Category Archives: Strategic Alliances

Developing a Profitable Joint Venture — Step-by-Step

Here’s a helpful post by Chris Flett, author of What Men Don’t Tell Women About Business, outlining four important steps in developing…

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Small-Small Partnerships Equals Big Returns

From Entrepreneur.com (via MSNBC.com), comes Chris Pettila’s article on how partnering with other entrepreneurial companies can help all of you…

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Stop Selling; Start Partnering

Never mind the book (although I’m sure it’s great) — here’s a delightful and intelligent book review of Larry Wilson’s Stop…

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Peeking Under the Hood of Your Strategic Alliance

A strategic alliance offers a lot of promise to companies both local and global.  The promise of new markets.  The…

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Making Alliances through Social Networking Sites

Here’s one of my pet peeves about sites like Facebook: people who hardly know me who want to join my…

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What The Zombies Can Tell Us about Strategic Alliances

Zombies?  No, not in the George-Romero-Night-of-the-Living-Dead kind of zombies.  Zombies as in the British-rock-band-from-the-1960s kind of zombies. As Lewis Green…

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Tips for Negotiating a Partnership (or Alliance) Agreement

Many thanks to Anthony Cerminaro’s BizBangBuzz blog (say that ten times fast!) for finding a great tidbit on highlights to negotiate…

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Food for Thought on Strategic Partnerships

Consultant Mark Howell has a tidbit on the power and benefits of strategic partnerships that’s really worth pondering carefully over…

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How NOT to Propose a Joint Venture

Strategic alliances, joint ventures, collaborations . . . whatever you want to call them . . . are very delicate…

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10 Reasons to Form a Strategic Business Alliance

Yammer, yammer — for many, “strategic alliance” is just jargon and Newspeak.  One of the curious things about strategic alliances…

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