Alpharetta CVB Wins 4 MarCom Awards

ALPHARETTA, GA — The Alpharetta Convention and Visitors Bureau has announced it recently won four MarCom Awards. The bureau received two Gold Awards for its Awesome Alpharetta tourism website and The Official Visitors Guide To Alpharetta, Ga., a Platinum Award for the Alpharetta Insider Blog and Honorable Mention for its @AwesomeAlpharetta Instagram page.

MarCom is one of the oldest, largest and most prestigious creative competitions in the world, recognizing outstanding achievement by creative professionals involved in the concept, direction, design and production of marketing and communication materials and programs. Over 6,000 entries are submitted from all over the world from corporate marketing and communication departments, advertising agencies, PR firms, design shops, production companies and freelancers.

“It is an honor to be recognized by a prestigious organization such as the MarCom Awards,” said Janet Rodgers, president and CEO of the Alpharetta Convention and Visitors Bureau. “Our team works hard year-round to produce awesome content for our Awesome Alpharetta website, create quality collateral pieces such as the Official Visitors Guide, writing for the Alpharetta Insiders Blog and curating content for our social media channels to attract visitors into Alpharetta to shop in our shops, dine in our restaurants and sleep in our 25 hotels. It is wonderful to be recognized by top Marketing industry professionals on the quality of the products the CVB produces.”

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Winners are selected from more than 300 categories in print, web, video and strategic communications by industry professional judges who look for companies and individuals whose talent exceeds a high standard of excellence and whose work serves as a benchmark for the industry.

MarCom is sponsored and judged by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals, a 24-year-old international organization consisting of several thousand creative professionals. MarCom winners range from huge international creative agencies and Fortune 500 companies to individual creative professionals.

The Awesome Alpharetta website can be viewed here, and the Official Guide to Alpharetta, Georgia can be viewed by clicking this link. You can also check out the Alpharetta Insider Blog and the Alpharetta CVB on Instagram at @AwesomeAlpharetta.

Screenshot from Alpharetta Convention and Visitors Bureau