Do you let followers knw that you are making cash from a post.

CALVINDOL

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Yes, it is a best practice to disclose to your followers if you are being compensated for a post, especially if it is a sponsored or an advertising post. This is to ensure transparency and maintain the trust of your followers. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the US, for example, requires influencers to clearly and conspicuously disclose any sponsored or paid content, including social media posts. Similar rules exist in other countries as well. Certainly! The purpose of disclosure is to give your followers the information they need to evaluate sponsored content and advertisements. In the context of social media, disclosures should be clear, concise and hard to miss. This means that they should be prominently placed and in close proximity to the sponsored content.

For example, the FTC suggests using clear and concise language such as "sponsored", "paid ad", or "partnering with [Brand Name]" to indicate a sponsored post. Additionally, if you are using an affiliate link to promote a product, it is a good idea to disclose this as well. It is important to note that failure to properly disclose sponsored content can result in legal consequences, such as fines or lawsuits, as well as damage to your reputation and credibility with your followers.

In summary, making sure that your followers know when you are being compensated for a post is not only a best practice, but also a legal requirement in many countries, including the US.
 

TOZZIBLINKZ

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It is not necessarily importance and advisable for a blogger or a social media content creator to let his or her followers or subscriber to know that he or she makes money by uploading content or possibly uploading a particular post and the reason is because reminding them always may make you to be viewed as proud and at times cringey. Instead it is already known that content creating is an exact way of making money online so do not Lord it over yourself as being a content creator who is successfully rich and wealthy by reminding your followers and school subscribers always that you make money from content creation.

Instead be very much aware that the ability for you to grow and to develop as a content creator or as a blogger is basically as a result of the audience and subscribers and they have the opportunity and privilege to make you run out of audience if they refuse to view and like your post and uploads so for that respect them.
 

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