My co-host Shawn Collins, who rarely misses show, was away on business this week. Filling in for Shawn is the fabulous Scott Jangro, super affiliate and president of MechMedia.

Scott has been on the show many times as both a guest and a co-host. I was delighted he could sit in with me on such short notice.

Of course, Scott and I talked about the death of Michael Jackson. Last week Shawn had a blog post urging affiliates to be sure to update their sites to include Amazon and iTunes links for all of Michael recordings.

Scott said his costume site is selling MJ costumes like crazy since the death of The King of Pop.

Here are some of the other topics we chatted about:

• The winners of the 2009 LinkShare Golden Link Awards
• Jangro and Joan Rivers share a moment
• Commission Junction Goes Green
• Parties at Affiliate Convention got mixed reviews -Melissa Salas of Buy.com tweeted about it
• Amazon is ending its relationship with affiliates in Hawaii, Rhode Island, and NC. Is California Next?
• Scott Jangro wrote a letter to his senator and state representatives trying to get ahead of any potential tax in Mass.
• 20 useful WordPress plug-ins

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This week on the Brandmouthing podcast, I talk about the legacy of a brand after a person passes away.

I was thinking about the impressions left behind for each of the icons that passed away in the past week: Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, Billy Mays, and Ed McMahon.

Here is a quick rundown of what I think of for each person:

• Farrah Fawcett: the poster, Charlie’s Angels
• Michael Jackson: King of Pop, dark cloud of allegations by young boys
• Billy Mays: informercials, the “Pitchmen” show
• Ed McMahon: Tonight Show sidekick, Star Search host, American Family Publishers sweepstakes guy (I mistakenly refer to this as Publisher’s Clearing House in the podcast), and having financial woes

What will come to mind when people think of you when you’re gone?

Show Notes

• Farrah Fawcett
• Michael Jackson
• Billy Mays
• Ed McMahon

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Affiliate Marketing Fanatics – A Publisher (Mike Buechele) and an Affiliate Manager  (Trisha Lyn Fawver) talk about all things Affiliate Marketing.  From blogging to branding, social media to search, video and more!

Show notes by Trisha Lyn Fawver

Unfortunately this week we had a mic failure on Mike’s part, so even though I could hear him when we were recording the podcast on Skype, when listening back he was inaudible.  I tried amplifying it and leveling it and everything, but it was a lost cause.  So instead, we decided I’d give you a recap on what we talked about since they were all pretty important issues.  Basically, we’re taking a page from Shawn Collins’ book on podcast failures .  So the title refers both to all the changes going on with tax rules and disclosure regarding affiliates AND to the change Mike has to make to get the recording right next week!

The recap episode is a short and sweet 26 minutes on the dot since it includes a Jackson tribute at the end.

In this show, we discussed:

• A recap of Affiliate Convention.
• Amazon dropped North Carolina affiliates and sent a warning letter to Rhode Island affiliates.  Darren Rowse wrote about it on Problogger.
• The FTC is tightening it’s rules regarding disclosure, but it’s still ambiguous enough to leave affiliates questioning what this means for them.  Daniel M. Clark wrote an article on the FTC disclosure issue, as well as Brian Clark of Copyblogger’s wrote about how to turn disclosure into a selling point.
• Twitter servers took a hit yesterday when the news about Michael Jackson’s sudden death broke.  Are they ready to be a major search engine?
• Rumors swirled about other celebrity deaths – this doesn’t make Twitter look like a legitimate resource in the eyes of skeptics.
• Finally, Rest in Peace to Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson, who both passed away yesterday.  We pay tribute to MJ and pontificated on whether or not we’d see affiliates attempting to capitalize on these events.  I see just now that Shawn Collins is thinking about this topic as well on his blog.