Affiliate Summit Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Missy Ward (original) (raw)
Missy Ward, Doing the Affiliate Marketing Thing Since 1999
After spending over a dozen years in the Marketing Departments of various companies and managing her own affiliate sites, Missy Ward founded Affiliate Summit Corporation in 2003 with her business partner, Shawn Collins on a $400 investment.
In 2017, Clarion Events acquired Affiliate Summit Corporation, which includes the Affiliate Summit tradeshow and conference, FeedFront Magazine, GeekCast.fm, ReveNews.com, and the annual AffStat industry benchmark reports. Missy remained the Co-CEO of Affiliate Summit until July, 2020, when she “retired” for a few minutes before taking on a new role as Founder and CEO of Skrillgrrrl Corp.
For the last 22+ years, Missy Ward has helped companies grow their businesses successfully using the performance marketing model. Before she quit her day job, she was the Director of Public Relations for Media Breakaway LLC; Vice President of Partnership Marketing for eBound Strategies; President of Aluria Software; and Vice-President of Marketing for Global Travel International.
Missy Ward's Affiliate Marketing Books
Her book, “Make Money With Your WordPress Blog“, has taught hundreds of bloggers and content creators how to integrate affiliate marketing into their blogs and marketing efforts to earn the money their work merits. She is a contributor and editor of Internet Marketing from the Real Experts and is the author of “It's All About the Cookies“, which is a business book cleverly disguised as a cookbook. The net proceeds from the sales of these books are donated to the National Breast Cancer Foundation and the Avon Foundation for Women, respectively.
How People Will Remember Missy Ward When She's Gone.
Missy Ward is a work-at-home mom, wine-enthusiast, die-hard AC/DC fan, and a New York Jets, Rangers, and Yankees addict. She is also an active fundraiser for charities that support breast cancer research, treatment, and community programs.
She hates cold weather, flavored coffee, gluten, and meat.
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06/23/2016 at 11:52 am
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05/31/2015 at 7:54 pm
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[…] to the Affiliate Summit’s organizers, Shawn Collins and Missy Ward (for having me again), to everyone who voted for me to speak, as well as to every single attendee. […] - Affiliate Summit West 2015 Reviews of Prussakov Session - automatedincomenetwork.com
02/14/2015 at 3:07 am
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[…] to the Affiliate Summit’s organizers, Shawn Collins and Missy Ward (for having me again), to everyone who voted for me to speak, as well as to every single attendee. […] - Affiliate Summit West 2015 Reviews of Prussakov Session -
02/13/2015 at 8:11 pm
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[…] to the Affiliate Summit’s organizers, Shawn Collins and Missy Ward (for having me again), to everyone who voted for me to speak, as well as to every single attendee. […] - Affiliate Summit West 2015 Reviews of Prussakov Session
02/13/2015 at 7:16 pm
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[…] to the Affiliate Summit’s organizers, Shawn Collins and Missy Ward (for having me again), to everyone who voted for me to speak, as well as to every single attendee. […] - Top Five Things I Learned at Type A Parent Bootcamp at Walt Disney World | From Hip To Housewife
03/31/2014 at 9:53 am
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[…] Money through Affiliate Links. At a session on Affiliate Marketing led by Debbie Bookstaber and Missy Ward (another powerhouse woman I’d never heard of or met…how is that even POSSIBLE?) I learned a […] - 5 Performance Marketers You Should Know & FollowRingPartner
03/28/2014 at 12:39 pm
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[…] one of the co-founders of Affiliate Summit, Missy Ward has probably forgotten more about affiliate marketing than most people know. Her free email […] - Missy Ward: Affiliate Marketer, WAHM, Mompreneur
04/12/2012 at 8:17 am
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[…] About Missy […] - A Mini-Book Review; "Internet Marketing From The Real Experts" | The Franchise King®
06/29/2011 at 5:50 pm
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[…] editors, Shawn Collins, and Missy Ward come from one particular niche of internet […]
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05/20/2010 at 3:09 pm
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Hi Missy. My wife had 2 mastectomies about 11 years ago and now has some quiet stuff in her old bones so I'm always interested in other folks that want to help with cancer research. I'm trying to get a business off the ground in NC but I'm a geek type and don't know the right people with funding to actually do computer research to help with cancer research. I worked for a while with a lab in Scotland that did fluorescent microscopy and I did software for a server to send huge amounts of images across the net. Anyhow, enough geek. If you have any ideas to socialize my work, please let me know. I really would love to be writing software to help people live. I'm sort of doing that now with something related to the iPhone.
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02/14/2010 at 6:16 pm
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[…] editors, Shawn Collins, as good as Missy Ward come from a single sold niche of internet […] - The Franchise King « Blog-Feast.com Blog Collection
02/14/2010 at 1:15 pm
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[…] editors, Shawn Collins, and Missy Ward come from one particular niche of internet […]
Michele Price
12/29/2009 at 11:59 am
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Missy, Brian Williams has been telling me to get to know you for a little bit. I apologize for taking so long, now I know why he wanted us to connect, smile.
You are a perfect definition of what I call a “Spirit Based Entrepreneur Making Difference & Profit”- Once Again, Izea’s Social Spark Raises The Bar on Disclosure — MissyWard.com
11/18/2009 at 12:48 pm
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05/13/2009 at 11:19 pm
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[…] and yes.. in the interest of disclosure, like I say here, I sit on Izea’s Advisory Board in good company of other […] - Izea Raises the Bar; Introduces Disclosure Audits — MissyWard.com
05/13/2009 at 2:15 pm
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01/13/2009 at 12:01 pm
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[…] doing Affiliate Marketing since 2003 and attended the first Affiliate Summit with Shawn Collins and Missy Ward. He thought the concept of Goblin Network was very cool and obviously we need a ton of people to […]
Dave Wilkie
01/09/2009 at 4:10 am
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Hey, Melissa:
Found you via AdRants. Steve and Angela occasionally link to me. (I've linked my name to my blog here.)
As your former employee (man, that place went to hell after you left) I am now going to tell you what to do: Scale back the reflection on your logo. Let it fade more at the bottom. That is all.
Speaking of wine: my wife bought a bottle of Fat Bastard. I think she's trying to tell me something.
David L Whitehurst
01/07/2009 at 7:24 am
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Hi Missy. My wife had 2 mastectomies about 11 years ago and now has some quiet stuff in her old bones so I'm always interested in other folks that want to help with cancer research. I'm trying to get a business off the ground in NC but I'm a geek type and don't know the right people with funding to actually do computer research to help with cancer research. I worked for a while with a lab in Scotland that did fluorescent microscopy and I did software for a server to send huge amounts of images across the net. Anyhow, enough geek. If you have any ideas to socialize my work, please let me know. I really would love to be writing software to help people live. I'm sort of doing that now with something related to the iPhone.
Later. P.S. I came across you on twitter. I'm dlwhitehurst there or David L Whitehurst on Google.
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