Governor Jerry Brown of California has signed his budget into law, which includes the affiliate nexus tax. With the stroke of his pen, Governor Brown just put legions of entrepreneurs and their employees out of business. The affiliate nexus portion of the budget forces out-of-state retailers to collect California state sales tax for Internet sales, [...]
Q: As someone who is just starting to learn about affiliate marketing & not yet actually doing it. How much capital should I expect to need in order to have a viable business? A: You can really do it on the cheap. When I started out, my only investments were my domain name and hosting. [...]
This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast, Shawn Collins and Lisa Picarille reunite after Shawn took last week off, and they talked about LinkShare Symposium, Affiliate Marketers Give Back raising big money in the fight against breast cancer, and how first timers to Affiliate Summit should participate in the Newcomers Program. Also discussed were Facebook [...]
LinkShare has announced that Barnes & Noble.com has gone exclusive with the LinkShare network for their affiliate program. The news was shared at LinkShare Symposium East, which kicked off today at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. Some details on the Barnes & Noble.com affiliate program: 6% commission on millions of products. Access [...]
Bryan Eisenberg is a New York Times best-selling Author of multiple books, a top-rated professional speaker and advisor to numerous venture backed companies. We’re excited to have him as a keynote on Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at Affiliate Summit East 2011 Recently, Jim Kukral sat down with Bryan to talk about his upcoming keynote. Bryan [...]
Affiliate Marketers Give Back, led by Missy Ward, just completed a grueling 39.3 mile walk in the Rocky Mountains at the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer. The team raised $73,317, and a total of $1.9 million was raised over the weekend to fight breast cancer. The Affiliate Marketers Give Back team were the largest fundraising [...]
The Dating & Matchmaking Site Benchmark Report, from Anne Holland, Publisher of Subscription Site Insider and keynote at Affiliate Summit West 2006, is now available. The report is packed with useful information for any dating affiliates. One stat that jumped out at me was that 74% of dating site affiliates said the #1 thing they [...]
Affiliate Summit East 2011, taking place August 21-23, 2011, is just two months away. As we’ve done in the past, we’ll be giving away free gold passes to Affiliate Summit. Entries for the Affiliate Summit Ticket Sweeps can be made by Facebook or Twitter. There will be fifty Gold Passes to Affiliate Summit East 2011 [...]
I’ve currently got 166 domains, and I actively work on a dozen or so of them. I typically redirect them to my more active domains, but that can provide a confusing user experience and questionable return. So, I was looking for some alternatives to monetize the many quality, underused domain names in my portfolio. I’ve [...]