'Free Shirt Friday' Category
Free Shirt Friday - Support NY Affiliates
Before New York governor Elliot Spitzer’s hooker scandal, he signed a proposed provision to the New York State sales tax law that requires out-of-state online retailers with in-state affiliates to collect and remit sales tax on purchases by New York buyers (source: Internet Retailer). Amazon seems to be the main target of the provisions and has filed a lawsuit challenging such.
Unfortunately many online merchants are now dropping affiliates based in New York to avoid collecting the sales tax. Now this doesn’t directly affect me as I live in Nebraska as you can see by the soybean field in my backyard (but may someday if other states follow suit), but I have colleagues that live in New York have been dropped, leaving them the choice of incorporating their business in another state or finding new programs to promote, thus changing all of their links/site.
For more information, visit NYAffiliates.com on ABestWeb for the latest news on the NY state tax law.
Thanks to Greg Rice, Sr of Commerce Management Consulting / gocmc.com for sending me this “Support New York Affiliate” t-shirt. CMC is an independent affiliate program management company with programs on ShareASale and CJ and will be distributing Support NY Affiliates buttons at Affiliate Summit in Boston.
Want me to profile a tshirt for you in this space? Send a size Large to: Kim Rowley, Key Internet Marketing, Inc. PO Box 12. Pierce NE 68767
Free Shirt Friday - Pingo.com
HELLO! I got this funky shirt from Brian Hawkins over at Pingo.com that says “Hello” in seven different languages. And I added the hand wave as my way as saying hello as well.
So I made it a mission to translate the greetings…
Hello! (English, duh)
Bonjour! (French)
Ciao! (Italian)
Hola! (Spanish)
Moshi Moshi (Japenese)
Alô (Portuguese)
Алло (Russian)
(Chinese, pronounced Nee HaOW)
I couldn’t figure out the bright green one - can anyone help me??
Update: Thanks to Evaa for translating…
“the last one in green says “Nameste” (that’s hello in HINDI from Hindustan (India)”And as the front of the shirt says “In any language… Pingo …the last calling care you’ll ever need!”
Pingo.com is currently offering $5 in free calling when visitors sign up for a pre-paid calling card. They also have an affiliate program at Linkshare. Brian also sent me a couple of calling cards to test out the service and a coupon entitling me to take a day off! Thanks Brian!
P.S. Unlike Scott Jangro, I’m not afraid to wear this tshirt in public.
P.S.S. Wanna me to wear your shirt in exchange for some free link love? Send to: Kim Rowley, Key Internet Marketing, Inc. PO Box 12. Pierce NE 68767
Free Shirt Friday - CantStopRockin.com
Britne Cripe from Can’t Stop Rockin (You’re Never Too Old to Rock!) sent me this cool tshirt along with nice hand-written note! It seems the days of handwritten notes are few and far between. I personally can type faster than I write, and my penmanship isn’t top notch, so I type out just about everything. Except my grocery lists, as I dictate those to my daughters to write out. And they add all the other things they want, but don’t necessarily need.
Anyway, you can win of these awesome shirts (has the web url on the back), by subscribing the Can’t Stop Rockin monthly newsletter at CantStopRockin.com. Britne and her husband are avid rock music lovers and share concert ratings, reviews, music festival updates and more on the site. I see they will attending Rock Fest in Wisconsin next month - I would love to attend that! Maybe if I talked nice to Connie Berg, she could score me some tickets since FlamingoWorld.com is a big sponsor?!
Thanks for the shirt Britne! Want me to model your shirt in exchange for some link love? If so, contact me!
P.S. Unless I get ambitious beforehand, there will be no Free Shirt Friday post next week (Friday, the 13th, no less), as I’m going under the knife laser for my eye surgery.
Free Shirt Friday - Foreclosure.com
When people contact me about sending a free tshirt to wear for this column, I try to specify my preferred size (Large, please), but I still end up with various sizes waiting in my “Free Shirt Box”. I made my brother model various XL tees the other day so I have some pics in reserve in case the need arises that I don’t feel like getting out of my pajamas (I also made him dust & vacuum, but that’s another story). Anyway, today is one of those days. I’ll continue to sit here in my fleece jammies and blog while you look at my linebacker of a brother…
Today’s t-shirt is from Foreclosure.com - the back of the shirt is the exact same screenprint as the front. Foreclosure.com offers a nationwide real estate search on foreclosures, preforeclosures, tax liens and distressed properties. Great site if you’re in the real estate market. They offer an internal affiliate program (25%+ recurring commission on subscriptions) and a program on CJ (payout $7 lead, $31 sale). And they offer some cool marketing tools, even a Wordpress PlugIn (but I didn’t want that in my sidebar). I used their LAVA Listings Code, but it uses Javascript, and I couldn’t incorporate it into this post, even after downloading this Inline-JS WP Plugin. So, click here to see the Lava Listings in action.
P.S. I actually paid money for a t-shirt because I couldn’t resist this one.
