Springs Relocation Guide People's Choice Awards: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the People's Choice Awards are and who runs them

The Springs Relocation Guide People's Choice Awards are a public readers' ballot for Colorado Springs, Colorado. The organizer, Springs Relocation Guide, publishes the ballot on its own site at springsrelocationguide.com/peoples-choice/ instead of using a separate polling host. The page describes the awards as new and invites visitors to "Nominate and vote for the best restaurants, businesses and organizations in Colorado Springs."

Springs Relocation Guide presents itself as an information and resource site for people interested in moving to Colorado Springs. Its footer carries a 2026 copyright line for Springs Media, LLC and a link to subscribe to Springs Magazine, which tells a reader the awards sit inside a local publishing operation and not inside a stand-alone contest brand.

Because the awards are described as new, there is no archive of past winners to cite, and this page names none.

The dated schedule for the 2025 cycle

The organizer's own schedule is the only dated material available. Nominations ran from Sept. 25 to Oct. 16, 2025, and the page told readers to share their favorites, from a cocktail bar to a doughnut shop. Voting then ran from Oct. 30 to Nov. 19, 2025, introduced on the page with the line "Time to vote!"

The span between Oct. 16 and Oct. 30 sits between the two stages, which fits a process where nominations are sorted before finalists appear. The page does not describe that sorting, so the reason for the gap is not stated.

This is the first confirmed edition; whether it returns next year is not yet published; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Springs Relocation Guide has also left categories, any voting ceiling and who may take part unpublished. A reader planning around 2027 would be working from nothing but the 2025 pattern.

How a supporter votes on this ballot

Voting happens at springsrelocationguide.com/peoples-choice/, so a supporter does not install anything or visit a separate contest host. During the 2025 cycle the page worked in two stages that mirrored the schedule above: a nomination stage in which readers named their favorite local restaurants, businesses and organizations, and a voting stage opened with the message "Time to vote!"

In practice a Colorado Springs supporter follows a short sequence. Open the People's Choice page. If the nomination stage is live, submit a favorite using the name shoppers actually know. If the voting stage is live, find the category and choose the nominee. The page itself is the only place the live buttons and any limits appear.

What the page leaves out

Springs Relocation Guide does not print the number of award categories, whether a supporter may vote every day, or whether a voter must live in Colorado Springs. Those gaps matter because a supporter in the Springs area might assume a daily-vote rule from another contest, and the organizer has not confirmed any such rule. Reading the rules on the live page before sharing a link with friends keeps a supporter from promising something the ballot does not offer.

For a general walk-through of how readers' ballots like this tend to work, see buy contest votes and the guide to getting more votes online.

How this ballot sits beside other Colorado best-of polls

Colorado has several best-of ballots, and the People's Choice Awards are the only one listed here that is run by a relocation-focused guide on its own site. The others in this site's Colorado listings carry their own organizers and their own pages, so a vote or nomination in one has no bearing on the rest.

Best of the Springs shares the Colorado Springs name, which is why a reader could land on the wrong page. The People's Choice Awards belong to Springs Relocation Guide, and the Best of the Springs entry has its own listing. A business wanting a presence in both has to enter each separately, under each organizer's rules. The wider Colorado contest listings show the full set.

Building support for a nomination in Colorado Springs

With a single confirmed cycle, the practical advice is tied to the 2025 shape. Nominations opened in late September and voting followed in the last weeks of October and November, so a Colorado Springs restaurant or organization that wanted support had a short window to ask customers to nominate and a second window to ask them to vote.

Springs Relocation Guide has not stated a position on outside help, which leaves Springs Relocation Guide as the judge of what counts. Campaigns built on real customers, staff and neighbors answer to the rules posted on the People's Choice page. Services that supply additional votes exist, and buy contest votes describes how they work in general. That page makes no claim about this ballot, and no result is promised.

Before spending anything, read the live People's Choice page on springsrelocationguide.com in September, since that is when the 2025 nomination stage opened, note the dates it posts, and decide whether the effort is proportionate to an awards program that is still new.