Eric Ward

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Eric Ward (born August 12, 1964) is the founder of NetPOST and URLwire, a Knoxville, TN based online communications service and consultancy.

Ward is frequent speaker at Internet industry conferences, and is known as the person Jeff Bezos selected to execute the debut publicity and linking campaign for Amazon.com.

In 1995 Ward won the Tenagra Internet Marketing Excellence Award[1], and was named one of Web's 100 most influential people by Websight magazine in 1996. He has been profiled in print publications including The Industry Standard[2], Inc.[3], Business2.0, Entrepreneur[4], Netguide, Internet WORLD, Advertising Age and many others. He has been written about in business books and academic texts, newsletters and journals, and he contributed a how-to chapter for the book Advertising on the Internet.

Ward, also known as LinkMensch and LinkMoses by those in the industry, has written columns for SearchEngineLand[5], Clickz[6], WebMarketingToday, Search Marketing Standard, MarketingProfs, and Ad Age BtoB.

[edit] References

  1. ^ ClickZ LinkMensch Column [1]
  2. ^ 1995 Tenagra Internet Marketing Excellence Award Announcement [2]
  3. ^ INDUSTRY STANDARD - Getting the Right Spin: PR on the Net [3]
  4. ^ Inc. Magazine - At Your Service [4]
  5. ^ Entrepreneur - Making the List [5]
  6. ^ SearchEngineLand LinkWeek Column [6]