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As an online course creator, coach, membership or done-for-you service provider, you’re constantly confronted with choices about all aspects of your online business. You have decisions to make about what content to create, how to promote your content, what software and tools will best serve you and ...

1.  What makes a document a contract?  

The legal answer is that a document needs 3 basic elements to be a contract:  an offer, acceptance of the offer, and consideration (something of value exchanged between the parties). While this formula seems simple enough, if there’s a fight about the cont...

As an online course creator, you have a lot to protect in your online course. Digital products are the core of your business, so you want to take steps to legally protect your online course(s) and your business. Getting your course from a nugget of an idea in your brain to the checkout page where yo...

Understanding Copyright

Let’s take a look at what copyright is. Copyright protection results from the expression of an idea. Ideas themselves don’t receive copyright protection, only how those ideas are expressed. Once you share your original idea in tangible form, you automatically have copyrig...

As an online course creator, coach, membership or 1:1 service provider, blogging is an excellent way to provide value to your customers, demonstrate your authority as an expert in your field and increase your search engine optimization (SEO). You can maximize the potential for all of these benefits ...

AI is all the rage in online business. Platforms like ChatGPT offer users a galaxy of content opportunities. If you’re an online course creator, coach, membership site or 1:1 service provider, you can use AI for content creation to help you write, or write for you, all different kinds of content ...

What does scope of practice mean if you are a coach? 

The term "scope of practice" refers to the boundaries and limitations within which a coach operates. A coach’s scope of practice has roots in the coach’s training, qualifications and expertise, as well as the professional standards that gover...

If you sell online courses or digital products, you most likely have a lot of content on your hands. As you think about different ways to leverage the value of that content, you may be considering private label rights, also known as PLR. In this blog, When you create content, you, as the creator hav...

Are You Hiring an Employee or an Independent Contractor?

How you classify your workers is an important part of the hiring process. For a discussion of the differences between employees and independent contractors, read my blog, How Employees and Independent Contractor Differ in 5 Key Ways, which...

If sales in your online course, coaching business, membership or service business have been steadily increasing, you might be thinking it’s time to make that first hire in your online business. Thinking about hiring help in your business can be daunting. There’s so much to think about and so many qu...

Are you considering expanding your solopreneur operation of your online business to include one or more team members? When you are a course creator, coach, membership or service provider thinking about creating your team or making your first hire, you’ll need to understand whether you are hiring emp...

Thinking about legal issues for your online business can be intimidating. You often don’t know if what you’re doing has legal implications, or you might be pretty sure there are legal implications but you don’t know what they are or the first place to start to learn about them. You start a search on...