Genesee County Business In The Running For Fedex Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the WCRZ FedEx contest is and who runs it

The Genesee County Business In The Running For Fedex Contest is a public-vote promotion run by WCRZ, a Michigan radio station whose website, wcrz.com, hosts the ballot on its own domain. The program is not a standalone award with its own prize pool. It is the station's local support drive for businesses in Genesee County that have entered the FedEx Small Business Grant Contest, a national program whose headline prize is $25,000. WCRZ's page carries the title "VOTE! Genesee County Businesses in the Running for $25,000 FedEx Contest", which sums up the structure plainly: local nominees, a national grant behind them, and a listener vote in between.

The station frames the ballot as a community gesture. Its page announces that the station has voted and urges readers to show support for small, local businesses here in Genesee County, and it closes its promotion with an encouragement to the nominees: good luck to all, well deserved. That tone matters for a supporter deciding whether the vote is worth a click. The ballot is a radio station rallying its audience behind hometown businesses, not a paid entry scheme or a third-party sweepstakes.

Facts at a glance

Editions, window dates and what the station leaves unpublished

The ballot has a longer history than most radio promotions. Confirmed editions ran in 2019, and after a pause the program returned in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. That gives the vote five confirmed editions on wcrz.com, with the recent run unbroken across 2022 through 2025. For recurrence questions the pattern is clear enough: this is a repeat feature of the station's calendar, and a 2026 edition is the natural next expectation, though the station confirms each cycle on its own schedule.

On timing, the page gives a closing point and nothing earlier. The station's post states that voting goes through April 5th, which puts the window's end in early April. No opening day is printed anywhere on the ballot, and WCRZ has also left three other things off the page: a roster of ballot categories, any rules text covering vote limits or eligibility, and any dates for rounds beyond the voting phase. Those gaps mean a supporter or a nominated business planning around this vote should confirm on the live ballot each cycle rather than assume the shape of the current window from past ones.

The practical reading for a business in the running is blunt. The only date the station hands you is April 5th, so treat every day before it as live voting time, and treat the ballot page as the single source for whatever else the current cycle adds.

How a supporter votes on the WCRZ ballot today

The mechanic could hardly be simpler, which is deliberate for a radio audience. WCRZ's page announces the vote, lists the nominated businesses, and gives each nominee its own voting link. The station's own instruction is to click: to vote for Double K Auctions in Burton, a supporter clicks the link beside that business's name. The same click pattern applies to every nominee on the ballot, so the entire act of support is opening the wcrz.com ballot page, finding the business, and clicking its link before April 5th.

There is no indication of a login, a form, or a payment step anywhere in the station's promotion. The page's call to action is aimed at ordinary listeners, and the ballot's design matches that aim. What the page does not state is any limit on repeats. Anyone hoping to click repeatedly, or a business coaching its customers on daily voting, has no published rule to lean on. The station has printed no per-person voting cap and no eligibility text, so the ballot itself is the only authority on how often a click counts.

For anyone backing a nominee such as Double K Auctions in Burton, the sequence is therefore: open the ballot, click the nominee's link, and repeat only what the live page's current rules permit. Supporters who want broader context on vote mechanics can read the site's guide to getting more votes online.

How this ballot sits beside its Michigan neighbours

Michigan's public-vote landscape on this site includes several larger programs, and the WCRZ ballot differs from all of them in scale and purpose. The Best of Northern Michigan ballot and the Detroit Community Choice Awards are broad best-of contests with many categories across a whole region. The Detroit Music Awards and the Detroit News Readers' Choice ballot are city media institutions with their own award histories, and the DN Readers Choice Awards and Grand Rapids Magazine Best of GR round out the state's bigger reader ballots.

The WCRZ vote is a different animal. It covers a single county rather than a metro region or the whole state, its nominee pool is a short list of businesses entered in one national grant program, and its purpose is support rather than ranking. No category spread, no multi-tier ballot structure, just named businesses and a click for each. That focus is also why a Genesee County business nominated here faces a different campaign problem than a business in a best-of contest: the audience is the radio station's listeners, the window closes April 5th, and the ballot carries no published rules text. Each sibling program runs under a different publisher with a different calendar, and none of them affects how the WCRZ vote runs.