Partnering

Human Resources

A Bad Business Partner Could Cost You Millions — Here’s How to Avoid a Toxic Partnership

Finding the ideal business partner can elevate your business, but a poor fit can sabotage your progress. Here are three essential strategies for evaluating potential collaborators to ensure they are the right fit before you commit to working together.

By Nancy Solari

Building a Business

5 Ways to Build a Partner Network That Organically Fuels Your Growth

By Jinesh Patel

Building a Business

3 Things to Consider Before Your Perfect Business Partner Becomes Your Perfect Disaster

By Cynthia Kay

Building a Business

What You Need to Know Before Entering a Partnership With Software Solutions Providers

By Slava Podmurnyi

Entrepreneurs

How To Get the Most Out of External Partners

Every business depends on external partners, consultants and agencies. But, unlike your own employees, you don't control their tools, systems and work product. Here's how the best leaders manage third-party contractors.

By Tom Medema

Building a Business

3 Strategies for Turning Clients Into Partners

We can go fast alone, but we can go farther together.

By Jed Morley

Thought Leaders

Your Partner Needs You to Do These 6 Smart Things to Make Your Relationship Better

There's a lot of relationship advice out there, but it all boils down to the fundamentals. Here they are.

By Baptiste Monnet

Marketing

A Marketing Agency Model That Actually Benefits the Client

Finding a marketing agency that actually drives results is harder than ever before.

By Cody Curran

Marketing

How to Start a Successful Marketing Agency from Scratch

Opening a marketing agency is tough, but with the right strategy your business can take off.

By Timothy Carter

Building a Business

Finding Strength in Numbers: How to Supercharge Your Startup Growth 10x With Powerful Partnerships

Fresh ideas and novel processes from partners can get you out of a stagnant phase and into more productive cycles.

By Bryan Janeczko

Building a Business

10 Questions to Ask Before Committing to a Business Partner

Having a partner could share the load ... or create added burden.

By Lisa Girard

Building a Business

Expanding Your Business? Ignore These Pitfalls at Your Peril

When a business owner thinks about expansion, life gets exciting. But a path of missteps awaits the entrepreneur who doesn't think it through beforehand.

By Arkady Bukh

Building a Business

3 Ways to Strengthen Your Partnership

As partners, you may glide as smoothly as Fred and Ginger. But, one day -- and that day will come -- you won't.

By Doug and Polly White

Building a Business

5 Questions to Decide If You Need a Business Partner

You might actually need a loan or an attorney, not somebody to split your company with.

By Phil La Duke

Entrepreneurs

What to Consider Before Taking on a Business Partner (Infographic)

Savvy entrepreneurs use these strategies to ensure every business partnership is a match made in heaven.

Building a Business

The Secret to Great Partnerships Is the Triangle of Talent

Meshing the three personality types essential to business success is a key leadership skill.

By Lewis Schiff

Building a Business

7 Keys to Healthy Co-founder Partnerships

These concepts are relevant for entrepreneurs who want to strengthen their collaboration.

By Michael Episcope

Thought Leaders

5 Ways to Avoid the Drama of Kelly and Michael When a Partner Leaves

It hurts when a partner finds another, more attractive, situation but don't turn it into your company's long nightmare.

By Rich Razgaitis

Building a Business

6 Challenges Confronting Every Business Partnership

There is no perfect partner. Add that to the list of what you have to make work to succeed.

By Murray Newlands

Building a Business

3 Reasons Why Partnerships Need to be Part of Your Growth Strategy

We're all in this together. Business partnerships can help make your path to success easier.

By William Litvack

Marketing

Selling Your Product to a Big Chain in 5 Painstaking Steps

There are miles of shelf space in a big-box store. Getting a few feet of it for your product is an ordeal worth enduring.

By Zeynep Ilgaz

Building a Business

10 Characteristics of Unstoppable Partnerships

Nothing does more to unlock our individual potential than working with devoted partners.

By Sherrie Campbell

Building a Business

7 Strategies to Help You Pick, Then Develop, the Perfect Partner

When two or more parties bring different yet equally valuable skills to the table, amazing things happen.

By Stephen Key

Business Accounting

Everything You Need to Know About Business Partnerships

Before you even start thinking about bringing another business partner on board, find out what this legal expert has to say about the pitfalls of partnerships.

By Mark J. Kohler

Building a Business

10 Steps to Finding the Right Co-Founder

Two heads are always better than one in a startup. The challenge is how to find that elusive perfect-fit partner.

By Martin Zwilling

Building a Business

Maybe You Should Send Your Co-Founder a Valentine This Year

There are many similarities between finding your one-true love and finding a business partner compatible for the long haul.

By David Stubenvoll

Business Accounting

Thinking of Going Solo? 7 Reasons You Need a Co-Founder.

There are few decisions in business that are more important than deciding whether you'll 'go it alone' or team up.

By Adam Callinan

Building a Business

The 5 False Expectations That Could Destroy Big-Brand Partnerships

On the surface, startups and big-name brands are businesses with a similar overarching goal: to make money. But crack the exterior, and you'll find that's about all they have in common.

By Jason Kulpa

Building a Business

5 Things to Do Before Saying ‘I Do’ to a Business Partner

When you meet a potential partner your personalities may click and your goals may be identical, but to have a successful relationship, clarity is key.

By Deborah Mitchell

Building a Business

Are You a Coyote or a Roadrunner?

This is an era when time, place, secrecy, size and order are no longer relevant, when customers expect personalized outcomes delivered by passionate, agile and responsive employees.

By Chip R. Bell