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Seven Deadly Legal Mistakes in Business Divorce Protect Your Business When Spouses, Partners & Co-Founders Split Up — Without Going to Law School by Brett Bacon, Esq. (over thirty years of experience as an attorney-at-law) Book Twelve in the Bestselling Seven Deadly Legal Mistakes Series for Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners You built the business. You put in the time. You took the risk. You grew the customers. You carried the stress. And now the relationship is ending. A marriage breaks down. A partner wants out. A co-founder walks away—or forces the issue. So the business is ...

Seven Deadly Legal Mistakes in Buying & Selling Your Business Shield Yourself From Deal Traps and Hidden Liabilities — Without Going to Law School Buying or selling a business is one of the most financially significant decisions a business owner will ever make. Yet many deals that look successful on paper quietly unravel later—not because of fraud or bad faith, but because legal risk was misunderstood, ignored, or assumed away early in the process. This book explains why. Seven Deadly Legal Mistakes in Buying & Selling Your Business is a practical business law guide for small business ...

Seven Deadly Legal Mistakes in Starting & Running S-Corp Shield Your S-Corp From Costly Tax Traps, Compliance Errors, & Ownership Pitfalls - Without Going to Law School by Brett Bacon, Esq. (licensed attorney with over 30 years of experience) Forming an S-Corp often feels like the smart next step. Your business is making money. Taxes feel heavier. Someone tells you an S-Corp will help you keep more of what you earn. It sounds simple. It sounds responsible. And for some businesses, it works well. But many owners form or run an S-Corp without fully understanding the rules that come with it. ...

Seven Deadly Legal Mistakes in Business Taxes & Payroll: Shield Your Business From IRS Trouble & Payroll Mistakes--Without Going to Law School Most IRS Audits Don’t Start With Cheating—They Start With Mistakes Business owners get into trouble because they make reasonable decisions—about cash flow, payroll, contractors, software, and timing—without realizing how tax and payroll law actually works. By the time the problem surfaces, penalties have accumulated, options have narrowed, and what felt like an administrative issue has become a legal one. Seven Deadly Legal Mistakes in ...

Seven Deadly Legal Mistakes In Protecting Your Brand, Trademarks & LOGOS Shield Your Business Name, Identity & Reputation — Without Going to Law School by Brett Bacon, Esq. (over thirty years of experience as an attorney-at-law) You chose your business name carefully. You built a logo. You secured a domain. You opened social media accounts. You registered your LLC. So your brand is protected… right? Not necessarily. In today’s online marketplace, brand exposure expands quickly. A local business can begin selling nationwide within weeks. Amazon listings, Etsy shops, Shopify stores, ...

Seven Deadly Legal Mistakes in Online Business, Ecommerce & Digital Compliance Protect Your Website, Customer Data & Digital Marketing — Without Going to Law School by Brett Bacon, Esq. (over thirty years of experience as an attorney-at-law) Book Eleven in the Bestselling Seven Deadly Legal Mistakes Series for Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners You launched a website. You connected a payment processor. You started running ads. You collect customer emails. You ship products nationwide. So your online business is legally compliant… right? Not necessarily. In today’s digital ...

The Knight at the Top of the Stairs A Novel of Psychological Horror and Coming-of-Age Suspense The summer of 1968 is a season of unrest—riots in the streets, assassinations on the news, and a war raging overseas. But for nine-year-old David, the real battle is happening inside his own home. At the top of the stairs stands a shadow. A knight—silent, unmoving—hands resting on the pommel of a great sword. No one else can see it. No one else believes it’s there. Yet every time David’s foot brushes too close to its darkness, something terrible happens. A swarm of hornets. A loaded gun ...

Seven Deadly Legal Mistakes in Starting and Running an LLC Many business owners form an LLC believing they’ve solved their legal risk problem. They haven’t. A Limited Liability Company can be a powerful tool—but only if it’s formed and operated correctly. Too often, business owners rely on the label “LLC” itself, assuming it provides automatic and permanent protection. In practice, that assumption quietly undermines the very protection they were trying to create. Seven Deadly Legal Mistakes in Starting and Running an LLC is part of the Seven Deadly Legal Mistakes series and is ...

