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Osprey Observer: Local In-A-Jar Cheesecake Business Ready For Success
Moon Law Group is proud to work with this local business!
By Nicole Heubusch
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Husband and wife team Joseph and Le’Ann Jackson are bringing a unique and fun concept to the area, cheesecake in a jar. For just $5 customers can purchase a glass jar filled with an entire slice of cheesecake from Le’Anns Cheesecakes ‘N More. Cheesecakes can also be customized, and it offers different bottom choices like chocolate chip brookie (brownie and cookie) bottom, and different toppings like salted caramel, pineapple, peanut butter and more. Also available are gluten-free cheesecakes.
The couple is Brandon based, and while they are looking for a space in Brandon to sell their desserts, customers can currently find them at local farmers markets. Shoppers will find the Le’Anns Cheesecakes ‘N More table at the Ybor Daily Market at 1920 East 7th Ave Monday through Wednesday from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. and Thursday through Saturday from 11 a.m.-10 p.m. They also attend other markets in the area, anywhere from Sarasota to Clearwater.
“One of the more popular cheesecakes people buy at the Ybor Daily Market is what we call the ‘breakfast cheesecake’. It has a maple bottom with a bacon caramel topping,” said Joseph.
The Jacksons have been in business for eight months, and Joseph quit his job to give his full attention to their start-up business.
“We love doing this. I feel like I’m not working anymore; just living,” he said.
The couple uses a top secret cheesecake recipe, one that Le’Ann was not even privy to until she married her husband.
“My family uses a secret ingredient in our cheesecakes and only family knows it. When we got married, Le’Ann received the family cookbook and only then did he learn the recipe,” explained Joseph.
Le’Anns Cheesecakes ‘N More offers catering and delivery. Delivery is free with a minimum if 12 jars (equal to a whole cheesecake). Also available are cannolis and brookies, as well as many other dessert items. The company partners with Jason’s Firehouse Hot Sauce and Gigi’s Gourmet Caramels and is currently looking to partner up with local farmers to use their fresh ingredients for its desserts.
Customers can currently find these one of a kind cheesecakes in a jar at Cali Viejo, located on State Rd. 60 in Brandon, offering a Spicy Guava cheesecake, and Mobile Meals.
For more information about Le’Anns Cheesecaks ‘N More, visit www.LeAnnsCheesecakesNMore.com or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/LeannscheesecakesNmore or by calling 445-3861.
Mark Moon, Co-author of Business Law Basics
Mark Moon
Business Law Basics
When you start a business, legal issues can seem complex, even scary. Business Law Basics will help you ask smart questions and get the right advice. This simple guide will showyou everything you need to know about:
- How to choose an attorney.
- Contract essentials, including patents and copyrights.
- What you need to protect (such as processes or intellectual property).
- How to reorganize or restructure your business. You’ll also learn the basics of partnership and corporate structures, license and regulation essentials, employment issues requiring the assistance of unfair dismissal solicitors, legal aspects of buying and selling, common pitfalls, international business issues–and more.Each of the books in the Crash Course for Entrepreneurs series offers a high-level overview of the critical things you need to know and do if you want to survive and thrive in our super-competitive world. Of course, there’s much more to learn about each topic, but what you’ll read here will give you the framework for learning the rest. Also, the co-authors’ website, expertbusinessadvice.com, offers expanded support for entrepreneurs and is updated daily.Among them, Scott L. Girard, Jr., Michael F. O’Keefe, Marc A. Price, and Mark R. Moon, Esq. have successfully started 20 companies in a wide variety of fields. Their individual experiences are just as varied. Scott, a combat veteran who has served in Iraq and Afghanistan, was formerly vice president of Pinpoint Holdings Group, Inc. Mike founded O’Keefe Motor Sports in 2004 and grew it into the largest database of aftermarket automotive components in the world. As vice president for marketing of Bracemasters International, he grew his company’s website viewership by 17,000% in two years. Marc has launched seven companies of his own and has collaborated with the Federal government, U.S. military, major nonprofits, and some of the largest corporations in America.
Business Law Basics is also coauthored by Mark R. Moon, Esq., a founding and currently the managing partner of the Moon Law Group, P.L., in Tampa Bay, Florida.
When you start a business, legal issues can seem complex, even scary. Business Law Basics will help you ask smart questions and get the right advice. This simple guide will show you everything you need to know about:- How to choose an attorney.
- Contract essentials, including patents and copyrights.
- What you need to protect (such as processes or intellectual property).
