The sacred cows that are killing your business
- December 4, 2018
What’s the plan, Stan? Do you have a plan to make sure next year is better than this year? Or are you looking at much of the same? I know from working with business owners…
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April 7, 2014
Strategic alliances. They’re great when used effectively to expand the range of your product or service offerings. They’re not so great when you collect them like Manolo Blahnik shoes, merely because, well, everyone else has them. What Is It Anyway? “Strategic alliance” is a chic but vague term that people use to refer to a spectrum of business relationships. At one end, you have referral relationships – getting and giving client leads. Toward the other end, you have joint ventures, where two companies form a separate entity for a specific purpose or discrete project. Somewhere in the fuzzy middle lie strategic alliances, which bring two (or more) sides closer contractually, like preferred trading partner arrangements. In a strategic alliance, the companies remain financially and structurally independent, but commit to using the other regularly (sometimes exclusively) for particular kinds of projects or work. Picture a marketing strategy consultant that aligns itself with a graphic design firm: each can function happily on its own and (ideally) is not a competitor; but with the other, can provide a…
Continue ReadingWhat’s the plan, Stan? Do you have a plan to make sure next year is better than this year? Or are you looking at much of the same? I know from working with business owners…
Read MoreIn my decades of practicing law and working with entrepreneurs, I can say there is at least one bright spot in the world of business partnerships. Let me say, too, that I believe the coming…
Read MoreBusiness partnering relationships come in many forms and develop in many ways. One of them is through what’s know as the “Mastermind Principle“: two or more people working together in complete harmony toward a mutual…
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