Teaming Up [Paperback]

Paul Edwards (Author), Sarah Edwards (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 10, 1997

Offers practical advice to home business owners about collaboration, covering such topics as identifying reliable collaborators, avoiding being cheated, and negotiating contracts. Original.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Self-employment gurus Paul and Sarah Edwards and their co-author Rick Benzel strongly believe that "lone eagles"--those traditional embodiments of the business world's entrepreneurial spirit--may actually be an endangered species as the commercial world becomes increasingly cutthroat and competitive. Their solution? Mutually beneficial alliances. Teaming Up: The Small-Business Guide to Collaborating With Others to Increase Your Earnings, Reduce Your Costs, and Boost Your Business to New Levels examines this new concept and explains how to move from self-reliance to interdependence.

From Library Journal

Consultants who have written six best-selling books, including four editions of Working from Home (LJ 3/15/85), the authors here demonstrate how the growing tendency for self-employed individuals to link up and form a broad spectrum of mutually beneficial relationships really works. Today, all types of collaborative strategies are emerging, and the authors describe the pros and cons of a wide variety of such strategies so that entrepreneurs can determine which ones are best for them. Chapters cover the psychology of these relationships, legal and financial issues, and troubleshooting, with case histories used to illustrate many of the tenets. This is sure to be a popular title; business collections will want to purchase several copies.?Susan C. Awe, Jefferson Cty. P.L. Arvada, Col.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Paperback: 394 pages
• Publisher: Tarcher (March 10, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0874778425
• ISBN-13: 978-0874778427
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #486,510 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Paul Edwards, with his wife and partner, Sarah,is the award-winning coauthor of 17 books. Together they are recognized as pioneers in the work-at-home movement that gained new life in the 1980's. Their book "Working From Home" was the first commercially published book about how to work from home. Always interested in major trends and how they will effect our lives, their seventeenth book, "Middle Class Lifeboat: Careers and Lifestyles for Navigating a Changing Economy," provides practical information about what changes individuals can make to improve their situation in a fast-changing global economy. The new edition of Home-Based Business for Dummies has been revised for the changing economy.

Sarah is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and PhD ecopsychologist. Paul's background is as an attorney, CEO of an environmental research foundation, and public affairs consultant. Their Elm Street Economy website provides information and links to their current projects which includes the Elm Street Library, their blogs, and Let's Live Local. Combining Paul's past experience with the present,he moderates a subgroup for Entrepreneurs on on LinkedIn's Ebooks, Ebook Readers, Digital Books and Digital Content group.

Only a portion of Paul and Sarah's print and eBooks are listed with this profile. The remainder are listed with the profile titled "Paul and Sarah Edwards."

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A definite primer for networking!, June 21, 1999

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D. Williams "Host of By the Book Radio" (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Teaming Up (Paperback)

Networking may seem like an obvious way to tell people about your business, but this book is full of wonderful details that help you build your business by cross-promoting and working with other entrepreneurs.

In their usual personal style, the authors define the various strategies for business arrangements, allowing you to choose the ones that are right for you.

You will learn the 10 effective ways of teaming up with others, how to find the right people to network with, business aspects of joint relationships, continuing the working relationship, and when to move on or stay on your chosen collaborative path.

A definite primer for networking, I recommend that any business owner, especially those in home business, learn the principles covered in Teaming Up.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars From Cross Marketing to Incorporating Everything You Need to Know about Teaming Up to Do Business, December 27, 2005

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Claire (Richmond, VA, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Teaming Up (Paperback)

If you have a small business and want to grow your income, you'll find this book a helpful guide to how you can team up with other business owners to market your business or to provide services or goods. There is a wealth of very practical advice on ten different "win-win" ways to team up from simple networking through joint ventures and virtual organizations. The book covers all the aspects of teaming from the legal and financial aspects of different arrangements to the psychology of relationships to the realities of business break ups. While not a substitute for individual legal or accounting advice, the book can help you think through the options and clarify your questions for the experts so that you can reduce costs and make your interactions with the experts more efficient and effective.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Necessary success strategies for the future of work., July 22, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Teaming Up (Paperback)

The choice is no longer should you go into business for yourself but when. Eventually we will all be self employed. Current employment trends, as spelled out by Jeremy Rifkin in "The End of Work," show that within the next decade over 90 million of today's 124 million jobs are in danger of elimination due to technology. Countless articles have been written about developing your resume while you're still employed and how to act as if you are self-employed even while working for a corporation. Today, more than at any other time in our history, we are being faced with the probability of losing our job and having to find another or becoming self-employed. The strategies, techniques, self-tests, and advice contained in Teaming Up are absolutely essential for everyone who plans to continue working into the future. It is a must read for all of our members. Chris Hansen, President, The Home Based Business Council, Inc.