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Ready to get your legal ducks in a row? The Legal Road Map® blog & podcast is a must for the ambitious online business owner with a rocket strapped to their back. Stop scrolling for legal advice in Google and instead confidently scale your business to the next level with the right legal protections at the right time.

Hosted by Autumn Witt Boyd, an experienced lawyer who helps ambitious and creative business owners reach their big goals. Together with her team, Autumn guides coaches, memberships, course creators + educators, agencies + experts as they grow. She has special expertise in copyright and trademark issues, and her firm offers full-service legal support to creative businesses.

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Putting together an online course is a huge undertaking. There are so many moving parts - writing copy, sourcing or creating images/video, making sure your tech is working, marketing + sales, and more. I’m tired just thinking about it! 

If you’re not careful, all of those pieces can take you away from the parts of your business that are making you money now, and you’ll start out at a deficit before your course even launches. So what can you do to ensure your online course enables you to create more income, instead of draining the success you have already created?

Coronavirus is all over the news right now. But have you stopped to think about how it could affect your business (especially if you're running live events or retreats)?

t seems like everyone is adding a digital course to their arsenal of offerings these days. With tools like plug-and-play platforms and even courses on how to create your course, it’s easier than ever to start earning serious income from these popular products.

But what about the legal side of digital courses? In the rush to get your course up and running, it may be the last thing on your mind, but not taking the time to put even the most basic legal protections in place can create some real nightmares for you later on.

This is the final episode in my series about legal and social media. In this episode, I cover the following topics:

1) Staying out of hot water when using other people's images that tag your brand on social media.

2) Question from a social media copywriter about how to get sign off from clients that they approve her posts.

3) The legal next steps after being accepted to be an affiliate.

Growing your Instagram following can be tricky business. If you’ve ever struggled with your IG account, you know my guest is an expert on the platform: Jasmine Star!

Jasmine is a law school dropout turned photographer turned business strategist who has transitioned from offering 1:1 services to digital courses to now a membership model to help business owners grow their social media reach.

In this episode, she’s dishing on some lessons she learned the hard way, sharing a couple of embarrassing stories she’s NEVER told before, and continuing to be an all-around inspiration.

In this video, I'm answering your questions about what can go wrong when an unhappy client leaves negative reviews about your business on Google, Yelp, or in a Facebook group. Learn if this is really defamation and how you can make it stop.
If you’ve been paying attention to Facebook over the last couple of years, you’ll know that FB is making a big push for users to engage in groups. So, not surprisingly, FB groups have been popping up everywhere, whether they’re free and open to anyone, or private and part of a paid membership or online course. But what happens if someone’s behavior in your FB group goes against your standards...
Heard a horror story or two about someone getting locked out of their FB ads account? So have I. Today's live featured more stories about online businesses that were missing the right legal protections, or breaking Facebook's ad rules, and led to ad accounts getting shut down.
If you rely on Facebook or Instagram ads to make sales in your business, losing your ads account is probably one of your biggest nightmares. A shut-down account could cripple your next launch and have a serious effect on your bottom line.  I’m sharing juicy stories from online business owners who have dealt with this super frustrating situation, and, in several cases, what they were able to d...
STOP right there - watch this BEFORE you run FB or Instagram ads

Learn why your social media ad could be rejected, and how you can avoid this expensive mistake.

Facebook ads can seem like a mystery - it’s no wonder there are people who have made a whole career out of helping others set up ads that work.

Whether you’re a seasoned social media ad user, or you’re just starting to think about using them, you know ads can be a powerful tool to help move the needle when it comes to driving traffic, generating leads, and making sales.

But ads often get rejected… repeatedly. And for different reasons than you might think. So, what do you need to know before you run that ad so you can avoid any potential problems?

I'll answer your questions about legal in the Scale / CEO phase of your business.


This is when legal gets REAL because you're making more money, and have a lot more risks of things going wrong.

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