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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Advertiser of the Month

This month we’ve selected Oddcast as our “Advertiser of the Month.” Oddcast is the brains behind some of the Internet’s biggest hits dealing with innovative videos and widgets. Most recently, they launched a fun campaign for Cisco where you can put yourself in a world cup video and another for Malibu where you can do the Maliboom boom dance! And for all you techies out there, this Malibu video actually features the FIRST augmented reality technology of its kind.

Thanks Oddcast and Congratulations. We look forward to many more successful projects together!

Postie of the Month

Postie of the Month, Ms Jenny from SouthernSavers.com because her post absolutely rock! Aside from taking on the daily quest of providing readers with super awesome deals, savings, and coupons, Ms Jenny only takes on campaigns that are a fit for her blog. This means that her posts are always genuine, informative, and always of excellent quality. You can’t for much more in the perfect blogger!

Some of our faves include:

• http://www.southernsavers.com/2010/05/eye-fi-for-fathers-day/
• http://www.southernsavers.com/2010/05/field-trips-for-all-contest/
• http://www.southernsavers.com/2010/06/hampton-inn-chain-of-friends-sweepstakes/
• http://www.southernsavers.com/2010/04/parents-choice-vs-national-brands-giveaway/

Just look at these beauties our RockStars will receive:

IZEA RockStar of the Month

Meet Steve. We call him Jabs because his last name can often be difficult to pronounce, particularly after a few adult beverages. Steve joined the IZEA Team about four months ago, and he totally rocks! He’s brought alot of energy and enthusiasm to the company.

If you’re using WeReward at all then you have Steve to thank – he did a significant amount of work on the back end (i.e., he makes sure everything’s working the way that it should). So give him a huge shout-out. We’re happy to have Steve around.

After the awards were presented the Team took to the streets of downtown Orlando to pre-celebrate the upcoming 4th of July weekend. If you wanna see photos from our adventures then check-out the IZEA Loco Pub Crawl Gallery.

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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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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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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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This month we’re getting hella loco! It’s is, after all, Cinco de Mayo month. So we’d like to give huge shout-outs to our “RockStars of the Month.” As with those we acknowledge every month, we couldn’t do what we do without each of you.

Advertiser of the Month

“Holla!” to Woodstream Corporation , our May “Advertiser of the Month.” Woodstream is the holding company of a plethora of dynamic and innovative consumer brands -from beautiful Birdscapes birdfeeders, to the 100-year-old Victor Mouse snap traps, to Safer Brands organic gardening solutions and other natural pest repellants. Woodstream is dedicated to the preservation and enjoyment of healthy families and their immediate environment. We appreciate their consistent patronage and look forward to continuing spreading the word about the great brands that make up the Woodstream family of properties.

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

Postie of the Month

This Postie has been with the IZEA Community for quite some time – since the early days, actually. He was absent for a bit and has recently been more active, and we’re sure glad. “Joe Tech” blogs primarily about technology, and is very engaging with others on SocialSpark and on the IZEA Message Boards. Got a question? Go ahead and ask! You can find Joe on SocialSpark at http://socialspark.com/bloggers/joetech.

IZEA RockStar of the Month

This month’s IZEA employee of the month is Annie Kabourek. Annie is an Account Manager for the PayPerPost product and ensures that our client programs run as smoothly as possible. She’s also actively involved in many company-wide planning activities and has a great deal of passion for IZEA’s mission. Congratulations, Annie!

Cakeplows!

Of course, no IZEA Loco would be complete without the infamous cakeplows:

(Adam, Erin, Ted and Veronique)

Congrats to y’all! Have a great weekend and see you next month.

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Advertiser of the Month

Congrats to Bumble Bee Foods for being recognized as our “Advertiser of the Month.” Bumble Bee’s BeeWellMiles program not only helps motivate people to get active, but it also supports Breast Cancer. A winning combo! Bumble Bee really focused on the Mommy blogger with their SocialSpark recent campaign, and we love our Mommys out there! We hope you were inspired to get active and help make a difference with Bumble Bee BeeWellMiles!

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

Postie of the Month

Let’s give a big round of applause to this month’s blogger of the month, Postie Angie. More on Angie on her SocialSpark profile as well as her blog. You can also find her Tweeting her heart out at @angkm67. Here are a few fun facts about Angie:

• Her blog’s url is http://www.angschickencoop.com/
• She’s in the IZEA Staff Picks network
• She’s been part of the IZEA Community since October of 2006
• She has completed nearly 450 posts in PayPerPost alone
• According to her SocialSpark profile she is “Full of Useless Information”

IZEA RockStar of the Month

Nobody deserves to be this month’s “RockStar of the Month” more than Adam Fortuna. Adam is on our Dev team and in the past two months has been integral on the technical side for the following projects: our new company website; IZEAFest.com; DolphinBubbles.com; the IZEA Insider blog redesigns. Needless to say he’s been a busy man, and he’s always nothing but pleasant, too! Congratulations, Adam.

Congrats to all! See you next month.

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Advertiser of the Month
eVisibility.  eVisibility is an Internet Marketing Company based out of California, with a wide range of clients.  They are the Advertiser who recently launched the Cisco campaign.

Postie of the Month
Forest Parks.  Forest manages various interactive sites, but the hub of his online business can be found at TheRandomForest.com Forest first began his blogging journey just over a year ago, and has built-up enough of an audience base to now consider himself a full-time blogger.  To learn more about Forest visit the about page of his site.

RockStar of the Month
Steve Wolitzsky.  Steve is an integral part of both the Development team and the business overall.  Why?  Well, Steve is Quality Assurance, which means he does lots and lots of testing on the IZEA products to ensure they’re working properly.  That’s a big job, and impacts both Bloggers and Advertisers. Things surely wouldn’t run as smoothly without Steve.

Give these folks some love, and congratulate them on their recognition!

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