By Arthur Orchid

There're many opportunities to begin your own home based business through the internet. This trend is sweeping the nation and some experts predicted that sixty percent of the work force will be working from their home within the next ten years. Many of the companies are multi-level dealerships and others are stand alone free businesses. Many companies encourage the new business owner to name their company.

When you'll start your own dealership and give your company a name to place on your business cards, you'll be asked from a webmaster, a consumer research specialist or even your tax consultant if you've already worked on registering your domain names. If you keep silent they'll assume you've no idea what registering domain names is all about. It's never too late for a brief explanation. When you name a company you can protect the name from anyone else using it by registering domain names with the state in which you live.

Even if it may seem not necessary to do this right now, many people have found that registering domain names can save them hassles in the future is someone else would use the same name. But please don't fall into schemes that charge money. Registering domain names is something that the business owner can do with the secretary of state’s office in the state you reside in. This can be done on line in most states, and involves filling out a form.

Some people on the internet will run ads claiming that they will register you business name for a nominal fee. People will give them the business information and then the person will go on line and register the name for free and pocket the money that they charge. Don't be the sheep between the wolves! There're many advertisements on the internet that make claims of registering domain names cheap, or for a nominal amount you can have the registration taken care of.

Note: As you can see there're always people trying to exploit your current ignorance in the technical aspects of the web. Do I have to specify I deeply hate such individuals?

In fact, registering domain names is free and easy to do, and you probably would have answered one of the ads and paid someone to do it for you. Every new business owner should be immediately informed about the lack of fees to register a domain name. You only pay a few bucks (less than $10 per year for a dot com domain name) to own that specific domain name. To avoid disasters, I strongly recommend you to use reminders from the softwares you prefer to alert you when there's only 3 - 2 and 1 month before your domain name expires. Before it expires, renew it for 12 months or more and that will be fine.

Finding the best domain name and carefully chosing the name of your company are topics I'll talk about here. Stay tuned if you're interested by Domain names and Business company names.

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By Arthur Orchid

Before you start your business, may be you never looked into how to trademark a name.

Although you wanted to start a business for years, you've never looked into this particular aspect of it.
You had always assumed that it would be very easy.

Why would it be difficult to register a name?
In this day and age, you would expect it to be easy to do a name registration search.

You had imagined that there would be some giant national database with all of the trademarks, copyrights, and other forms of federal and international registration already recorded.
Needless to say, this is not the case.

You may feel quite disappointed now.
Don't worry there's always a solution to fix any problem!

It is much more difficult than that to register a name.
Learning how to trademark a name requires at least a couple hundred dollars, and quite a bit of time as well.

You see, before you get into the meat of how to trademark a name, you have to search to make sure that no one else is already using it.
This is much more difficult than it should be.

There is, in fact, no national or international registration with a reliable record of all the names held under copyright or trademark at least none I was able to find to share the info with you.

There're all kinds of organizations that specializes in doing trademark records searches, but all of them cost money and take time.
The worst part of it is that, if it turns out that you picked a trademarked name and you find out that it has are ready been taken.

You have to start over again.
You'll have to pick a completely new name for your company and do a completely new search.

In the end, there's no point in learning how to trademark a name unless you stand to gain considerable financial profit from it.
A lot of people think that they can do business unless they trademark a name, but in fact this is not the truth.

Often, just proving that you used the name first is enough.
Intellectual property laws do not require that you trademark your name to be able to make money off your business.

There're many businesses that never trademark names and that do quite well for themselves. Don't get me wrong – it can be nice to be able to put the trademark symbol in front of your corporate name, but it is far from necessary unless you're doing business on a regional or national basis.

Once you get to that point, it starts to make sense, but not before that.

Patience is a secret weapon, keeping the focus on the main part of your business is much more important.

• How many customers do you have?
• Amongst them how many are satisfied customers?
• How can you grow your business without falling into debts?

All the rest will come later.

Browse The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) website for additionnal informations.

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