How to Collaborate: A Small Business Guide to Increase Profits, Build Relationships, and Stop Doing it All by Yourself

- Are you sure there's more to your business, but you can't quite find what's missing?
- Do you feel stuck in the day-to-day routine? Uninspired? Or discouraged with where you find your business self?
- Do you feel overwhelmed or like you're going it alone?

How to Collaborate can help you discover answers to your entrepreneurial questions, offering the collaboration business model as a way to swing out of the doldrums and into a fresh, new paradigm. Combining an infectious joie de vivre with sensible, tried-and-true experience, this business text will help novice collaborators see how to develop new relationships and to become less isolated and more connected with their business colleagues. With insights about basic collaboration models, possible partners for working together, ways to get the collaboration going, some necessary legal mumbo jumbo, and much more, readers are given a comprehensive road map that they can use over and over to create fruitful, collaborative relationships.

Peppered with real life stories and concrete examples, this down-to-earth guide illustrates some of the amazing results that collaboration can create. The author easily admits that she has learned much from her mistakes, and she is happy to share her lessons, helping readers to avoid falling into the same potholes that she encountered. How to Collaborate focuses readers on their future successes, encouraging them to unlock their own out-of-the-box thinking to realize their individual strengths and talents. Written with humility and a true desire to help fellow business owners, the author demonstrates both her love and deep understanding of the collaborative model. This book is one of those destined to sport dog-eared pages, highlighted passages, and written-in margins; in fact, the author recommends readers do so. This handbook isn't meant to collect dust on a shelf, but to accompany the reader on their business journey, inspiring them to collaborate for increased profits, enhanced relationships, and fresh enthusiasm.

Unusual in a business book, How to Collaborate is lively and demonstrates a deep sense of humour, each of which contribute to it being an enjoyable, while informative, read. Throughout its pages, the author's life attitude rings out: "Remember to have fun, 'cause if you aren't having fun, why are you doing it?"