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Re: Develop An Advertising Tax Educational Website

Jamie E Birch — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 12:17:28 -0000

Mike, I had the same concern when I saw their California site. My only response to that is

1. Their site was only for California, I haven't heard about any plans for future states or one, all encompassing educational platform.
2. I don't want to duplicate effort either, I also support the PMA and love what they are doing.
3. I think there is room for multiple resources, efforts and strategies. Organizations can sometimes be limited regarding their charter and time. But overall, this is a questions, should we have something, what should that look like etc.

Re: Develop An Advertising Tax Educational Website

Jamie E Birch — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 12:08:36 -0000

Mike, those are 5 great things. I love #5 - additional ways to generate revenue, providing them with ideas instead of just saying their current idea is horrible. I like what the PMA did with their California site in regards to personal stories. I think that would go a long way. What about a list of affiliate business and their tax revenues by state? Being able to show how many businesses/employees are in each state and an estimated tax revenue loss if they have to relocate?

Re: Develop An Advertising Tax Educational Website

Jamie E Birch — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:14:34 -0000

So first order of business - what 5 things do you feel legislators need to be educated on in relation to his tax? Fire away.

Re: Develop An Advertising Tax Educational Website

Jamie E Birch — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 02:35:39 -0000

Matt, I definitely will. I've been on vacation for a few day so now getting back to you it. What do you think of the idea in general?

Re: Develop An Advertising Tax Educational Website

Jamie E Birch — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:39:16 -0000

I will definitely do that. I'm sorry to hear that battle didn't go the way you had hoped. It does need to be repealed, and hopefully, what I'm thinking of here will help you, me and others educate our legislators on the real effects of this law. I'll reach out on Monday as I'm about to head out for the weekend.

Re: Develop An Advertising Tax Educational Website

Jamie E Birch — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 11:48:28 -0000

Mike Allen commented on our facebook page about working with another entity to help with costs, etc. That's pretty much what I'm doing here. Anyone can get involved, anyone can add their input, help with costs. I'll be honest, I'm not really concerned about the costs, more concerned about putting together something very solid to help all of us across the country.

Re: Develop An Advertising Tax Educational Website

Jamie E Birch — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 11:15:46 -0000

I actually plan on using the same web developer. WDW did such a great job on our site and a bunch of other projects that, barring any surprises, they will be doing the work on this project as well.

Re: Withdraw Affiliate Tax Plan

Jamie E Birch — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 23:47:48 -0000

I'd like to invite my industry colleagues to this discussion. Many of you have been fighting this fight for years and have beaten back this legislation. You've met with legislators, and that experience is vital in myself and others winning this fight. What do you suggest we do? What do you think we should add or change about our petition? What worked best for you.

Re: Withdraw Affiliate Tax Plan

Jamie E Birch — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 23:46:04 -0000

Randall, thanks again. I know of George, but I don't know if he's still around. I'm already in contact with Rep. Shirley Ringo, Rep. Phil Hart and Rep. Vito Barbieri. I'm meeting with them in late April and hope that they can send me along to more of the right people.

I'd encourage you to email George and send him the link to the Mission home page. I'd not only love for him to know about this, but I'd also would appreciate his input.

Re: Withdraw Affiliate Tax Plan

Jamie E Birch — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 18:32:07 -0000

Randy,

Thanks for the vote of confidence. I've already had the pleasure of meeting with many of these officials, so I'm hoping that they might remember the conversation. I do agree with you that we need more support from around the state. Know any of those others we should be pulling together?

Re: “What If?”

Jamie E Birch — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:29:58 -0000

Ray, great post. It's something I've been doing in our business - "what if we could take the typical 6 month ramp up period to 30 days?" That's our biggest one.

Great post!

Re: A Schaaf-Centric World

Jamie E Birch — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 20:10:27 -0000

Greetings affiliate marketers from the Idaho headquarters!

Congrats Brook! About that oversized check, we've been trying to get it through the printer for about 5 hours now, just won't go through, but I'll definitely let you know when Ed McMahon and I got it figured out.

