June 5 Star Affiliate Blogs Archives

Amazon Uses California Affiliates as Pawns in their Tax Fight – PULL YOUR AMAZON LINKS

Most affiliates are too busy to pull links anyway PLUS will be scrambling to deal with the domino effect that is sure to follow from this unjust California tax law that is about to effect their business. Amazon will just continue to profit UNJUSTLY from Affiliates that don’t have time to track down and remove all the links. for God’s sake – PULL ALL YOUR AMAZON LINKS! They should not profit from your efforts after they royally screw you. SCREW THEM!

Amazon Threatens to Terminate CA Affiliates due to Pending California Nexus Tax Bills

Governor Brown of California has announced he has secured enough votes to pass his budget, including the Affiliate Nexus Tax and 2 related nexus bills. The law will go into effect immediately upon signing, and he must sign before July 1st, 2011. Here’s a pic of the Amazon California Associate Program termination notice and more info.

If your Affiliate Business Sucks – Read this!

Affiliate marketing isn’t dead. Promoting someone else’s products instead of creating your own is still very much lucrative, but expecting to get results from dead-end ‘marketing’ tactics and then whining when you don’t get rich within the proverbial 6 months that “gurus” tell you wait doesn’t work. 7 reasons why its best that you keep your day job.