Blog giveaways needs to have a DTI sales promotion permit

Recently I joined a Facebook group called pinoy bloggers and good thing that I have a friend that’s already a member of the group so I was able to join the group.
I decided to join this group because I wanted to be active again in blogging and I wanted to look for some blogs that I could visit, and I noticed that a lot of discussion in that group was about DTI or Department of Trade and Industry here in the Philippines, and I was so confused on why are they talking about this, but I didn’t care to read it at all until I stumbled upon a blog entry talking also about the DTI thingy, so I decided to read it as well so that I can already relate to my Facebook Group, and the DTI topic is about Blog giveaways needs to have a DTI sales promotion permit. Well personally this won’t affect me because I’m not doing any giveaways but I still decided to make a post just to inform my fellow bloggers that is not yet aware about this.

Blog giveaways needs to have a DTI sales promotion permit

Many bloggers are angry because of this issue, as we all know that many of my fellow Filipino bloggers, blog out of passion and majority of bloggers doesn’t earn much from blogging only some. Now the question is why people conduct giveaways in there blogs, well here is the list:

1. It’s a way bloggers thanks their readers.
2. It’s a way bloggers celebrate the anniversary of their blogs
3. It’s a way bloggers gain traffic to their blogs

Those are just my opinion on why bloggers do giveaways, but I haven’t seen any blog giveaways that requires there readers to purchase a product or anything, some of the requirements of some blog giveaways is just to like there Facebook fan page, Follow them on twitter, comment on their posts and some minor requirements that doesn’t allow their readers to spend even 1 peso.

Another thing that bloggers point out is that if this DTI thingy push through they’ll be having extra effort to make a giveaway because the process of getting a DTI permit is complicated, first you need to have a mayors permit and in order for you to have a mayors permit, you need to have a Barangay permit and that’s the time you can request for a DTI permit but the burden is not yet over because the approval of a DTI permit takes time maybe 2-3 working days or even maybe a week, and of course by having this requirements bloggers will have to spend some money just to have a DTI permit, even if I don’t do giveaways here in my blog I also disapproved this kind of move by the DTI, but some blogger groups wanted to have a talk with the DTI and discuss some exemption for blog giveaways DTI permit, I guess they would want to lessen the steps on the processing of a DTI permit and also the fee’s for it.

So to my fellow bloggers out there and to my readers, what do you think about his issue?
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