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FTC to Penalize Questionable Blogging Practices

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The new regulations include extensive examples of situations that require disclosure, and recognize the difficulty of regulating social media given that endorsements and testimonials may not come from the company or its employees, but from individual consumers. The new Guides document is 81 pages long.

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Five Things Jesus Looks for in a Blog Post

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People write what they write to draw readers, because they participate in affiliate advertising and get paid for clicks, because they are attention whores who get personal validation and an adrenaline rush from increasing blog traffic, or both. So a certain style of titling blog posts and articles has evolved.

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A Blog is a Better Social Media Hub Than Twitter

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Twitter is excellent for distribution , but if you’re going to communicate original ideas, you’ll need a blog (or something similar). They are most often using Twitter as a super-news-feed, and as a way to drive people back to their blog, web site, etc. A blog is less dominated by spam than Twitter.

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Affiliate Marketing Tips and Tricks for Beginners

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For example, a marketer who runs a fashion blog would be best suited to promote clothing, fashion accessories, and other related items that visitors would be interested in buying. Sharing helpful information helps build credibility for a blog, website, or business.

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How Social Is Your Company, Really?

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So you have a blog, maybe two, a couple of Twitter feeds, a YouTube channel and a Facebook page. Do you have a company blog? For true engagement, your blog needs to have comments enabled, and moderated (reviewed by an editor prior to posting). Your company is truly social, isn’t it? Everything on the checklist is in place.

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Debunking Five Social Media Myths

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The concept that e-mail is in decline, rather than dead, is too complex for many bloggers, and the technique of declaring things “dead&# is a tried and true blog traffic generator. Gizmodo, for example, responded with Email is Dead? The CEO Needs to Blog. E-mail is far from dead, particularly in large companies.

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Live Tweeting Requires Ethical and Legal Considerations

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If you were at the movie theater, neither the studio nor the theater operator would permit you to videotape portions of the movie to post on your blog. The best guidance for whether live blogging and live tweeting is acceptable comes from the Fair Use provision of U.S. The policy was written in 1986, long before blogging and tweeting.

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