifically whether the Hunter-Hopkins Center in Charlotte, NC and the Whittemore-Peterson Institute in Reno, NV have nominated themselves during 2012.Thanks for your help!

Hi, I just wonder how the winner selection is working ? is it completely random or do you pick manually a specific company at the end ?!Looking at all of your winners so far there's almost no one from your top pulse list or from top 10 business is a winner !!! , some winners has only as low as 25 votes :-) , while the business who has 1000 votes or more aren't winner !!! Are you sure that you follow a random selection for the winners ?!!!!!!If anyone familiar with probability science, they will now that your contest winners don't make any kind of sense according to this science's formulas , considering that you have almost 1000 nominees on average !!!!!Please explain ... !!!! Thanks!

@JamieHi Jamie, our IT team has fixed the link. For your convenience, here it is: http://lovealocalbusiness.intuit.com/banners?business_id=300228

@PamelaYes, but the links are broken, actually, there are no links. It highlights, but I click on "get a badge" and nothing happens.@BetsyThanks for looking into this, I am hoping to send out an email blast on Friday and also create a page for my site. If anything, perhaps someone can send me a Jpeg and link to my voting page. Thanks again for looking into this. ~ Jamie

Hi Jamie,You can access your badges by clicking on the Winner's Playbook link and clicking on the badges button on the left side.Thanks, Pamela

Happy New Year!@ CeliaWe don’t have the capability to move votes from Olympia Foods Co-Op to your business. While it’s unfortunate that some of your customers voted for the wrong business, it seems that it is only a handful of votes that went to the wrong business and since this is a random drawing, the business with the most votes doesn’t necessarily win. Also, in case you weren't aware, the contest re-set on January 1st so you have the chance to re-enter and ask your customers to vote for the correct business. Good luck!@ MarjoryIs your business name Marjory Trott’s Movement and Yoga? This name seems to be in the only one associated with your e-mail address. Which is the other business that you believe is getting your votes? Also, please keep in mind that the last contest period ended on 12/31/11. So any changes you might have made on 1/1/12 would not have affected your chances to win because the contest period had already ended. The new contest period for January just started so you have the chance to re-enter the contest and start fresh. Good luck!@ JamieOur IT team is looking into this. In the meantime, you may want to re-fresh your page and try again.

I am trying to get a badge/widget, but nothing happens when I click on "get your badge". Is something wrong with the links? Thanks for your help.

Hi,I am the owner of a business on Nantucket, MA. My initial nomination for a grant was put in about 11am, Dec 30, 2011. Today, after checking my own page on the intuit love a small business site, I was trying to vote for a friend's business and instead of casting a vote for her on her page, somehow managed to change my page name to her business name and address, also on Nantucket. So now all my votes are going to her name. How could that possibly have happened? And how can we change it back so I have my page and she has hers? Please let me know. We are two separate businesses. All I wanted was to wish her well. I have cc'd this to the owner of the other page as well. Thank you for your assistance.Marjory Trott

I tried to contact intuit because our business had a previous Tumwater, WA address. The name is Olympia Local Foods and a few of our customers accidentally voted for the Olympia Food Co-op, which isn't in the competition, but was in the yellow pages. I know they are for us because they mention us (the owners) by name. Hopefully you can combine our votes.

@Danny Buying and trading votes goes against the purpose of this contest, which is to get real positive feedback (love!) from your customers and community. Unfortunately, the fake votes are obvious and come across as being insincere. Keep in mind that businesses with the highest number of votes don't always win.@Laura We contact winners by phone within a couple of days of the drawing. Thanks!

Hello! How will you be notified if you've won? I see there was supposed to be an approximate drawing date on 12/13/11. Thanks!

Is there another round in this contest starting January 1, 2012??

@Brenda We'll be continuing the program through March 2012. Don't worry about being small! Most of the winners have been small businesses with just a handful of votes. It only takes one!@Clayton I do see your business had a duplicate listing that I've since merged. http://lovealocalbusiness.intuit.com/pages/fan?b_id=296132It looks like you have 4 votes total. Had you seen somewhere previously where it was listing 200 votes for your business?@Julie Can you post a link to your voting page so that I can investigate?@Laura A fan may vote once per business. Thanks for checking!

