Comments on: Testimonials, Disclaimers, Disclosure and the Federal Trade Commission

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FTC’s New Rules for Marketers: Do You Know What to Do? — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:56:48 +0000

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By: Dr Wordpress!

Dr Wordpress! — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:53:15 +0000

@Andy Bailey – Echo, JS-Kit really torqs me off. I posted a mini-complaint on my twitter feed. I mean, I *want* to like it, but I don’t know any way to get through to them. As far as I’m concerned, CommentLuv is worth the $12 they want. Way more worth it!

BTW, you ended up in my spam queue… not sure why…

Looking forward to more releases of CommentLuv. I think you are solving a problem in commenting that desperately needs solving.

The current “received opinion” is that one must not link one’s URL field into anything other than the top level of the site, except in the vanishingly small case you actually wrote something that might contribute to the conversation. You can even see an article today on “MWP” blog asserting this very notion (I really like that blog, so I won’t annoy them with a link; Insiders, I’ll point it out).

Since I do write such things, all such huffing has always annoyed me. CommentLuv very neatly sidesteps all that self-righteousness.
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By: Dr Wordpress!

Dr Wordpress! — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:35:18 +0000

@Alex, thanks, my intention was to both disclose and to stir up the pot a little bit. Looks like that worked out!
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By: Alex Schleber

Alex Schleber — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:50:26 +0000

Love your post and approach to the disclosure issue, Dave. But why cave on the testimonial thing so quickly. I’ve already started to think up some possible formulations that could be appended to any (honest) testimonials to make them FTC legal again, see here:

http://alexschleber.posterous.com/coaches-with-testimonials-on-their-websites-m
Alex Schleber´s last blog ..Key excerpt from: 10 Things You Must Do to Earn Your Audience’s Trust + my footnote

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:52:43 +0000

@Dr. W
Don’t you worry about holding your breath. A lot of stuff is rolling off the presses. I’ll have a lot of stuff this weekend to show you.
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By: Gabe | freebloghelp.com

Gabe | freebloghelp.com — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:14:30 +0000

I just want to make sure that no one gets in trouble with the FTC so I want to officially disclose that I’m making Dave money by adding comments to his site.
Gabe | freebloghelp.com´s last blog ..Top 5 myths of blogging for money

By: Andy Bailey

Andy Bailey — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:48:42 +0000

I think it’s pretty extreme to penalize normal reviews and such but I think it might be on the right lines to preventing the huge amount of bloggers who will say anything about a product just as long as you buy it through their link, it’s a shame that the rule makers seem to know so little about real blogging and real bloggers.

re: commentluv

I am working on a intense debate version of commentluv at the moment since Echo/jskit started charging 12$ a year for their system which is a joke considering the support tickets I get every day from their users, many who are just using it so they can get commentluv on the blogspot platform!

Should be ready in a few weeks.
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By: Dr Wordpress!

Dr Wordpress! — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:03:29 +0000

@Anna… you can start holding your breath… right… now.

@Sean, yeah, while I understand the gist of what the FTC is trying to do is a Good Thing, it’s so vague it could interpreted very broadly. As Michel Fortin noted, all it takes is one regulator with a little gas pain, and a bad precedent gets set.

By the way, there, good buddy, howzit getting along with those 101s? =) You gonna have something to show us anytime soon? Should I start holding my breath?
Dr Wordpress!´s last blog ..New Obsessions — Opportunities and whimsy abound in stagnant economies

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:52:23 +0000

Re: commentluv

It’s great. I’ve installed it on the blogs I’ve got going now. I will never leave home without it again.

The more I think about this though, the more it just really doesn’t matter. This doesn’t impact our ability to pump out quality content and products, and let people know how they might benefit from them.

It is kinda silly to have to disclose affiliate links though. “There might be business involved with business? Whodanode?”
Sean´s last blog ..What is an Edition of Prints?

By: Anna

Anna — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:46:27 +0000

I will wait till you finish getting rich with all these blog comments …
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