- How to reorganize or restructure your business.You’ll also learn the basics of partnership and corporate structures, license and regulation essentials, employment issues, legal aspects of buying and selling, common pitfalls, international business issues–and more.Each of the books in the Crash Course for Entrepreneurs series offers a high-level overview of the critical things you need to know and do if you want to survive and thrive in our super-competitive world. Of course, there’s much more to learn about each topic, but what you’ll read here will give you the framework for learning the rest. Also, the co-authors’ website, expertbusinessadvice.com, offers expanded support for entrepreneurs and is updated daily.Among them, Scott L. Girard, Jr., Michael F. O’Keefe, Marc A. Price, and Mark R. Moon, Esq. have successfully started 20 companies in a wide variety of fields. Their individual experiences are just as varied. Scott, a combat veteran who has served in Iraq and Afghanistan, was formerly vice president of Pinpoint Holdings Group, Inc. Mike founded O’Keefe Motor Sports in 2004 and grew it into the largest database of aftermarket automotive components in the world. As vice president for marketing of Bracemasters International, he grew his company’s website viewership by 17,000% in two years. Marc has launched seven companies of his own and has collaborated with the Federal government, U.S. military, major nonprofits, and some of the largest corporations in America.
Business Law Basics is also coauthored by Mark R. Moon, Esq., a founding and currently the managing partner of the Moon Law Group, P.L., in Tampa Bay, Florida.
Affordable Care Act: What does it mean for you?
Affordable Care Act
Starting in the beginning of 2014, almost all of the new regulations related to the “Affordable Care Act” will go into effect. The regulations range from increases in taxes to required health-care insurance for full time employees for businesses over a certain size. The definition of full or part time employment will even change.
Here are some examples of the new terms being used concerning small business and the Affordable Care act:
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Incorporating Your Business: An important first step
Today, many would-be entrepreneurs are using the Internet to boot-strap their businesses as cheaply as possible. What was impossible 20 years ago is completely possible in the 21st century. However, some people run with their idea, put it on the Internet, and start doing business as cheaply as they can. Sometimes they don’t incorporate their idea. THIS IS A HUGE PROBLEM!
- Incorporating your business will shield you from potential disatrous legal liability
- Incorporating your business is cheaper than you think
- Incorporating (an LLC) actually only requires one person!
- A business idea without a corporate form is worth far less financially!
Even a boot-strapping, Silicon-Valley genius will tell you – don’t miss out on this step. Incorporating used to be a long and difficult process. Now, you can easily and cheaply incorporate your business. Contact the Moon Law Group today for a free consultation to maximize the potential of your new business idea!
Why Trademark Your Local Business?
Small Business Trademark
Apple™ and Google™ both have very recognizable brand names. The average local business owner might not think they need intellectual property protection, but that is not the case. Intellectual property is about a brand. When you think large national corporation, it seems obvious.
Why would a local business need protection?
- If a larger competitor decides to move into your area, they can squeeze you out using similar advertisements!
- When and if a local business decides to sell their company, a trademark is a valuable asset that investors will pay money for.
The number one reason why local businesses don’t get a trademark ISN’T because they don’t want it, but a federal trademark is expensive and takes forever to get!
State-level trademarks are the right solution for the local business!
State-level trademarks:
- only protect at the statewide level (ideal for a local business)
- cost a fraction of what a federal trademark costs
- gives a local business the peace of mind knowing a potential greedy competitor can’t muscle their way into the local scene with superior size and bank accounts!
Small Business Trademark: A state-level trademark is the ideal and cost-effective solution for a local business. Call Moon Law Group today for a free consultation!
What to expect when you meet with an attorney: Knowledge is Power
Written by Mary Huntsman, Esq.
For someone who is an attorney, speaking with another attorney seems like no big deal, but for someone who has never hired an attorney or even spoken with one, it can be a little intimidating. I understand this and that is why I would like to take some time and describe what someone can expect when they come in to meet with an attorney at Moon Law Group.
All of our initial consultations are always free.
Read More»The 5 Questions Every Small Business Owner Must Know About Their Web Presence
As the economy has slowed down over the past few years, many local business owners having been feeling the squeeze on their bottoms lines. The costs of production have gone up, and sales have gone down. For many business owners, the next step is to turn to the Internet to increase their business – opening their own websites and managing their social media profiles.
However, most business owners have no idea of the legal ramifications of owning a website. For business owners who have a website, ask yourself the following questions:
Read More»Trademarks and Local Business: A CASE STUDY, Law School Style
Professors in university love to ask hypothetical questions. In business school, it always involves questions about widgets. In law school, it always involves questions about Company X and Company Y or a family whose names are Abby, Bob, Christine, and Dave. The reasons law school professors do this is because usually the questions are based on real life facts, and the names of the parties involved were changed so as not to embarrass anyone (or get in potential legal trouble!).
I have a hypothetical question today that illustrates why Trademarks are so valuable to local businesses.
Read More»Local Business: Why Get a Trademark?
By: Allan Gregory, Attorney
Reputation is important to any business, but especially for local businesses. Local businesses are strongly tied to their communities. It is a relationship built on trust – “knowing your neighbor”. For a local business your name, your brand, and your reputation is everything.
Yet most local businesses never trademark their business name. As valuable as owning trademark rights in a name can be, most local business owners don’t realize or choose not to legally protect their name and reputation and have more advantages (as to establish business credit, etc). Most owners think trademarks are something for large multi-state and international corporations. This is simply not true.
Most states, including Florida, offer a simplified state-level version of registering a trademark. The process is faster, cheaper, and offers almost all the protection a local business owner could need. A state-level trademark provides the local business owner with rights in their name throughout Florida.
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