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My Amazon Affiliate Account Is Getting Shut Down!

Well not right now but starting this October a new bill in the state of Georgia will go into effect and it is going to hurt a lot of Affiliate Marketers in the state of Georgia.  This bill will allow the state to collect tax from out-of-state online merchants that use affiliate marketing.  This is referred to as affiliate nexus tax law. Nexus is basically a connection, link, or tie.

Gov. Nathan Deal (R) of Georgia, has said he does not want to wait for federal legislation to tax online sales. Merchants that have a real physical presence in Georgia (ex. Home Depot and Walmart) already have to pay state taxes for online sales and they are complaining that out-of-state online merchants have an unfair advantage.

When this becomes law in Georgia, Amazon and many other affiliate programs will terminate their relationship with thousands of affiliate marketers, including me, immediately. I understand that online merchants do not want to provide 50 different solutions to collect taxes from each state through affiliate reports. Of course if this type of law becomes a federal law, they will have to provide one.

Hey guys! Sorry I have not posted in the past couple of weeks. I am writing this post from my local library. Why am I writing this post from my local library? Well, my laptop is having all kinds of problems.

I first thought I might have some virus or malware on my laptop. After running all my pc repair software programs to check for these issues, I found that there were no viruses or malware. I dealt with the issue for a couple of weeks. You see my laptop wouold should itself down automatically or it would lockup and the screen would get staticy (not sure if that is a real word bu I think you get my point). Finally, I got the blue screen of death a couple of times.

It was at this point that I could not put up with these issues. Luckily, my laptop was still under warranty. I bought the extended warranty when I purchases the laptop. As a matter of fact, the extended warranty expires at the end of June this year.

Pinged?  What does that mean?

What is pinging?

In today’s video I share with you what is pinging, how you can avoid excessive pinging, and a look at several free tools you can use to automatically save your WordPress blog from sending excessive pings.

Again, I must apologize for the problems with the audio on the live shots.  I need to get a new microphone, which I will get before my next video.



One of the plugins I mentioned in the video was the MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer.  You can download it by clicking MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer.

I look forward to your comments and chatting below.

Today I created a video for you about Creating Powerful Scripts For Your Online Videos.

I have recently began to use scripts for my online videos.  This has really helped me organize my thoughts before recording the videos as well as providing a process to pull viewers into the video and then get them to take action.

Let me apologize up front for the low volume at the end of the video.  I had a microphone problem that I did not notice.  Enjoy the video.

The script is kind of hard to see in the video, so here is a copy of the video script on Freemind – Video Script (pdf format) 0r .

Let me know what you think by leaving a comment below. – Thanks