Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 372 9 Reasons to Trademark Your Brands Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 372

Over the years, and with the help of my trademark attorney, Erik Pelton, I have applied and registered for the protection of several of our brand names. The following brands have been approved by the USPTO (The United States Patent and Trademark Office), which enabled us to place the ® protection symbol next to our brands. Here are the brand names we have trademarked: Dominating the Web® Creating Global Digital Empires® Pragmatic Technologies for Life and Business Success® Creating Tomorrow’s...

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Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 371 Looking Back, Learning from My Father Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 371

It was exactly one year ago today that my father passed away in Israel. As I was lighting the memorial candle on this the first anniversary of my father’s death I was thinking about him today, as usual, and wanted to share a few lessons I learned from him during my lifetime with him. Dream big. My father arrived in Israel in 1947 following WWII having fought with the Partisans in the Soviet Russia. He always dreamed of Israel and...

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Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 370 Overcoming the Imposter Syndrome Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 370

I was interviewed earlier today by my good friend and colleague, Dan Janal, for his Top Business Leaders thriving podcast show. We discussed several important topics and among them the important of creating our global digital empires® to get our word out, share our insights and wisdom with the world, increase our brand awareness, strengthen our thought leadership as well as overcoming the imposter syndrome. During our interview, Dan asked for my opinion regarding the imposter syndrome, which is defined...

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Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 369 Before and After Raising the Barr Weekly Memo: Issue 369

As many of you know, I have been working diligently this past several years on improving my photography skills and knowledge. Before the many workshops and research, I’ve participated in, I thought that preparing the camera aperture, shutter speed and ISO settings was all that it took to produce the perfect shot. Now, after years of learning and practice, I’ve concluded that developing the eye to capture the perfect shot, editing and post-processing the image is what brings it to...

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