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The Big Conversion Tracking Lie - Impact Radius

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Sarah Bundy on Making a Difference in Affiliate Marketing

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Sam Harrelson's Comeback

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Advertising Tax Vetoed from the CA Budget

The news just hit the wire that Governor Scwarzenegger vetoed the Advertising Tax from the state budget. 07/01/2009 GAAS:355:09 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Governor Schwarzenegger Remains Committed to No New Taxes, Announces Overstock.com Will Continue to do Business in California Following Overstock.com's announcement that it will pull...
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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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Is There Room for Two Affiliate Marketing Organizations?

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Podcast Madness

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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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Thank You ShareASale

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Datafeeds Done Right, Finally.

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Yes Virginia, There are Businesses Thriving in This Tough Economy.

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Affiliate Marketing Success Tips

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Affiliate Marketing Annoyances: CJ's Reports

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Trying out Virtual Private Servers

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The Amazon Tax. Are You Next?

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Affiliate Marketing Needs to Reinvent Itself

My old friend Larry Joseloff, formerly of eNews (merchant) and Be Free (affiliate provider) and now VP of Content for Shop.org speaks on the state of affiliate marketing, where it is going, and how it "needs to reinvent itself." Larry isn't exactly in the thick of affiliate stuff any more, but even so he can pinpoint some of the image...
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Nominated for a Linkshare 2008 Gold Link Award

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Chinpose Free-Shirts: Pingo

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Show Me the Money!

Talk is cheap It started out with a quote by Shawn Collins about the new PepperJam network. "Even after all these years using Commission Junction on the merchant and affiliate side, I still find it terribly clumsy to find what I want. With Pepperjam Network it is quick and easy. Pepperjam Network is what an affiliate network would look...
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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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When Memcached Doesn't Cut It - Website Caching Part II

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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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Website Performance Tools: How I Installed Memcached

We should all be lucky enough to have performance problems due to heavy website traffic. "Plan for success" is one of my favorite cliches, and in that spirit, I'm trying to get/stay ahead of the curve on a website that's growing in popularity, BUMPzee. It not so much BUMPzee's popularity put it in jeopardy of performance issues, it's...
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Second Bite Takes a Bite Out of Affiliates

Second Bite Solutions is an online service provider that has an effective, patent-pending, technology that assists merchants in addressing the shopping cart abandonment problem. But is it at the expense of their traditional affiliates? According to their website, Second Bite approaches the problem by addressing the behavioral triggers...
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eBay Announces their own affiliate infrastructure

Today, Ebay announced the launch of their new affiliate linking infrastructure, called Project Rover. According to the Ebay email: Project Rover has been designed to work seamlessly with the Commission Junction interface, increase the effectiveness of our affiliate’s marketing campaigns, and will be rolled out to all...
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Fixing OS X Cursor Movement Keystrokes

I've been using a Macintosh Powerbook G4 for going on 4 years now. I don't miss Windows for a second. I'm not even dying to get a new Intel Mac so I can run Windows (though I am dying to get one for the performance improvements). There are a few things that annoy me about OS X, however. The first being how difficult it is to manage...
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See You at CJU? Get Your Website Reviewed.

I'll be attending Commission Junction's CJU conference for the third year in a row. This will be my second time presenting. This year, I'll be doing a session with Pedro Sostre titled, "Site Lab: Designing Effective Landing Pages". From the CJU 2006 Agenda: Has the conversion rate for your landing pages plummeted? Having trouble...
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