Avoid Deadly Legal Mistakes That Can Destroy Your Business by Brett Bacon, Esq. (over thirty years of experience as an attorney-at-law) Starting and running a business is hard enough. Avoidable legal mistakes shouldn’t be the reason it fails. Every year, small businesses collapse—not because the owners lacked talent, effort, or integrity, but because they unknowingly made legal decisions that quietly exposed them to risk involving structure, contracts, taxes, liability, and financing. How to Avoid the Seven Deadly Legal Mistakes That Can Destroy Your Business is the first book in the ...

Seven Deadly Legal Mistakes in Business Contracts Most business owners don’t think of contracts as dangerous. They think of them as routine. That’s the problem. Contracts are signed every day—with customers, vendors, landlords, service providers, and partners—often under time pressure and with the assumption that the document is “standard,” “boilerplate,” or non-negotiable. When problems arise later, the damage is rarely caused by bad intentions. It’s caused by decisions that were never fully understood at the moment the contract was signed. Seven Deadly Legal Mistakes in ...

She’s the President’s daughter. He’s the town’s fastest troublemaker. Love just dropped the green flag. Spruce Davis lives for the rush of the race track and the freedom of the open road. But when a crash sends him back to his small hometown in search of a comeback, he never expects to collide with Eva Luna Clark — a brilliant, grounded woman who just happens to be the daughter of the President of the United States. Their worlds couldn’t be more different: he fixes engines and breaks speed limits, while she’s grown up behind guarded gates and constant headlines. Yet something ...

Seven Deadly Legal Mistakes in Hiring and Managing Your Employees Hiring employees is one of the fastest ways to grow a business. It’s also one of the fastest ways to expose yourself to serious legal risk. Many business owners assume that if they “treat people fairly” and “use common sense,” they’ll be fine. Others rely on informal arrangements, outdated templates, or advice pulled from the internet. The result is often the same: wage claims, misclassification penalties, discrimination complaints, tax problems, or lawsuits that could have been avoided. Seven Deadly Legal ...

Seven Deadly Legal Mistakes in Commercial Leases for Business Tenants Shield Your Business, Exit and Personal Wealth From Hidden Lease Traps — Without Going to Law School by Brett Bacon, Esq. with Joshua Doyon, Esq. Most business owners don’t think about their commercial lease until something goes wrong. The rent seems manageable. The space works. The landlord seems reasonable. Then the business grows. Or struggles. Or prepares for sale. And suddenly the lease isn’t background paperwork anymore. It’s leverage. Commercial leases are not written to protect your business. They are ...

Seven Deadly Legal Mistakes Going Into Business With Others Shield Your Money, Relationships, & Business Deals—Without Going to Law School by Brett Bacon, Esq. (over thirty-years of experience as an attorney-at-law) Starting a business with someone you trust feels natural. A friend brings skills you don’t have. A family member offers capital. A colleague suggests a joint venture. You agree to split things evenly and get started. But most partnership problems don’t begin with bad intent. They begin with assumptions. Assumptions about ownership. Assumptions about control. Assumptions ...

Best-selling author Brett Bacon, Esq. shows you how to use specific, practical techniques that you can immediately use to dramatically reduce stress in your sales work. Part one of this book addresses how to deal with the stress of finding good prospects and also how to defeat stress in your sales presentations when you are in front of the customer. Part two shows you how to avoid sales slumps or how to get yourself out of one if you are in it.

Imagine what it would be like to become a self-made millionaire by using these simple, fast, and easy millionaire selling secrets. Would you like to dramatically improve your selling skills? If you are not getting the sales that you want right now and you want to achieve the freedom, respect and security of becoming a self-made millionaire by mastering these millionaire secrets of persuasion, then this audio book is for you!

Imagine you live next door to the "neighbor from hell". And then imagine what might happen if the neighbor from hell is the most powerful person in the world - the president of the United States!