Affiliate marketing posts from seasoned affiliate marketing pro Missy Ward.

Linkshare Awards & Symposium Recap

by Missy Ward

I just got back from NYC where I attended the annual Linkshare Golden Link Awards and Symposium.

The Awards Ceremony was as swanky as ever. My travel group donned our glitterati or black ties and headed to the Plaza Hotel where more than 300 advertisers, publishers and partners were already networking and buzzing about who was going to take home the coveted Golden Link Awards.

I twittered each of the winners as they were announced and snapped numerous photos. Linkshare posted this video featuring all the highlights of the evening.

After the celebration, we boarded the Linkshare bus back to the Sheraton to continue on with the post-party.

The next day, a little tired but no worse for the wear, I headed down to Pier 60 for the Symposium. The day was packed with three terrific speakers including James Surowiecki, author of The Wisdom of Crowds; Patti Freeman Evans, Research Director for Jupiter Research and E. Kinney Zalense, co-author of Microtrends. The Dealmaker event was packed to the rim with networking opportunities and lots of great giveaways.

I heard that my name was called for a prize from Ice.com. Unfortunately, I wasn't there to receive my prize, so hats off to the runner up. Enjoy it, on me.

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Get Your Picture in FeedFront Magazine

by Missy Ward

Want to have your picture in the next issue of FeedFront Magazine?

Getting featured is as easy as 1-2-3:

1) Get yourself a free Green Affiliate sticker
2) Pop it onto your laptop (don’t worry, it’s comes off)
3) Take a picture showing you and the sticker, and upload it to Flickr with the tag: feedfront

Green Affiliate Sticker

Pictures must be uploaded by June 27, 2008 to be considered.

I hope to see your smiley face!

Get a free subscription to FeedFront Magazine at http://feedfront.com/free-subscription/.

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Take the Affiliate Survey!

by Missy Ward

NETexponent, a leading performance marketing agency is launching an affiliate marketing research study conducted from the perspective of affiliates/publishers.

The goal of this survey is to give the affiliate community a clearer understanding of:

• How best to communicate with affiliates
• What tools and information affiliates crave
• Better understanding of who affiliates are and what challenges they face

If you are an affiliate or publisher and would like to provide your feedback, I encourage you to take the brief survey. In exchange for a few minutes of your time, NETexponent will provide you with a copy of the survey results.

In addition, for every completed survey, NETexponent will donate $1.00 to Team Affiliate Marketing’s fundraising efforts for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer 3-day/60-mile walk. More information regarding the fundraising activities can be found at www.AffiliateMarketersGiveBack.com.

What a great way to help shape agency best practices, strengthen affiliate relationships and help out a great charity at the same time.

To take the survey, click here.

NOTE TO AFFILIATES: NETexponent respects the privacy of affiliates and only aggregate information will be shared.

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FeedFront Magazine Launches

by Missy Ward

Shawn and I just gave birth to our new love-child, FeedFront Magazine. It's something that we've talked about for a long time, and to see it come to fruition is nothing less than exciting for me.

FeedFront Magazine, the Official Magazine of Affiliate Summit, is all printed and in the mail now to subscribers.

If you attended Affiliate Summit this past February in Las Vegas or last August in Miami, and live in the U.S. (and your address hasn’t changed), you should be getting the first issue in the coming weeks.

The magazine is dedicated to bringing ideas, resources, and opinions from Internet marketing innovators to you before your next project or venture.

FeedFront is for the futurists; the next-gen marketers; the early adopters in affiliate marketing.

That’s you, right? Get your free subscription.

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