January 2009 - Affiliate Marketing with Missy Ward, Affiliate Summit Co-Founder & Co-CEO

Save the Dates: Linkshare Symposium East in NYC –…

by Missy Ward

I'm so excited. I just received notice that the annual LinkShare Symposium East is going to be taking place on Tuesday, June 23 in New York City.

And my favorite awards dinner – the annual Linkshare Golden Links Award dinner is the night before – Monday, June 22.

This is one of my must-attends, every year. Linkshare always puts on a very classy event packed with hundreds of top-notch affiliates, high-quality speakers and awesome networking opportunities.

Here are my pictures from last year's event:

And here's my coverage on the event (blog post or view pages 56-57 in FeedFront Magazine Issue 2)

Looks like Shawn Collins, my business partner, is going too!

Keep an eye on the LinkShare blog for more details.

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Thesis 1.4 Theme for WordPress is Live

by Missy Ward

Update: 1/31/09 — *Upgraded to Thesis 1.4 today. It took 1/2 an hour which included updating all my plugins. I'll be tasting all the new yummy goodies included with this release over the next week. I'll save those comments for another post.

Around 5:15am EST this morning, while I was working (yes, I'm battling with insomnia again), Chris Pearson's tweet below hit my Twhirl and I couldn't wait to find out more.

Thesis 1.4 for WordPress Launches

I have MissyWard.com and GeekCast.fm running on Thesis v1.3 now and I adore it. It's super-flexible, easy to customize and SEO-optimized.

I'd read about the highly-anticipated upgrade about to happen, but, I really didn't think I needed anything else. 😉

Well, from the looks of it, Thesis v1.4 does not disappoint. Here's a list of some of the new features:

A new multiple-instance sidebar widget that allows you to display posts from any category.

All-new post editing options that replace the need to use cumbersome custom fields. Also, inline documentation and tips make these new options intuitive and easy to use.

Post images and thumbnails, two new image-based features that add an unbelievable amount of visual flexibility to your site.

Reorganized and improved options pages that are more usable, more information-rich, and more intuitive than ever before.

A feature box, which is a hookable element that you can position in various places around your layout.

A fantastic new home page layout called Features & Teasers. Features are displayed just like normal blog posts, but teasers are a completely new and customizable way to display your posts.

and more.

I'll be setting some time aside this week to upgrade — likely somewhere between 4am and 5am until I crack the nut on this insomnia 😉

Congratulations Chris, on the new baby girl. She's beautiful.

On a side note, Thesis also offers an affiliate program here. I am a new affiliate of the program. The money that I earn from the sales of this program is being donated directly to the National Breast Cancer Foundation.

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Photos from Affiliate Summit West 2009

by Missy Ward

The pictures are up from Affiliate Summit West 2009 on the Affiliate Summit pages in Flickr.

We've added nearly 700 pictures from the conference.

Thanks to Brad and Jeannine Crooks for their photo skills. Can anybody guess which picture is going on the cover of Issue 5 of FeedFront Magazine?

Check out the pictures and feel free to tag and make some comments at http://www.flickr.com/photos/affsum/collections/72157613012729707/.

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Chris Brogan and Peter Shankman to Keynote Affiliate Summit…

by Missy Ward

Affiliate Summit attendees are in for a special treat when Chris Brogan and Peter Shankman offer up their exciting keynotes during the upcoming Affiliate Summit East 2009 in New York, taking place August 9th-11th.

Chris Brogan is President of New Marketing Labs, a social media agency and events organization. He is a ten year veteran of using social media and technology to build digital relationships for businesses, organizations, and individuals. Chris speaks, blogs, writes articles, and makes media of all kinds at chrisbrogan.com, a blog in the top 10 of the Advertising Age Power150, and in the top 100 on Technorati. He is co-founder of PodCamp, the international new media conference series. Chris won the Mass High Tech All Stars award for thought leaders for 2008. He has been quoted in US News & World Report, The Montreal Gazette, Newsweek, and some other places.

Peter is the founder and CEO of The Geek Factory,
a marketing and PR firm. He launched HelpAReporter.com to connect journalists with sources via social media. He launched AirTroductions, which was acquired and re-launched as TripLife. He is the author of "Can We Do That?! Outrageous PR Stunts That Work and Why Your Company Needs Them."

Chris will take the stage on Monday, August 10th and Peter on Tuesday, August 11th.

I can't be more thrilled to have such powerhouses at the conference. I just love watching them speak.

Want to find out more about Chris and Peter? Follow them on Twitter at @chrisbrogan and @skydiver.

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