CT Latest To Attack Amazon Through Affiliates

Connecticut is not quite there yet, but they’re considering it. They’re the latest in a growing number of states attempting to force Amazon.com and other large Internet retailers to collect state sales tax due to a “nexus” in their states composed of affiliate marketers.

Connecticut, like several other states, is trying to find its way around a 1992 U.S. Supreme Court decision that held a state cannot force businesses to collect sales taxes unless they have a physical presence within that state.

So, the poor Connectcuttian(?) sitting in his home office that puts an affiliate link on his web site means that Amazon has a physical presence in their state? Read more.
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Can You Be A Successful Entrepreneur?

In Micheal Gerber’s book The E-Myth Revisited he breaks down small business owners as technicians, managers and entrepreneurs.

In our business I tend to be the manager/technician and my brother is the entrepreneur. He can’t look at much of anything without a business model popping up in his head.

So, are you cut out to be an entrepreneur?

Daniel Isenberg had a couple of posts in the Harvard Business Review on that very subject. The first – Should You Be An Entrepreneur? Take This Test has about 20 yes/no statements to determine your affinity to run a business. Statements like: Read more

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Windows 7 32 bit vs 64 bit

A client recently bought a computer off the shelf loaded with a Windows 7 64 bit OS. Why? That’s just the way it came. Later he asked us if that was the right decision.

We are in a transition period from 32 bit to 64 bit systems. As with any transition there are disadvantages for the early adopters of the newer technology. First came 64 bit processors, then 64 bit operating systems, then other 64 bit software to take advantage of the new processors.

The main disadvantage of 32 bit systems is the limitation on RAM. 32 bit computers are limited to using 4 GB of physical RAM with 3 to 3.4 GB available to you, the user. It sounds like a lot of RAM, and it is, unless you are working with large files as in video editing or major scientific work. But hell, watching a DVD on your computer can have a 4 GB file.

The advantage of 32 bit is that it’s accepted technology – everything works. Read more.
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