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Practical, Strategic, and Helpful Information and Resources for the entrepreneur who wants to start, build and protect their business.

Why I Love Mondays

Happy Monday! Hope you had a great weekend! Am I the only one who gets excited about Monday’s here? Here’s the thing about Mondays. It’s a new day, it’s a new week, and it is full of excitement and possibility. As an entrepreneur and visionary, this is what we LIVE for! The excitement of what

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4 Reasons You May Need an LLC (for your Online Business)

4 Reasons You May Need an LLC (for your Online Business)

Thinking about starting an LLC for your online business? Here are four reasons you may need one. Hi, my name is Jim Hart. I’m the founding attorney here at Hawthorne Law. I’m also the creator of the Lock It Down Legal Protection System, where we turn worried entrepreneurs into legally legit CEOs. LLCs are one

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How to Pay Yourself

How to Pay Yourself

Are you wondering how to pay yourself in your LLC? Are you an online entrepreneur who maybe has a new business that’s finally starting to generate some cash flow and you’re just not quite sure how to do the most important thing, getting that cash out of your business… legally? Let’s talk about that today.

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Financial Mistakes I see new Online Businesses Make

Financial Mistakes Online Business Owners Make

Today I want to talk to you about some serious online business financial mistakes that I way too many entrepreneurs making. I want to thank one of my YouTube colleagues and another lawyer, Aiden Durham, for the inspiration for this video as she recently posted a video entitled Two Huge Money-making Mistakes. The basic idea

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5 Things I wish I knew before I started my business

5 Tips I Wish I Knew Before Starting a Business

Today, I want to talk to you about five business starting tips that people don’t tell you about, when you’re just starting a business as an online entrepreneur. Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. That means that if you purchase a product through that link, then Hawthorn Law will receive a

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Why you need a client contract for your online business

Why you need a client contract for your online business

Do you have a client contract for your online business? Well, if you don’t, today I want to challenge you with six reasons that you might need to rethink that decision. Six Reasons You Must Have a Client Contract If you’re running an online business, then chances are that you want safety, you want predictability,

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Are you putting your Trademark at risk

How to Trademark a Business Name… Don’t do this…

Today, I want to share with you how to trademark a business name, and the single biggest risk that I see people make when they are filing their trademark application. Are you ready? Let’s do this. Today’s video is a little bit different. I want to talk to you about the single biggest mistake I

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