Jump Shopping decided to start the 2011 South African E-Commerce Awards a little earlier this year. Nomination and voting will open on Monday, 1 August 2011.
This year it only takes one nomination to get your website listed. Voting will start as soon as your website is listed. The publics vote will not only decide “South Africa’s Favourite E-Commerce Website” but also which websites make it through Round 2 and 3 for evaluation.
To help incentivise the voting, Jump Shopping together with ShopMaster will be giving one lucky voter an Apple iPad 2 16GB WiFi + 3G. There will be banners available for website owners to put on websites to drive the voting and we highly recommend using them as they will take voters directly to your voting page. These banners will be available from 1 August 2011.
Judging Criteria for the 2011 South African E-Commerce Awards:
Jump Shopping has decided to change the voting procedure this year. Jump Shopping and the public will be judging the websites in a 3 Round Voting and Evaluation process. Jump Shopping will be ordering from the various websites under pseudo names to evaluate the websites and their respective ordering processes and customer service.
Websites will be judged against the following criteria:
Round 1: Public nomination
E-Commerce websites are added to the list of nominees by the public. A person can nominate and vote once per email address. Jump Shopping reserves the right to decline entry into the awards.
The top 40 websites that received the most public votes will go through to Round 2.
Round 2: Initial Evaluation
An initial evaluation conducted by Jump Shopping of the top 40 websites, together with the public’s votes from Round 1 and Round 2, will provide the top 20 contenders for Round 3.
Round 3: E-Commerce Process Evaluation
Jump Shopping will be ordering from the top 20 websites under pseudo names to evaluate the websites and their respective ordering processes, customer service, as well as the websites design standards and ease of use.
The Winners will be announced on 7 November 2011:
The Public’s Favourite E-Commerce Website
Best E-Commerce Store
Best E-Commerce Services Website
Best Design, Standards & Ease of use
Best Shopping Process
We are looking forward to the E-Commerce Awards this year. Good luck to you all!
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