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BEST of the BEST even easier by including nominees on the ballot to choose from for each category, along with a write-in field so you could vote for your favorite business even if you didn’t see it on the list. We want to congratulate this year’s crop of winners — we hope you’ll proudly share the news with all of your clients, customers, colleagues, friends and family members. If your Marin Magazine Editor in business didn’t make the winners’ Chief Lotus Abrams and circle this year, here’s how you can Publisher Leah Bronson increase your chances next year: 1 Subscribe to our e-mail Better Letter newsletter at marinmagazine. August is here, and it just might be our favorcom/subscribe and follow us on social media ite month of the year at Marin Magazine — the @marinmagazine to stay up to date on all of sun is out and the weather is warm, luring our Best of the County news. us outdoors in Marin and beyond. But what 2 Get nominated to be listed on our balmakes this month particularly special is that lot. Each year, we reach out to it’s the time of year when we get previous winners to ask them to celebrate our fantastic Best of How can we help to nominate other businesses. the County winners — your favorite Through our Better Letter and restaurants, fitness studios, kids’ organization? social media, we also invite readclothing shops, spas and more Since January ers to nominate their favorite — all chosen by you! These local 2020, our tools businesses. Businesses with the Marin County and Bay Area busiand strategy have raised: most votes are pre-loaded on nesses and organizations have our voting ballot, so make sure worked hard to earn your trust $27, 231, 297 you encourage your customers, and loyalty, and we’re thrilled to and made: friends and family members to have the opportunity to shower 30,74 4 ,019 nominate you. them with praise and recognition Lives Better 3 Once voting begins, get the in this issue and at our upcoming word out to your followers to vote in-person event this month. for your business — they can vote We know you’re as excited as as many times as they want! We post regularly we are to see who won the 2022 Best of the on social media during the voting window, County competition on page 38. After all, we making it easy to share our posts and stories received more votes — a whopping 46,183 — with your followers. than any other year. This year, we made voting
4 Don’t be discouraged if your business’s name doesn't make it onto the ballot. Encourage your followers to write in their vote for you. This year, eight of the 163 Best of the County awards went to write-in winners. As we bask in the glory of Best of the County celebrations and the last weeks of summer before the kids head back to school, there are so many activities and events to enjoy this month in Marin and the Bay Area — Marin City’s 80th anniversary celebrations, music festivals like Outside Lands and the Petaluma Music Festival, The Outdoor Art Club’s 120th anniversary party and so much more. You can read about all of these happenings on these pages and our website, social media feeds and Better Letter. We hope to see you there! Leah Bronson, Publisher Lotus Abrams, Editor in Chief Susan B. Noyes, Founder & Chief Visionary Officer
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