Internet Tax And The Home Based Business
I have been writing for some time on the consequences of Internet taxing by the states. It will effect all retail large and small. The Internet has been the last place that a small home based business business could actually flourish without all of the nonsensical restraints and costs of a brick and mortar retail store. The threat is significant because it’s forcing large retailers, like Amazon, to consider discontinuing their affiliate programs. If any large retailers start cutting their programs most assuredly smaller businesses will follow, and in the end the states will actually get less revenue than before the tax. The Washington Post carried a good article covering this issue today and if you are doing any business on the Internet you woe it to yourself to read it. Here’s the article link.
Categories: Home Business Issues Tags: Home Business Issues, internet issues, state sales tax
Global Domains International - Network Marketing Maven or Bust?
Global Domains International has recently come under our radar so I thought it would be a good time to take a look at it. Let me be clear HBR is not a GDI affiliate and this is not a so called “fluff review,” but a non-biased look at the GDI proposition.
Categories: Internet Marketing, MLM Tags: com, domain, Domains, GDI, Home Business Issues, ICANN, marketing, MLM, multlevel, network marketing, opinion, Western Samoa
Internet Tax - Will It Affect Your Home Business?
It still seems unclear, to me at least, how the new Internet tax law in New York and perhaps now in California will affect online affiliate marketing. It would appear that if an affiliate refers a product sale in New York to a New York based customer, the customer must be charged the sales tax. That has always been the case but under the new law any products sold by an affiliate of any company in or outside of New York to a New York address must be charged the sales tax. My understanding is that the product seller, not the affiliate, must collect the sales tax. This would apply to any company from any state selling products in New York or California. This is why affiliates based in New York or California are being dropped by product companies until this is sorted out. Personally I was dropped by several [...]
Categories: Internet Marketing Tags: commentary, Home Business Issues
Home Business How To
We often get lots of inquiries about how to do specific things relative to starting a home based business. Since we receive so many requests we have set up a Beginner’s Guide on the main site of Home Business Research. We have tackled a lot of site issues but have also added sections about promotion, monetizing such as AdSense and other Pay Per Click options, as well as site design and the mechanics of uploading and maintaining a website. When you get a chance stop by the Beginner’s Guide, because we add new sections almost daily. By the way if you want a specific “how to” that isn’t covered please send us an email with your request to support@homebusinessresearch.com.
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Categories: Beginner's Guide, Commentary, Home Business Issues, Home Business Tools Tags: Home Business Issues, Tutorials, work from home