Get Satisfaction, the leading customer engagement platform, recently named IZEA a recipient of The Instant Gratification Award for the most comprehensive knowledge base resulting in super speedy resolution times.

This recognition is part of Get Satisfaction’s inaugural “Love Your Customers” Awards.

IZEA joins other leading brands with this prestigious acknowledgement, including AMC Theaters, MapMyFitness, Mint, Mozilla and Pampers.

For the complete release, click here.

It’s believed that companionship is deeply embedded in our genes; that humans seek reciprocated interaction. It’s also understood that we’re a competitive species, always looking to improve ourselves and our surroundings.

When we focus on our fitness, these two core evolutionary qualities work simultaneously to provoke our inner strengths. We work out in groups and inadvertently compete with each other to set a standard for self improvement.

With Spartan Races, enhanced improvement is inevitable through its ultimate fitness competition: an outdoor obstacle race. If you’re used to working out in a gym full of equipment, your biggest competition is probably the race to the last treadmill. Take on the obstacle of the outdoors and challenge yourself to be a Spartan!

We are looking for bloggers who focus on:

• Sports
• Health
• Fitness
• Nutrition
• Strength training
• Working out

Please only respond if this describes your blog. If it seems like a fit, then go ahead and fill out the Casting Call form below. We will contact you if you’re a good match for this campaign.

Full details of the Opportunity will be included in the requirements if an offer is extended your way, however, basic requirements will be as follows:

• Provide a brief description of Spartan Races
• Discuss the benefits of signing up for a race.

Scott’s Snap Lawn Care system aims to simplify; from its smaller, more compact structure to its always safe lawn care formula, finally you wont have to put in all the effort for your lawn to grow effortlessly. With the changing seasons, grass often needs a pick-me-up, Scott’s will snap your lawn back into shape just in time for that Spring BBQ. Love your grass without worrying about your loved ones, remember their formula is kid and pet friendly.

We are looking for MALE bloggers who focus on:

• Male gardening
• Male home improvements
• Male family
• Male lifestyle
• Handymen

Please only respond if this describes your blog. If it seems like a fit, then go ahead and fill out the Casting Call form below. We will contact you if you’re a good match for this campaign.

Full details of the Opportunity will be included in the requirements if an offer is extended your way, however, basic requirements will be as follows:

• Discuss Scott’s Snap Lawn Care System
• Review their website and watch their video testimonials

According to CNet.com, the average American spends approximately 13 hours per week surfing the web. With all this interest on the Internet, we can bet your bookmark tab needs a break. What if you could organize your favorite web pages into categories, or what if all those wish list items for your closet could be stored seamlessly on your dashboard?

Introducing Clipix, a free and brand new tool that is completely redefining the way you can organize. Simply add in the “Clip” button into your bookmark tab. Everything you clip will be stored and remembered by customized clipboards on clipix because, let’s face it, your computer’s memory is a little better than yours. What’s the best part, you wonder? Clipix is an organizational tool as well as social! Share your boards with friends and family to expand your interests, ideas and interactions!

We are looking for:

• Food Blogs
• Fashion Blogs
• Lifestyle Blogs
• Family Blogs
• General Blogs

Please only respond if this describes your blog. If it seems like a fit, then go ahead and fill out the Casting Call form below. We will contact you if you’re a good match for this campaign.

Full details of the Opportunity will be included in the requirements if an offer is extended your way, however, basic requirements will be as follows:

• Go to clipix.com and open a personal clipix account and try it out! Add several clips and enjoy yourself!
• Write about what you would clip onto your clipix boards and how you would use clipix
• Encourage your readers to visit and sign up for clipix today!

***SITEWIDE DISCLOSURE IS REQUIRED FOR YOUR BLOG TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS CAMPAIGN.***

If you need help with creating a disclosure policy for your blog, please see here for assistance. We suggest that you place a text link marked “”Disclosure Policy”" for your readers on the side or bottom bar of your blog in an area that can be easily located by your readers. This link should link to your disclosure policy on a separate page of your blog/site in a fashion similar to a privacy policy link. This is not to be included in your post.”

It’s no secret that life moves fast today…high speed Internet fast. We connect with friends online, follow our favorite celebrities on twitter and order our Valentine flowers with an app. With our lives moving so quickly, we need a pharmacy that doesn’t miss a beat. Walgreens pharmacy understands that health care not only needs to be quick, but it needs to be consistent and cost-efficient on and offline.

Our Walgreens campaign is ending soon, make sure to check your SocialSpark dashboard for a lead or offer, we wouldn’t want you to miss out!

