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Can You Use Canva for Commercial Use? What Online Business Owners Need to Know

Can You Use Canva for Commercial Use? What Online Business Owners Need to Know

Canva is a free graphic design tool that allows anyone to create professional graphics and images without having to hire a graphic designer or artist. The service has over 100 million users worldwide and is growing rapidly. Canva offers a variety of tools to help designers create beautiful designs, from templates and fonts to illustrations…

8 Places to Link to Your Legal Pages On Your Blog

8 Places to Link to Your Legal Pages On Your Blog

Starting a blog is a great way to share your thoughts and ideas with the world, but it’s important to remember that you also need to think about legal considerations. In this blog post, we will discuss the best places to link to your legal pages on your blog. We’ll cover topics like privacy policies,…

9 Blogging Laws Every Blogger Needs to Obey

9 Blogging Laws Every Blogger Needs to Obey

Blogging can be a great way to earn money. It’s a low cost way to start a business that could change your life. But what you may not know, is that there are laws that apply to blogging and if you don’t follow them you’ll be putting your livelihood at risk. Here are 9 blogging…

Best eContract Tools for Small Businesses

Best eContract Tools for Small Businesses

These days, people are more and more aware of the importance of digital signatures. Yet, signing contracts digitally is not always as convenient as it should be. Online signature tools have made the whole process so much easier. They are available to use in any device and they don’t require any installation on your side….

Affiliate Disclosure Dos and Don’ts – The Ultimate Guide for Bloggers

Affiliate Disclosure Dos and Don’ts – The Ultimate Guide for Bloggers

Affiliate marketing can be a great way to earn more money. While it can take work upfront, it has the potential to continue earning passively for years. If you’ve never heard of the term ‘Affiliate Marketing’ you may be wondering what I’m talking about.  Don’t worry this guide will not only break down what affiliate…

Bringing it All Together: The Ultimate Guide for the Legal Side of Blogging

Bringing it All Together: The Ultimate Guide for the Legal Side of Blogging

I have written several posts on various legal topics for bloggers, I also wrote an insanely in depth guide on GDPR. But, they were all scattered everywhere across the site. I wanted to make figuring out the legal side of blogging easier so I decided to create a comprehensive guide on the topic. I should…

CCPA: The Ultimate Guide for Bloggers

CCPA: The Ultimate Guide for Bloggers

Cliff’s Notes Version: CCPA is a new privacy act out of California that is similar to GDPR in many ways. If you are already GDPR compliant you only need to do a few more things to be CCPA compliant: Have a contact page on your site Potentially have a toll-free phone number for users to…

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What to Do When Your Blog Content is Stolen

Blogging is a lot of work, which is why when someone steals all that hard work it can be incredibly frustrating and disheartening. At first, you might be shocked it happened to you, but likely your next response is going to be how do I take those jerks down and get their copycat content off…

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Side Hustling With A Full-Time Job – 3 Legal Issues to Be Aware Of

Side hustling can be a great way to make extra money. However, if you’re not careful you could find yourself in hot water at your full-time job. Making money on the side does you no good if you lose your main source of income because of it. Which is why it’s important to be aware…

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The Importance of Protecting Your Blog or Online Business

Every time I hear or see someone say something not quite right about the legal side of blogging I cringe. After enough cringing, I decided I needed to do something about it because there was just way too much false information out there. So I started focusing on how I (a lawyer) could help educate…

The 2 essential things you need to legally protect your blog

The Two Essential Things You Need to Legally Protect Your Blog

I’m sure you’ll agree that you didn’t get into blogging because you wanted to deal with a whole bunch of legal issues…. But unfortunately, there is some legal stuff you’ve got to take care of to both comply with various laws and protect your blog/business or self from liability. In this post, I’m going to…