The Sales Surfboard Awards are a celebration of our customers’ achievements, recognizing the most inspiring sales success stories of the year — and this year’s stories are more impressive than ever. When we brought the awards back for a second year, we knew we had to make them even bigger and better than last year. 

We asked our customers to tell us how they use Sales Cloud, Data.com, Pardot, and Work.com in new and different ways. We had so many deserving entries in 2013 that we added six more categories to this year’s awards. The 24 winning companies are record breakers, creative thinkers, and game changers who have demonstrated outstanding sales and marketing success.

So, why surfboards? Marc Benioff, CEO of salesforce.com, holds Hawaii and its culture close to his heart. Our employees receive commemorative surfboards on their milestone anniversaries with the company, and we wanted to share this special part of our culture with our customers. We know that we wouldn’t be here without them, so these awards are a small token of our appreciation.

Now, without further ado, we are proud to announce this year’s winners:

Alignment All Star Award: CareerBuilder

Best Overall Commercial Business: Precor

Best Overall Enterprise Business: ADP

Best Overall Sales Performance: Angie’s List

Best Overall SMB: Mediacurrent

Breaking the Mold Award: Putnam Investments

It Takes a Village Award: George Street Photo & Video

Prospect Like a Pro Award: Kelly Services

ABC Award: Vodafone

Crystal Ball Award: Zimmer

Drip Program Professional: Trulia

Eagle Eyes Award: Wells Fargo

Fast Start Award: Rogers

Helping Hands Award: Teach for America

John Wooden Award: Apollo Education Group

Lead Optimizer Award: Xcentric

Mr. Clean Award: Polycom

Oscars Award: CenturyLink and HP

Productivity Machine Award: American Healthcare Lending

Road Warriors Award: Lennox International

Sales Harmony Award: Cenveo

Tony Robbins Award: Varsity Spirit

Well-Oiled Machine Award: LegalZoom

Welcome to the Community Award: AT&T

Each of the winners is helping present in a session during the week of Dreamforce 2014. If you are attending, make sure you search for these great companies to hear their stories.

Want to see your company on this list next year? Keep an eye out for a call for nominations before Dreamforce 2015, and check out the salesforce.com and pardot.com resource libraries to make sure you are up to date on all the latest best practices!