We held in event this past Wednesday in Chicago called Agency Bootcamp on Social Media. IZEA partnered with some of the social media heavy weights MySpace, Facebook, Bebo and CafeMom. The event was designed to be an educational forum to inform advertising agency planners, buyers and strategists, and marketers on how to effectively market, engage, ...

For those of you who don’t know, we here at IZEA play flag football for a local rec league. We are currently midway through the second season and we still have not won a single game. While drowning our sorrows with beer and mexican food after the game last night, we were talking about things ...

What an exciting day for the team! SocialSpark is now available to the general public as a beta site. This picture says it all! We seem to be missing some folks from our team picture; Ted, Randy, David and Travis from RockStartup are out in San Francisco releasing SocialSpark at ad:tech. How exciting for all ...

Congratulations to Aaron from Digital Vegetarian for winning the Shoeperstar contest. Aaron is getting a FREE ride to SXSW to hang with Jeremy Schoemaker of ShoeMoney and Ted Murphy. He also gets to be featured in an upcoming episode of RockStartUp. Check out his entry here. I had the pleasure of meeting Aaron at Pubcon ...

How do you spell relief? I cannot believe we finally moved on up to our new office. It’s big, beautiful and clear of clutter (for now) but just love it. The coolest thing about the new office is that we have rubber floors that have different textures and colors throughout the office. We also have ...

IZEA presents the History Center Guinness World Record™ Breaking Yo-Yo Event. Saturday, January 26, 2008. Help break the Guinness World Record™ for the most people yo-yoing simultaneously! We are calling on all you posties & advertisers to come join the IZEA team Yo-Yo their hearts out. Can you Walk The Dog? or Loop the Loop? ...

I had reached out to some of our 1K Tuesday earners and came across Bonnie one of our Posties. I had asked her what she was planning on doing with her earnings. She responded to me and felt the need to pass this along. Here is what Bonnie had to say: I donated that money ...

David and his wife Gail are in the delivery room at the hospital. Very shortly they will be having their first baby and it’s a boy! I myself am super excited for them because not only do we work together but I am very good friends with both of them. David has been checking in ...

Randy and I just wrapped up our last day at SES in San Jose today. Other than the fact that Fedex lost our booth we had a very successful trade show. We were busy than ever meeting up with some interesting people in the industry along with reconnecting with our trade show circuit friends. Here ...

Imagine the value of having key influencers experience your product first hand and blog about it. This is one of the many services we offer as part of the PayPerPost Ecosphere. For some examples of previous successful sampling campaigns, see the photos below! Freeze It With Character Kids