2009 - Page 32 of 33 - Affiliate Marketing with Missy Ward, Affiliate Summit Co-Founder & Co-CEO

Quaker Oatmeal Fuels it Forward

by Missy Ward

Many of my readers know that I’ve made it a personal mission of mine to help less fortunate families and do what I can to help eradicate the wicked that is breast cancer.

Over the last two years, I’ve helped raise nearly $150,000 for March of Dimes, Starlight Children’s Foundation, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Susan G. Komen For the Cure and the National Breast Cancer Foundation through my efforts with Affiliate Summit and AffiliateMarketersGiveBack.com.

I’ve also gotten behind many other efforts that share the same beliefs as me. Today, I am delighted to announce that I am supporting Quaker Oatmeal’s “Start with Substance” effort – a campaign which encourages consumers to feed their families and “fuel it forward” to those less fortunate.

From January 12th through February 28th, consumers can visit www.startwithsubstance.com and enter the UPC (barcode) from any variety of Quaker hot cereal and for every UPC entered, Quaker will donate a bowl of nutritious oatmeal to Share Our Strength – up to 1 million bowls of oatmeal! And that, my dear readers, is something I can embrace – especially given the fact that I’ve been a Quaker Oatmeal Maple and Brown Sugar girl since I was a kid 😉

I’ve also been chosen as one of fifteen bloggers around the country to host an Inauguration Day viewing party, in which Quaker Oats will provide a hot oatmeal bar with all the tasty toppings to my guests. It’s Quaker’s way of sharing the experience with families as they watch the ceremony and embark on a fresh start with the new First Family.

I will be hosting the party at Izea’s corporate office in downtown Orlando (150 N. Orange Avenue, Suite 412) beginning at 10:00am on Inauguration Day (1/20). I can’t thank Ted Murphy enough to allow me to use their office space as we take in this historical event. It’s sure to be an amazing experience.

I am also very grateful to Quaker Oatmeal as they will be donating two cases of oatmeal as part of their “Start with Substance” campaign, to Rock for Hunger, a local community effort that I've grown very fond of.

If you would like to attend the Inaugural Viewing please get in touch with me at [email protected] or on Twitter at Twitter.com/MissyWard. If you're on Facebook, you can also RSVP here: http://cli.gs/quakerrsvp.

I also encourage you all to visit www.StartWithSubstance.com to learn about Share Our Strength’s mission to end childhood hunger and share your own oatmeal tips and photos with the QuakerMan!

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I Talk to Strangers and Take Their Candy

by Missy Ward

Vegas.

‘Nuff said.

So many people love it here. Yet, I could live out the rest of my life perfectly content to never set foot in Sin City again.

That being said, what makes Vegas for me, is the people that I surround myself with when I'm here.

I'm a people person. I love people. All kinds of people.

Against everything my parents taught me — I talk to strangers. And sometimes, I even take their candy.

Because without talking to strangers, you miss out on the opportunity of some great business deal or learning something that makes you a better person. But more importantly, you never know who will wind up being your friend for years to come.

So, while I'm here in Vegas for Affiliate Summit, my business partner and I figured that we'd take a bunch of friends and business associates out to enjoy a nice dinner at Roys, which is one of my favorites. I'm totally addicted to their Butterfish and Hawaiian Martinis 🙂

It was also my “29.95 plus shipping and handling” birthday.

As I looked around the room, I realized that while once upon a time, I didn't know these folks. I probably just started randomly chit-chatting with them one day, somewhere. We likely became business associates in some fashion. Yet everyone there, many of which I've known since '99 or so, have become so much more. They were my friends… people that put up with my nonsense for years and still want to be in my company.

And that made me happy.

Go talk to a stranger today. And if you're in Vegas @AffiliateSummit, come up to me and say hi. You just never know what might happen.

Here are some pics….

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Affiliate Summit 2009 West is Sold Out!

by Missy Ward

All I can say is “Wow”!

Like every show manager in the United States, I must admit that half-way through 2008, I was definitely concerned about the effects of the economy on Affiliate Summit 2009 West.

Well, while attendance seems to be down across the board at lots of shows this year, Affiliate Marketing is live and well and for the 12th time in a row, Affiliate Summit is officially sold out!

Confirmation e-mails will be sent to everyone that is registered for Affiliate Summit 2009 West. If you have not received your email by Wednesday, January 7th, please check your Junk Folder.

Now, for the folks who thought they were registered by their assistant, boss, colleague, etc. and now realize they weren't — all is not lost. As we process any cancellations that come in, and remove any duplicates that may exist, the Web site will be open and registrations will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.

Check https://www.regonline.com/ASW2009 for availability. If you're able to enter your registration — you're good to go.

And before you ask… No, I don't have any extra space that I'm holding in my pocket just for my friends 😉 I love ya, but fire code, is fire code.

More details on Affiliate Summit at http://www.affiliatesummit.com.

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Winner of the @MarketLeverage “Share Your Secret Contest” is…

by Missy Ward

Recently, MarketLeverage.com sponsored a contest on my blog, in which the winner would recieve their choice of a
HD Flip Mino or an iPod Nano.

There were many terrific submissions, but I've chosen,

Kailash
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Secret World Outside PPC.

Yes, I know most of the top affiliate marketings and those super affiliates are promoting their affiliate programs via PPC. But tell you what, PPC is not the only thing you should do to make money via affiliate program. You have to look at the world outside search engines for a super success.

Here are few ways you can do the stuffs :

– Promote your site via youtube, metacafe etc via video marketing. These will bring some long term traffic.

– Search engine optimization – yes, few marketers go the other way (SEO) instead of paying for PPC campagins. SEO could be costly initially but it will also bring long term traffic. while on PPC, if you stop paying, your campaign ends.

– Facebook, Myspace etc – Teenagers and some other people visit social networking sites more often than search engines. Target these audience too.

– Keep writing reguarly some unique articles on your blog. keep promoting the product – not only on one blog, but on other sites/blog too. Point all the sites to your main landing page.

– Link baiting – all knows about this.

– Participate in forums, Blogs and related communities and plug your site wherever you get the chance.. (but within rules 😀 )

– Email marketing – yes this is also a great way to market your landing page/campagins. Build a big email list or you can buy some. Check aweber. This is also a long term promotion method.

– Free stuffs – give some free stuffs – softwares, ebooks, etc. Don't forget to plug your site.

Try them out… don't rely totally on PPC or you will not earn much Or you might even lose. Though this will not bring great $$ initially, but they will bring small revenue for a long long time. 😉

While I don't necessarily agree with all of these marketing strategies, the post was offered up some valuable suggestions.

Congratulations Kailash. Please contact me at missyward /at/ gmail /dot/com, so that I may forward your information over to the folks at MarketLeverage.

Follow @MarketLeverage on Twitter for the big announcement of the Grand Prize winner on January 5th.

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