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Rewarding Excellence & Innovation in Affiliate Marketing
Posted in Affiliate Marketing on 20/08/2007 at 12:36pm
a4uexpo proudly presents the inaugural a4uAwards Ceremony for the UK Affiliate Marketing Industry.
Hosted on the middle evening of a4uexpo at The Fox, ExCeL London at 8pm.
a4uAwards will Recognise and Reward those companies and individuals who contribute to the rapid growth of Affiliate Marketing, bring Innovation to the industry and demonstrate Good Practice.
The a4uAwards will be purely driven by nominations from within the industry.
Categories Include:
* Innovation in Affiliate Marketing (Merchant Award)
* Innovation in Affiliate Marketing (Network Award)
* Innovation in Affiliate Marketing (Publisher Award)
* Publisher's Choice Award for a Network
* Publisher's Choice Award for a Merchant
* Publisher's Choice Award for an Agency
* Affiliate Manager of 2007
* Merchants Publisher of 2007
* Best New Merchant of 2007
* Best New Publisher of 2007
* Affiliate Marketing Blog of 2007
* Best Agency Account Manager
* Best International Publisher
* Industry Champion Award
You must join, or be a member of affiliates4u.com to nominate and vote. Members will have access to a specially designed online voting form; they can indicate who they feel deserves to be recognised for each of the 14 awards.
The first round 'The Nominations' will close on the 21st of September 2007.
After this time all nominations will be counted and verified. The top five results from each category will be contacted and announced on affiliates4u.com & a4uexpo.com.
You will then be invited back to vote for your outright Winner in a similar process to the nominations. Voting will close at 5pm on the 5th October 2007.
There will be an outright Winner - and one Highly Commended - company or individual for each category.
The first round (nominations) will open this week.
The nominations have been devised to ensure only those awards from outside of your profile demogaphic will be available for you to nominate. We will also be monitoring voting to ensure fair play.
At this stage it's up to the companies and individuals to drive nominations to relevant awards, we've created a range of buttons that you can use, and you can encourage people to vote for you via email, blogs or on your website.
We wish everyone the best of luck, and encourage you to think carefully before you vote, as you are unable to change your nominations once entered.
Once open you will be able to nominate here
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Article written by Matthew Wood
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Back in 1999 I founded affiliates4u to facilitate relationships between members of the affiliate marketing community. A community which helped shape the industry in a positive light.
Starting like many affiliates at home, by building a vast array of websites in sectors including gaming, finance and retail, I partnered with a number of freelancers which help to build value –add websites, often working through the night whilst juggling jobs, ranging from customer service at Orange to the local abattoir!
My work included organically listed SEO driven websites which were listed well within both Google and MSN search engines. We were once listed no.1 for the terms ‘shopping’ ‘loans’ ‘flights’ ‘computers’ and ‘finance’.
Through partnerships with those who complemented my skills we also developed in-house paid search technology to facilitate automated Google Adwords activity way before the Google API was established.
After dabbling with consultancy for start-ups in Affiliate Marketing, where I helped establish the first dedicated telephone tracking solution to stop leakage in 2002 and driving affiliates sales for one business to over 70% I founded Existem Ltd in early 2003. By the end of that year we moved into serviced offices in central Bristol.
Here we developed more technology driven websites within the loyalty sector and have steadily and organically grown the team to eight in our Bristol office.
In 2006 we established our affiliate marketing agency, Existem Affiliate Management. Later that year we partnered with Mark Russell and Bruce Clayton and still hold a good investment and involvement.
In 2007 we invested a six figure sum in the launch of a4uexpo.com, Europes very own Affiliate Marketing Conference & Exhibition. We still organise local networking events across the UK and Europe for the community, and look forward to exapnding these to Europe and possibly further afield.
As an entrepreneur and Managing Director I look after the talented team at existem who continue to develop value add websites, and are currently expanding our social networking sites across many niche verticals.
Company: Existem Ltd
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