Disputes

Keeping Unscrupulous Business Partners at Bay

It’s not just business partners that can be unscrupulous, as the article “9 Ways to Keep Hucksters, Schucksters, and Slimeballs at Arms Length When Starting Your Own Business” deftly points out.  There are creepy clients, promise-the-moon marketers, and flaky vendors who are out there, ready to infect the naive with their less-than-full-integrity way of conducting [...]

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Have Your Collections Policy Ready

If you don’t want to get stiffed, know ahead of time how you plan to collect on overdue receivables. In any economy, there’s only one thing worse than not having work to do. That’s spending the time and effort to do the work . . . and still not getting paid. Frankly, I’d rather be [...]

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Appeasing an Ex-Business Partner When You’re Doing the Exiting

In a question that seems more appropriate for The Ethicist (the New York Times Sunday Magazine’s Q&A column on ethical issues), David Eddie from the Globe and Mail presents the following scenario: [After 15 years of slaving in someone else's business], about a year ago, I convinced a colleague to quit and team up with [...]

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My Partner’s Not Doing Enough Work!

I’m about to give my teleseminar, “Help! My Partner’s Driving Me Crazy!: Building and Maintaining Effective Business Partnerships” . . . and came across “My Partner’s Not Doing Enough Work!” — which is certainly a factor that could drive you crazy!  Written by a self-confessed INTJ (haul out your Myers-Briggs personality grid to refresh your [...]

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Business Partner Disappears. What Now?

From the Department of Business Partnership Nightmares comes this plea for help from LordMJ: Here’s the skinny: Partner 1 and Partner 2 met in corporate America and started a venture together when both had full-time jobs Partner 1 left the corporate job and entered grad school, ostensibly to help the business (and supposedly by mutual [...]

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Web Design Legal Horrors

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Few aspects of marketing are as crucial to a company’€™s identity than its website. And fewer marketing vehicles can become as much of a money pit and time suck as . . . a website. It’€™s a never-ending process of evolution, a frustrating “€œwork in progress.” Just when you think you have it figured out, [...]

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Stupid Small Business Lawsuits

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A few years ago, there was a short-lived TV show called “€œKids Say the Darndest Things“. Well, in a similar vein, people bring lawsuits for the darndest reasons . . . which is why entrepreneurs are well-advised to protect themselves legally. But rather than get on my soapbox about protection, for today, let’€™s have a [...]

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When the Fairness Scale Starts to Tip the Wrong Way

Like any other relationship, one with a business partner is not always on an even keel. You do the best you can, recognizing that there needs to be give and take. The important thing is to make sure that the “giving” and the “taking” isn’t one-sided. This is especially important in situations where each partner [...]

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If You Hate Your Business Partner . . .

Let’s get one thing clear. I don’t hate mine. But I do love a good laugh. And let’s face it: in the pressure-cooker environment that is a closely-held business, sometimes, your business partners just “get up your nose,” as they say in England. So check out the 3 short videos on the ihatemypartner.com site of [...]

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Of Icebergs and Elephants

One of the advantages to blogging on business partnership issues is that it’s a wonderful conversation catalyst. Everyone has a story to tell! As I was waiting on line to get coffee at the recent BlogHer for Business conference, I was regaled with a sad tale of woe, disappointment, and destructive passive-aggressive behavior. Seems that [...]

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