Posts from — August 2008

On August 16th, Jen Fluker from Market Leverage and I did a 20-mile (almost) training walk to get ready for the Seattle Breast Cancer 3-Day / 60-mile walk benefitting the Susan G. Komen Foundation for the Cure.

Jen and I, along with 9 other Affiliate Marketers will meet up in Seattle on September 11th and spend the next 3 days walking, talking, having fun and stopping breast cancer. Our goal is to raise $40,000 and we’re nearly there.

Follow us along on our journey at www.AffiliateMarketersGiveBack.com or on Twitter at www.twitter.com/amgb.

If you’d like to make a donation please visit www.missys60milewalk.com.

Last night, I took a trip downtown for the CoLab Orlando Open House. CoLab Orlando, which is due to open in October, will be a coworking venue for Otown’s technology and creative community.

The space is in the historic Angebilt building on Orange Avenue and from what I’ve seen, it couldn’t be more appropriate. There is coworking space available starting at $225 per month, to office suites starting at $625 per month. The pricing includes internet and use of a conference room in which to have meetings.

Etan Horowitz did a nice recap of the event and included all of the space options and pricing.

I’ve been working at home for nearly 6 years and to be quite honest, a co-working space would be perfect for me. It would get me out of the house a couple of days a week and give me an opportunity to network with like-minded individuals.

Case-in-point: After the open-house I scooted downstairs to Finnhenry’s with Sterling and Elizabeth from NFIStudios.com and caught up with what’s going on with their company and their MemberFuse Social Networking Platform. Over a couple of drinks we caught up on what’s going on around town and chatted about Doterati and how we were looking forward to seeing it grow. This entire conversation would have never happened, if I were sitting back in my office at home.

I think the only drawback for me at CoLab is that it’s missing an “Administrative Services” offering. I really could use things like access to a printer, fax, someone to answer my phones, etc. But as I understand it, the folks at CoLab are willing to listen to what the community needs. Hopefully, they’ll hear me :-p

Here are some pictures of the space:

So we’re coming down to the wire….

I wanted to take time out to thank my team for all of their fundraising efforts, for taking time out of their lives to train for and walk 60-miles, for forking up the costs of travel to Seattle and hotel nights and lastly, for dealing with my nutty ideas on how to raise enough money to hit our fundraising goal.

Angel Djambazov, Jen Fluker, Karen Garcia, Jen Goode, Debby Phillips, Laura Przybek, Adam Riemer, Lisa Riolo, Irene and Tiffany Spaulding — your generosity knows no bounds and you have my undying gratitude.

To the other walkers we’ve lost along the way, thank you for all of your efforts and we hope to have you join us next year.

I am grateful to our T-shirt sponsors for stepping up with their liberal donations. Here’s what Team Affiliate Marketers Worldwide will be sporting during our walk:

Pretty sharp, eh?

I would also like to thank each of the affiliate marketers that purchased an “I Gave Back Button”, made special donations, supplied us with prizes to give away, popped up AffiliateMarketersGiveBack.com banners on their sites, blogged about the cause and sent notes of encouragement. I am humbled by the big-heartedness of this industry when it comes to rallying for a cause.

To date, our team has raised $36,163.00 (90% of our goal) for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation. That number is just awe-inspiring to me and we still have a couple of weeks to go!

Over the last week, I’ve had a few people ask me what they can do to help, if anything. Right now, we’re pretty much set and simply concentrating on helping a few of the team members hit their ($2,200) minimum goal. So, if you’d like to make a donation, I ask that you select Angel, Karen or Adam, when doing so. Donations can be made online at www.60-milewalk.com and then clicking on the individual’s name.

If you’re in Seattle and would like to come cheer us on or meet up for dinner, the walk is September 12-14. Shoot me off an email

You can also check us out virtually at AffiliateMarketersGiveBack.com, as I will be posting videos and pictures during the walk on this site or follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/amgb.

One more big round of applause for everyone that has supported us!

Wish us a blister-free 60!

-Missy

Here’s a picture of me and my son, Chase raising money during the Affiliate Summit 2008 Boston, Meet Market

I checked out the American Idol 2008 tour last night at the St. Pete Times Forum. Of course, I got all stupid-giddy when David Cook got on stage and took an extra amount of photos of him.

