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Kandi Burruss of The Real Housewives of Atlanta is spoke on a female empowerment panel discussion during the 2017 Essence Festival yesterday (July 1, 2017).
The popular entrepreneur shared her thoughts on branding, stating:
DO NOT promote any name that you like unless you have trademarked it first. Do not hashtag it, do not say nothing about it… unless you have got all the social media accounts for that name and go through the process of trying to trademark it.
She also provided a bit of insight about the Jermaine Dupri’s unauthorized Xscape movie (click HERE if you missed that) and how the group actually reunited because of it!
Details + video of Kandi’s interview below… Continue Reading…
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