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You have to find a niche, because you are in a very small market that is is almost dead.
There MIGHT be a niche for becoming a designated travel concierge for conventions or trade shows. If you can get an "in" with the organizers of one or two major trade shows or convention promoters, you...
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You have to find a niche, because you are in a very small market that is is almost dead.
There MIGHT be a niche for becoming a designated travel concierge for conventions or trade shows. If you can get an "in" with the organizers of one or two major trade shows or convention promoters, you could possibly handle travel arrangements for those shows or conventions. Even 1 or 2 shows a year would give you access to possibly arranging the travel for tens of thousands of potential clients. Especially if you could provide discount travel packages for convention goers (flight, hotel, transportation and potentially even meals or tickets to attractions in the area). Most conventions already work a deal with hotels (usually the ones associated with the convention center) to offer discounted rates for convention goers, but you could possibly insert yourself as a go-between concierge acting in an "official" capacity for the convention organizers. The convention organizers would probably LOVE to get rid of the hassle of fielding inquiries about travel arrangements, and, at the same time, be able to offer exciting "package deals" to those that are attending the conventions. They are ALREADY promoting the convention, so the promotion of your services would be done by them (which does mean that you would have to start working on a specific convention and have things in place 6-9 months or MORE before the actual convention dates) The best conventions would be ones where the attendees might only travel ONCE per year, or which they attend as individuals and not as representatives of a company. Anyone who travels even a couple of times per year is used to making their OWN arrangements for travel. I am thinking teachers/education or possibly hobbyist conventions. Even Comic-Con or other similar shows might work.
I'm calling BS on your complaint. There is no agency that has to "approve" labels for beer and wine. Typically, agencies like the FDA require companies to submit labels and other advertising every six months, but they don't pre-approve it.
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I'm calling BS on your complaint. There is no agency that has to "approve" labels for beer and wine. Typically, agencies like the FDA require companies to submit labels and other advertising every six months, but they don't pre-approve it.
(NOTICE: I am not an attorney, so this is not legal advice) You said that your competitor "copies and posts" your collateral online. By law, anything you create has a copyright on it, regardless of whether you put a copyright notice on it. You may be able to file a notice under the Digital...
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(NOTICE: I am not an attorney, so this is not legal advice) You said that your competitor "copies and posts" your collateral online. By law, anything you create has a copyright on it, regardless of whether you put a copyright notice on it. You may be able to file a notice under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) with the HOSTING company or social media site where the content is being posted by your competitor. They will remove the context and then notify the competitor of your claim.
The law allows certain fair uses of your copyrighted materials. So, for example, it could be quoted in a research paper, or a competitor could quote you to say that you were wrong. Satire is also a protected use under the law. BUT, if the competitor is simply copying your text or graphics, etc., and passing them off as their own, then you can probably get the content taken down. So, for example, if the competitor is creating silly memes that mock your company using your own content, that may actually be a protected use. But if the competitor copies a lengthy description of your product line and uses it directly as the description for their own product line, that is probably a copyright violation. Hosting and social media companies generally RESPOND almost instantly to a properly formatted DCMA claim and remove the content within 24 hours, in my experience. Why? Because the law protects them from liability claims for that content is they do respond, but makes them liable for damages if they do not. It is very important to note that when you file a notice under the law, you have to be precisely accurate. ANYTHING you claim which is wrong could cause a counter-claim for damages from the party who is stealing your content. The notice should clearly identify the OFFENDING comment, and give a reference to the ORIGINAL SOURCE (your content) from which it was copied. For your first DMCA notice, it is probably worth having an attorney draft a template for you (and explain the risks of what can and can not be claimed).
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