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Testimonials Nothing carries more weight to a potential customer than positive opinion of someone they know and trust. Demonstrate your services or products to your alliance partners, and let them become champions of your cause.
Types
Master minds are original Creative Intelligence Alliance. Usually, people building a master mind try to assemble a group of people who are already at level of success they are aiming to achieve, because they can give them a "hand up." Of course, if you are going to invite very successful people to join your master mind, you will have to figure out what it is you are offering them in return, other than just flattering sense that you value their opinion.
Other people prefer to have an Advisory Board. This tends to a group that focuses on one specific business in group, though if all members are in complementary fields, they can all benefit from participation.
Success Teams - these groups are not always focused on business; they are about unique goals of members. "Success Teams" usually use Barbara Sher principles, explained in book Wishcrafting.
Other types include: Neural Nets, Brain Trusts, and Referral networks.
Getting Started Figure out what it is you hope to gain from belonging to a Creative Intelligence Alliance and then match people to team. Send them invitations to join you in an exploratory meeting to see if personalities mesh well, and go from there. There are tools to help you set up right kind of alliance for you and other team members - simply do a quick search at any search engine for "starting a creative intelligence alliance" and you will get help you need.
Don't delay, what could you achieve with power of a Creative Intelligence Alliance behind you?
You can find more information about Creative Intelligence Alliances at http://businesspartnerships.ca and general business information at http://allaboutbusiness.ca Gisela is a Founding Director of pixcode Inc., a Canadian company that specializes in creating and managing profitable Internet properties, including Business Partnerships Canada and All About Business Canada.