SAVE MONEY BY USING A BUYING GROUP?Written by Paul Buisson
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There is One National GPO for Small Business That is FREE! The Hospitality Buying Group, www.hospitality-buying-group.com, is a national buying group for any small & medium size business that has a totally FREE lifetime membership. Unlike all other GPOs, Hospitality Buying Group does not charge their vendors any fees or commissions on purchases made by their members. Don't let name fool you! The focus of this GPO started in hospitality industry, but so many non-hospitality vendors started participating in this GPO that any small business would be able to use any number of hospitality buying group vendors. Members have total freedom of using GPO vendors or using their own vendors. The founder of this buying group was committee chairman for a health care GPO for six years. This GPO is a value-added service for customers of several GPO vendors. To get a FREE lifetime membership to Hospitality Buying Group all you need to do is email customer service at questions@hospitality-buying-group.com and tell them you are considering becoming a customer of DHL Shipping Services or CFOToday Payroll Services. Provide your name, company name, street address, phone number and fax number in email and you will be added to Hospitality Buying Group database. You can then immediately start contacting Hospitality Buying Group vendors of your choice and get access to GPO discounts. When selecting a GPO consider cost of membership, vendor selection, how long they have been in business, and if you are forced to use their vendors. For small and medium size businesses Hospitality Buying Group is a good no risk approach to get familiar with a GPO.
Age 38 Six Years Buying Group Chairperson Health Care Depertment Head Degree in Business Administration
| | Is your Business Partnership about to Crash and Burn?Written by Dr. Dorene Lehavi
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THE “SEVEN Cs”: PARTNERSHIP DANGER SIGNS 1. Communications Breakdown 2. Competitive, not complementary interaction 3. Conflict becoming norm 4. Cumulative money problems 5. Control issues 6. Changing vision 7. Crisis management impaired by personal issues Coaching is answer here, but if your partnership has many or all of Seven Cs, it may be too late to save. The business partnership relationship is similar to one between spouses: practical, emotional, financial, psychological, built on trust, and list goes on. The problems tend to be same as well: not appreciated, not gratified, equality issues, expectations not met, unfair division of labor, something happened to create distrust, etc. Traditional family dynamics play a role in any business partnership but their potentially negative effects simply must be contained if goals are to be achieved and business is to succeed. No matter how well suited partners may be in goals, ideas, and dreams, there will always be differences which can turn into destructive forces. These differences may revolve not only around styles, but views of long and short term goals, equity issues in various arenas such as division of labor, financial reward, variations in risk tolerance, approaches to managing and marketing, inclusion of family members, relationships with other staff members, personality or philosophical approaches. Needless to say, this not only makes for frazzled partners, but also plays havoc with profits. If you are in a partnership and want to avoid becoming a statistic in future, consider partnership coaching.
Dorene Lehavi, Ph.D. is principal of Next Level Business and Professional Coaching. She coaches Professionals and Business Partners and teaches teleclasses on techniques to break through barriers to the next level. Dr. Lehavi offers a complimentary coaching session so you can experience how coaching can work for you. Visit http://www.CoachingforYourNextLevel.com
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