What is The Cool Tool Awards?

Since 1997 The Cool Tool Awards has surfed the web in search of cool products and services. Our reviews are based upon hands-on evaluation of products and services. Some participants pay a fee to have their product or service reviewed while others provide free reviewer copies or access at no charge. All of our reviews contain links to the participant's web site so you can get additional information. Some of our links may include an affiliate link; this means if you make a purchase of a product or service using our affiliate link we will receive a nominal commission. These review fees and commissions help pay operational costs for maintaining our web site.

How are products evaluated?

Products are rated on the following attributes:

- Ease of Use/Help File

- GUI Interface

- Software Installation/Uninstall

- Visible Bugs or Quirks

- Quality of Technical Support

- Degree of Innovation

- Price versus Performance

What type of awards can I receive?

Cool Tool Awards come in three levels: Bronze, Silver and Gold. To receive a Gold award, a product or service must be the best of breed in its respective class. Recipients are encouraged to post their award on their web site and to cross-link to their review.

What's the benefit to receiving a Cool Tool Award?

Prestige and Traffic. The Cool Tool Awards is the Cadillac of web awards, and is recognized for the quality, honesty and integrity of its reviews. People trust our recommendations and look for our awards on web sites, on product packaging and collateral.

We also have a knack for boosting your popularity. A casual search of most of the products we have reviewed will reveal high ranking for our reviews in popular search engines such as Google and Yahoo. 

For instance, within two weeks of reviewing Armand Morin's Audio Generator product, a search for the term "Audio Generator" revealed our review page at the top of Google and Yahoo listings. While we can never guarantee such placements for everyone, this is a tremendous benefit of having a review on The Cool Tool Award web site. 

The Cool Tool Awards is in the Top 100,000 Most Popular web sites according to Alexa.

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How can I nominate my product?

You may submit your nomination with a one-time fee of $50.00. If we look favorably upon your product, your review will appear within a few weeks. 

All paid nominations will also receive a free copy of our ebook, Rocket Science Revealed, which details our secrets for maintaining our top rankings in the search engines. This is a $47.00 value!

If we experience any difficulty or bugs with your product, your $50.00 fee will be refunded in full. 

All nominations also require a fully functioning and registered copy of your  product.

Click here to submit a PAID nomination via Clickbank or click the button below to submit payment via PayPal: 

Have questions?

Contact Steven Schneiderman at info@cooltoolawards.com.