7 Easy Steps To Legally Protect Your Business

When it comes to anything legal and the law. And it's always something that you think about. Usually when it's too late, something happens and then you're like, oh, I need a lawyer or I need to get myself prepared. And it's only after the fact. So I think that's what I love about the system we're going to go through. It's more proactive. It's kind of how to protect the business owner up front and with some really easy steps. Take us through these steps.

Absolutely. I'm such in favor of being proactive and protecting yourself on the front end so that you don't have what I.

Call legal pickles on the back end or headaches with clients.

So the first step is if you have a website, which most online business.

Owners do, even if it's a small website or a landing page or you're just getting started, what I recommend is.

The first legal document that you want.

Is what I call a website disclaimer.

And that's a document that basically tells people, hey, when you land on this.

Website, I'm not giving you business advice or legal advice or accounting advice or when you land on this website, Any testimonials that you see here are just examples. And any affiliates are not endorsements.

It tells people sort of the rules.

Of the game to help them get.

Grounded and really look at your base.

Level of legal protection on the website.

So if you have a website, your.

First step is to ask yourself, do I have a website disclaimer on my website? And that's the first item on your checklist.

With that one, it's oftentimes someone doesn't really think about it, they leave it up to their web person. And if for whatever reason they're one of the rare few that do, they just think about going and copying, pasting from someone else's website and putting it on their site. So you touched a few of the key areas. Are there any tips on, like, how to craft a website disclaimer that actually protects them?

Yeah, and I'm so glad you mentioned that about copying and taking other people's work, because for some reason, when it comes to savings, sales pages or websites, we all get very upset if someone comes and copies your work. But actually with legal documents, believe it.

Or not, it's the same thing. You really can't copy and shouldn't copy.

Someone else's legal document.

It is the same type of taking or copyright infringement as it would be if you were taking something from their website. So I do encourage everyone to have their own legal documents that they can put in place, starting with that website disclaimer.