Apr 29 2011
Before you get started, though, you need to figure out where you want to go and when. My favorite thing about this article is that it helps you decide based on when you’re going and what you want when you get there.
from About Today
Apr 29 2011
I’ve been thinking about comments from Eric Bearse, Texas spokesman for the Alliance for Main Street Fairness, in the past Sunday edition of the Austin American Statesman.
In “Affiliate marketers may be collateral damage in Amazon’s Texas sales tax fight” by Barry Harrell, I emphasized how affiliate marketers (small business owners who create jobs and help build the economy) just want to work and contribute.
Affiliate marketers “understand that states need to raise taxes and funds in various ways,” Collins said. “They’re not looking for an unfair advantage; they just want to stay and work and provide for their families and stay in their communities.”
This was followed by a comment from self-described “p.r. schmuck” Eric Bearse.
The other side of the argument is that job losses can happen in any field. And traditional retailers say they’ve had to cut jobs because of revenue they have lost to untaxed online sales.
“If you have tax fairness, that creates jobs in sales for brick-and-mortar retailers,” Bearse said. “Then they can expand their sales forces, whether it’s virtually or in the store. They can invest more in the state, make more sales and be able to expand their online presence, maybe even through affiliate marketers.”
So the bogeyman here is the sales tax, as if there were no other factors.
In fact, Lisa Picarille has presented a well researched piece on the Performance Marketing Association blog titled, “Lack of Sales Tax Not the Driver for Online Shoppers.”
In the article, she goes over eight reasons, sales tax not included, that folks choose to shop online, including convenience, selection, and deals.
What the Alliance for Main Street Fairness doesn’t seem to understand is that you can’t legislate shopping preferences. At least I hope they don’t think they can impose such a thing.
For some reason, I can’t seem to get this out of my mind… “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.”
Apr 29 2011
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Apr 29 2011
Nokia chief Stephen Elop said Wednesday that his company is in no hurry to get into the tablet market. In an interview on YLE TV in Nokia’s homeland, Finland, Elop observed that there were already more than 200 tablets on the market and only one was really doing well, the iPad, and he didn’t want Nokia to put out another tablet that you couldn’t tell apart from the others. Nokia was hard at work on a product that would differentiate its tablet from others currently in the market, he said, adding that the company was weighing whether to use Windows or go with MeeGo.
from TechNewsWorld
Apr 29 2011
Knowing a few tricks can make an iPhone easier to use and more efficient.
from NYT > Personal Tech
Apr 29 2011
The Internet has allowed many independent publications to make a comeback in Morocco.
from NYT > Internet
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