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10 Things to Know Before You Apply for a Trademark#1 It's going to take a long time. #2 Trademarks are registered on a per-country basis. #3 You must start with a proper trademark search. #4 Trademarks only cover the goods and services listed in your application. #5 Be prepared...

What Should I Be Asking Myself, Andrei?This is the number 1 question you should ask yourself if you're an entrepreneur or a business owner. Ask yourself this: "What if this business could become truly successful?" “What if you could scale it the way you hoped to?" "What if you...

So when you trademark your brand, there are really three things you're protecting. And I sum them up with what I call three whys. The first credibility. And it has two sides to it. It's credibility in your own eyes. It's when you realize that what you're running is a...

Accepting the Trademark ChallengeMy mentor Dan Lok challenged me to create this video. He's like, “Andrei, you've got a ton of those long videos where you go through every little detail about trademarking. Why don't you create a short video that summarizes what people really need to know about trademarks...

The Right Brand Name Can Garner SuccessOK, so here are the 4 things your brand must be to be truly successful. As long as your brand has these 4 not-so-secret ingredients that I'm gonna share with you in a moment, you will have a powerful brand that will help you...

How to Use Trademarks to Create a Sense of Uniqueness for Your Business?How do you use trademarks creatively to generate a sense of uniqueness in the marketplace, even if you don't have something unique? Jack Welch the former CEO of General Electric famously said, If you don't have a...

The Matrix of Success Determines Business SuccessI came up with this thing that I call the matrix of success, and it will show you four types of businesses. You will see that only one of them, one of these four types, experiences business success. So let's get started. First Type...

The Dumbest Advice: "Don't worry about trademarks until you get big. Once you get big, then you will be able to take care of all that.", Why is this the dumbest trademark advice? Because successes don't just happen, they require a lot of work, time, thought, and effort. Putting so...

First Sign That You Need to Trademark Your Brand#1. You spend time, money, and energy advertising your brand. Now you spend countless hours and thousands of dollars running ads, exhibiting a tradeshow, attending networking events, creating marketing for your business because you want the world to know that you...