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Why Are Strategic Alliances Important to Your Small Business
Global Edge defines a strategic alliance as a “collaborative agreement between two companies designed to achieve some strategic goal.” Traditionally, strategic alliances take place between larger companies and encompass formal arrangements such as “international licensing agreements, management contracts, and joint ventures” - but more and more small businesses are banding together in less formal ways to form strategic partnerships of their own. What are some of the benefits of forming small business strategic alliances? As a small business owner, how can you reach out to start conversations with potential allies and what should you look for in a strategic partner?

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Book Review -- Persuasive Business Proposals
Persuasive Business Proposals: Writing to Win More Customers, Clients and Contracts – Tom Sant, AMACOM (American Management Association), www.amacom.com, January 2004, ISBN-10 – 0814471536, 224 pages, $17.95

Persuasive Business Proposals: Writing to Win More Customers, Clients and Contracts
Book review -- Persuasive Business Proposals: Writing to Win More Customers, Clients and Contracts – Tom Sant, AMACOM (American Management Association), www.amacom.com, January 2004, ISBN-10 – 0814471536, 224 pages, $17.95

Contract War Stories from the Trenches
Yes, indeed, oral business contracts are enforceable… but written contracts are preferable. If I offer to sell you my product for a specific dollar amount, you pay the amount asked, and I deliver to you my product... voila, we have completed our contract! Would that they were all so smooth (hint: they aren't).

Contract Management Services – For The Supplier Or The Purchaser.
Contract management services are the management of purchasing and supply contracts by external consultancy companies. These are two-fold. The first is a service provided to purchasers who require one or more of their contracts to me managed.

Writing Tenders -Your Key to Winning Lucrative Government Contracts
Any company that is involved with Government work knows that these contracts are obtained only after fierce competition. The large size and recurring nature of these contracts makes them very attractive to companies that deal in that particular field

Is it legal?
When we think about contracts, the tendency is to think of a multipage document with clauses, headings, and two signatures at the end. However, a contract doesn’t necessarily have to take that format and in our digital age it is becoming increasingly more common for contracts to be formed in a variety of ways – all of which are “legal”.

Can You Afford To Treat PQQs Lightly?
Companies that are planning to enter the lucrative business of working for the Government or big private companies need to know many things about the complicated process of getting these contracts. Most agencies only award these contracts on the basis of tenders and it goes without saying that these tenders are fought for very fiercely by an ever increasing number of competitors.

Bid Training – Why Do You Need It?
Do you apply for a great number of government or private contracts only to get eliminated in the process of tendering? Are there many contracts that you hear of too late to apply for? This is a common fate that befalls many companies, especially small ones that do not have the resources to do the bid process carefully and efficiently enough.

Handling PQQ’s in the Correct Manner
The business world is highly competitive and one area where this is very easily seen is the awarding of contracts on the basis of tenders. As a result, there are many measures in place to weed out companies that do not make the grade. One of these measures is called a Pre Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ). Companies and Government agencies that use the tendering process to award contracts use PQQs to find out whether the companies that are desirous of doing their work are actually capable of doing it.

Customer Supplied Agreements... Two Suggested Changes Before Signing
The holiday season invariably finds my clients pushing aggressively to turn sales into contracts and lock those contracts down by the end of the year. It's understandable… we all want to begin the new year strong, with lots of contracts in the pipeline. The rush to sign at year end, however, can have dire consequences, particularly for those accustomed to using their own standard form of services contract rather than signing a customer's form of agreement.

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