Highly regarded, these awards are decided by the community and therefore mean a great deal to the individuals and companies who win them.

Spending just a few minutes making your nominations  now could well make someone’s year!

Community Choice Awards

• Community choice (publisher)
• Affiliate Marketing Blog of 2010
• Publisher’s choice - account manager at a network
  
• Publisher’s choice - affiliate manager (in-house or at an agency)
  
• Publisher’s choice - affiliate network

Don’t forget we also have awards you can enter as an affiliate, agency, advertiser or network.  As these are more complex by nature they are judged by a panel from within and outside the industry.

Nominations close 19th February. The deadline for written submissions this year is the 1st March.

Good Luck and make your vote count!

Other blogs about the awards

Lammo

This year we’ll be giving huge amounts of exposure all year round on a4uawards.com and the new to be launched affiliates4u.com.

New Affiliate Opportunities & Strategies

If you are looking to get in to the world of affiliate marketing and become an affiliate for the first time, then you can’t afford to miss the tips, tricks and techniques specifically focused on affiliate marketing revealed by our experts. Designed to help you navigate through all the various affiliate programs and the inherent difficulties of being an affiliate, this session will cover everything from commissioned-based “click-through” programs to managing product feeds, how to choose a niche and optimising someone else’s content. Part art and part science, with affiliate marketing there are no products to develop, warehouse or ship; and no orders to process or refund. Sound too good to be true? Join us a learn what it takes to become a successful affiliate!

Moderator:
Dixon Jones, Managing Director, Receptional LTD

Speakers:
Judith Lewis, Search Director, i-level
Paul Reilly, Head of Search, Stickyeyes
Matthew Wood, Founder, a4uexpo

If you’re attending and would like the panel to cover something specific, just drop me a line or reply to the thread.

If you’ve not yet registered but are tempted, you can use the  SES Discount Code SPG for 20% off the delegate rate; that might just convince you.

Barbados itself was a treat – it was less developed than I had imagined, that’s a good thing.

It was great to get back into diving, after a 4 year gap I was a little rusty, but it all came back to me quickly – Thanks to Hannah for convincing me to go!  The nights at Harbour Lights and the Boat Yard were great fun.  Both were all you can drink evenings! Yes, that was a little messy for some – James do we have pictures of the ‘Worm’? - and who has the photo evidence of Dwight Yorke heading off with the Columbian Hooker?

The Rum Ball Rally offered a great opportunity to explore the Island, our jeep consisted of Jim Mansfield from Intel, his wife Erica and James - we managed to blag a 7ft rum bottle cutout on our scavenger hunt - somehow it managed to get back to London to bless the AF walls!

Thanks to Tom Quinn for organising the fishing trip, sadly we didn’t catch anything but least we had rum and coke to hand and the sun shining! Don’t know how MagicFreebies Tom managed to survive the trip with a dislocated shoulder after a ‘Shark Attack’ the night before?

Finally my activities were rounded off with a round at Sandy Lane Golf Course, sadly not the $4000 a round Green Monkey, but the equally impressive Sandly Lane Country Club course – its pretty neat as you get a local caddy with insider knowledge of the greens and fairways.

I hear James is looking to potentially increase the numbers again next year with up to 100 people flying over, and looking at a hotel with direct beach access which would be I believe, welcomed.

Thanks to everyone who made the trip so much fun, and to anyone who is thinking about heading out next year – I’d definitely would recommend it!

Other thoughts:

• http://www.leemccoy.co.uk/2009/06/thanks-guys-for-barbados-but-i-wont-be.html
• http://www.affiliates4u.com/forums/affiliate-future/113132-huge-thanks-af-team-barbados-09-a.html

Having never been to this part of the world (except for the Bahamas for the now defunct Affiliate Force cruise back in 2001) does anyone have any tips on surviving the week? I’ve heard all sorts of stories from alumni from the incentive over the last 3 years!

I’m looking forward to dusting off my PADI card and getting some diving in and exploring the Island a little with the Rum Ball rally!

For anyone looking to structure an affiliate incentive you’d be wise to take a look at how James and the team have handled the promotion to not only reward the very top affiliates who drive huge volumes but the up and coming affiliates who work equally hard for their merchants.

Structured incorrectly these incentives can do more harm than good so it’s nice to see someone getting it right.  These extra  incentives ranged from best use of creative, best increase in performance, top affiliate and PR i.e talking about the merchant on blogs, twitter and forums and other social media platforms.

I’m looking forward to spending some decent time with everyone next week, something which is often very difficult at our own events!

For those attending you’ll get one on your table, for everyone else you’ll find it inserted in a future edition of New Media Age.

Deadlines inherently mean that we’re not too far away from our 3rd a4uAwards ceremony and despite the credit crunch I’m excited that we already have well over 400 people attending the most glamorous evening in Affiliate Marketing on the 2nd June in London.

Which brings me to this really neat website - Spezify that Keith pinged me on Messenger earlier today - Really does capture the essence of the awards and infact any theme - it’s great don’t you think?

Well I should give you a bit of background about who I am -  I’m the Managing Director of Existem Ltd where I work with a talented team to develop new and exciting websites. I like to think we have a start-up mentality where we have no barriers to creativity, are nimble on our feet, utilise new technology and challenge traditional thinking.

I’m also Managing Director of Existem Events Ltd, a company that progressed from running regional get-togethers in bars across the UK to organising the UK’s and now Europe’s largest Affiliate Marketing Conference series - a4uexpo - our fourth conference will be at ExCeL London in October.  The company also organises the black tie awards ceremony in London for the Affiliate Marketing Industry which takes place for the third time on June 2nd  at the Park Lane Hilton.

I’m looking forward to sharing my candid views on Affiliate Marketing on a personal level away from the corporate side of affiliates4u, My life on the road and also the day to day running of what I believe is an exciting and dynamic online business.

I hope you find it vaguely interesting!

Woody.