The rules are kind of unclear as to how many times a person can vote. Can 1 person vote multiple times? Is it 1 vote per phone # or 1 vote per email address? We are asking friends, family, co-workers, neighbors, strangers, etc. to vote for us! Just want to make sure we are voting correctly!Thanks!

Hi,I nominated by business on 11/29/11. A received a few votes on 11/29/11 and 11/30/11. I have had numerous customers tell me that they have voted for my business through the Text to Vote through fanminder in December, but none of those votes are showing up. What has gone wrong?Thanks, Julie

my votes are not showing up. i should have somewhere around 200 votes but when i go to the site to check there is nothing there. how can i remedy this issue so that my votes will be counted?

Does this contest continue on into next year? Is it going to be a yearly thing or was only for 2011? Just wondering due to my just finding out about it. I haven't been around long enough like others so I feel like I'm a dwarf/little person among MASSIVE giants.I'm going to give it an attempt non the less though!It sooo VERY crucial that I win at some point because $25,000 would solve MANY of my business start-up woes. Aloong with helping me mentor kids in what I do to show them ther's more to life than sports or entertainment career paths.

Hi Carrie-Lee,Yes, the winners are notified within a couple of days after the drawing date. The October winners have already been posted to the Love a Local Business Winners page, and we'll be announcing the first November winner soon!Thanks, Pamela Intuit Love a Local Business Team

I see several drawing dates within the three month period. Are the winners notified close to the drawing date? Or are they all awarded at the end of the three month period? Other than how winners will be notified, I didn't see when they would be notified in the official rules.Thank you!

Hi Jonathan,1) No, fans should vote just once each quarterly contest period (current contest is October-December). We do remove duplicate votes.2) You should be able to see your vote on the business' fan page. As for the confirmation email, it does not require a response - it is for notification purposes to the voter only.Thanks, Pamela at Intuit

A few questions I have!! 1) can someone vote for you company more then once like once a day, or is it one time for the month?? 2) i seen in another post that you send emails to confirm the vote what happens if people dont respond to that email you send out do we still get their votes because i havent even gotten a confirmation email myself so i can't confirm my vote.

Hi Charlene,I answered your question in the other post:Yes, the owner still does need to nominate his or her business using the business owner link in order to qualify to win the grant, and the business needs to have fewer than 200 employees. If a business has two locations, they can each be nominated.Thanks, Pamela at Intuit

Hi, I have several questions:1. We host our clients and provide them with emails. Is it possible to have different clients who have email addresses from the same domain enter as separate entities? for example, if I have 2 clients. one is sasha@mdclients.com and another is alfia@mdclients.com, may they bothe vote for our business?2. Where can I get the widget to install into my website, so I can see latest comments easily and encourage people to vote from our website?3. I also have some international clients in Malasia, India, China, Shri-Lanka, Russia, Iceland, Germany, etc. may they also vote for us?Thanks,Sasha

Pam,Couple Questions:Does the owner of the company have to nominate themselves too? Or can I just nominate them?Must be under 200 employess?And, this company is a restaurant with two locations so votes are coming in separately for both. Can they be put together since the management company is the same or do they remain separate?Thanks! Charlene

Hi Laura,So glad you found us on Facebook! We just rolled over to a new contest period so the deadline to enter is December 31st for the entire contest, but we'll be having drawings every couple of weeks or so! I'll make sure the ad rules get updated.Thanks, Pamela at Intuit

Hi. Your ad to participate in this contest popped up on facebook today (October 3), but it says the deadline to enter was Sept. 30 - is that correct? Thanks, Laura

Hi,Are nonprofit organizations eligible?Thanks,Brian

Hi Randy,You probably set up recurring posts when you nominated your business a couple of weeks ago. To change these settings, log in to the Winner's Playbook, click on Recurring Posts & Tweets, and modify your settings there.Hope this helps!Thanks, Pamela Intuit