[Leica] Question about photography business

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

https://smallbusinessbc.ca/article/how-start-your-business-your-legal-requirements/
This thing says if your biz name is your real name you're ok but if you name 
it some made up fancy dumb name then you have to register it
So if your Biz name is "Brian Reid Photography" you'd not have to register 
it. Unless you then change your real name to Harvey Swartz.  Then you'd have 
to register it as they'd not match up.  
I think one of the worst mistakes a photographer can make is having their 
business name be something other than their name name.
I was lectured on that early on by a mentor of mine.  "Your name is 
everything" he told me in 1978 
"Rainbow Extravaganzas LTD" is not your name".  Or whatever I had on my 
really bad first business cards.  
I've been Mark Rabiner Photography ever since. Though dabbled with Mark 
Rabiner Photographs then regretted it.
 

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Mark William Rabiner
Photographer

?On 9/21/18, 3:40 PM, "LUG on behalf of Brian Reid" 
<lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of reid at 
mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> wrote:

    I've been taking pictures for money (mostly weddings and portraits) for 
    40 years. I've always had a day job; I'm not good enough to try to make 
    a living at it. The money I make has paid for lenses and printers but 
    has never paid the mortgage or bought food.
    
    Recent circumstances require that I become a registered business. 
    Obviously it would be a sole proprietorship. I know lots about cameras 
    and computers but nothing about business licensing.
    
    Does anybody have any suggestions as to where I should start, to make my 
    little "Brian Reid Photography" venture be a registered business? Since 
    I live in California I assume that I would register in California, but I 
    am baffled by what I find with search engines.
    
    
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