General Partnerships

The current business climate creates a wonderful opportunity to prove that franchise salespeople are professional, relationship oriented, and different from the rest.

Find out ways you can use your coaching skills to "sell" your business, while staying totally true to yourself.

Knowing the tax benefits and consequences of a move can reduce stress and help you make smart, profitable decisions.

A long-term business partnership is like a marriage: You want to ease your way into it with open eyes and LOTS of communication on the important issues that will eventually come up.

Setting up a company in China is a complex task that can be time-consuming and expensive. The initial phase is much easier for companies that research the steps, make good contacts and prepare...

The loss of company secrets and other sensitive information through former employees and partners can be crippling to a business, but there are key provisions that can help protect a business.

Even loyal customers eventually use other suppliers, so you'll have to acquire new business in order to maintain the status quo – or to survive a difficult market.

When selecting an outside IT service provider, here are some things you should consider.

Before you come into a Chinese negotiation meeting, it is crucial you leave your expectations of how the process should go at the door.

It’s common for owners of a growing business to be neck-deep in the work of maintaining the company.

When is enough actually enough when it comes to prospecting and cold calling?

An employee stock ownership plan is essentially a tax-qualified employee profit-sharing program.

A sole proprietorship is the simplest structure for a business, and it is the default business structure for an individual who runs a business with one owner.

Following a disaster, the U.S. Small Business Administration provides low-interest loans to help business owners recover. Here's an informative overview of how to apply.

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A signed owner's agreement spells out what happens when new owners enter the scene and existing owners leave, whether due to retirement, disability, disagreement, or death.

After you have incorporated your business, it must remain financially and legally separate from any of its shareholders in order to preserve the benefits and protections of corporate legal status.

Corporations don't go it alone, and neither should you. Learn how to develop a board of advisors to help you make wise business decisions.

What is standing between you and starting your own business? If it's a lack of money, relax. There are a number of reasonable start-up capital options available to aspiring entrepreneurs.