Let’s open Webster’s New World English Grammar Handbook (2009) by Shoup & Loberger on page 61. There we read: The Subjunctive Mood The subjunctive mood is employed to express a condition contrary to fact, a wish, a supposition, a prayer, or a doubt… An example is given: “If I were […]
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In September 2009 digital advertising overtook all other channels (including TV) in the United Kingdom [more here]. In October 2009 McKinsey stressed the importance of online retailing in the U.S., forecasting that by the year 2011 online sales will account for over 45% of all US retail sales [more here].
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With the weekend and the snow, I haven’t blogged about the advertising tax (aka: Amazon or affiliate tax) for a few days, but things have been changing quite dynamic lately, and I do have news to report: Alarming News: The Governor of Oklahoma — the state that is facing a
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I’ll be honest with you: I haven’t watched one second of the Super Bowl. I was shoveling my snow after the super snow weekend. I’m just not a big fan of (American) football (I’m a soccer man). What I did watch, however, were all of the Super Bowl commercials. Those
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Over the past few months my wife and myself have become huge fans of Darrell Bush’s art, and shortly after falling in love with his paintings we were happy to find out that Buffalo Games produces jigsaw puzzles based on his artwork. We bought our first one some two months
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Judging by the stats for the past 60 days, the 5th most popular post (by views) in my blog has been my Historic 2009 Snowfall in Virginia one posted on December 20, 2009 after it’s been snowing for two days straight. Everyone who thought that was the super snow (including
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Yesterday an important information has been posted by Kellie Stevens of Affiliate Fair Play in the 5StarAffiliatePrograms’ forum. Her alert is about a fairly newly created contextual adware that operates according to a model similar to Zango, Clicksor, or MediaTraffic. As an advertiser, you may buy traffic on DirectCPV.com which
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It seems like this has been just yesterday, but another 100-day period has passed, and since in the course of it I have consistently blogged at least once a day, I feel like it’s a good time to celebrate. Yes, we’re gonna have another contest!! This time we have over
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Yesterday I have illustrated how popular and fruitful a marriage of social networking with comparison shopping can be. Today I’d like us to turn our eyes to some staggering stats. We’ve heard that this decade will be the decade of the mobile Internet, which per Morgan Stanley is expected eventually
Marriage of Mobile and Social Read More »
Yesterday a sad news came from Colorado: the House Bill 1193 (aka “Amazon tax” or “affiliate tax”, but really an “advertising tax”) has passed the House (33 “yes” to 32 “no”), and moved on to the Colorado Senate where it will undergo a similar consideration and voting route. Melanie Seery
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