January 2009 - Page 2 of 4 - Affiliate Marketing with Missy Ward, Affiliate Summit Co-Founder & Co-CEO

GeekCast.fm Wants To Host Your Podcast or Vidcast

by Missy Ward

GeekCast.fm — the home for great podcasts for geeks, by geeks — is quickly expanding.

We are currently looking for additional Podcasters and VidCasters to join our existing talent currently producing high-quality programming covering social media, affiliate marketing, search marketing, video, mobile and more.

If you're an independent podcaster or part of a podcast network that doesn't supply the technological or customer support you need, forces you to broadcast their commercials, or charges their listeners to hear YOUR show, GeekCast.fm may be the solution for you.

GeekCast.fm will:

Host your show, free of charge.

Provide you with program stats via Podpress.

Include your show in the GeekCast.fm RSS Feed.

Set up an RSS feed for you. (You can also maintain it yourself via FeedBurner or similar service).

Allow you to insert your own commercials if you'd like — You keep 100% of the revenue.

Provide you with a free Platinum Plass to upcoming Affiliate Summit conferences.

Promote your show on GeekCast.fm, Affiliate Summit Blog, AffiliateTip.com, right here on MissyWard.com and in FeedFront Magazine.

If you're fresh new talent or simply looking for a smarter solution and GeekCast.fm sounds like the place you've been looking for, contact me so we can talk about it.

I'm all ears!

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Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate Summit Happenings – Week ending 1/23/09

by Missy Ward

Utterly distracted by the freezing temperatures here in Orlando, and all of the noisy construction going on in my house, I bring to you some cool annoucements regarding the upcoming Affiliate Summit East 2009 in NYC, taking place August 9-11.

Video Links:

Submit your speaker proposal for Affiliate Summit East 2009

Volunteer to be a Marketing Doctor at Affiliate Summit East 2009

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Social Soul

Aye, Aye Gary Vee

by Missy Ward

I love wine. I love Gary Vaynerchuk.

So, when Gary mentioned his Thunder Cruise during his keynote at Affiliate Summit 2009 West, I could hardly wait to run up to my suite at the Rio and book it.

When I looked at my calendar I realized that it's taking place April 18-25, which happened to be when I was scheduled to attend Ad:Tech San Fran and go on my yearly wine-tasting excursion through Napa with my buddies. (aka. AffNapa).

So what was I to do?

Yep, I booked the cruise.

So AffNap'ers – you're on your own this year. While you're in the limo, running from Cakebread to Silver Oak to Opus AGAIN, I'm going to be finnessing my wine knowledge with the Social Media Sommelier below…

Miss ya.. mean it 😉

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Affiliate Marketing

I’m Coming out of Retirement

by Missy Ward

** Update: Feb 5th ** Program submissions are no longer being accepted. I will be reviewing all of the opportunities during the week of February 9th and will get back to everyone as quick as I can. **

After swearing to hang up my Affiliate Management hat 3 years ago to concentrate on some of my other ventures…. I'm back.

And, it's for a good cause.

That's right, I'm looking for one merchant (with or without an existing affiliate program) to let me be their affiliate manager — strictly on a performance basis!

Why am I doing this, you ask?

Well, the answer is two-fold. First, all of the money that I will earn will be donated directly to the National Breast Cancer Foundation. Second, this gives me the opportunity to keep my affiliate management skills sharp 🙂 It's a win-win.

I've been interviewing hand-selected companies for the last two weeks but have decided to publicly announce a call for merchants. If you're interested in working with me, there are a few ground rules:

1) You must have a product(s) that I believe in and would want to purchase myself.
2) You must have a solid infrastructure, offer great customer service and have access to IT and design personnel.
3) You must maintain a clean program at all times
4) You must be willing to consider and implemement the suggestions I provide to make your program better.

All the other details — we'll sort out together.

So, if this sounds like something you'd like to explore, shoot me an email at [email protected] and we'll chat about it.

I would like to make a decision by the latter part of February, so don't delay in getting in touch with me.

Important Note: Before anyone asks — the answer is NO. I am not starting a new Outsourced Program Management company. This is a one-shot deal strictly for the reasons I outlined above. 🙂 There are plenty of awesome OPM companies out there already — if you need me to make a recommendation, get in touch with me.

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