{"id":729,"date":"2009-01-23T16:03:01","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T08:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whoisandrewwee.com\/?p=729"},"modified":"2009-01-23T16:04:29","modified_gmt":"2009-01-23T08:04:29","slug":"friday-podcast-building-your-affiliate-karma-with-missy-ward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/podcasts\/friday-podcast-building-your-affiliate-karma-with-missy-ward\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Podcast: Building Your Affiliate Karma With Missy Ward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whoisandrewwee.com\/images\/blog0901\/missy-ward.jpg\" alt=\"missy ward\" width=\"150\" height=\"211\" \/>I&#8217;d hesitated about approaching Affiliate Summit co-founder Missy Ward for this series till I felt the time was right.<\/p>\n<p>As an experienced affiliate professional, Missy has built up a reputation in the industry, serving in senior management positions like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Director of Public Relations for Media Breakaway LLC (formerly CPA Empire, now known as affiliate.com)<\/li>\n<li>Vice President of Partnership Marketing for eBound Strategies<\/li>\n<li>President of Aluria Software<\/li>\n<li>Vice-President of Marketing for Global Travel International<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some of these positions were concurrent with taking a leading role in launching and growing the Affiliate Summit conference\/trade show as well as a number of fundraising intiaitives.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve had a chance to talk to Missy during one of the trade shows, you&#8217;d find that she&#8217;s personable and knowledgable. During the course of our discussion, I got to know Missy better, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How she got involved in affiliate marketing<\/li>\n<li>The formation of the Affiliate Summit and it&#8217;s goals and growth over the years<\/li>\n<li>How she got involved with fundraising activities, concurrently growing her affiliate business<\/li>\n<li>A preview of upcoming Affiliate Summit conferences and related events<\/li>\n<li>The guerilla marketing strategies used to promote the summit (merchants and affiliate networks can take a leaf out of Missy and Shawn&#8217;s playbook)<\/li>\n<li>Missy&#8217;s video blogging and promotion strategies<\/li>\n<li>A number of inspirational moments from the recent Affiliate Summit<\/li>\n<li>Key updates involving projects like Geekcast.fm, a new podcast in the making, Missy&#8217;s return to affiliate management and the revamped AffStat affiliate industry survey<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Check out the hour long podcast, chock-full of content below:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Resources:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"missy ward\" href=\"http:\/\/missyward.com\" target=\"_blank\">Missy&#8217;s blog<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"missy ward\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/missyward\" target=\"_blank\">Missy&#8217;s Twitter account<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"affiliate summit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whoisandrewwee.com\/affiliatesummit\" target=\"_blank\">Affiliate Summit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"feedfront\" href=\"http:\/\/feedfront.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">FeedFront<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"geekcast.fm\" href=\"http:\/\/geekcast.fm\/\" target=\"_blank\">Geekcast.fm<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"aff stat\" href=\"http:\/\/affstat.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">AffStat<\/a> (participate in the latest survey. closes Feb 28, 2009)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"affiliate marketers give back\" href=\"http:\/\/affiliatemarketersgiveback.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Affiliate Marketers Give Back<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"weviews.tv\" href=\"http:\/\/weviews.tv\" target=\"_blank\">WeViews.tv<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"ship to troops\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shiptotroops.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ShipToTroops.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d hesitated about approaching Affiliate Summit co-founder Missy Ward for this series till I felt the time was right. As an experienced affiliate professional, Missy has built up a reputation in the industry, serving in senior management positions like: Director of Public Relations for Media Breakaway LLC (formerly CPA Empire, now known as affiliate.com) Vice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[88],"tags":[1769,454,95,94,1155,459],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}