How am I doing

TIP: While it might bother you not to use punctuation in your title it is important to leave it out so that google will not pass your post over! I know it bothers me too! 

See this rainbow that was in my yard the other day? It made me smile. It is the small things in like that add up and make one feel whole and happy. 

I am certainly happy with how my blog is coming along. Blogger shows over 17,000 page views now for it! I am up to 4k fans on facebook and about 2500 on Twitter. 

TIP: Work on your Twitter followers, Facebook only shows your post to a few people on your fan list! 

I wanted to share something with you all that has had me rather pissed off. Someone I know in short basically told me that blogging is useless and no one reads it. I had brought it up as I know the person has no job and needs work and I know they could make money blogging. It would have been fine to say that they are not interested, I mean I would make nothing from it if they did, I was trying to be helpful. Instead they insulted something I have come to love and that I know does in fact have value. I have reviewed hundreds of dollars worth of items and sites and I had just pocketed $300 for a few moments of work placing some sponsored links on my blog for a company and that blog is still only Google Rank 2. 

I wanted to bang my head on a wall talking to that person. 

That person is just flat out wrong says the products I get daily and the pay I get as well! 

The time of the bloggers is NOW. 

We rule the internet connecting brands to readers and readers to social media and social media back to brands. We are a strong part of the web connected to so many things for so many reasons. Your voice does matter and people are reading, or at least they will once you learn what your doing. For that matter more will read my blog once I fully figure out what I am doing. Thus this blog, so others can learn from my mistakes and hopefully from this blog learn faster than I have! 

Happy Blogging! 

FTC Rules Effecting Bloggers!

 If your a blogging goddess than chances are you already know that the FTC is cracking down on companies who have bloggers that do not disclose products given for reviews, links for profit, and so forth. Even if your new to blogging you must already know that a few years ago it was good enough to have the disclosure in your About Me page, that is just not the case anymore.

  Laura Sack, a lawyer has helped to make it clear that bloggers must disclose for certain things. In short, if you are given a product to review, or paid for links, or paid for purchases through links, you must state as such on the blog post those links or opinions are on. Each and every single one. You can simply say that "Ritter gave me a shirt to review with SUCK IT on the front!"  Done!

   But what if your working with a company that tells you not to disclose? While the FTC is not going after bloggers at the moment if they are tipped off, they will investigate for now though it seems they are going after companies so you might well want to inform such companies of the risks they are taking and then stay clear of them. One company paid out over 250,000 in fines already.

  Plus, we all want to be honest with our readers right? So make sure you disclose! It isn't hard!

 Now lets say a big mouth names Gina goes running around the internet saying such and such a product will stop anyone from every lying. If it can not be substantiated she should not be spreading such lies! Even if she says later she was joking, she can still be fined for it as can the company. 


  We have to be careful about the company we keep!