Registering your Business name?

<font color="royalblue">Apple or Deb, or really anyone, have you registered your name so nobody else can come along and snatch it up and start selling stuff legally with your name? Or when you register for a business license does that do it automatically?



I am worried about someone using my logo too. Where my mom is from they all think my site name and logo are really cute, and they want shirts with it. How can I stop someone else from just taking them? I know if I got my logo trademarked it would cost a lot of $$$. </font>

GO TO GO DADDY.COM AND REGISTER YOUR NAME. IT COSTS ANYWHERE FROM 6.95 TO 8.95 A YEAR. NO ONE ELSE CAN USE IT

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I already have the web name, but I was wondering about can someone else come along and open up an actual brick and mortar business with your site name, even though you are the one that started the business on-line.



When you get a business license, does that stop someone else from doing this?</font>

I AM NOT SURE ABOUT THAT ONE. LET ME DO SOME CHECKING ON THAT.

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/0,4621,311130, 00.html

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