Although I am not an Amazon affiliate, my wife and mother-in-law both are. My mother-in-law especially has hundreds of blog posts and at least many dozens if not hundreds of Amazon links in place on her blogs.
Colorado affiliates including myself successfully lobbied to get affiliates removed from HB-1193. Lawmakers excluded affiliates from the bill and [...]

Hey folks. We all know Dennis is a great guy who never hurt anybody. He never did anything wrong, broke any rules, or scammed anybody.
I’m taking up the cause to show him a little charity but I can’t do it without your help. I’m taking up a collection to get him a little present that [...]

There was a strong grassroots movement of affiliates opposing the Colorado affiliate tax. Many people wrote letters, made phone calls, and showed up to testify in person.
HB 1193 was modified on 02/08/10 eliminating affiliates from it’s terminology. Lawmakers succeeded in preserving 100’s of jobs that are pumping money into Colorado’s economy.
UPDATE: Well Amazon decided to [...]

It’s not too late to stop this misguided bill before it goes through the state senate. Colorado HB 1193 has passed the house and is headed to the state senate.
I just got finished emailing all the Colorado Senators begging them not to pass this bill. I emailed both Republicans and Democrats, but it’s Democrats who [...]

November was OK. I didn’t scale up too much, but did make a little more money than last month. I’m only working on campaigns that I feel will have a long stable life. I want to be in a position to take months off as my wife is due to give birth on about April [...]

I got a phone call a couple days ago from a good friend of our family who is interested in making some internet monies on the side. They have a busy life, family, and career but want to make a little extra every month.
I’ve received similar requests from various people who have varying levels of [...]

1. Liability. #1 You need to protect yourself from liability as much as possible. A LLC can protect your personal assets from lawsuits while allowing your business income to pass through to you. Having an LLC is only part of it. You need to use your LLC. Have your domains, CPA accounts, PPC accounts, bank [...]

Sorry I don’t blog more frequently. I’m not a blogger who does affiliate marketing. I’m an affiliate marketer that does a little blogging when he’s bored. Who would you rather listen to?
July 2009
I had some good things going here, and made about $500net/day on July 4th and 5th. Then Adwords slapped all my campaigns for [...]

I’ve been pretty unavailable and inactive these last two weeks. But now I’m back from hiatus.
I’m constantly torn between work and family, and family has been winning out lately. I pretty much took the last two weeks off, but work has been nagging at me. So watch out! I’ll be making things happen now.
This sort [...]

Things are changing here. It is July 5th, 2009. From the 1st to the 3rd I made $999.90 net. Saturday the 4th I made $527 net and today, Sunday at 6pm I have $430 in net profits.
This represents marked growth in my campaigns’ performance. It’s very exciting and a little unnerving. I am nervous about [...]