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Top Reasons To Form A Strategic Business Alliance

A strategic alliance is when two or more businesses join together for a set period of time. The businesses, usually, are not in direct competition, but have similar products or services that are directed toward the same target audience. Below are ten reasons to create a strategic alliance.

1. You could offer your customers a larger variety of products or services. This will allow you to spend less time and money developing new products to sell.

2. Your number of sales people will increase because you’re combining with other business. You won’t have spend to time and money hiring new employees.

3. Your marketing and advertising budget will increase. When you form a strategic alliance with other businesses you both will share the advertising and marketing costs.

4. You can now offer your existing customers more back-end and upsell products. This will increase your sales and profits.

5. Your business will gain a larger number of skilled people working on the same project. You will gain the knowledge of the other businesses employees. Read the rest of this entry »

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A Business Alliance is Not a Marriage – Part 2

A Business Alliance is Not a Marriage More Like Serious Dating… with a Prenup

What kind of team building can we do to get both sides of our business alliance working better together?” “How can we get them to trust us more?” “As partners, shouldn’t we be looking at the balance between risk and reward equally?”

These are just a few of the questions I’ve been asked in recent months. The answers, in my not to be popular opinion, are clear, succinct, and a wee bit blunt. Hang in there though. The recommendations that follow can make this pill easier to swallow.

This is Part 2 of a 4-part series: Part 1 ● Part 2 ● Part 3 ● Part 4

Step 4. Keep Blackberry Use to a Minimum When Dating in Your Business Alliance

How many of us have dated via blackberry? Can you imagine what that would look like?

Via text messaging:

“Hi U like food? (reply + or -)”. Click send.

Ring tone (Pink Floyd caller song ID). “Yum Yum.” Click send.

“What? Spaghetti +! OMG. M2.”

I mean really. What kind of dating is that? And yet, just the other day I worked with a company who couldn’t seem to function any other way when it came to communicating with their alliance cohorts, let alone among themselves. The majority of their correspondence (and I do mean majority) has been sent courtesy of that little electronic gadget attached to the hip and sporting a fruity name. Read the rest of this entry »

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Home Business Alliance, Money Maker, Or Lose Your Shirt?

For sometime now there has been a buzz building about a new opportunity, Home Income Alliance. This article will review the business, so you can make in informed decision for yourself.

Home Income Alliance is a re-branding of (IPC) Income Profit Centre, which was created by Dan Miller. It has taken all the good things about IPC an improved them. This was done primarily to add more income steams for members an give them much more value within the system.

So what is the principle business of the Alliance system? It is basically a home business system in a box. You can choose to market the business opportunity, or can market individual software an digital products. From my observations most people seem to promote the complete system, as this is where the largest profit lays. Read the rest of this entry »

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