What is a DBA? (Doing Business As)

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What is a DBA ? A D.B.A. or “doing business as” is like an additional nickname for your company that you can officially do business with. A DBA is not a formal business structure and DOES NOT GIVE any Personal Asset Protection. For Personal Liability Protection, you will need a Formal Business Structure, for most people an LLC will be the best and easiest option:

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🏷️ Use our Business Name Generator to get some help
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available URL to secure for your new business:

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📙 Need more information on DBAs? Check out our free, written guide:

📙 Remember a DBA is not a formal business structure and DOES NOT GIVE any Personal Asset Protection.
For Personal Liability Protection, you will need a Formal Business Structure, for most people an LLC will be the best and easiest option:

📙 Learn more on how to name your business at:

*TIMESTAMPS*
0:00 - DBA Overview
0:33 - What is a DBA? (Doing Business As)
1:46 - Do You Need a DBA?
3:51 - How To Get a DBA
4:43 - Conclusion

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If you're interested in any of the other topics in this guide, like what a business structure is, personal asset protection, or just small business in general? Check out these other really useful resources:
⚖️ What is a Business Structure?
🔒 Personal Asset and Liability Protection:
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💼 Ready to start your own business? Get your LLC started today:

🕵‍♀ For a registered agent service to help protect your privacy and stay compliant:

🏷 Use our Business Name Generator to get some help
brainstorming a business name and finding an
available URL to secure for your new business:

👾 Make your business information easily accessible with this Ai powered QR code

🎨 Create your own logo for free using our logo generator:

🎯 Use our Business Name Generator to get some help
brainstorming a business name and finding an
available URL to secure for your new business:

𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗚𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲𝘀:

Need more information on DBAs? Check out our free, written guide:

Remember a DBA is not a formal business structure and DOES NOT GIVE any Personal Asset Protection.
For Personal Liability Protection, you will need a Formal Business Structure, for most people an LLC will be the best and easiest option:

Learn more on how to name your business at:

[jefflewis]

Thanks for the no no-nsense video. It was exactly the information I was looking for.

[geraldfirme]

Best breakdown for beginners like myself🤓

[indrajeetghosalkar]

Having common marketing people, engineers, etc saves lots of money instead of having separate teams. Most businesses are seasonal, so you can use manage easily.

[indrajeetghosalkar]

Once my llc company is registered I will do DBA on it, already told this that day also wrote it in notes

[ofDiscreet]

After this video, I'm going to nab some food from Nick's Awesome Burgers. Anyone need anything?

[indrajeetghosalkar]

Also as I earlier if you have multiple ideas or products, you can have one strong business, common marketing or other employees, later funding, easy to manage balance sheets etc. I don’t fear any lawsuits as I don’t do any crazy stuff instead people for example in my current business don’t pay my bills. And at initial stage having multiple companies is just too complicated, can’t use common employees etc

[tevinrichie]

Wish everyone explained things like this

[tapslagata]

great info, straight forward. thank you!

[bettergo]

kudos, fantastic video and structured info. introduction clean and concise too.

[investbig]

This video Is more than helpful Sir 👍👍👍👍👍✌️

[indrajeetghosalkar]

Also in future, I have more products, a company should have multiple products, if it has only one product, then it’s really not a company just completely dependent on that product

[AnthonyVargasHD]

So create a LLC and create a DBA For Each business you want under your llc and when your ready replace the dba with a LLC to create a separate entity. Minimize risk nice! You can get sued but they can take everything you worked for only from the llc your getting sued from.

[clemsmith]

Excellent. Also, very nice Shefrelera tree in the background

[phoenixwinterrose]

I don't know if anyone is watching this in 2024, but here's a specific question. If I have my painting/flooring business, a lot of people will hire a cleaning company afterwards. Can I just file a DBA under my LLC that is something along the lines of XYZ Cleaning Services? That way I can use it for those specific instances, but I can also offer my cleaning services to clients that have nothing to do with my painting and flooring. Is that a thing?

[Bodycomp]

Well the reason I want a DBA for now is to get a business bank account so I can keep my business fund separate from my personal. My question is what if I want to use the same DBA name but now I want to have an LLC for that name would I be able to do that?

[tatyanamoore]

Would you recommend getting a DBA for new business owners? Then later switching it from a DBA to an LLC. Also if you have a DBA can someone still register you business name with a LLC?

[dranamarie]

So you can have multiple DBAs under one sole proprietorship?

[morethanflowersmiami]

thank for the video, can i add a dba to create another type of business (online business)?

[MixedMartialJack]

i need to start a newspaper in order to have a dba??