July 2009

Amazon.com Fails to Adjust Affiliate Program for New Technology?

Joshua Odmark has published a post on A Disconnect Between Social Media Marketing and Amazon.com where he talked about posting an earnest product recommendation via Twitter, using an affiliate link condensed with a URL shortener, generating sales for Amazon.com, yet receiving no commissions for the customers he referred. “After realizing

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On Leadership, Motivation, Future of Affiliate Marketing, etc

I have been interviewed by Avangate, the Netherlands-headquartered IT solutions company that also runs an affiliate network for software vendors. Cristian of Avangate asked some interesting and thought-provoking questions, on topics that ranged from how I came into affiliate marketing to the future of affiliate marketing, from techniques of how

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Tools for Affiliate Program Management

While the work with affiliates does involve a lot of one-on-one communication, relationship building and other non-automatizable components, there are tools that can help you streamline your affiliate program management. This is the topic that my most recent article in the Website Magazine is devoted to. Here’s an excerpt from

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Governors of California and Hawaii Vetoed Affiliate Tax Bills

Wednesday afternoon good news came from both Hawaii, and California: Good News from Hawaii: Governor Linda Lingle “vetoed HB 1405 because this legislation has immediate and adverse consequences for residents and businesses of Hawai’i. This legislation would place Hawai’i companies at a competitive disadvantage. As a consequence of this bill,

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Affiliate / Amazon Tax: Problem of Selective Nexus Formation

<!”Overstock is joining Amazon and Blue Nile in the parade of e-commerce companies dumping affiliates” [source]. Gov. of Hawaii, Linda Lingle, “notified the Legislature the [affiliate tax] bill was among 65 she may veto” after Amazon.com and its “sister-site Endless” have notified all HI affiliates that they are no longer

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