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Speaker 1: com and the survey is going on now but not
Speaker 1: for much longer. Monday is the final day to get
Speaker 1: your votes in if you'd like to vote for a
Speaker 1: local business to be the Local Best. And we've got
Speaker 1: Nate joining us right now. Hello sir, how are you doing?
Speaker 2: I'm doing great man, how are you doing?
Speaker 1: I'm doing fantastic And I encourage people to get their
Speaker 1: votes in at thelocal beest dot com. The deadline is approaching.
Speaker 1: It's Monday, and what time does everything wrap up for
Speaker 1: voting Monday?
Speaker 2: Voting closes eleven fifty nine on Monday, eleven fifty nine
Speaker 2: pm Monday, August fourth, So you have the whole day Monday,
Speaker 2: but as soon as it crack's midnight for Tuesday, it's
Speaker 2: over with.
Speaker 1: So you've got today, you've got this weekend, you've got Monday.
Speaker 1: You don't have a whole lot of time. And then
Speaker 1: once the voting is done, then you guys get to
Speaker 1: do the hard part. You get to go through and
Speaker 1: crunch and numbers in tally, and then we all eventually
Speaker 1: get to find out who the winners are.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so, yeah, you're exactly right. So what happens every
Speaker 2: year is we finalize the voting on August it's actually
Speaker 2: the first Monday in August. Then we take about a
Speaker 2: week John and we kind of throw out some bad ballots.
Speaker 2: I want to make sure that all the votes are
Speaker 2: coming from local people, check IP addresses and whatnot. And
Speaker 2: then the actual published winners usually go on Thelocal beest
Speaker 2: dot com about a week later. I'm gonna call it
Speaker 2: August tenth ish somewhere in there, and there's yeah, over
Speaker 2: two hundred categories. We're publishing the best places in town,
Speaker 2: not because we say so, but because about eight thousand
Speaker 2: people in Sioux Falls take the time to vote and
Speaker 2: publish their results, and we give consumers in the area
Speaker 2: a really quick guide of the best places to go
Speaker 2: based on word of mouth.
Speaker 1: I love it Thelocal beest dot com and how long
Speaker 1: have you guys been doing this survey? It's a bit now,
Speaker 1: isn't it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is our twenty first year. We started this
Speaker 2: in the very first year was two thousand and five,
Speaker 2: and we've been going, going every year and it's just
Speaker 2: been it's been awesome. People embrace it. I think the
Speaker 2: businesses really get fired up about it. And at the
Speaker 2: end of the day, it's just something to give people
Speaker 2: when they're trying to figure out where to go and
Speaker 2: they want trusted opinions, and who better to give those opinions?
Speaker 2: And consumers are slight themselves.
Speaker 1: Right, And it doesn't take a long time. You go in,
Speaker 1: you fill out the survey, you finish it, and if
Speaker 1: you don't want to vote for everybody, you don't have to.
Speaker 1: You can just pick and choose. How many categories do
Speaker 1: you have? And Nate, do you have people who vote
Speaker 1: in every single category?
Speaker 2: Yeah? They pick and choose and yeah, you're right. You
Speaker 2: go to the local beest dot com and if you've
Speaker 2: never voted before, there is some setup where we get
Speaker 2: some demographic information front me because we want our data
Speaker 2: and we want our study to be really, really good.
Speaker 2: But once you've got that profile built, then each year
Speaker 2: what you need to do is at least come back
Speaker 2: in and log onto that profile and have activity in
Speaker 2: your profile. And then if you didn't want to go
Speaker 2: back in and change all your votes in the previous
Speaker 2: year because you might not have had a change onion,
Speaker 2: you don't have to. All those votes will roll over,
Speaker 2: but you do have to have activity in your profile
Speaker 2: to to to have those votes count. And you know,
Speaker 2: really it depends. We do have some people that go
Speaker 2: through and complete all two hundred of those. We have
Speaker 2: a people that we have people that just do you know,
Speaker 2: five or ten I think on average a consumer might
Speaker 2: complete about twenty five thirty votes. Obviously there's got to
Speaker 2: be there's going to be some that are a lot
Speaker 2: more than that and a lot less. But we want
Speaker 2: we want them coming back, and we want to make
Speaker 2: it easy for him to do again.
Speaker 1: The website is Thelocalbest dot com. And you guys have
Speaker 1: been doing this for a long long time. Do you
Speaker 1: have many businesses who have been the Local Best every
Speaker 1: single year you've been doing the survey?
Speaker 2: Yeah, So here's some here's some quick stats for you, John,
Speaker 2: you might like this. I think the last time I look,
Speaker 2: there's about twenty thousand businesses and zoo falls okay, and
Speaker 2: I think about six hundred each year get voted Local Best,
Speaker 2: so we're shaving off a pretty thin percentage right there.
Speaker 2: And then there's about two hundred of those six hundred
Speaker 2: that are number ones, obviously because we have about two
Speaker 2: hundred two categories. But I think when I did some
Speaker 2: math on this a while back, I think there's been
Speaker 2: about thirty five or forty who have been number one
Speaker 2: every single year since we started this. So that's that's
Speaker 2: some pretty rare air.
Speaker 1: I love that. Again, the deadline for voting is Monday
Speaker 1: at midnight, but you don't have to wait till Monday.
Speaker 1: You don't have to even wait till this weekend. Do
Speaker 1: it today Thelocal Best dot com Nate, thank you for
Speaker 1: your time.
Speaker 2: Hey, buddy, I appreciate it, and thanks for the support.
Speaker 2: Thanks for your airtime, and and best of luck for
Speaker 2: you through this voting process too, because you're kind of
Speaker 2: one of the guys too.
Speaker 1: Man, absolutely, and we would love your vote. You can
Speaker 1: vote for the John and Heidi Show for the best
Speaker 1: radio program and Sunny Radio for the best radio station. Again,
Speaker 1: do all of that either today or this weekend, or
Speaker 1: at the very bare minimum, do it by Monday. The
Speaker 1: voting deadline is Monday at midnight, so do it as
Speaker 1: soon as you can. The website once again is the
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