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

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The Online Advertising 2012 Blue Book's Top 20 Affiliate Networks

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Breaking Out of Your Inbound Marketing Rut by Making it Less of a Chore

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My First Week with a Google Nexus One

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Droids, Google Phones, Contracts, and Termination Fees: What's a Geek to Do?

If you're plotting and planning your way through Smartphone waters, trying to get your grubby hands on the latest, hottest phone and mobile OS, you'll need to be very strategic. Either that or willing to drop some dough. At this point, in order to feed my gadget-habit, I'm carrying two wireless contracts. It's not cheap, but I see it as a...
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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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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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Maryland's Amazon Tax Bill

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Tennessee's Legislation incorporating the #AdvertisingTax

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North Carolina's version of the "Amazon Tax"

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Assembly Bill 178: An Open Letter to California Legislators

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2008 Affiliate Marketing Review, the Bad and the Good

I'm not a big one for resolutions, but I do like to take a look back and reflect on what happened in the past year and think about what the next has in store for us. 2008 was a truly remarkable year for the Affiliate Marketing Industry, for my own company, and for myself. I started out with my own personal stuff in this post, but it...
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Affiliate Summit West 2009 Party-a-Day Calendar

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Toolbars and Network Quality | LinkShare Blog

Linkshare has made a post on their blog acknowledging the recent issues that have been raised about OneCause. Toolbars and Network Quality | LinkShare Blog: "We take network quality seriously. That’s why we have a team dedicated to preserving the integrity of our network. That team applied the same standards to the OneCause toolbar...
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Affiliate Marketing Takes a Big Step Back to 2002

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The Amazon Tax. Are You Next?

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Zappos Affiliates: Look out Below!

The undisputed leader of the online shoe market is feeling a big squeeze from their newest rival, Endless.com. Endless.com, owned by Amazon.com, came on strong a little over a year ago with a gorgeous website and crazy aggressive free shipping deals. Since they launched, Endless has been offering free overnight shipping. And now...
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CashAddOn - What's Wrong with Incentive Publisher Browser Plugins

There's a new incentive shopping browser plugin on the scene, called CashAddOn. CashAddOn is a Cash Back shopping portal. Their model is that they have a FireFox plugin that, when installed, gives you indication in the browser status bar if you're receiving cash-back commissions on a purchase from the current website. A small blue minus...
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Safari, I've Missed You

I have been a die-hard Safari user even since I switched over to OS X several years ago. I've always liked it's clean, tabbed interface, as well as other little things like being able to visit non-linked urls (check it out. highlight a url, right-click, go.). That's not to say that I haven't flirted with other browsers. I used Camino...
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Microsoft to buy Web ad firm aQuantive for $6 bln - Yahoo! News

I'm not one to post news-only stuff, but this one's big. And I haven't seen it surface in the Affiliate Marketing Community yet. Microsoft is buying aQuantive. This puts Microsoft more squarely in the online advertising marketplace, clearly in response to Google's acquisition of Doubleclick. This leaves VCLK and Yahoo standing out in...
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A Practical Look at LMI

The Commission Junction Link Management Initiative (LMI) has prompted a strong reaction from affiliates. CJ is planning a change their link structure from plain HTML links over to mandatory use Javascript links. While some may feel that "links are links", or that it must be fine because similar offerings, like Google Adsense and Yahoo...
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New JavaScript Link Types at Commission Junction

Commission Junction Announced this morning that they're fundamentally changing their linking technology from static HTML links to JavaScript links. Phase I of the Link Management Initiative involves a cutover to the default link type being this new JavaScript link. What's a JavaScript link? Some other providers use JavaScript links. ...
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