Sherwood & Surrounding Area Real Estate with The Gardner Team

In business and life honesty, integrity and sincerity are priceless virtues - The Gardner Team would like to share with you some great tools out there for tracking and protecting your business and brand identity on the web.  I spoke in a previous post a little about having a powerful brand and the reality that it may bring on unwanted duplications, plagiarism and copyright infringements of your efforts. Unfortunately it happens all over the world, but the good news is consumers spend allot more time on the internet and are more savvy and sharp than ever before... They'll see through it. 

There are many ways to protect your efforts and spot potential problems right away.  We'd like to introduce you to a couple solutions, Google Alerts and Copyscape.  Both offer free services that will notify you when your name, business or brand information has been used and/or replicated on the internet.  It has come in really handy for our real estate business.  It not only alerts us by sending us a time stamped email, it provides us the actual source and content too.  You work hard and your efforts should be protected.  This is a great way to stay on top of things and organize the information you'll need for your records.  Being that we're coming out with a new campaign and are in the process of loading our new copy-written terms, I thought this would be a great opportunity to share these fantastic tools with our readers - You can't beat being first to provide your personal services and you can't beat free.

We follow our name and common terms both used and originated by us such as The Gardner Team, Jason Gardner, Amber Gardner, Jason and Amber Gardner, Discover Sherwood Living, Signature Home Marketing, Our motto, Committed to Your Success and like variations to name a few.  We very much believe in and welcome inspiration and competition, but never approve of our efforts being out-right copied.  Fortuately we have skilled professionals, tools like these and karma on our side to watch out for our marketing efforts and the recent replications that have been brought to our attention in record time.

Depending on the level protection for your ideas, products or services you need to mark, you can also file for a state level and/or national level trade and/or service mark.  There are also specialized Trademark and Copyright Law Firms that offer an array of services that may be worthy of looking into.  We're locked-and-loaded with all the above.  If you have any questions about these types of services, please don't hesitate to contact us - we're just like you and use them too. 

Always protecting your best interests & committed to your success,

Amber Gardner

The Gardner Team, Your Local Realtors