Comments on: FTC’s New Advertising Standard

By: Stephan

Stephan — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:55:51 +0000

I also saw a lot of blog posts the last couple of days and I am really interested in the best way to handle that. Since I don’t have the means yet to ask my own attorney I would appreciate any insight you get, Keith.
I guess the solutions will be pretty simple. E.g. do it like Google does, have an “Ads by company X” sign next to any submit offers or something like that and at a little bit of wording at the right spots.
At the end you might loose some clicks through the disclosures, but that just means we need to drive a little bit more traffic on the site to balance that out. I guess we know how to do that

Cheers

Stephan

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:58:32 +0000

Hey Keith,

I’m with you on this FTC thing. I have been seeing it in the forums and group discussion boards making a “mountain out of a molehill.” Currently, we have a good number of websites with “disclaimer” and “privacy” disclosures. All we have to do now is to add an “integrity” disclosure that our attorney can write up and insert in our sites and I think soon, it will be just another “day at the office” when putting up a site. The most of us are “up and up” and have nothing to fear.

I wouldn’t lose any sleep on this!

Regards,
Bruce

By: taural

taural — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:53:36 +0000

You certainly could do that. I have a friend who has a “real money” poker site who runs it that way. It is indeed a hassle, though. Particularly if you are earning a significant amount of money….

to misquote Tony Robbins “wealth leaves clues”

I play the game “backwards”. Since I reside in Germany there are some disclosure requirements for websites that I’m not always interested in keeping (we Americans are an independent bunch). So, register and host on US servers to avoid it.

…now I’m going to have to rethink all that