Never have I seen so much Idol schwag in one place and folks were handing over a bundle of cashola for it. I searched the kiosks for the David Archleta earplugs, but none were to be found. That kid just irks me for some reason.

Aside from the lame Guitar Hero intermission, the show itself was good. Getting to watch Jason Castro sing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” was cool. And of course, every one of David Cook’s songs were winners, including my personal Fav, “Hello”.

So all in all, it was worth all the laughs from my friends, when I told them I was going to see the show.

Check out the pics below.

First, I’d like to personally thank everyone that stopped by the AffiliateMarketersGiveBack.com table at the Meet Market in Boston to pick up their “I Gave Back” button and raffle ticket. (The winning numbers can be found on the AffiliateMarketersGiveBack.com site.)

I don’t have a final total of what we raised because many of us sold buttons over the course of the 3 days and donations are still coming in. However, I think we will wind up around $1,500 or so! These donations will be divided up amongst the team members fund raising accounts, who staffed the table during the Meet Market.

I’d like to also thank all the folks who let me “persuade” them into purchasing more than one button and raffle ticket because “I didn’t have change”

The generosity of the Affiliate Marketing community has been overwhelming. We’re well on our way to our $45,000 goal. Once these donations are applied to our fundraising account, we’ll likely be close to $32,000!

That being said, we still have hurdle to jump in order to hit our target.

This Friday (August 22nd), our Team Shirts will be ordered. There is room for four additional sponsors and we’d love to add you! The cost to have your logo placed on our team’s shirts and on the AffiliateMarketersGiveBack.com website is $1,000.

Donations can be made in any of your favorite walker’s names here: www.60-milewalk.com. We’ll be wearing the shirts during the event and will be taking lots of photos and videos that will be placed on the AffiliateMarketersGiveBack.com site.

Lastly, as many of you know, when it comes to raising money for Breast Cancer Research, I’ll do just about anything for donations.

Thanks for everything!

Those in attendance at the AffiliateDinner honoring Connie Berg, this past Saturday in Boston were “treated” to a video appearance by the CEO of Grupo Modelo, live via Satellite.

The dinner guests in the back of the room that were unable to view the subtitles have requested that I post the video online, since either their Spanish was lousy (or maybe it was the CEO’s accent)

In any event, here it is. Hope you enjoy.

Starting now through Saturday night (08/09/08), buy the I Gave Back button online to support our breast cancer fund raising efforts and you’ll also be entered into a raffle. You could win one of many fabulous prizes!!

It’s easy and everyone’s doing it (or should be)!

Buy buttons online until 08/09/08, midnight
For $10.00 (plus shipping) you will receive an exclusive Affiliate Marketers Give Back button AND an entry into our fabulously fun raffle. Offer only valid through midnight August 10th 2008. No tangible raffle ticket will be issued for online purchases, your order number will be your raffle number.

You can also buy buttons in person 08/10/08, noon-6pm
If you are attending Affiliate Summit Boston, stop by table #13 at the meet market (Sunday, August 10th) to buy your button in person and receive your raffle ticket.

Prizes include:

• Ice Wine - 2004 Saw Mill Creek from GayWeddingGear.com
  Bin 88, Ice Wine, a Vidal from the Niagara Peninsula in Canada
• 1 hour of consulting from Shawn Collins Consulting
• One of a kind Sterling Silver Unisex Necklace from Tiffany Spaulding Designs, valued at $200.00
• FREE Checks for a year from 4checks.com
  Winner receives free checks from any of the brands featured on 4checks.com for one year, up to 6 boxes.
• An original hand made Pink Ribbon Penguin and $50 gift certificate from JGoode Designs
• A Build Your Business Package from GigglePrint.com
  Winner receives one order of business cards, letterhead w/ envelopes, postcards and an endorsement stamp.
  
• A Ribbon Of Hope Checks & Accessories Package
  Winner receives 2 boxes of checks, one set of address labels and one leather checkbook cover in our Ribbon of Hope design
• 1 hour of phone consulting $300/hr value from Paulson Management Group.
• One iPod Nano and an iTunes gift card from Lisa Riolo
• 1 Free full conference pass to Affiliate Summit Vegas 2009
• 1 Month ad placement from Revenews
• 25 cases of Jones Soda

Support our team. Support the Cause.
Buy YOUR Button today!

Good Luck!