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Treat your online website or blog as a company from the very beginning.

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Published on January 30, 2016

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Treat your online website or blog as a company from the very beginning.

I would like to start this conversation and see if I can get community help to find an answers and recommendation.

When you have a full-time day job, it is very challenging to run and establish an online business. Even with all, we learn here, and community helps I still have many open questions around legality.

So below my notes and questions. Will appriciate your comments and guidance

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  • Keep all your expenses and income earn from a blog neatly.

How many of you keep this record and what preferable software you use?

  • You need to learn and know all the local laws and regulation about running an online business.
    • How many of you are following advice from FTC

do you have examples for

        • Twitter
        • Facebook
        • G+
        • other social media
  • If you selling a product, how do you find your local sales tax charge for Digital product
    • Physical product
    • services
  • Is your business legal
    • Did you register a company for your online blog and at wat point you would consider doing so?
    • For any mail program based on FTC rules, you need to provide an address. Do you have a business address ? is it your home residence or PO box?
    • Do you have an EIN?
    • Do you have a business bank account?
    • Do you have a separate PayPal account for your online blogging?

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