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6 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from a free training video explaining that an individual can operate as a sole proprietor under a DBA ("doing business as") without forming an LLC. The speaker describes the filing process (file a DBA in the county), notes it does not create a separate legal entity, and gives a typical county filing cost range (about $30–$80).

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Doing business as.

Usually between $30 and $80.

Chapters

If you want to be called, you know, the Something Coach or you have another business name that you want to go by, but you don't necessarily want to create an LLC or a business entity yet you can do that. It's called a dba, which just stands for doing business as. So what that would look like is you would be a sole proprietor. You would file what's called a DBA in your county. It's not very expensive. It varies by county, but usually it's anywhere between 30 and 80 bucks. And then you have your registered DBA. Now that's not a business entity. It's not separated from you personally. But what it's doing is it's allowing you to operate as a sole proprietor under that other business name, Right? So if you wanted to be called the Masterful Coach, you could be Kristy Westerfeld, a sole proprietor doing business as the Masterful Coach. No LLC or anything like that.