Seriously, congrats bud!

Re: Living in a bubble

Jamie E Birch — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:17:13 -0000

Wow, you sure were busy. Great job on the CO afftax bill. Huge kudos to you and the rest of the CO team!

Re: What’s the Value of an Online Press Mention?

Jamie E Birch — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:34:53 -0000

Scott, you can't overestimate the value of showing your mom how successful you are. :)

Re: FTC Kills Affiliate Marketing?

Jamie E Birch — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:35:24 -0000

Ray,

Great post. As a bit of an affiliate expert, I think the hysteria about this is a bit overblown. One, I believe it's only targeting bloggers, not the entire affiliate community. So, will it kill the affiliate industry, hardly. I believe it's a fine move. Don't you want to know if that blog preaching the benefits of product X actually cares about the product?

I've seen this before, done internally within the blogging community, and it's easy to designate compensated information against non compensated info.

Thanks!

Re: Increase Your Affiliate Earning With DataFeedr

Jamie E Birch — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:43:56 -0000

Do you happen to have contact info for someone at Datafeedr - i'd love to chat with them.

Thanks1

Re: Cool Little Egg Timer Help You Focus and Be Productive

Jamie E Birch — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:08:10 -0000

oops, only for a pc :(

Re: Cool Little Egg Timer Help You Focus and Be Productive

Jamie E Birch — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 23:11:19 -0000

I'm going to try this tomorrow. I'm thinking it will force you to focus because you "only have 45 minutes" to complete the task :)

Re: Cool Little Egg Timer Help You Focus and Be Productive

Jamie E Birch — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:19:08 -0000

I've heard of this before, not sure if it was in Tim Ferris' book or not, but what a great idea. I've been trying several different time management ideas over the last few months (the most productive has been not opening gmail until after 10am (I start at 6). It adds a sense of urgency doesn't it?

How did your 45 minutes go? Did you find you got more done? Did the clicking of the click add a sense of anxiety?

Re: Please Don’t Get Stuck on Google!

Jamie E Birch — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:13:05 -0000

I couldn't agree more with your sentiment here. I work in the affiliate marketing arena. For years I have worked with hundreds of affiliates that live and die by google. Now, that being said, many of them do extremely well and I are valued and trusted partners. But I've always been pushing them to look outside of that. My first recommendation is to always build something that people would want to come to. Not only writing for your audience, but provide your audience and/or community something of value and that will generate the most traffic overall. I'm afraid that building to Google limits what the product/site can be.

Great post!

Re: Affiliate Networks Doing Their Part

Jamie E Birch — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 02:28:24 -0000

Scott, have any merchants helped mobilize the community? I'm wondering if all the programs should be sending out notices to their affiliates on how to get involved.

Re: States get together

Jamie E Birch — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:17:28 -0000

I'm not sure Idaho would even consider something like this, but I'll be ready (have already contacted our reps here) for a fight like this. Please add me for Idaho.

Re: March Madness Doba Bonus Tournament

Jamie E Birch — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:44:18 -0000

I wish, it is actually a Lance Armstrong signed race poster from 1996.

Re: Parental Judo, Life on Greenwich Mean Time

Jamie E Birch — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:46:20 -0000

Scott, great to hear you have the flexibility. I have a 9 month old, 2 year old, 12 year old and 8 year old. (I think that is all of them). I began working EST (I life in PST) in 2005. At first I had trouble being ready for work at 6am. But, I've kept that schedule I wake up early so that even when I have a long day, I'm still home for dinner, but when they days are normal, I get to be at the school to pick up my oldest and have all evening with the fam. You're right too, with all the ways we can be connected, you can still answer important emails and questions with no real disruption to them. I love the schedule and it works so much better than 9am to 6pm, that schedule seems so old school.

Re: Are You Adding Value - Something Unexpected?

Jamie E Birch — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:57:33 -0000

Very good point Andrew. If you don't have a good product or company to promote, pre selling and adding value won't do much.