Casting Call: Microsoft Microsoft is looking for some very specific types of bloggers to participate in an upcoming SocialSpark campaign* for their OneNote product. Here’s your mission should you choose to accept it: Promote Microsoft’s OneNote through a travel frame of reference, providing examples of how OneNote features can be used to plan, expedite and ...

This is a guest post by blogger Becky Farrant. IZEA recently sponsored her on a trip to Blissdom ’11. These words are her own. Blissdom is a yearly blogging conference. This year it took place at the beautiful Opryland Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee, the last week of January. Imagine 500 brilliant, entrepreneurial women all in ...

Featured Publishers 1. How did you discover IZEA, and how did you know sponsored content would be right for you? I received an email asking if I’d like to sign up with Social Spark. So many PR emails and requests flood my email inbox daily, but I was intrigued with the nature of this one. ...

Tweetups You might remember just before the holidays reading about a Tweetup we hosted out in Utah, to line-up with our Advertiser Pier 1 and their holiday campaign. The event was such a success we’re partnering up with Pier 1 again for a series of Tweetups in several select US cities. Take a close look ...

Casting Call: Express Yup, that’s the one! And they’re gearing up for swimsuit season (it’s just around the corner). We’re about to kick off a blog marketing campaign for Express, and are in need of bloggers in the fashion, beauty, and “young moms” (18-34) categories. This means your blog is dedicated to featuring fashion (clothes, ...

From the vaults of “my personal opinion”: A picture’s worth a thousand words. Or that’s how the saying goes. The truth is, a picture may sometimes only be worth a few words, so when that’s the case you certainly want them to be good ones. So why is this relevant to Social Media? Well, millions ...

Yesterday a couple of colleagues and I drove over to Tampa for Social Fresh’s annual conference on social media. Great event, and it reminded me of the importance (if you want to grow your reach) of marketing, branding, and most importantly networking! Events like Social Fresh are the perfect sort of place to do such ...

Some of the IZEA Team will be headed to Austin next month, for the annual SXSW Film/Interactive/Music Festival. If you’ve never been it truly is one of the most exciting events around – awesome educational and networking opportunities. If you plan on being there this year please be sure to stop by our booth (#s ...

Hey, Peeps! Just wanted to give you a heads-up that our offices will close early this coming Friday, February 18th for an off-site company team building event. We’ll be out starting at around 1:30pm, and will return to regular business operating hours on Monday the 21st!

You hear us talk about “quality” content all the time. Quality content is a win/win for everyone! And while it rarely happens overnight, if the content is consistently quality content the blogger will build a loyal audience, and the audience gets rewarded with rich info (and a relationship with the blogger)! Yes…it takes work! So ...