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Building a Woman's Value
| Stacy (an FoDreams mail forum member) wrote the forum as follow:
Has anyone ever partnered with another website. Let me tell
you the deal.
What should I expect when I partner with someone? Should
I be receiving
Here are some of the responses: Hi Stacy and Everyone! I have started doing several joint ventures with other websites. There are two pieces to your post that concern me and make me go "hmmmmmmmm"....... 1. There is no money involved.
If she were paying you big bucks in #1, then I could see some validity
for #2.
***** I highly advise (1) contracts that are sent to be brought immediately to your own personal attorney, (2) then sit on it at least a week before executing it, (3) if it sounds too good to be true, it always is! and (4) what's in it for you? NEVER, EVER give away your copyright or intellectual property permanently. Syndicated women's content has value. I prefer "alliance" vs. "partnership" anyway.... as well as a "get out clause" that can be used as a "poison pill" if you feel you are being financially hurt in some way. Always come to the group with questions like this. Find someone within the group to cuss and discuss any offer to "control" your growth for someone else's benefit. With all the dot com money that was being thrown out here and there, only 2% of the women business owners actually received any of that investor dollar. However, many of those dot com business start-ups who got their hands on that money went from rags to riches overnight. The other women's networks called us to their sites with promises of reward and benefit and what happened is our visits to their websites gave them commercial advertisers. They used the commercial advertisers and now, advertising companies are still licking their wounds in advertising on women's websites. If you check their publicly traded stocks, most have dropped to unbelievable lows. Recently, a new women's network who claimed to be the up and coming blessing in disguise to women closed down several of their so called "winning tv productions for women" and went back to their "investors" claiming a need for yet more money. However, in their message boards, the community of women who went and interacted, if they left a link to their business websites, their staff deleted it as a "conflict in interest." "Conflict in interest?" So, what I am saying is, beware. If we are to build a women's online network it must be a win-win for the women who invest their time and websites. It must value women's work! We must stand strong against get rich quick schemes as most of these schemes attack women first. I've been involved in building the women's community for over 9 years. There are a lot of wonderful "new beginnings" and opportunities for us to grow our businesses. What we need to do is always have a core "advisory group" to help us all benefit from our hard work and build value in the work of women. According to the National Foundation for Women Business Owners (NFWBO),
as of 1999, 38 percent of all U.S. firms were owned by women. These operations
employed close to 28 million people and generated more than $3.6 trillion
in
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