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Get Your Custom Legal Plan For FREE

If you're like most online entrepreneurs, you KNOW you need to deal with their legal stuff, you probably don't know where to start. You probably feel something like:

"I don't know what I don't know about the legal stuff."

Lucky for you, the legal doesn't have to be confusing! We're on a mission to demystify the legal stuff for online business owners, and this page explains the legal stuff you need to address in your business.

But let's be honest for a second... reading a page with general legal guidance will only get you so far. What you really need is a custom legal plan built just for YOUR business. That's exactly why we created the Legal Task Manager feature. Tell our system about your business, and you'll get a fully customized legal plan. And it is 100% FREE... just click below to get started.

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Plainly Legal™ Helps You Protect Your Membership

When you are running a membership site, have have a lot of things to worry about... from figuring out how to create features people will love to creating the membership content to figuring out how to get people to sign up and stick around. The last thing you probably want to think about is the legal stuff. Unfortunately, you can't ignore the legal stuff whenit comes to your memberhsip.

While we can't help you with the building or marketing your membership... at Plainly Legal™, we can help you deal with the tricky legal issues.

Create Membership Terms & Conditions Using Plainly Legal™ Document Generator To Avoid Disputes With Your Members

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While you could focus on any number of legal issues, the logical place to start with your agreement with your members. For membership site owners, the relationship you build with members is the key to your success. So that's where the legal issues tend to start too!

Beyond wowing your members with the content of your membership, the most important thing you can do to protect yourself is to create an agreement for members to agree to when they sign up. We call that your Membership Terms & Conditions.

Considering that your Membership Terms & Conditions is the single most important legal document to protect your membership, it's worth spending some time to create a version that is bulletproof. A rock-solid membership term will explain what members get, how much they pay, how they can cancel, what members are allowed (and not allowed) to do with your content, and other legal niceties. The more specific, the better!  

At Plainly Legal™, we know how important it is for you to create rock solid membership terms, and our Legal Document Generator makes it simple to create custom terms that have all the right clauses and none of the wrong ones! All you have to do is follow the prompts and fill in information about your membership, and our system will do the rest.

Get Testimonial Releases For Those Raving Reviews

There's a legal concept known as the right to publicity that gives everyone the right to control how their name, image, and likeness is used commercially. In a nutshell, this legal rule means you can't use someone's name or picture to promote your business without their express permission. And some states require that permission to be in writing.

With Plainly Legal™, you can easily create testimonial releases for all your raving reviews.

Make Sure You Can Legally Use The Membership Name You've Chosen

Picking the right name for your membership is quite a challenge. You want a name that people will remember and that conveys the benefit your program delivers to your members. Once find a name that works from a marketing standpoint, it's tempting to move on. But there's an important legal step you need to take...

Run a trademark search to make sure no one else has already staked a claim to have the exclusive right to use the name. If someone else has already claimed the name, you need to pick a different name. Inside Plainly Legal™, we have recommended resources to help you run a trademark search and a discount with a trademark service if you decide to register a mark for your membership name.

Get The Agreements With Your Partners

If you work with anyone to create or promote your online membership, you need written agreements in place to govern those relationships.

Teammates
If you have any employees or contractors who help create any aspect of your membership, you need an agreement in place to ensure you own the work product.
Guest Experts
If you have content from guest experts in your membership, you need a Guest Expert agreement to provide the necessary permission to use that content.
Affiliates
If you invite affiliates to promote your program, you need an agreement that governs that relationship, and affiliates need to agree to it when they sign up to promote.

The Plainly Legal™ Document Generator will help you create all of these written agreements with your partners.

Start With Your Custom Legal Plan Absolutely FREE

The legal stuff can be complicated. That's why we created the Plainly Legal™ Task Manager and why we offer it to business owners absolutely free. You provide information about your business, and our system creates a custom, prioritized list of legal tasks you need to complete.

With your custom legal plan, you'll know exactly what you need to get done to protect your online membership business. If you need written agreements, you can purchase them a la carte or sign up for a subscription to get access to the Legal Document Generator.

Click the button below to sign up and get started with a free legal audit.

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Legal Beyond Your Paid Offers

It's not ALL about your paid offers... there are some tasks every business owner needs to take. Click on the tabs below to learn about those universal legal issues.