How Do I Deal with Competition Who Has the Same Name?

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Pat Flynn

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4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2016

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Today's question comes from Glenn, who has an existing podcast and website. How should he handle competition from someone with the same business name as him? Glenn’s site is http://amiibotrainer.com. Do you have a question about dealing with competition? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/. Check out the Audible audiobook version my new book on validating your idea for a business, Will It Fly?, at http://willitflybook.com. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	AskPath.
0:07.0	Dot com
0:09.0	AskPats.
0:10.0	Hey, what's up everybody?
0:12.0	Pat here and welcome to episode 580 of Ask Pat.
0:15.0	Thank you so much for joining me today.
0:16.0	As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week.
0:20.0	All right, here's today's question from Glenn. Hey Pat, my name is Glenn. I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week. All right, here's today's question from Glenn.
0:22.6	Hey, Pat, my name is Glenn.
0:24.0	I'm the host of the amoeble trainer podcast, which helps people train their amoebos
0:28.5	by answering their questions five days a week.
0:31.0	They can head to amoebletrainer.com for more information.
0:35.0	And therein lies the question that I have for you today. There's another person
0:39.1	out there who has a YouTube and a Twitter that is called AmiBo Trainer. Now I have the Twitch
0:44.7	account name and the name of the website, which I just mentioned earlier, and the podcast, which is on
0:49.7	iTunes, Stitcher, and SoundCloud. So what do I do in this situation? Do I switch my name and still call
0:56.9	myself an amoeble trainer? Or do I keep going as is and hope people don't mix me for the guy
1:02.3	that's on YouTube and Twitter? Or do I make an offer to buy out the YouTube and Twitter names? Or do
1:09.7	I just do something else entirely?
1:12.6	And I do have to say this.
1:13.9	We're not the only two trainers out there.
1:15.7	There are other people with websites who are trying to stick their claim as the best
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