Heyo! Welcome to the $100 NBA show, the nitty gritty of business

simplified every single day with their daily 10 minute business

lessons for the real world.

I'm your host, your coach, your teacher, Omar's at home.

I'm also the co-founder of the $100 MBA, a complete business training and community online.

And today's episode is a guest teacher episode. On our guest teacher episodes, I bring on an expert

to teach their area of expertise.

Today we have Ali Smith and she'll be teaching you

tips to avoid a trademark war of words. Ali Smith is a product marketing

manager of trademark.com. Awesome domain name right? She's worked on intellectual property

Sass Solutions for several years and we've brought Ali on today to teach you what

to look out for when it comes to trademarks when you're choosing your business name for example.

Should be sharing tips on how to make sure not only do you stand out but you stay out of trouble

as well as how to file a trademark in the US. There's a lot to be covered but

you're infantry because Ali's lots to be covered but your infantry because

Ali's going to be explaining this in super simple terms so you know exactly

what to do. So let's get into it. Let's get down to business. Get ready for some amazing tips when it comes to your own brand, naming your

business and making sure you don't only stay out of trouble but you stand out

from the crowd so that when people say the name of your business, the name of your product,

other people know they're only talking about you and not anybody else.

I'm going to pass that on to Ali now, but I'll be back with my takeaways and to wrap up the episode.

But for now, take it away, Ali.

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