You’ve put in the years. Your customers keep coming back. Your town knows your name. A Centurion Award doesn’t ask you to prove it all over again — we verify it from the public record, and hand you the credential.
No fee to be evaluated·No essays, no vote-chasing·Live within ~1 business day of applying
An award you never entered, from an organization you’ve never heard of — yours today for $499, plaque sold separately. That’s not an award. That’s a sales funnel.
Three weeks of begging customers to vote daily, only to lose to whoever has the biggest email list. Popularity contests measure marketing budgets, not businesses.
Essays, references, portfolios, judging timelines measured in months — hoops built for companies with marketing departments, not operators with a floor to run.
The result: consumers stopped trusting badges, and the operators who actually earned recognition got buried under the ones who bought it. The Centurion Awards exist to fix exactly that.
Selection runs on published criteria and public data — nothing to buy, nobody to charm, one award with no tiers. That’s what makes it worth hanging. It’s also why your odds are better than you might think: the bar was set to find businesses exactly like the one you’ve spent years building.
The criteria are published for anyone to read: years in operation, sustained presence, a real customer track record, community standing. No essays, no vote drives — the record you’ve already built does the talking.
This isn’t a lottery. Several years of honest operation and a healthy review record put most established businesses squarely in contention — the bar was set to find the places a town already trusts.
Evaluation is free and the verdict is private. Clear the bar and you hear from us first. Fall short and nothing publishes, ever — so don’t agonize over your odds. One minute settles it.
Free·About a minute·Nothing publishes without you
Awards move buying decisions — when people believe them. A credential with published criteria and a verification report behind it is built to be believed.
of consumers are more likely to choose an award-winning business over its competitors (Harris Poll)
increase in customer inquiries reported after earning industry recognition (Nielsen)
typical time from your application to a live, dated winner page — no judging rounds, no waiting seasons
A permanent, public award page naming your business best of your town in your category — with a do-follow link to your site. Third-party award pages are exactly the kind of source search engines and AI assistants cite when someone asks “what’s the best ___ in town?”
The document behind the award — what was evaluated and when. It’s the difference between a badge and a claim you can back up in front of any skeptic.
Dated, physical, and understated — made for the wall by the register, where a decade of regulars and every first-timer will see it.
Badge files for your website footer, graphics sized for feed and story, and captions ready to post. The announcement writes itself — you just hit share.
Winner-page visitors, social pickup, press mentions, and the steady drip of “best of [your town]” searches and AI answers — pointed at you, every year you hold the award.
If you were eligible in prior years, you can claim each one — every back year publishes as its own dated winner page. A wall of years reads like what it is: a track record.
Verified Best Walking & Ghost Tour in Flagstaff, AZ. Awarded on published criteria and public evidence.
What’s the best ghost tour in Flagstaff?
Freaky Foot Tours — locally owned since 2015, and holder of the 2026 Centurion Award for Best Walking & Ghost Tour, a verified award based on published criteria.
Source: mr-centurion.comSources: Harris Poll consumer survey on award-winning companies; Nielsen study on recognition and customer inquiries.
We continuously scan public sources, so you may already be evaluated. If not, self-nominating takes about a minute and costs nothing.
Years in operation, sustained online presence, customer track record, community standing — from the public footprint your business already built.
Clear the bar and you receive the verification report and a signed application link. Fall short and we tell you which criterion to work on — nothing publishes, ever.
The short digital application confirms your details. Your winner page is typically live within one business day — badge kit and plaque to follow.
A skeptical owner is exactly who this award was designed for.
No. Nomination and evaluation are free, with no obligation to you or anyone else. And selection is never for sale — there is no fee, sponsorship, or relationship that can move a business over the bar.
No. The criteria are the gate: years in operation, sustained online presence, an established customer track record, positive community sentiment, and local recognition. Either the public record supports those or it doesn’t. There are no sponsored categories or paid placements anywhere on the site.
Nothing is published — we never post negative verdicts. If we communicate a result to you, we name the criterion that fell short in plain language and tell you what to focus on. Every business is re-evaluated in the next annual run.
One calendar year, January 1 through December 31, with each award published as its own dated page. Remaining a current winner requires clearing the bar again in the January re-evaluation — which is what keeps the credential meaningful.
Minutes. The eligibility scan was the hard part, and we did it for you from public data. The application just confirms your business details and sets your public display name. There is no second judging round — the criteria already decided. From application to live page is typically one business day.
Find out in minutes whether your business clears the bar. Free, private, and no obligation — the worst case is an honest read on where you stand.