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California and Amazon.Com All But Force a National Sales Tax

Posted on September 13, 2011 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 9 Comments

Anyone who either does business in multiple places, has customers in more than one state, or has ordered a product from a company in another state has dealt with this one: there’s no universal sales tax, and knowing who owes what to whom when those crossing-state-lines transactions takes place is a minefield. ... READ MORE of California and Amazon.Com All But Force a National Sales Tax at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (775 words, estimated 3:06 mins reading time)

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Amazon Goes Gaga For Gaga. Servers Melt, Business Changes.

Posted on May 24, 2011 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 5 Comments

I’ve been screaming for change in the music business for years. Despite selling a cutting-edge and constantly-changing product, music labels have resisted business change in a way that boggles the mind. Yesterday, the music business changed … but we’ll have to wait and see if the change takes hold.

Lady Gaga and Amazon.com got together and offered Gaga’s new album for ninety-nine cents. Smart move on Gaga’s part, because even with all the revenue an artist with her popularity is passing on by all but giving away an album that she would have sold millions of copies of at full price, the interest she drums up and potential to garner millions of new fans by foregoing that revenue is even larger. ... READ MORE of Amazon Goes Gaga For Gaga. Servers Melt, Business Changes. at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (433 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

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Angry Birds’ Business Change: The Next Amazon.com?

Posted on December 16, 2010 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 4 Comments

Angry Birds Create Business Change

Those Angry Birds are back, but they aren’t so angry any more. See what a few gazillion dollars and a business change model will do for a guy?

As of about a week ago, Angry Birds had been downloaded fifty million times. All by itself that’s an amazing number, and forget about the fact that Angry Birds sells for all of one dollar on iPhone and is free on Android smartphones. Fifty million people playing your game? Nice. ... READ MORE of Angry Birds’ Business Change: The Next Amazon.com? at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (288 words, 1 image, estimated 1:09 mins reading time)

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WOOT! Amazon Buys Everything, Sense Of Humor Remains Intact.

Posted on July 1, 2010 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 3 Comments

By now you may have read that Amazon.com has acquired WOOT!, the web site generally agreed to have invented the one-item-per-day shopping format. Although there was no official announcement, Techcrunch cites reliable sources as saying the price paid was a pretty impressive $110 Million. Cash. WOOT!, indeed.

This deal wouldn’t deserve a mention here, except that it shows a whole bunch about business change. ... READ MORE of WOOT! Amazon Buys Everything, Sense Of Humor Remains Intact. at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (290 words, estimated 1:10 mins reading time)

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The Question No One Has Asked: What IS Privacy?

Posted on May 3, 2010 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 7 Comments

The privacy question is getting asked in a whole new way. Or at least the question  what is privacy? is being examined under a new microscope. Amazon.com is now sharing information about what you highlight on your Kindle with anyone who wants to see.

Before you start screaming, let’s take a look at some of the details.

First, Amazon.com doesn’t seem to be sharing the details of what individual users highlight while using the Kindle. The information is being mushed together and is available only in aggregate on the Kindle web site, so as long as Amazon can be trusted to handle your information ethically and protect it properly there’s should be no issue of what you look at personally on your Kindle or Kindle-compatible device being revealed. ... READ MORE of The Question No One Has Asked: What IS Privacy? at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (395 words, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

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Colorado Follows New York: Amazon Resellers Out of Business

Posted on March 9, 2010 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 1 Comment

Well, it’s happened again: a state has decided to penalize many of the small businesses operating in it by forcing Amazon.com to collect sales tax there. The “how ugly can you make your business change?” culprit this time around is Colorado. It’s just plain not OK. As I told you about as early as February of 2009, when New York led the way in this travesty, the conflict arises when a taxing authority says a company like Amazon.com is “in” their state because the people who sell their goods are located there. ... READ MORE of Colorado Follows New York: Amazon Resellers Out of Business at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (314 words, estimated 1:15 mins reading time)

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Kindle, iPad, and The Business Change Revenue Question

Posted on January 29, 2010 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 2 Comments

Yesterday I shared my thoughts about the Apple iPad. It’s the most-discussed business-slash-technology issue in years, and good or bad, bright future or dull, people are talking about it; on Twitter, the iPad was mentioned over a half-million times in the twenty-four hours after its announcement.

I believe the success of the iPad isn’t about its technological guts, nor even about whether its high sexiness quotient gets people to buy it; the iPad will sink or swim on the business relationships it creates or changes. ... READ MORE of Kindle, iPad, and The Business Change Revenue Question at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (342 words, estimated 1:22 mins reading time)

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Internet Taxes: Who Should Pay for Change?

Posted on August 18, 2009 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 3 Comments

Back in February, I wrote a short piece on the subject of how Amazon.com was dealing with the State of New York’s efforts to force them to collect sales tax on products delivered to New York residents. It is, to be sure, one of the scariest prospects for small business I’ve ever seen.

Amazon’s response to New York’s overreaching taxation efforts was strong, and swift. They discontinued the accounts of all New York-based merchants. This effectively put a bunch of small businesses out of business, and while it doesn’t make me any more fond of Amazon’s business practices (see also this piece), it was the thing they needed to do under the circumstances. ... READ MORE of Internet Taxes: Who Should Pay for Change? at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (433 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

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