2009 - Page 8 of 33 - Affiliate Marketing with Missy Ward, Affiliate Summit Co-Founder & Co-CEO

Affiliate Marketers Give Back Takes on the Avon Walk…

by Missy Ward

For the third year in a row, Team Affiliate Marketers Give Back took to the streets with their feet to do their part to fight breast cancer; this time during the 39-mile Avon Walk for Breast Cancer in Los Angeles.

This year’s team consisted of Brook Schaaf of Schaaf Consulting, Chris Pearson of DIYThemes, Melissa Salas of Buy.com, Kevin Strawbridge of DealTaker.com, Lynette LaPlante a 1-year survivor and me.

After months of fun and sometimes whacky fund raising activities, Team Affiliate Marketers Give Back blew past their goal and raised nearly $53,000, earning as them the #5 highest fundraising team spot overall.

After two days of walking (26.2 miles on Day 1 and 13.1 miles on Day 2), we wound up with 12 team-wide blisters, dozens of muscle aches, 1 broken nail, tons of hilarious video footage (coming soon) and a sense of pride and accomplishment knowing that we were doing something great to help fight a disease that has affected so many women and men.

A full recap of the walk will appear in the next issue of FeedFront Magazine.

I am proud of my team and I thank them so much for volunteering their time. I’m also very grateful to all of our sponsors and supporters who helped us reach our fundraising goal.

If you are interested in walking with Team Affiliate Marketers Give Back, please get in touch with me. We are tentatively scheduled to walk in the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer in Chicago on June 5-6, 2010.

Click to view the 2009 Affiliate Marketers Give Back Walk to Fight Breast Cancer

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Commission Junction Announces CJYou Award Finalists

by Missy Ward

Commission Junction announced the finalists of its CJYou Awards which will be presented on Wednesday, September 16th during the annual Commission Junction University (CJU).

The award finalists are advertisers, publishers and agencies representing national and international brands who qualified as a result of their outstanding network performance metrics or because they were nominated by their partners and peers.

2009 CJYou Award Finalists for Affiliate Marketing Excellence

Rookie of the Year, Advertiser: Awarded to a new advertiser who has achieved the highest total revenue:

24 Hour Fitness

Buydig.com

Sears Canada

Rookie of the Year, Publisher: Awarded to a new publisher who has achieved the highest total revenue:

FreeCause, Inc.

Kayak

New Epoch Software LLC

Advertiser of the Year: Awarded to an advertiser who has achieved the largest year-over-year increase in revenue and greatest percentage of growth:

Restaurant.com

StubHub

Intuit's TurboTax

Publisher of the Year: Awarded to a publisher who has achieved the largest year-over-year increase in revenue and greatest percentage of growth:

MNP Enterprises

ShopStyle

TheFind

People's Choice, Advertiser: Chosen by the publisher community and awarded to an advertiser who demonstrates the best partnership qualities and excellence in supporting publisher needs:

Expedia

GoDaddy.com

Vistaprint

People's Choice, Publisher: Chosen by the advertiser community and awarded to a publisher who demonstrates the best partnership qualities and excellence in delivering value to an advertiser's affiliate program:

FatWallet

Mr. Rebates

Vertive, Inc. Publisher of Offers.com

Innovator of the Year: Awarded to an advertiser or publisher who demonstrates the most successful use of emerging technologies:

Buy.com

Qoof

REI

Agency of the Year: Awarded to an agency that has excelled at fostering relationships between its clients and Commission Junction:

Gen3 Marketing

mgecom, inc.

PartnerCentric

This is the first time that I am attending CJU and I'm really looking forward to it. (Hopefully I won't be so grumpy when I'm there as it will be 1-day after my 40-mile Avon Breast Cancer Walk).

I will be providing a post-event recap on my blog, so stay tuned.

Congratulations to all the finalists!

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Come Cheer the Team On in LA (or from…

by Missy Ward

Well, the Avon Breast Cancer Walk is finally upon us.

When all said and done Team Affiliate Marketers Give back has raised $51,059.67 for the walk, making us the 5th highest fund raising team for the walk. (That's a whole lot of access to care and dollars to fund research for a cure to this horrible disease.)

I've personally raised $20,400.00 making me the 3rd highest fundraiser overall and also affords me the opportunity to meet Patrick Dempsey. #McDreamyFanGirlSoWhat

I have all of you to thank for this. Without your support, whether it be via donations, marketing or cheering us on, we would not have raised as much as we did — especially in this economy!

So, I fly out tomorrow because I'm still chicken to fly on 9/11. Stupidsticious, I know; but that's the way it is.

After check in on Friday, we have a team dinner at Wokcano's, where I will be wrestling Chris Pearson for all the Ahi on the table. It's going to be an early night for us because we have to be up and out the door by 4:45am to make the Opening Ceremony.

Overall, this is a 39 mile walk. On Saturday, we will walk 26+ miles and on Sunday, we will walk the balance.

I will be taking lots of photos and video which will be posted on the AffiliateMarketersGiveBack.com website. Swing by and leave us a comment or send me a tweet of encouragement.

If you live in the LA/Long Beach area and want to cheer us on in person, that would be even more awesome! There are cheering stations and times set up for you to do just that. We would love to see you!

Big thanks to all of the folks that have helped me and tolerated all my fundraising emails, instant messages, tweets, blog posts, facebook posts and calls. If I didn't believe that we could really make a difference, I wouldn't do it.

Peace.

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BigMouthStrikesAgain.fm – Brian Littleton: Don’t Sing Us The Song…

by Missy Ward

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My guest today is Brian Littleton, one of the sharpest and most humble online marketers that I know. He is the CEO of ShareASale, a Chicago-based provider of e-commerce tracking and affiliate management solutions.

Brian is known for being a crusader of fair affiliate practices for many years; he'll tickle the ivories to entertain friends and business associates on command; and has to be one of the top ten most eligible bachelors in the affiliate marketing industry.

In this podcast, Brian talks about:

What he was doing before he founded ShareASale and how he came up with the idea for the company.

Some of the hurdles he's had to overcome as the company grew.

Protecting the rights of affiliates and merchants alike, even if it means walking business.

Affiliate Marketing trends and tips for new folks getting into the industry.

Where he sees ShareASale heading in the future.

Affiliate marketing's biggest problems today.

What he would be doing if he wasn't doing what he's doing now 🙂

The song that he wish he'd never have to play on the piano again.

… and so many other juicy tidbits about him…

Listen to BigMouthStrikesAgain.fm above, on GeekCast.fm, or download to iTunes.

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