Advertiser of the Month

If you don’t know Dollar General, then get familiar!

“Dollar General is the largest small-box discount retailer. They make shopping for everyday needs simpler and hassle-free by offering a carefully edited assortment of the most popular brands at low everyday prices in small, convenient locations. Dollar General ranks among the largest retailers of top-quality brands made by America’s most-trusted manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble, Kimberly Clark, Unilever, Kellogg’s, General Mills and Nabisco. Additional info on Dollar General can be found here.”

Thanks for your business Dollar General, and we look forward to working with you more in the future!

Postie of the Month

Our “Postie of the Month” this time-a-round is Kira Bernshteyn. Kira can be found blogging away at FashionHippo.com and Tweeting at @fashionhippo. Kira gives her readers great tips on fashion bargains and trends, and recently participated in our fun Rambler’s Way campaign (you can read her post here).

Congrats to both, and thanks for all you contribute to our Community. You will now forever exist in our treasured “Hall of Fame.”

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Rambler’s Way Farm is a family business creating soft, comfortable next-to-skin worsted wool apparel entirely on American soil. At Rambler’s Way, they live their values at work: creativity in what they do; continuous improvement; promoting sustainability, well-being, and enjoyment by bringing together individual talents towards a common goal of customer satisfaction.

You may not realize it, but Rambler’s Way comes from the Founders of Tom’s of Maine. Currently running a campaign with us, they have been extremely open to trusting us and our ideas, while still staying true to their core values and beliefs. Our Publishers have been very receptive to this campaign and seem excited to learn more about this new wool! When you have a few minutes (if you haven’t participated in the campaign), take a look around RamblersWay.com and experience their “next-to-skin” softness. It really is so thin!

Postie of the Month

The Postie we’d like to recognize for the month of July is Keith Lunt. Keith is extremely engaged in our Community and always helpful. He is actually both an Advertiser and a Blogger in PayPerPost (wow…must really like that platform!).

You can find out a little more about Keith here:

• His blog http://www.howtostartmyblog.com/ helps people blog. (It’s really a great resource for beginners…as well as some “reminders” for us old pros.

• His Sponsored Posts appear on http://www.janric.co.uk/blog/.

Congrats to both Rambler’s Way Farm and Keith, and thanks for continuing to support the IZEA Community!

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Advertiser of the Month

Horizon Marketing Group is currently running a product sampling campaign for GPS map updates, through our blog marketing and Twitter advertising platforms.

Horizon provides interactive marketing and PR/ePR solutions to clients in over 38 countries. Their clients include: The Home Depot, Heineken, Wrigley, GE, Subway, Carter’s, Timex, Smirnoff, Stanley Tools, OshKosh B’Gosh, Coldwell Banker, National MS Society, Liberty Medical, Cryo-Cell International, and Sun Microsystems.

Here’s a sample of a sponsored blog post, promoting the NavTeq GPS Map Updates, featured on OhGizmo.com:

…and…

Postie of the Month

Lacy Razor has been part of the IZEA Community for a little over a year. She and her active Army Ranger husband live on and operate a small farm. RazorFamilyFarms.com is a family-friendly website full of useful information about starting a small-scale farm, adopting children, and simple living. There’s also a delicious photo of a brownie on the homepage right now…. Just sayin’.

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Advertiser of the Month

This month we’d like to recognize one of our Persistent Awareness Advertisers, RealTruck. If you’re a truck or SUV owner you’ve certainly familiar with RealTruck, and hopefully you participated in their recent social media marketing campaign.

RealTruck offers both premium and discount truck accessories all the way from bumper to exhaust. Their theme very well could be “It’s your truck, make it your look!”

Postie of the Month

You gotta give-it-up for our “Postie of the Month”, Owen Cutajar. Owen and his blogs have been a visible part of the IZEA Community for several years, and he recently won one of our Sponsored Tweets contests.

Owen’s blogs:

• Ugh!!’s Greymatter Honeypot
• Only Network
• A bit of this and a bit of that

RockStar of the Month

Congratulations to Luis Abreu, our IZEA RockStar of the Month. Luis has been recognized before, and he definitely deserves to be recognized again. Luis is one of our devoted Sales Managers, and works hard to bring in lots of great Advertisers for our Bloggers and Tweeters to work with.

Company Outing

As we mentioned last week we’re switching-things-up a little and are going to start celebrating our Locos every Quarter. For this first Quarter we ventured out bowling and…well, we’ve got some very competitive folks here at IZEA. Let’s take a look at the teams:

You can find even more photos on our Flickr and Facebook Fan Page.

