As you may already be aware, the State of California is again considering “affiliate nexus” language in their budget which could be voted on as early as one week from today. The importance and urgency can’t be emphasized enough: your business is under attack, and your livelihood is threatened. The Issue California is attempting to […]
How you can help. Re: #advertisingtax
I’ve had a lot of emails come to me asking “How can I help” with regards to the proposed “Affiliate Sale Tax” laws in so many States. So – I’ve put together a little post about what I think speficially you can do – right now. The most important thing is to locate, and initiate […]
It is illegal to give a dog whiskey in Illinois…
I spent the day today going over some laws that have been enacted by the State of Illinois (my home State) – just to get some perspective. Lucky for those of you who don’t live in Illinois, you are not subject to the following legislation. I found a few that were most … interesting. I […]
How to Bring in New Customers
I was recently involved in a debate at ABestWeb.com involving the value of new customers vs. returning customers. The debate itself had good points by a bunch of different people, but I thought I’d go into a little more detail about some ideas I think might help you (an Affiliate) focus on bringing in new […]
Fighting perceptions – The SmartMoney article
Recently there was an article in SmartMoney Magazine which a lot of you are familiar with… The article was very negative in its assessment of the industry, and there were quite a few discussions The article is here http://www.smartmoney.com/toughcustomer/index.cfm?story=may2008-affiliate-marketing With industry discussion on it at Affiliate Tip from Shawn Collins Mike Allen’s Revenews Blog Sam […]
ShareASale Pledges and Expectations… Part 2
Well this is later than I was hoping to have the second part of the series finished, but so much has happened since then with the NY sales tax issue taking center stage there for a while. Because it is long – here is a bulleted summary – but it is really important if this […]
Merchants – Don’t eliminate your NY Affiliates.
While this is not legal advice, it is often helpful to look at the two possible outcomes regarding the NY State sales tax laws. As many of you are aware, Amazon has filed suit in the State of New York to contest the State’s claim that Amazon has nexus in NY and thus is required […]
NY State and the “Affiliate Sales Tax” Law…
Hey all, I know there has been lots of talk about the new law going into effect in NY concerning affiliates, sales tax, and such… ShareASale has always believed that affiliates deserve a right to privacy in this industry – as well as a balanced position on transparency that allows merchants to know the things […]
March News
Well, I attempted to post the March Newsletter but had major trouble with the formatting… so I am skipping that for now! I did want to highlight one part of it though, and that was the congratulatory piece to all of the winners from the recent Pinnacle Awards during the Affiliate Summit West 2008 […]
ShareASale Pledges and Expectations…
Over the next few weeks I will be posting a series titled the “Pledges and Expectations”. The goal of this series is to set out what we pledge to our clients, as well as what we then expect from them. The series will be about 5 posts long and will start with one regarding Outsourced […]