Gary Kibel of Davis & Gilbert LLP has tweeted: I’ve just finished reading the Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle) article he has linked to. While the article seems to view the affiliate tax as primarily Amazon’s trouble, it provides a good recap of what has happened on the affiliate tax […]
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An red flag has been raised by Melanie Seery of Affiliate Advocacy this morning. Her alert brings some worrying news about a new state considering going in the direction of the Internet tax. This time it is the State of Florida, and now the main reason behind the initiative is
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A fellow affiliate marketer and affiliate program manager, Matt Enders (on Twitter: @mattenders), broke the news yesterday: Missouri is joining the crowd of states which are considering what I like to call selective advertising tax. A North Carolina-based e-tailer, friend of Enders, “received a letter in the mail from the
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It’s been another busy day at this Affiliate Summit for me — good busy. Several productive meetings with current and prospective clients and affiliates, an excellent audience of affiliate program managers and network reps [picture 1 here | picture 2] at my session on how to motivate affiliates, good new
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Yesterday Rich Owings tweeted a sad news, that of the affiliate tax (aka “Amazon tax”) passing the House and Senate in North Carolina: Less than half an hour ago, Melanie Seery tweeted (highlighting mine): Today in her blog she also wrote: It is expected that North Carolina, like Rhode Island, will
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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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<!”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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Between Amazon notifying and then terminating North Carolina affiliates [see also this Wall Stree Journal article], California reviving the anti-affiliate tax, Hawaii lawmakers sending a similar bill to the governor [more here], and Rhode Island considering going the same route [see this comment], we read and hear that taxes like
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An affiliate I know tweeted a phrase that underscores something that you will not hear mentioned in evangelistic presentations on affiliate marketing. Here’s his tweet: As an affiliate program manager, this statement makes me ask myself: what have I personally done to make it less frustrating for my affiliates? While
Most Frustrating Thing About Affiliate Marketing is . . . Read More »
Yesterday evening @MattEnders, a North Carolina based colleague of mine, tweeted: Having been one of the people to blog about the problem a week ago, I have gone online this moring to try to find the interview. Couldn’t find the recording itself, but got to this page on MSNBC.com: The
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