You read that right. Today Drs. Foster & Smith, a pet medicine retailer our of Wisconsin, has shut down its entire affiliate program due to the Advertising Tax that has passed in 3 states and is being considered in many…

Jeff Molander wrote a post on his blog about social media. I decided to write a response at ReveNews instead of my own blog because, frankly, it is more provocative here. Plus, this is the community that introduced us. And that…

Last month Affiliate Convention came to my neighborhood. I took advantage of the opportunity to walk the exhibit hall with one of our team members who had never been to a conference.

As we wrapped up I told him that while…

I got a new computer last week. I burned out yet another laptop. I seem to ride the curve of Moore’s Law.

In setting up my computer, I took the easy way to speed it up and downloaded the Google Pack…

Foursquare keeps popping up. It is getting to a point that it might be popular. That’s not why it caught my interest. It has something that I find magical as a marketer.

People tell Foursquare where they are. Not latitude and longitude…

You had to be under a rock yesterday to miss the big news: Yahoo took a dose of poison to speed up its death. Rumor has it Steve Ballmer put on a Jack Kevorkian mask to trick Carol Bartz into…

I have two tales to tell about my recent experiment with Twitter. Up until last month, I was in the I-just-don’t-get-Twitter group. You know them. We all know them. They are more reasonable than the I-refuse-to-use-Facebook crowd.

It’s not often that…

A funny thing happened on our way to the Capital and visions of democratic grandeur…

You’ve all read about the Amazon Tax spreading from New York to other states including California, North Carolina, Hawaii and Rhode Island. Here’s the crazy thing……

You’ve read about the bills changing the definition of nexus sweeping the nation and why they are wrong.

The simple truth is that they are based on a loophole left by the Supreme Court. In Quill Corp v. North Dakota (1992),…

Sign the petition

Before I start, I am going to ask that you sign the petition I started. It is all explained below. To sign, just tweet the following on Twitter:

petition @nmevans to Stop the #affiliatetax. Don’t hurt small biz in…