The FTC is Watching: Is your Facebook contest or giveaway legal?!

No doubt you’ve heard about how the FTC is cracking down on bloggers and online entrepreneurs and making sure they aren’t pulling any shenanigans and stay honest and true about their online business dealings.

Testimonials on your site and earnings disclaimers are only part of what the FTC is watching:  they are also keeping an eye on your blog contests and giveaways on your Facebook page and profile.

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Facebook Removes Custom Landing Tab Option

Update: Facebook relented and restored the custom landing tab option for pages. Hopefully it will remain.

Facebook changes their policies more often then most folks change their socks! Apparently, earlier this week, Facebook removed the ability to easily select a custom landing tab for new visitors to your Facebook page; unless you have at least 10 thousand fans/likes for your page! Then if you’re a super Facebook fan page connector with at least 10 thousand fans, you then will have ability to select a custom landing tab.

This is huge! Why?

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Friend or Fan on Facebook for Business

With over 400 million people on Facebook, it is definitely a wise business move to make sure you’re on Facebook. But there is a huge difference between your Facebook personal profile, and a Facebook (fan) page.

Personal Profiles are great for connecting with real-life friends and family; and of course, you could connect with anyone you want, including business associates. However, the down-side to Facebook personal profiles is the 5,000 friend limit.

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