Selling online: the legal rules you must not forget
Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2024 9:51 am
“Selling on the Internet”, “Getting income on the Internet”, “How to monetize a blog” were topics that Virginia researched and read about stubbornly, without daring to take the step. After all, she had a stable job and living off your dreams sounds like a fairy tale. If so many people make a living off the Internet, why can't I? she said to herself.
Finally, after reading a crazy number of posts on the subject, he decided to take the step, it was very simple as they explained.
Basically I needed:
Find an unregistered domain name - done.
Hire a hosting - done.
Setting up the website and its structure - a piece of cake with the template Mari gave me.
Designing the look of the blog - my nephew helps me with this.
Create and publish content - I'll be rehashing everything I've read.
Looking for an e-commerce platform - wow, I can solve this with a plugin.
Insert a payment gateway - ugh, I might have to pay for this.
All the posts I had read said that all I needed to get started was a lot of passion, positivity and clearly visualizing success. That was the most important thing and I had it.
Come on, if there's one thing I had more than visualized, I had seen myself with my laptop on the palm tree like Rubén Alonso.
Selling on the Internet - Ruben Alonso case
Traps and lies of selling on the Internet
This is how almost everyone who starts their online journey begins, as well as many of those who already have their blogs consolidated, omitting the legal issue, and this is a mistake that can cost you dearly.
Virginia was no exception. She had read something about the famous “RGPD” and philippines cellphone number other similar acronyms, but honestly, who was going to look at the legal texts?
And on the other hand, who would inspect or report a blog as insignificant as yours?
I barely had any visitors!
Clearly legality can wait, he thought.
And here the trap begins:
It doesn't matter the size
Whether big or small, we all have to comply with our legal obligations.
Don't make the mistake of thinking that just because you have a small blog, you are exempt from legal obligations.
It doesn't matter how many visits you get
It doesn't matter if you have 10,000 daily visits or 5 or none, if you have mechanisms to collect personal data, you use third-party cookies (such as analytics) or your blog allows financial transactions, you must comply with the law.
It doesn't matter if you monetize or not
Another mistake is to think that only blogs or websites that monetize have legal obligations.
It is not true, complying with the law is independent of monetization, it is true that if you make online transactions, more laws apply to you.
Remember: Ignorance of the laws does not exempt you
Finally, after reading a crazy number of posts on the subject, he decided to take the step, it was very simple as they explained.
Basically I needed:
Find an unregistered domain name - done.
Hire a hosting - done.
Setting up the website and its structure - a piece of cake with the template Mari gave me.
Designing the look of the blog - my nephew helps me with this.
Create and publish content - I'll be rehashing everything I've read.
Looking for an e-commerce platform - wow, I can solve this with a plugin.
Insert a payment gateway - ugh, I might have to pay for this.
All the posts I had read said that all I needed to get started was a lot of passion, positivity and clearly visualizing success. That was the most important thing and I had it.
Come on, if there's one thing I had more than visualized, I had seen myself with my laptop on the palm tree like Rubén Alonso.
Selling on the Internet - Ruben Alonso case
Traps and lies of selling on the Internet
This is how almost everyone who starts their online journey begins, as well as many of those who already have their blogs consolidated, omitting the legal issue, and this is a mistake that can cost you dearly.
Virginia was no exception. She had read something about the famous “RGPD” and philippines cellphone number other similar acronyms, but honestly, who was going to look at the legal texts?
And on the other hand, who would inspect or report a blog as insignificant as yours?
I barely had any visitors!
Clearly legality can wait, he thought.
And here the trap begins:
It doesn't matter the size
Whether big or small, we all have to comply with our legal obligations.
Don't make the mistake of thinking that just because you have a small blog, you are exempt from legal obligations.
It doesn't matter how many visits you get
It doesn't matter if you have 10,000 daily visits or 5 or none, if you have mechanisms to collect personal data, you use third-party cookies (such as analytics) or your blog allows financial transactions, you must comply with the law.
It doesn't matter if you monetize or not
Another mistake is to think that only blogs or websites that monetize have legal obligations.
It is not true, complying with the law is independent of monetization, it is true that if you make online transactions, more laws apply to you.
Remember: Ignorance of the laws does not exempt you