If you’ve been keeping up with the news lately, I’m sure you’ve heard about the Heenes Family, who allegedly told authorities their son was missing and might’ve been in a homemade, helium-filled balloon. Their son was hiding in the attic, which was allegedly known by both of the parents. And what could these parents of three children have possibly been thinking? It would make their family more marketable.

While the economy is still hurting many of your average American’s, are we really resorting to contributing to the delinquency of a minor, filing a false police report report, and attempting to influence a public servant just to help market ourselves?

Now I’m no idiot. I know I am giving you a very extreme example. But more and more often, I’m seeing people resorting to illegal activity in order to market and gain traffic to their websites. For example, the most common example these days is when people buy typo domains of similar companies in their industry and foward it to their website, that’s illegal. It’s called trademark infringement. Know it, learn it and obide by it.

Illegal activity is no way to market your name, trademark or website. While this may seem dumb that I am actually writing an article on not committing illegal activity for marketing (or anything else of course), more and more people are doing it. It’s amazing to me. Do these people have no legitimate legal knowledge? Do these people not read or listen to the news? Anyways, I’d love to hear your comments, and happy friday!

Source: The Chicago Tribune (my hometown)

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