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I was visiting Clickbank’s site today and found this notice: New York state has implemented a new law that requires online retailers with affiliates located in New York state to collect sales tax from New York residents. Therefore, effective 2008-06-01 we are collecting sales tax on all sales made to residents of the state of [...]

The Oregonian reports that a “Guerilla Marketer” is getting attacked by the proverbial 500 pound “Gorilla” of City Hall: Portland sues Jobdango over sidewalk chalk graffiti The regional job search website Jobdango.com put hundreds of chalk advertisements on the sidewalk promoting their website. You can see some of their non-chalk advertising here. As you can [...]

You know the old saying… “If a dog bites a man, that’s not news. But if a man bites a dog, well that’s news.” By that definition, this is news. The man is biting the dog so to speak. Ford sues to collect interest $445 million is sought from IRS When  you’re down to $40 [...]

Entrepreneurs seeking to do market research, improve their business processes, or otherwise in search of knowledge are finding a new ally in the Public Library. The Public Library, thought to be done in by the Internet, is morphing into a new kind of entity to adapt to the communities they serve. This is a link [...]

New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson told his department heads to promote flexible schedules and telework. Sounds like a plan. As Federal and State governments lose Baby Boomers they are going to have to do this anyway to attract younger workers who tend to hate the bureaucracy.  To tolerate the baloney, they’re going to need to [...]

Here’s why: Chucking Privacy I’ve already mentioned this here, but not only is “Bribe Me With Low Mortgage Rates Dodd” behind this, but also Chuck “I’m bad and I’ll bully you to prove it” Grassley is behind this too. And it’s not just about crushing small home based businesses, it’s not even about making scads [...]

I’ll have to give John McCain this… his idea to offer a $300 million prize for the inventor who can come up with a battery vastly superior to those available today at prices and efficiency rates that make electric autos desirable IS a smart idea. This is right out of the Wikinomics play book. If [...]

If you drive for your work at home business activities, here’s some good news.  As of July 1, you can now deduct 58.5 cents per mile… up 8 cents per mile from the amount deductible from January through June!

The old truism goes “you can’t tax corporations”. When you impose a tax on a corporation, they either get out of that line of work or pass the tax on to the consumer. But either way, the tax will not be paid by the corporation. But legislators just don’t get it. Taxing corporations is attractive [...]

In fact, it’s not just Ebay. Congress wants Credit Card Companies, Ebay, PayPal, Amazon and Google to report on your online buying habits. Here’s the article I read about it… It’s a provision hidden inside Christopher Dodd’s bill to bail out the mortage lender who gave him a sweetheart deal. Payment Card and Third Party [...]