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Disclosure

The main purpose of this blog is to share my travel stories and inspire other people to travel and write, but I spend a lot of time on my blog and like to be paid for my work and writing. In order to keep the blog going and continue to help people I run this blog is a business.

I am an ethical and principled business writer and only recommend services or products I stand behind 100%.

These days the FTC makes bloggers provide disclosures when there could be hidden interests or biases about recommendations so, because I like to do things by the book and don’t relish the idea of a life behind bars, here’s my disclosure policy. I’m a member of several affiliate programs such as Amazon and others.

Please assume that, for every recommendation, link, and product I mention, the following are true:

• I will profit from it;
• I get paid for writing it;
• I get freebies or perks;
• I’m in cahoots with the people who will profit;
• I have shares in the company.

If you’d like to benefit from the effective web design, web marketing and web copy writing services offered by my company, Mucho, get in touch to request a quote. We charge reasonable rates for designing websites, blogs and web hosting and offer excellent results so our clients love us. It’s mutual and I’d love to help you set up a website or blog too.

Finally, if you have some products you’d like me to review please send them my way. I can’t promise to write about them but I’ll be happy to try them out and, if I do think they might benefit my readers, I might even mention them on my blog. Free holidays, first class air travel and designer clothes are always welcome:)

What Happens To the Profits?

Because Get In the Hot Spot is a new business all profits are currently being reinvested into the business. Any income is used to pay for things like site design, hosting, email news services, other technical stuff and creating useful products.

When the site becomes profitable I want to donate a percentage of the profits to charity. I’ll choose a local charity because we need to support our local communities and a global charity, especially one who works in Africa because I want to continue my relationship with Africa.

Comments Policy

It’s a sad day and a happy day when you have to add a comments policy to your blog. Sad because to begin with my blog just attracted positive, useful comments but happy because unfortunately attracting spammy comments is a badge of success for a blog. Writing this really saddens me because 99.9% of people who leave comments are wonderful, genuine, helpful people who don’t need a comments policy and naturally behave respectfully online as they do in life.

To avoid spam I’ve decided to have a no links in comments policy. If there’s a specific link you want people to check out please mention the site and post title so people can do a search for it if they like. If it’s on your blog they can always link to that from your name. I always check out recommended posts and I’m sure other people do too.

Thank You to Commenters

My blog exists today because of the many kind people who’ve left comments. There’s no doubt that if no one had ever left me a comment I’d have stopped blogging around the six month mark. I still thrive on the comments and feedback from readers and really appreciate your taking the time to share your thoughts with me and the other readers. If you have your own blog I hope people will visit it because of that.

Please keep those comment coming.