by Marc Mawhinney | May 8, 2019 | Blog
Last year, there was a stretch of time when all I saw on social media were posts about the GDPR thing. (GDPR is what the European Union introduced to force businesses to protect consumers’ private data). It was the talk of the town for awhile, and it seemed like...
by Marc Mawhinney | May 7, 2019 | Blog
The other day, I was reading the book “Man Up” (written by Bedros Keuilian, a past guest on my podcast). In one chapter, Bedros told the story of a legal mess that he narrowly escaped from while he was growing his business, Fit Body Boot Camp. At the time,...
by Marc Mawhinney | May 6, 2019 | Blog
I had Valerie Del Grosso as my guest on “Natural Born Coaches” today, and we covered a lot of ground around the legal issues facing online entrepreneurs. In this episode: Remember – you are a business owner!How to start protecting your Intellectual...
by Marc Mawhinney | May 5, 2019 | Blog
I’ve spent the last few days telling horror stories from the online space, and here’s another one that Valerie Del Grosso passed along to me: A coach offering done-for-you services had pulled client agreements and policies from all over the web, trying to...
by Marc Mawhinney | May 4, 2019 | Blog
A few months back everyone was talking about the documentary “FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened”, about the failed Fyre Festival of 2017. That event was supposed to be the Woodstock for Millennials. It was going to be held on a beautiful island...
by Marc Mawhinney | May 3, 2019 | Blog
Valerie Del Grosso (“The Friendly Lawyer”) told me a story the other day about a potentially messy copycat situation that a business coach encountered. The coach sold a program to a copycat client who consumed it, and then started teaching the exact same...
