Best of the Rose City invites, engages, and allows you, our audience, to recognize the best businesses, organizations, and people in our area. Our focus is on businesses and professionals who support, serve, and do business in the following counties: Multnomah Washington Clackamas

Nominations and voting will take place on voterosecity.com

Nomination surveys require registration of basic information from the submitter for when we need to clarify an entry. We do offer you the opportunity to share your name and email with us so that we can keep you up to date on the program. You may submit your nominees in any given topic area and return to complete the survey any time before the deadline. Registration may be necessary for the voting phase to promote fair voting. You may be asked for your name and email address.

No. All nominations and voting are done through our website and link to our voting platform on voterosecity.com

The nomination period begins at 12 PM Monday, July 15th, and ends at 5 PM Friday, July 26th. We rely on our audience to supply us with the names of outstanding people, businesses, and establishments in each of the 280+ categories. Once the nominees are finalized, our audience is asked to vote on one choice in each category. Per our guidelines, you are allowed to nominate without limits, and during voting, you can vote once every 24 hours. Our audience and business owners nominate their favorites by selecting one of 11 topic areas: Eat & Drink Education Financial Health & Beauty Home & Garden Law Motors Real Estate Services Shopping Things to Do Nominees should be individuals and businesses that serve the Portland Metro area Nominating is as simple as entering a name and city in text entry fields. It’s best, but not required, to provide additional information on the nominee so that we can verify them (Phone number, address, URL). You may return any time before 5 PM Friday, July 26th to add nominations. Businesses with multiple locations appear as a single nomination for the voting phase unless otherwise specified by the business. NERUS Strategies does not review or consider factors such as business licenses, trade affiliations, Better Business Bureau ratings, or online ratings when determining nominees or winners. Best of the Rose City nominations and winners are solely chosen by the public through online nominations and voting.

For a category to qualify for the ballot, there must be a minimum of 5 separate businesses that are competing for votes. If someone is nominated in a category that they do not qualify for, we make reasonable accommodations to move the nominee to a similar category. Nominees are moved to the voting ballot. NERUS Strategies does not review or consider factors such as business licenses, trade affiliations, Better Business Bureau ratings, or online ratings when determining nominees or winners. Best of the Rose City nominations and winners are solely chosen by the public through online nominations and voting.

Businesses, organizations, or individuals that are nominated by our audience are placed on our ballot after they are verified. Should a business earn enough votes to be in the top three they may be required to complete a simple online questionnaire with basic business information including name, location(s), year established, business hours, phone number, web address (if any) and submit or make available a photo of the business, organization or individual. There is no cost or obligation to participate. Don't forget to download your free promotional assets to use on your website, social media, and place of business to help promote yourself to customers and friends as a nominee during the voting period.

The regular voting period begins Monday, August 12th at 12 PM and ends Friday, August 30 at 5 PM at voterosecity.com Nominations and votes are tabulated by a third party. NERUS Strategies, LLC. and its affiliates do not know the results of the contest until after the votes are tabulated. In each category, our audience votes on their favorite nominee. You are permitted to vote in each category once per day. Businesses, institutions, individuals and schools are encouraged to promote the contest in order to gain nominations and/or votes. Competitive advertising, special offers, and campaigns are permitted; however, NERUS Strategies, LLC. at its sole discretion reserves the right to exclude from the competition any businesses or individuals that engage in activities intended to “rig” or “fix” the voting process. Votes that are suspect may be disqualified in the count. Use of bots, robotic, repetitive, automatic, programmed, vote exchange websites, vote “farming”, scripts or other automated means designed to circumvent “one ballot per person per day” rule, are not allowed. Contestants discovered using these methods for vote acceleration are subject to suspected votes being disqualified without notice, and the jeopardy of the Contestant being completely disqualified and removed from the competition. Contestants risk disqualification if they use promotions involving quid pro quo strategies, such as, but not limited to "vote for us, and we’ll enter you into a drawing" or "vote for us, and we’ll give you a discount." These approaches create an unfair advantage by incentivizing votes, which goes against the contest guidelines and can result in disqualification to ensure a level playing field for all participants. Business associates and advertisers of NERUS Strategies, LLC. and any other owner-affiliated company are not given special treatment, including but not limited to, our presenting sponsor. However, NERUS Strategies, LLC. reserves the right in its sole discretion to refuse nominations.

All nominations have to be verified prior to being placed on the final ballot. During the nomination process, we welcome all submissions. Our ballot is a closed ballot. However, we will consider in our sole discretion late entries into an established category by request. All late entries must be emailed to support@BestoftheRoseCity.com for consideration.

The names of the winners are posted and announced Thursday, December 5th online at BestoftheRoseCity.com and honored in our Best of the Rose City special winners magazine. In the event of a tie in any category, more than one winner or runner-up may be awarded.

Best of the Rose City and the unique logos are property of NERUS Strategies, LLC and may only be used with express, written permission. Logos are licensed to winners at a marketing spend or direct payment of $1,495 or more. Best of the Rose City merchandise does not count toward the logo license spend. Contact us to request your logo.