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Henderson Bas is our recognized Advertiser this month. Based in Toronto, Canada, they have run several campaigns–including ones for Coke Canada, Mercedes GLK, and Stouffers Canada–in a couple of our platforms.

Here is a blurb about them from their own website:

“Being Canada’s most awarded interactive agency is one thing. Getting there by developing great creative that gets results is another. That’s why North America’s biggest brands come to us.

Or maybe it’s our glowing personalities?”

We love that attitude!

If you’d like to find out more about this agency and see some of the clients they’ve worked with, visit their website.

Postie of the Month

Give-it-up for Charlene Amsden, our RockStar Postie for February. Known as “Quilly” on Get Satisfaction, Charlene is extremely active engaged on the boards and very helpful to fellow bloggers. As seen on her SocialSpark profile: “Laughter and friendship found in abundance here. This is not a blog, it’s a community.”

Charlene’s blog Quintessentially Quilly is active in inPostLinks, SocialSpark and PayPerPost.

Thanks for being such an outstanding member of the IZEA Community!

IZEA RockStar of the Month

If you follow our blog regularly you might recall our RockStar from last April, Adam. Nearly a year later and the IZEA Team is recognizing Adam again for all his hard work. Over the past year Adam has been integral to the success of SponsoredTweets.com, so help us give him a huge shout-out.

(Adam and honorary house doggy Lilly.)

Congratulations to everyone, and thanks for everything you do to help us be a success!

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Today we celebrated the first IZEA Loco of the new year! The theme? Superbowl, of course! So in that spirit some of the Team dressed-up in their favorite team’s colors, and our potluck was full of the classic Superbowl foods: pizza (lots of it!), wings, nachos, chicken fingers, and fried chicken. Delish! (And now we’re all sitting at our desks regretting everything we just ingested….) Some of us unlucky folks had to do cakeplows, too.

THE FOOD:


THE CAKEPLOWS:

(Ashley Edwards, Crystal Duncan, Ted Murphy, Larry Beaman, David Bates, and Dan Stack)

Advertiser of the Month

This month we’ve recognized Geary Interactive Advertising Agency as our “Advertiser of the Month.” Greary Interactive is the social media agency for the Wd-40 account, including the brand 2000 Flushes. They recently launched an innovative product sampling campaign, which involved sending 2000 Flushes products to bloggers as well as sponsoring their Superbowl Party!

Congratulations, Geary, and thanks for your business!

Postie of the Month

Props to Eric Smith of Geekadelphia. He’s a great example of an IZEA blogger. Geekadelphia has participated in product samples and give aways, and have even helped out their community by donating their products to local organizations in need. Most recently, they donated their earnings from their latest post for Tony’s pizza ($300) to the American Red Cross (through SocialSpark), for Haiti: http://geekadelphia.com/2010/01/22/nom-nom-nom-tech-giveaway-from-tonys-pizza/.

If you’re interested in learning more about them, here are some of Geekadelphia’s posts:

• http://tinyurl.com/yl482cs
• http://tinyurl.com/ybu4cda
• http://tinyurl.com/ydub3xn
• http://tinyurl.com/mavtrk
• http://tinyurl.com/y8f473b

THE AWARDS:

RockStar of the Month

Congrats to IZEA’s “RockStar of the Month” Crystal “Burger” Duncan (the “Burger” is an affectionate term recently started by Ted). Crystal rocks-it on the Account Management team, and keeps our Advertiser’s campaigns flowing smoothly from start-to-finish. Way to go, Crystal!

(Yup, that’s a Krystal burger on her head! Get it?)

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Advertiser of the Month

This month’s Advertiser RockStar recently conducted a blog marketing product sampling campaign on behalf of LG. Yup, we’re talking about that beautiful Chocolate Touch, and the award goes to PR Agency Alcone Marketing.
You might’ve caught the commercial for this phone, featuring singing sensation Ciara, and the phone comes pre-loaded with her current single.

Awesome campaign, Alcone and LG!

Postie of the Month

Our Postie of the month is Nick Marshall. He owns and operates a site called Cellfanatic, where he provides information, tips, reviews, and comparisons on mobile products. In fact, Nick participated in LG’s campaign for the Chocolate Touch.

Nick’s blog, Cellfanatic.com:

RockStar of the Month

Huge shout-out to Matt Schultz for being recognized as this month’s RockStar! Matt’s got mad developer skills, and has worked on many of the sites you use every day, including our Twitter advertising platform. Give him a round of applause for doing such a fantastic job!

