Missy Ward

Affiliate Summit Offers Scholarships to College Students

by Missy Ward

I'm excited to announce that Affiliate Summit, the premier affiliate marketing conference and tradeshow, will be providing $1,000 scholarships to up to 10 U.S. college students this summer.

As part of the ongoing education initiative of the conference, Affiliate Summit will be providing scholarships to U.S. college students.

These Affiliate Marketing Scholarships are only open to currently enrolled students at a college or university in the United States.

There will be as many as 10 scholarships awarded of $1,000 each.

In order to submit for a chance to receive the scholarship, qualified entrants must submit an essay of 250-500 words below answering the question, “What is your biggest frustration with online shopping and how would you suggest fixing it?” by June 1, 2013.

Scholarship entries must be submitted at http://www.affiliatesummit.com/affiliate-marketing-scholarship.
Winners will be contacted by August 1, 2013.

About Affiliate Summit:
Over the 10 years and dozens of events in the Affiliate Summit portfolio, each successive year has been bigger than the last, despite years of challenging economic times.

This trend shows no signs of changing with the upcoming Affiliate Summit East 2013, taking place August 18-20 in Philadelphia.

The top sponsorships are sold out for Affiliate Summit East 2013, and many of the smaller sponsorships are already gone.

Also, the exhibit hall and Meet Market are quickly filling up, and both are expected to sell out again.
This three day conference will include an exhibit hall with affiliates, merchants, vendors, and networks, as well as multiple tracks of educational sessions covering the latest trends and information from affiliate marketing experts.

The keynotes for Affiliate Summit East 2013 will be Rae Hoffman, CEO of PushFire; Dr. Randal Pinkett, Chairman and CEO of BCT Partners, as well as a philanthropist, author, and season 4 Winner of NBC's The Apprentice; and Wil Reynolds, Founder of SEER Interactive.

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

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Crafting the Perfect Elevator Pitch

by Missy Ward

This post originally appeared on itsaWAHMthing.com, where I regularly contribute articles about affiliate marketing, productivity and technology tips for small businesses and work at home moms.

An elevator pitch is your thirty to sixty second chance to sell yourself. Traditionally delivered in elevators to busy executives as they rushed between floors and meetings, the elevator pitch can happen anywhere now. If you're like most busy work-at-home moms, you may find opportunities to sell yourself or your company on the sidelines of soccer fields just as often as you would at a tradeshow.

Whether you're looking for a job, trying to sell a product, or looking for new clients, you will find opportunity everywhere, and an elevator pitch is your chance to grab that opportunity and make it yours. You should be prepared to give your pitch anytime and anywhere, but before you can deliver it, you will need to craft one. Read more “Crafting the Perfect Elevator Pitch” →

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BottleRock Napa – Music, Wine, & Affiliate Marketing

by Missy Ward

For those of you that know me, you know that I could talk all day about music, wine and affiliate marketing. And yes, I can incorporate all three into one conversation at any given moment.

So, I couldn't be more thrilled when I found out about BottleRock, which is taking place in Napa (one of my favorite destinations in the US) on May 9-12.

BottleRock, which will be held at the Napa Valley Expo, will feature more than 60 bands, top wineries, the best of Napa food, microbrews and today's top comics. There's also a bunch of late night VIP events and after-parties. You can check out the full BottleRock lineup here.

And talk about the Wine and Food! BottleRock will feature over 40 top wineries and Napa restaurants that you can sample.

What makes this event even more cool is the fact that just by attending this unique festival, you're also supporting many good causes such as Autism Chords, Bacchus Benefits Group and a couple of dozen non-profits. Additionally, you can participate in their 300 Heroes Challenge which promises to raise a minimum of $1,000 for BottleRock charities.

BottleRock, the Tri-Fecta of Festivals!

So we've covered two out of three reasons why I think BottleRock will be awesome — music and wine. But, what's does BottleRock have to do with affiliate marketing, you ask?

Well, when I found out about the event, I posted about it on Facebook. Some of my affiliate marketing friends started posting that they were also interested in going, so I started the BottleRock, Napa Valley – Affiliate Marketing Girls' Trip. Since then, we've rounded up a group of women from different sectors within the affiliate marketing industry, from all over the United States, that are now all headed out to BottleRock.

Some of them I've known since 2001 and some are fairly new to affiliate marketing. But, that's one of the things I love most about our industry — the fact that not only do we work hard together, we play hard together.

So, if you're one of those last-minute kind of peeps, or if you've been sitting on the fence… get off of it and get to Napa for BottleRock.

If you need some more encouragement, here's my BottleRock Napa playlist on Spotify featuring a couple of hundred songs from the 60+ bands that will be playing there!

If you're headed out there and want to meet up, leave me a comment!

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Type-A Parent Conference Series: Type-A Advanced Philadelphia #TypeAPhilly

by Missy Ward

Type-A Advanced Philadelphia is taking place on Saturday, April 20th in Philadelphia.

If you're not familiar with Type-A Parent Conference, it is a well-established conference for mom and dad bloggers. The conference has a reputation for bringing together parents that blog and the brands that want to engage with them, so that both groups can grow their businesses.

I had the pleasure of attending their 4th annual conference in Charlotte last year. I walked away with some great connections with other business moms (and a handful of dads) that I am able to bounce ideas off of for my ItsaWAHMthing.com site.

This year, I'm going to be speaking at Type-A Advanced Philadelphia on Advanced Affiliate Marketing Techniques. My fellow session speaker is Debbie Bookstaber, who is the President of Element Associates and is the blogger behind Mamanista.com and Bloganthropy.org.

Here are some of the topics that we'll be covering:

Step by step instruction on creating the perfect monetized post
Ideas on how you an integrate creative monetization techniques that provide value to your readership
We will provide you with a list of free affiliate marketing WP Plugin, tools and resources that we use every day
and last but not least, we'll share six nuggets of wisdom, that no one else will tell you.

Nothing makes me happier than to provide bloggers with all the tips and tricks that I know. What's even better is hearing from them a year down the road that they've doubled, tripled and even quadrupled their income.

That's what's cool about the TypeA Parent Advanced Conference Series. It provides advanced information that you'd likely not find out at your typical blogger conference.

The Type-A Advanced Philadelphia Agenda is below. I'm looking forward to attending a number of these sessions myself.

If you're attending Type-A Advanced Philadelphia, don't forget to check out my gift to you which will be inside your attendee bag! [Hint: If you want to learn even more about affiliate marketing, you'll love this!]

If you'd like to set up a meeting with me while we're there, please shoot me off an email.

If I don't see you in Philly, I hope to get to see you at Type-A Parent Conference 2013 in Atlanta, taking place September 27-29, 2013.

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