Missy Ward

2010 LinkShare Golden Link Award Finalists Announced

by Missy Ward

LinkShare has announced the finalists for the 8th Annual LinkShare Golden Link Awards.

The Golden Link Awards ceremony will bring together more than 400 Advertisers, Publishers, OPMs and Agencies to celebrate great industry leaders and innovators.

Shawn Collins and I (we come as a matched pair 🙂 ) are up for Performance Marketing’s Most Vocal Advocate, along side of Melanie Seery and Steve Schaffer. Shawn and I can’t be more honored to be selected as finalists again this year.

The 8th Annual LinkShare Golden Link Awards will be held during the LinkShare Symposium East luncheon in New York City on June 22, 2010.

Here is the list of all finalists in every category:

2010 Golden Link Award Nominees

Best New Advertiser: The Limited, CarRentals.com, Crocs

Best New Publisher: Deals Woot, Mall Networks, Blastoff Network

Innovative Advertiser of the Year: CheapOair, Macy’s, Dollar Days

Innovative Publisher of the Year: Clicks2Customers & RingRevenue, Airmiles.ca, StyleFeeder

Affiliate Manager of the Year: Gus Brito of Tiger Direct, Nette Martino of Orbitz, Michelle Brown of Drugstore.com

OPM/Agency of the Year: Gen3 Marketing, The JAR Group, OPMPros.com

Advertiser’s Choice: Citizen Hawk, Coupon Cabin, Deals Woot, Fabulous Savings, Mall Networks, Market America, Mr. Rebates, Offers.com/Vertive, Offerpal, Savings.com, ShopAtHome, StyleFeeder, SurfMyAds, TheFind, Upromise

Publisher's Choice: Avon, AHAVA, Bloomingdale’s, Care2, Chase, CheapOair, Cookies Kids, Crocs, Current Catalog, Delta Airlines, Drugstore.com, Ed Hardy, Estee Lauder, FragranceNet.com, Gaiam, Ice.com, JC Penney, KarmaLoop, Lego, Macy’s, Microsoft Store, Neiman Marcus, The North Face, Omaha Steaks, OneTravel, Orbitz, Saks Fifth Avenue, Service Magic, Walmart

International Advertiser of the Year: ASOS, Drugstore.com, Topshop & Topman

Technology Genius Award: TheFind, Skimlinks, ScanBuy

Performance Marketing's Most Vocal Advocate: Melanie Seery, Missy Ward & Shawn Collins, Steve Schaffer

Congratulations to all the finalists!

This is one of my must-attends, every year. Linkshare always puts on a very classy event packed with hundreds of top-notch affiliates, high-quality speakers and awesome networking opportunities.

Will I see you at the LinkShare Symposium East?

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Affiliate Summit’s Pre-LinkShare Symposium East Meetup

by Missy Ward


AFFILIATE SUMMIT'S PRE-LINKSHARE SYMPOSIUM EAST MEETUP
JOIN MISSY WARD AND SHAWN COLLINS OF AFFILIATE SUMMIT FOR FREE DRINKS AND NETWORKING BEFORE LINKSHARE SYMPOSIUM EAST 2010
Kickstart your LinkShare Symposium East 2010 experience with a great opportunity to mix and mingle with fellow affiliate marketers on the evening before the LinkShare Symposium East begins. Where: Antarctica Bar 287 Hudson Street (at Spring), New York City Date: Monday, June 21 Time: 9:00pm – ? Open Bar from 9pm-11pm Pizza from Lombardi's (America's First Pizzeria!) Get your pictures taken on the Red Carpet Billiards, Darts & Fun Conversation
WE'LL ALSO BE GIVING AWAY SOME FREE GOLD PASSES TO AFFILIATE SUMMIT EAST 2010!

Please click here (http://lseast.eventbrite.com/) to RSVP.

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Look Who’s Walking With Me During My 39-Mile Avon…

by Missy Ward

It's a little over 2 weeks before me and the rest of my team representing “Affiliate Marketers Give Back” head out to Chicago to take on the 39-Mile Avon Walk for Breast Cancer on June 5-6.

As of today, we have raised over $56,000. We have passed our $50,000 goal that we sent for ourselves and we have already beat last year's total which was $53,000. I am so proud of my team and honored to be walking with each and every one of them. (You can find out more about each of the team members by visiting http://en.wordpress.com/tag/2010-walk/ or checking them out on the AffiliateMarketersGiveBack.com home page.

In addition to my fabulous teammates, I wanted to share with you some information about the other folks who I will be spending two amazing days with during the walk.

Here are some statistics about our 2010 Chicago Walkers:

We come to Chicago from 45 states, St. Croix, USVI, and Denmark.

We range in age from 16 to 75. The majority of us were born in the 1970s (32 percent).

There are 261 male Walkers – 71 more than in last year’s Chicago Walk.

More than 28 percent of us walked in the Avon Walk in 2009!

During the Walk Weekend, 18 walkers will celebrate a birthday! There are 7 Walkers who were born on June 5 and 11 Walkers who were born on June 6.

Jennifer is the most popular name on the Walk this year; we have 92 Jennifer’s participating! Lisa, Mary, and Karen are close behind, though! Johnson is the most common last name.

We have 398 teams, and the largest team has more than 56 participants!

The top fundraising team has raised over $85,000! (Affiliate Marketers Give Back is in 5th place right now, but we're scrambling!

Our top fundraiser in Chicago has raised over 26,000! (I am in the #2 position at $18,000+ and shooting for that #1 position. I've gotta watch out for Suze Orman, a late entry and catching up very quickly!)

And… We have more than 250 breast cancer survivors participating alongside thousands of walkers, walking 39.3 over the weekend because we are In It To End It in 2010!

As we all com together to support the fight against breast cancer, please consider making a donation to my fundraising account at http://www.iwalkforboobies.com or visiting our fundraising auction and bidding on an item of your choosing.

Thank you again for all of your support and please follow us along on AffiliateMarketersGiveBack.com and Twitter.com/AMGB during the walk for updates!

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Affiliate Marketers Give Back 2010 Charity Auction Begins!

by Missy Ward

In two weeks, Team Affiliate Marketers Give Back will hit the streets of Chicago to walk 39+ miles during the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer.

We've raised over $52,000 so far and we're still going!

The call for donations for our charity auction generated some great items donated by fantastic individuals and companies. You'll find the list of items below.

All proceeds will benefit the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer.

How to place a bid:

The auction will run until 3:00pm EST on Tuesday, May 25th.

To bid on the item, simply enter your name, company name and amount you would like to bid. The winner will be the highest bid entered before the auction deadline. (Please make sure that you use your correct email address when prompted, so that we may contact you if you are the winner).

2010 Charity Auction Items:

Affiliate Summit East 2010 Platinum Pass #1

Affiliate Summit East 2010 Platinum Pass #2

Affiliate Summit East 2010 Platinum Pass #3

1 Month Site-Wide Advertising on AffiliateSummit.com

1/4 Page Ad in Issue 11 of FeedFront Magazine

3-Day/2-night Stay at the Wynn *Plus* LE RÊVE Tickets

3-Night Vacation for 4 to Vancouver, British Columbia

JGoodeDesigns.com Pink Ribbon Goode Bag

Thesis Theme for WordPress, Developer's Option

One (1) Enterprise Edition of KnowEm.com

Skin and Fragrance Bundle