In November of last year (still weird to say that) IZEA announced its launch of SocialSpark’s Deals pilot featuring Domino’s Pizza. Various media outlets have covered the launch of the deals; they’ve showcased the benefits and highlighted the big brands who have taken notice.

SocialSpark Deals is an additional option for our blogger community to earn revenue and for our advertisers to connect with their customers all while promoting great products and saving consumers some cash.

“The social curation of this, people deciding what’s relevant to them, is what got me excited,” Ted Murphy, CEO of IZEA said “And the big appeal is that it’s coming from someone you’re familiar with, someone you trust. There’s less of a sales-y feel to it.”

Recently, SocialSpark Deals were headlined in PizzaMarketPlace.com, a site that features cutting edge (pun intended) industry-specific techniques and concepts for promoting restaurant business. The article highlighted one of our advertisers, Domino’s Pizza, and their strategic use of social media for consumer engagement through SocialSpark Deals.

Are you a publisher interested in promoting SocialSpark Deals?

• Log into your SocialSpark account and select the “Deals” tab.

• View SocialSpark Deals available to you!

Are you an advertiser interested in utilizing SocialSpark Deals?

Please contact our sales team at 1.877.50.BLOGS

An Open Letter to Our Influencer Network

During the past two weeks, a series of emails were distributed to the IZEA influencer networking that included placeholder text. To many of you, it resembled spam. It was actually the result of a glitch in our system that sent placeholder instead of personalized text.

We know firsthand that email management can be and is already overwhelming – and we’re sorry for the inconvenience.

Our intent was to provide a personalized daily overview of available sponsorship opportunities for you to tweet or blog about. However, we now also realize that daily updates are simply too much.

Beginning February 1, you will receive bi-weekly emails with available sponsorships targeted to you. If you haven’t already, check out our latest casting calls, including one from Walgreens.

Thanks for hanging with us through the errors and we’re excited to have you in the IZEA influencer network.

All the Best,

The IZEA Influencer Ecosystem

Love Walgreens? Make sure to check our your SocialSpark account for a lead or offer for our Walgreens campaign; they’d love to have you on board!

Please note, this is a U.S.based campaign, so only U.S. bloggers will be eligible.

Cubicle. Sounds about as exciting as watching paint dry, huh? Well, Contest Factory is seeking the best of the worst in the land of nine to fivers. They want to break the stereotype of these boring boxy work spaces and help you relinquish your inner CEO in their Pimp My Cube contest. They say dress for the job you want, not the one you have so why eliminate cubes from the equation?

Contest Factory wants you to submit a video showcasing your cubicle catastrophe; from the outdated computer to the carpet coffee stain from 1985 (no judgement.) They want your video to encompass everything that makes your cube awful; bet chatty Cathy two cubes over is starting to look a little more tolerable.

We are looking for bloggers who are:

• Business-oriented
• Marketing-focued
• Tech-related
• Finance-specific
• Male-centric

Please only respond if this describes your blog. If it seems like a fit, then go ahead and fill out the Casting Call form below. We will contact you if you’re a good match for this campaign.

Full details of the Opportunity will be included in the requirements if an offer is extended your way, however, basic requirements will be as follows:

• Promote the Pimp My Cube contest
• Include the video in your post
• Encourage your readers to enter

It appears Avocados from Mexico have take healthy competition to the literal level. They’re asking you to get creative with your recipes using these healthy and oh so tasty green gems. The Superbowl is just around the corner and we can bet the competition will be on the rise through February 5. But why limit it to the field?

Avocados from Mexico is hosting the “Guac Off” recipe contest on their Facebook page where they are encouraging their fans to submit their meanest, greenest recipes.Three lucky chaps will receive a coveted iPad2 AND an autographed cookbook from celebrity chef Roberto Santibañez. Seven runners-up will be awarded a $200 grocery gift card and will be given the coveted autographed cookbook from Santibañez as well. All entrants are automatically entered into a separate sweepstakes where 10 winners will receive a $100 grocery gift card.

We are looking for:

• Family blogs with fairly high traffic
• Food blogs with fairly high traffic.

Please only respond if this describes your blog. If it seems like a fit, then go ahead and fill out the Casting Call form below. We will contact you if you’re a good match for this campaign.

Full details of the Opportunity will be included in the requirements if an offer is extended your way, however, basic requirements will be as follows:

• Encourage readers to visit the Avocados from Mexico Facebook page between Jan 5 and January 15
• Share the Guac Off Recipe Contest with your friends on Facebook.
• Discuss the prizes that will be awarded and show off your recipe!