Julie Wood - A4U Awards
Because Julie Wood is the type of person she is she wouldn't dream of promoting herself to win in the 'best account manager' category so it falls for me to carry out a shameless plug for your votes.
She doesn't know I'm doing this but I thought I'd take a little time to explain a little bit about her and why I think she should win.
It can be a bit bewildering in today’s industry to keep track of who’s who at the growing number of networks, but there can be few longer standing affiliates who haven’t crossed paths at some point with Affiliate Window’s very own Julie Wood. So when we heard last week that Julie has been shortlisted for best account manager at the A4U Awards we were all obviously delighted.
Having worked at Affiliate Window for over four years, Julie has seen the network grow from a handful of employees in a dingy south-east London office to a company boasting a 75+ strong workforce in a shiny, edge of City location.
And in that time she’s been at the heart of a huge number of affiliate success stories, having previously worked on some of the highest profile campaigns on the network including Comet and Vodafone.
Julie is the longest standing member of any of the account management teams and has worked across a whole variety of accounts, always on hand to broker the latest deal or partnership for her affiliates and merchants.
She has had the pleasure of seeing some of those accounts grow from lower profile accounts to market leading campaigns. One such advertiser is I Want One of Those who Julie has worked tirelessly for over the past few years.
Head of Multi Channel Marketing, Paul Smith has little doubt about Julie’s contribution to the growth of their campaign: “she has been instrumental to the success of IWOOT’s affiliate program. Her knowledge of the industry is only outweighed by her dedication and willingness to go beyond the call of duty to ensure her merchants reach their full potential.” Indeed such was IWOOT’s satisfaction with Julie’s hard work she was the envy of the team back in January this year when she accompanied IWOOT’s Christmas affiliate incentive winners on a skiing trip to Canada, taking to the slopes for the very first time.
More recently Julie has chosen to focus on fewer merchant accounts, shifting attention to key affiliate partners such as Airmiles and Nectar. Again, under Julie’s management these accounts have grown significantly due to a combination of her tenacity and dedication. Manager of Nectar eStores, Daniel Richards has pinpointed a few other reasons why he believes she deserves her place on the shortlist: “she has been a real asset to Nectar eStores. Julie is highly motivated and very personable; always taking into account the interests of affiliates and merchants to maximise the effectiveness of the resulting partnerships.”
That Julie Wood has finally been recognised and shortlisted as best account manager in this year’s A4U Awards is only fitting after such longstanding service to the industry. If you agree and would like to see Julie take the accolade on June 5th then please remember her when you cast your votes.
Many thanks,
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Kevin Edwards
Strategy Director
Tel: +44 (20) 7553 0354
Email: kevin.edwards@affiliatewindow.com
MSN: kedwards100@hotmail.com
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), so her nomination at this year's awards is throughly deserved in my opinion.
...she held my hand while I tried to persuade the boss's that affiliates was a good idea, and taught me a whole hell of a lot about affiliate marketing in the process.
I bet Julie is chuffed you've brought that back up! 
for Julie, I gave voting for Julie a bit of a plug in 
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