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The Vision Board Effect: How to Design Your Dream Life

Are you ready to design your future? As we step into 2025, now is the perfect time to reflect on who you want to be and what you want your life to look like. So, in this Five Minute Friday episode, we explore the power of vision boards—why they work, how they help you stay focused, and how to use them to turn your dreams into reality. Tune in to discover how a vision board can be the first step in creating the life you truly desire.

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Trademarking Your Business

Starting a business is an exciting venture, but it’s also a journey filled with critical decisions that shape the future of your brand. One of the most important steps you can take early on is trademarking your business. This legal safeguard not only protects your business name, logo, or slogan but also ensures you have exclusive rights to your brand identity. Here’s why trademarking is essential and how to get started.

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Boutique and Apparel Brands’ Guide to Copyrights: What Can be Copyrighted?

A copyright is a form of intellectual property that creates original creations which include literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works, such as poetry, novels, movies, songs, computer software, and architecture. This post focuses on photographs, websites and creative designs, the main creative works of boutique owners and wholesalers. T-Shirt Designs The Copyright Office makes it clear that each copyright must contain minimal creativity. What does this mean? It seems that

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Someone is Ripping Off my Copyright. What do I do?

Guest Blogger I’ve seen the situation waaaayyyy too many times – Creator creates. Creator publishes. Sleazeball steals. Sleazeball makes money from Creator’s creation. It’s a vicious cycle that has caused many small creators to even quit their passion because “it’s no longer worth it.” This is not true. If you love what you do, then it is absolutely worth it. I get it though. You put in hours upon hours

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The Vision Board Effect: How to Design Your Dream Life

Are you ready to design your future? As we step into 2025, now is the perfect time to reflect on who you want to be and what you want your life to look like. So, in this Five Minute Friday episode, we explore the power of vision boards—why they work, how they help you stay focused, and how to use them to turn your dreams into reality. Tune in to discover how a vision board can be the first step in creating the life you truly desire.

Read More

Trademarking Your Business

Starting a business is an exciting venture, but it’s also a journey filled with critical decisions that shape the future of your brand. One of the most important steps you can take early on is trademarking your business. This legal safeguard not only protects your business name, logo, or slogan but also ensures you have exclusive rights to your brand identity. Here’s why trademarking is essential and how to get started.

Read More

Boutique and Apparel Brands’ Guide to Copyrights: What Can be Copyrighted?

A copyright is a form of intellectual property that creates original creations which include literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works, such as poetry, novels, movies, songs, computer software, and architecture. This post focuses on photographs, websites and creative designs, the main creative works of boutique owners and wholesalers. T-Shirt Designs The Copyright Office makes it clear that each copyright must contain minimal creativity. What does this mean? It seems that

Read More

Someone is Ripping Off my Copyright. What do I do?

Guest Blogger I’ve seen the situation waaaayyyy too many times – Creator creates. Creator publishes. Sleazeball steals. Sleazeball makes money from Creator’s creation. It’s a vicious cycle that has caused many small creators to even quit their passion because “it’s no longer worth it.” This is not true. If you love what you do, then it is absolutely worth it. I get it though. You put in hours upon hours

Read More
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