Happiness Is...

Get ready - it's contest time.

There's something about you. The way you treat your employees, the way you serve your customers, the way you juggle your many day-to-day responsibilities.

That "something" might be enough to earn you the title of Office Depot and Entrepreneur magazine's Small Business Owner of the Year.

To qualify, you must have been in business for at least one year, be a founder and majority owner of the company, employ fewer than 100 people, and return the entry form on page 29 by June 15. Besides winning a grand prize of $5,000 in merchandise from Office Depot and a three-year subscription to Entrepreneur magazine, you, of course, gain the prestige of being chosen as our first Small Business Owner of the Year. Now that's something.

This article was originally published in the January 1998 print edition of Entrepreneur with the headline: Happiness Is....