Help! I need a earnings disclosure for my blog! (8 posts)

  • I don’t want to reinvent the wheel and write one from scratch. Does anyone have an earning disclosure they’d be willing to share?

  • @amyhallbiz I’m not a lawyer, but I don’t think they have to be too detailed unless you use Google AdSense. You can see how other blogs do it by using this search: http://www.google.com/search?q=blog+earnings+disclosure and for AdSense try http://www.serprank.com/privacy-policy-generator/ which also includes Amazon, Clickbank, and a few other networks.

  • Amy, check out http://cmp.ly/ for disclosure docs. They make it super simple!

  • Very cool thanks for the help!  @kristi-hines@jfouts  I found that WordPress has an earning disclosure plug-in too! Haven’t tried it yet… hope it works.

  • @amyhallbiz I used this site for my blog disclosure that provides a template.

    http://disclosurepolicy.org/

    Another resource for you. I hope that helps.

  • @naomitrower Wonderful resource. That you so much!

  • @amyhallbiz Last week, I was trying to find legal disclosure forms so I could stay in compliance, too, Amy. With copyright owners starting to crack down on sites that steal their “compliance” forms, I was looking for something I could use and not be worried about getting sued over later.

    I found a set of up to date forms on the Warrior Forum’s Special Offer site and bought a set sold by attorney J. Scott Talbert. When I went to get that link for you, I found that offer is now closed, but here’s the link anyway. I’m sure he’s just resetting the price (got mine for $27.00) and if you search online you can find them elsewhere.

    The purchase was most definitely worth it and includes updated legal disclosure forms for the eight pages everyone needs to include on their website now, including a well written Social Media Policy, FTC Compliance Policy, Terms of Use & Conditions of Service, Privacy Policy, Anti-Spam Policy, Earnings Disclosure (or something like that) and a few other indispensable forms.

    I had copied mine from Travis Sago who gave permission for everyone to do so, but since all the changes in the law, I was hesitant to use them or anyone else’s that I wasn’t sure was written by an attorney who wrote them that was up on the latest changes and lawsuits in the field of online marketing and social media. This attorney was and has over 100 of his own sites so I KNOW he’s protecting himself like I want to be protected.

    The link I have will tell you about his forms and a lot about why you need to get ones written by an attorney, whether you buy his or not. Not an affiliate, though I may add this to one of my sites in the future because I think most people are blindly risking themselves and their clients without using updated lawyer written forms. That’s just my personal feeling and fear. Here’s the link:

    http://lawyer2warrior.com/

  • Can you share why this is important? I’m not familiar with “earnings disclosures.” Are they like the annual statements in magazines — usually a sidebar? Is there some requirement of bloggers to do the same?


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