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November 17, 2017
Q.: Can you use “LLC” with your DBA names? A.: No. Here’s the fuller story. You form an LLC for your social media consulting company: Best Brains LLC. Six months later, you start to offer blog copywriting services as a specific line of business, which you call Best Blogs. That sparks an educational/coaching teleclass (or webinar–take your pick) that you want to offer as yet another income stream to small business owners on planning, writing, and implementing a business blog that generates revenue. You call the course Biz Blog Boosting. (Boy oh boy!) You file a “fictitious name statement” (the legally fancy name for DBA–“doing business as”) with your state’s Secretary of State. So can you refer to your blog writing services as “Best Blogs LLC”? Or your course as Biz Blog Boosting LLC? Once again, no. Why not? In short, because your DBAs are not their own business entities. A DBA is simply another way of referring to your company (or, a division of your company). It is not a separate entity in and of…
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