A few days ago I posted a warning that the state of Illinois is about to pass a law that adds sales tax to online commerce if an affiliate in the transaction lives in Illinois.
The resolution has passed both the House and the Senate in the Illinois legislature.
An insider has told me that emailing the governor will do no good. If you did so, nobody’s reading it. Here’s what I want you to do instead:
What if your company’s board of directors consisted of:
Dear Reader,
If you live in Illinois I strongly suggest you stop what you’re doing right now and write Governor Quinn. I got this disturbing email from Amazon today:
Martin Luther King delivered his “I Have A Dream” speech in Washington DC in 1963. 1700 pristine words transformed history – and 2 generations later America got its first black president.
If you get 10 minutes on the evening news or a front page story on the Huffington Post; if you wire up some ingenious viral campaign on Twitter or Facebook, that’s fabulous.
But one week later you might just as well have written “I love Suzy” in the sand and watched ocean waves erase it from memory. You’re dismayed at how perishable any form of publicity is.
But just yesterday…
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