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Re: Me, Director of Affiliate Marketing?

5starAffiliatePrograms — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:44:48 -0000

Hey Trisha,

Big congrats on the new gig. Really hope it works out well for you.
Keep us posted, I'm sure you will. ;-)

Re: Some Quick Thank Yous

5starAffiliatePrograms — Fri, 30 May 2008 01:58:03 -0000

You're welcome but we need to thank you too. You've really taken a leading role in understanding and helping to organize and communicate the info.

We appreciate you!

Linda

Re: A Framework for Discussing what the Nexus Tax Means

5starAffiliatePrograms — Thu, 29 May 2008 22:17:53 -0000

Kevin,l wanted to be sure you saw Phillips latest comment on my blog. It's long and it's a doosie. Haven't even figured out how I want to respond. Can't even hardly think straight about this any more. Here it is:

http://affiliate-blogs.5sta...

Re: Motive Interactive

5starAffiliatePrograms — Wed, 28 May 2008 21:56:49 -0000

You're welcome and congrats Sam, so glad it worked out for you. You sound pretty excited and this should be a win/win/win for you, the company and affiliates that join you!

Re: Unhappy Friday Reading, and a Message to New York State

5starAffiliatePrograms — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:48:14 -0000

Hi Kevin,

Thanks for sharing that info with everyone!

Re organizing...

I had another long call with John Dozier today on a variety of related issues. But one thing he said is we really need to form a group to fight this thing. He said does not need to be a long complicated thing like forming an association. Just a special interest group would do.

Some of us have a grass roots project started, some of your readers may be interested in.
Quoted from the bottom of the blog post you referenced above:

"FURTHER ACTION: A group of industry leaders and I are in direct communication with Jim Connolly, Staff Attorney in the Office of Counsel to the Tax Department of the State of New York. We are pulling together a list of important questions in order to get clarification on numerous issues. Jim has agree to answer the questions publicly. There are many gray areas and much of the language is unclear, so this should help everyone a lot.

If you have questions please post them in the comments at the link below and we’ll include the most relevant ones in the list that goes to Mr. Connolly. Additionally, there is a chance John Dozier could weigh in on some of the questions you post over at 5 Star."

Dozier Internet Law: 10 Tips for New York Affiliate Tax Problems

Thanks Kevin for reporting on this for your readers!

Linda Buquet

Re: Linkshare Teams with the DMA on NY Affiliate Tax

5starAffiliatePrograms — Wed, 21 May 2008 14:27:04 -0000

Thanks Sam. Email on the way.

Re: Linkshare Teams with the DMA on NY Affiliate Tax

5starAffiliatePrograms — Wed, 21 May 2008 12:59:04 -0000

Hi Sam, I covered this issue yesterday AM before most caught wind of it and also posted about it in comments to your CJ post yesterday.

I think we need to organize for this call and I had nominated Shawn for spokesperson, but he can't do it. Had been meaning to contact you on this too Sam. Please read my thoughts in comment #1 and let me know if you or anyone else is interested.

Linkshare/DMA - Join the New York Tax Conference Call PLUS DMA’s Analysis of the Law

Also if anyone has questions that need to be addressed on the call, please post them in that thread. A good one already came up about network taxes... But I answered it.

Re: What Happened to Affiliate Bloggers?

5starAffiliatePrograms — Tue, 20 May 2008 17:45:32 -0000

Hi Sam, thanks for mentioning the 5 Star blog.

I'm feeling the same way you are. It used to be exciting to check my feedreader every morning and now it just seems dead out there. Lots of good blogs are gone or seldom updated. For awhile there were several new PPC/CPA affiliate blogs that were blowing me away with the info they were giving away. Now they seem to have petered out and the content is not nearly as dynamic.

It's hard to keep blogging, it really is. Many days I feel like just giving up. I mean, I love it BUT I have a more than full time business to run as well and sometimes blogging just eats way more time than I can justify.

I think lots of people just get tired of trying to constantly come up with blog ideas or new angles to news stories - others probably just get busy with their primary business and some just burn out in general.

I don't think it's Twitter as much as it is the fact that blogging for awhile was the hot, in thing to do. Then people found out how much work it is to do it right, on an ongoing basis and just started refocusing on whatever their primary income generator is or moved onto something new.

Re: CJ And NY State Affiliate Tax

5starAffiliatePrograms — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:14:50 -0000

Sam, in contrast Linkshare has gotten the DMA involved and is having an open conference call with the DMA tax atty and has already provided the DMA legal analysis of the law. IMPORTANT STUFF re affiliates and Nexus!

Linkshare/DMA - Join the New York Tax Conference Call PLUS DMA’s Analysis of the Law

All interested parties need to read that info and be on the conf call if possible!