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NYT: Drive to Tax Internet Sales Harms Affiliate Marketers...So Does Crappy Reporting.

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Pinterest vs. The Marketers: Round 2

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You Give Coupon Code Affiliates a Bad Name

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Sam Harrelson Consulting Launches as Affiliate Program Management Agency

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Pissing Off Google Doesn't Pay

Recently, Google Affiliate Network rolled out a transition of their payment processing to Google Adsense. Through an easy process, you link your GAN account to an Adsense account (existing or new) and your GAN payments will be processed through Adsense. From a personal standpoint, I'm mostly ambivalent on the matter. As long as we get...
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Getting Ahead of the Advertising Tax

Just when you thought it was safe, the Advertising Tax legislation came back out of nowhere a few weeks ago and appeared as line items in the state budgets for North Carolina, California, and other states. Both budgets are still pending, but this didn't stop Amazon from making good on their threat to drop all of their associates in North...
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Concerns over Affiliate Program Taxes?

This question comes from a reader in Cleveland, OH, who is thinking about starting up an affiliate program: I’m sure you’ve seen this, but I wanted your latest thoughts/updates on the tax issue. I’m also not clear on how this is handled. Who collects and how? ...
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Affiliate Networks Doing Their Part

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Maryland Affiliates Time to Step it Up!

It is do or die time to oppose Maryland's affiliate sales tax clause in the Budget Reconciliation and Financing Act (BRFA). The committee is meeting this week to determine whether MD resident affiliates will constitute a sales presence (nexus) for out of state merchants making them responsible for collecting sales tax from Maryland-based...
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Amazon Kills Associate Direct Paid Search

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Maryland's Amazon Tax Bill

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Assembly Bill 178: An Open Letter to California Legislators

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The Year Affiliates Saved Christmas, Really?

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Truth in Affiliate Marketing

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Affiliate Networks Allow Plugins to Overwrite Links, Pope is Still Catholic

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Loyalty Affiliate Toolbars Keep on Keeping On, Do We Care?

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LinkShare Web Services Explained, Affiliate Geeks Rejoice

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Datafeeds Done Right, Finally.

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Affiliate Networks and Social Media

My post from earlier this week on Affiliate Networks and blogs got me thinking about the bigger social media picture in the affiliate network space. Engaging clients via social media is pretty much a no-brainer by now, though many businesses remain reluctant to open themselves to a public conversation with their clients for fear of the bad...
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Affiliate Marketing Network Blog Scorecard

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Affiliate Marketing Annoyances: CJ's Reports

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Deep Linking: It Shouldn't Be This Difficult

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The Amazon Tax. Are You Next?

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Back from Linkshare Symposium

I spent a few days this week in NYC at my first Linkshare Symposium. Being an old Be Free guy, I have to say it was a little strange but that was really only in my mind. Linkshare is not the company it used to be with most of the leadership team gone. Of course everybody there was great, whether they knew me from the old days or not. As...
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Performics Opening Up

This is turning out to be quite an interesting year of developments in the U.S. Affiliate Networks. Or maybe there has just been so little going on for the past few that it just seems that way. Pepperjam Network launched. Buy.at was aquired by AOL. Linkshare launched a new publisher interface. Hell froze over. Last night Larry...
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I Am No Longer an Affiliate

The other day, I thanked Jason Calacanis for hitting the Affiliate Summit attendees, and therefore the affiliate marketing community, in the face with a big fish of a keynote address. It was a "wake the hell up" message that I believe strongly that we needed to hear. I'll also give Wayne Porter a long overdue public thank you for his own...
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Linkshare is Dead. Long Live Linkshare.

I'll start out by saying that when talking about Linkshare, my basic inclinations are toward sarcasm and criticism. I can't help it. I've got deep-seated, ingrained, visceral feelings about Linkshare that come from my many years of not only competing head-to-head with during my 5+ years at Be Free, but from failed attempts to stand together...
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Pepperjam Network First Looks

Today marks the launch of a new affiliate marketing network here in the United States. It's not every day something like that happens, so this is pretty exciting stuff. I've had a chance to poke around the new Pepperjam Network a few days early and while it is still getting its last minute spit-shine and polish, it's shaping up to be...
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Rocktober Round-Up. What a Month!

There's just a whole bunch of stuff going on here and while it's not normally my style, I thought I'd throw a bunch of stuff together in a composite post. It's Halloween! Here at MechMedia (my company), Halloween is our Christmas. Our most popular website is a costume ideas and community site called CostumZee. (yeah, we have a bit of a...
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So You Think You Have Kick-Ass Program Terms

This is an old subject, but I recently found a few affiliate program terms that made my head spin, so I thought it might be time to raise this again. But first, let me say this... I Run a Business It's very simple. I get traffic and I ultimately send it away (after hopefully doing something useful to or for it). The idea is to send...
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