The Sway #2: Back for a second helping!

Miramus helped to organise the (if I do say so myself) excellent Sway event in May, and it’s back for a second helping in July. It was a great night, with some really interesting (and short!) talks from some innovative and inspiring web entrepreneurs and general web heads.

I can’t think of another event that’s aimed solely at bloggers, editors and network owners seeking to make money out of their editorial content. Many of the people at the event were people I’ve only ever spoken to on email, or admired from a distance, and putting faces to names made me realise that we should have been running events like this for years.

So if you think you should have been invited (if you run advertising on your blog or website or are monetising it in other ways then this is the event for you), please do request an invite over on the Sway website, or directly via the Sway MeetUp group. You can also follow The Sway on Twitter.

The reason the event is invite only is to protect those attending from being overrun by PRs, widget creators, and other marketeers and developers. There are already plenty of events out there that (quite rightly) allow access for all. But The Sway is solely for those wishing to talk about their businesses with other content providers.

I hope to see you there!

Miramus is helping Skimlinks to spread the word among bloggers

skimlinksWe’re currently working with the people over at Skimlinks to help spread the word about their very clever affiliates service. I’m a big fan of Skimlinks (and can’t say enough nice things about Alicia Navarro, their CEO) and I like the simplicity of what they do. We used them when I was at Shiny, adding their code to our site so that any outbound links to merchants would automatically be converted into affiliate links.

Not only did it save us having to make individual deals with the affiliate companies, it also saved our writers having to go to the trouble of inserting affiliate links into posts. Not to mention the fact that writers could get on with their jobs without having their editorial independence compromised — after all, most of the time they were unaware if the site they were linking would convert into an affiliate link or not.

So when Alicia approached Miramus about helping to pimp them out to the web community, we were more than happy to get involved. Stay tuned for more – we’ll be announcing an excellent blogger event very shortly!

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