Bulletproof Your Social Media
Copyright Infringement Case Study: I had a client who developed a course, it cost $60 million. They were a massive university, and their staff and subcontractors created the course, what did they do? They took a whole lot of the data, material, and information off other websites and just dumped Read more…
One of my clients is a public relations coach, and she’s just amazing. She had previously had a problem with somebody stealing her intellectual property in her course materials. When we met she said, “I never want that to happen to me again. I put heart and soul into creating Read more…
In my view, it is not only worth the effort, but is essentia anl risk minimising strategy for all small businesses, to have their business names registered as trademarks. A client of mine gave me permission to share her story, because she wants you to learn from her mistakes. She Read more…
I want to share a story of a client who started to have client problems. This particular client is a business coach, and she had a problem with customers or clients complaining and saying that the system that she taught did not actually work for them. We worked out that Read more…
When you are doing a blog, a social media post, or something else to be published (often online) and you want to grab an image off of the Internet you may ask me, what in your opinion is the best free image site? I am sorry to tell you there Read more…
Have you ever named and shamed somebody online, or been tempted to, or encouraged somebody else to? You need to be careful with this, because as the name suggests the reason for posting it publicly is to lower people’s impression of the person. You have to be really careful, because Read more…
Trademark trouble is bound to find you at some stage if you don’t have your name registered as a trademark. Just this week I saw a client, who is a business coach, an amazing lady, who had previously registered her business name, her domain name, and her company name. Now Read more…
This Bulletproof Your Social Media web app is to help you avoid the most common social media mistakes. This app is for educational purposes only and is not legal advice. Always consult your lawyer for legal advice.
The legal myth that we are busting today, is that once you register a trademark it’s like a diamond, it’s forever. Nope, nope, nope, sorry that is not right. Trademarks are not forever, sadly you have to renew them periodically. For most countries now it’s every 10 years, I had Read more…
Most people know what a confidentiality agreement is, it’s just an agreement to keep information confidential, as it says in the name. It’s also sometimes called a non-disclosure agreement, N-D-A. That can be really handy if you want to run a business idea past somebody. I had a client once, Read more…