*Congratulations to all of our RockStars from 2009! We’re looking forward to many more to come in the year ahead.*

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Advertiser of the Month

Our “Advertiser of the Month” is one who remains active in our sponsored conversation platforms. Charter has run programs in both SocialSpark and Sponsored Tweets over the past year, primarily to generate buzz and awareness about their cable & Internet services. We thank them for their continued business, and realizing the power of social media!

If you are one of the blogger’s who took part in any of Charter’s campaigns we’d love get your feedback. Just drop a comment in this post.

You can connect with Charter and their Community on SocialSpark by clicking here.

Postie of the Month

Congrats to this month’s featured Blogger, Tara. Tara is part of our Premium Blogger program, and she is amazing! Clients love working with her because she provides fun, informative and, most importantly, honest opinions. Tara is careful about the products with which she aligns herself and therefore reflects the perfect SocialSpark blogger: one who weighs content, relevance to readers, and personal quality over payment and props.

(Image courtesy of DealSeekingMom.com.)

Get to know Tara a little more:

• Tara’s online brand is “Deal Seeking Mom.”
• Join her nearly 9,000 Followers by Tweeting with Tara at @dealseekingmom.
• You can find her on SocialSpark here.
• She is one of the Walmart Elevenmoms.
• Tara has five children!

IZEA RockStar of the Month

This month’s IZEA “RockStar of the Month” is Jenni. Jenni is IZEA’s Office Manager and makes sure everything stays in line and runs smoothly on a day-to-day basis (and she’ll let us know when things aren’t). She is so much more than an Office Manager, too, and we appreciate everything she does for the entire IZEA Team!

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Advertiser of the Month

Congrats to PBM Products for being recognized as our “Advertiser of the Month” for October. You might recall a recent product sampling campaign for Parent’s Choice Infant Formula. Well, that’s PBM’s campaign! Our bloggers delivered some really great posts for PBM, based on the very concepts of their mission:

• Providing families with safe, quality nutrition at sensible prices
• Providing retail partners an opportunity to create identity and market differentiation through store brands at fair profit levels
• Providing a balance of marketing and education to consumer and professional health care communities

If you are one of the blogger’s who took part in this campaign we’d love to hear what you thought about it. Just drop a comment in this post.

Postie of the Month

Huge shout-out to this month’s Postie, Christine. Christine has been blogging with IZEA nearly since the beginning, and we’re definitely happy to have her as part of our Community. You can connect with Christine on SocialSpark by visiting her profile as well as her website. You can also follow her Tweets at @starryskye81. Here are a few fun tidbits of info about Christine:

• She manages three blogs: Starryskye.org (featured below), Christineisms, and Atomic-Mam.com
• She’s a member of Spark-E’s Insider Crew
• Her SocialSpark slogan is “A day in the life of a military wife!”
• Coincidentally, she participated in the campaign for this month’s “Advertiser of the Month”

IZEA RockStar of the Month

Our “RockStar of the Month” for October is also IZEA’s “Earth Mother”: Erin Fox. She is a Solution Sales Manager and has kicked-butt in Sales over the past month. This coupled with the fact that she just delivered a baby makes her a mega-superstar. (She only had one baby – those featured here are not real!)

Erin has been responsible for securing campaigns for the Kissimmee Convention & Visitors Bureau, Cirque du Soleil, Yamaha, Bumble Bee Foods, and truTV. We also celebrated our monthly Loco by dressing up and awarding various costumes. It was most definitely a treat. If you’d like to check those out you can visit our Facebook Fan Page.

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Advertiser of the Month

Props to The Media Kitchen, who was responsible for the Armani Exchange campaign, on being recognized as our July “Advertiser of the Month.” Surely you’re familiar with their recent SocialSpark campaign, promoting their new premium denim launch? This was also one of the first campaigns to utilize celebrity Tweeters from our newly-launched Sponsored Tweets platform.

If you participated in the Armani Exchange campaign we’d love to hear what you thought about it. Just drop a comment in this post.

Postie of the Month

This Postie joined the Community just over a year ago but has become more active within the past few months. In fact, “Jentifa” is one of SocialSpark’s Premium Bloggers, and has over 3,000 Follwers on Twitter. And you just may have caught her being featured in our most recent Fox 35 television segment.

Jentifa reviews products and host giveaways of all kinds at TheDirtyTShirt.com. Why not stop by her SocialSpark page and drop her some props! Or better yet, tell her congrats in-person when you see her at IZEAFest in October.

IZEA RockStar of the Month

This month’s IZEA employee of the month is Dan, a Developer for our company! Among all of the amazing things Dan has done in his time with IZEA he especially deserves a huge shout-out for leading the charge in the development and launch of Sponsored Tweets. You kick butt, Dan, and definitely deserve the recognition!

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