TheSpew, Episode 5: 500 Pink Flamingos on the Lawn of Minnesota’s Capitol

by Missy Ward on April 16, 2009

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Missy Ward (@missyward) of Affiliate Summit moderated this week with panelists:

  • Lisa Picarille (@lisap), a consultant focusing on online marketing, social media and content creation
  • Karen White (@KarenWhite_LV), a Marketing Strategist focusing on Performance marketing initiatives

Scott Jangro (@jangro), the Founder and President of MechMedia, Inc. and the voice of Jangro.com, was our special guest this week.

Jangro's Chin PoseScott Jangro, sporting his world-famous chin pose.

The topics that were discussed today were:

  • The outcome of the Senate hearing in Minnesota today regarding SF 282 (Minnesota’s version of #AdvertisingTax) as reported by Connie who was present. ***Minnesota Affiliates: Your Help is Needed Now***
  • Updates on the anti-affiliate legislation, state by state.
  • The importance of self-branding as it pertains to attending conferences and tradeshows.
  • Making the move from Outlook or Entourage to Gmail, the pros and cons.
  • Scott Jangro tells us how he came to be an affiliate marketer; shares some success tips for new affiliates to ponder, discusses the impact of the economy on his business and discusses the “chin pose”.

Fortuitous tidbits brought up in today’s episode:

  • Connie uses the Jedi Mind Trick on Minnesota Legislators.
  • Missy finds it easier to break up with a guy, than delete email and can’t wait to leave on Saturday for the Gary Vaynerchuk Thunder Cruise.
  • Scott Jangro is “such a nice guy”.
  • Lisa’s personal brand, is one of variety. But, her love for bacon remains consistent.
  • Karen is considering changing her name.

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  • http://intensedebate.com/people/affiliatetip Shawn Collins

    Missy –

    Glad you've seen the light about ceding email branding from AffiliateSummit.com to me.com and correcting that problem. :)

    The good news is that Gmail has been archiving your email since last summer when we switched to Google Apps.

    You can keep your old school PST for an archive, and you already have nearly a year of Gmail in the bank.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/drcool Joe Sousa

    Good Spew. Always good hearing from Jangro and the rest of you. And Missy, The Cure is awesome. One of my favorites also.

    Still contemplating the switch from Outlook to Gmail. I keep hearing good reasons to do it but I haven't pulled the trigger yet. Maybe if I got more than 5 or 10 real emails a day I could justify it.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/StephARC StephARC

    Now I want to be free of my crazy outlook folders…but i must agree I don't really like the thread discussions in gmail. I have both but use outlook for the office and I always refer back to old emails that I need.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/affiliatetip Shawn Collins

    I was resistant to the change form Outlook to Gmail, but can't imagine going back now.

    All of my emails are there in Gmail and easy to find with the search function. And given the storage capacity for Gmail, I have way more mail available to easily find, since I'm not constrained by the Outlook PST file.

    And I really like the Gmail app on my Blackberry and iPod Touch.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/TrishaLyn TrishaLyn

    Whoa whoa, Brook changed his name? Now I want to know what it was before!

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/Missyward Missyward

    For years, both Brook and Forrest were known as Schaaf (sounds like: Shaft) ;-)

    All of a sudden – out of the blue, they changed their name to Schaaf (sounds like aaaah. like a big old yawn).

    Apparently, they were reinventing themselves ;-)

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