When Do I Turn My Blog Or Niche Site Into A Business Entity? When Do I Trademark?

AskPat 2.0: A Weekly Coaching Call on Online Business, Blogging, Marketing, and Lifestyle Design

Pat Flynn

Business Advice, Marketing, Podcasting, Getting Started, Business Strategy, Business, Small Business, Passive Income, Online Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2014

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Tony has a great question: When should he create a legal entity for his blog? When should he explore trademarking? I am not a lawyer, but I do answer small business questions. Record your question at http://www.askpat.com/. Thanks to LegalZoom for sponsoring today's show. Go to http://www.legalzoom.com/ and enter "Pat" as your discount code at checkout. 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.
0:01.0	AskPath.com
0:06.6	That's dot com.
0:08.8	Askpast.com.
0:09.0	Askpast.
0:10.1	com.
0:10.7	Hey, what's up everybody?
0:11.9	This is Pat Flynn, and welcome to episode 56 of Ask Pat.
0:15.7	I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week.
0:19.6	I'm so loving and enjoying creating
0:22.1	this show for you. And thank you for all of your amazing questions. Now, speaking of law and legal
0:27.3	and business entities, let's get to today's question from Tony. So Tony, please take it away.
0:33.4	Hey, Pat, this is Tony from designer hacks.com.. I want to thank you for putting smart passive income together.
0:39.5	It's been really helpful for me because they have similar backgrounds.
0:42.9	So thanks for doing that and keep on keeping on.
0:47.2	My question is, I'm wondering when it makes sense to turn my niche or hobby site
0:50.9	into a limited liability company or to incorporate it.
0:54.2	And when should I be worried about trademarking? Thanks.
0:58.8	Tony, thank you so much for your question. And just as a quick disclaimer, you know, I'm not a
1:03.0	lawyer. You know, definitely not a lawyer. I have my own. But, you know, I've used legalzoom.com
1:07.6	to help me get started in the beginning, just like I mentioned in the sponsorship role at the beginning. But I'm going to tell you a quick story about how it got started.
1:13.6	You know, I built my site, which was initially at in thelead.com, before I had to change it to
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