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Granted, the main purpose of the “Crimes against chastity, morality, decency, and good order” law in Massachussetts is to prevent porn from being made available to children.  Which is good.  Adult items should be for adults, and childrens items should be available for the children.  But what happens if in the extremely “wide” language of [...]

Sometimes you get busy and forget what’s important.  Busy building sites.  Tuning landing pages.  Busy managing your affiliate business, your family, your life.  That’s why we have holidays.  It gives us time to get unbusy.  To be able to surround yourself with your friends and family and mix, mingle, and to get in touch with [...]

The World Health Organization seems to be tired of things like exercising fiscal responsibility, and earning respect so they can collect donations and do good work.  You see, they’ve released a plan to coerce governments world wide to impose direct taxes that are for the exclusive use of the WHO.  And it’s not a pretty [...]

Okay, so my head is all wrapped around my recent post where I fleshed out the need to redefine ourselves from Affiliates to Performance Marketers.  And in writing that post I was interrupted by news about some of the Affiliate Tax efforts happening in some states.  And it came to me that this may be [...]

Here I go…  I’m guest blogging here on AffSpot.  Why you ask?  Because I was reading the NY Times on Monday about the lawsuit where Amazon is basically telling the State of North Carolina that they’re scumbags and to go home and feed your dogs (or whatever NC Legislators and Regulators do in their free [...]

CNET is reporting that Amazon has filed suit in Washington State to protect the private transactional data of it’s customers from the demands of North Carolina officials.  Specifically, North Carolina has been digging for sales tax revenue and it wants to force Amazon to disclose 7 years worth of purchase history of it’s customers from [...]

It’s been a hectic year for affiliates fighting the inept concept that somehow they define “nexus” as defined by sales tax laws in numerous states. Nevada, Virginia, Vermont, New Hampshire, New York, California and a host of others where there have been some wins, and some losses.
Well, add Missouri to the list. You [...]

I could expound poetic about how Affiliate Marketing combines the power of the Luge, with the grace of Figure Skating, and the speed and risk of the Super G. But I won’t, because it would be wrong. These sports don’t translate very well into Affiliate Marketing..
But one does… Curling

Multiple players sliding granite [...]

It started to look like a bit of a victory…  But it’s not over in Colorado yet…  It seems that what remains in the Colorado Affiliate Tax Law that’s in the middle of being passed is a “backdoor” of sorts.  A very ugly backdoor that isn’t all that different from what Missouri has attempted in [...]

Normally I’m oblivious to advertising.  I’m at the computer working away.  But a commercial came on the TV (which I keep on for noise) and it so insulted the customer it gave me pause.  The “feel good” line from a financial planning company was:
“When the Customer Perceives they’re in control they do amazing things…”
What?  The [...]