Category Archives for "Growing your business through collaboration and partnership"

Collaborating To Help Parents Of Children With Cancer: Laura Lane

Collaborating To Help Parents Of Children With Cancer: Laura Lane

Collaborating To Help Parents Of Children With Cancer: Laura Lane

I love sharing Laura Lane’s story, especially in September, which is National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Laura has a beautiful and powerful dream she is raising, and collaboration and sponsorship are helping her fuel the dream and make a bigger impact. Laura has been collaborating to help parents of children with cancer through a special planner called Stronger Daily Planner for Cancer Moms. Based on her experience as a parent of a child with cancer, she wanted to help other parents navigate this incredibly stressful, overwhelming, and emotional journey. This planner helps parents do this. 

The Stronger Daily Planner for Cancer Moms is a daily / weekly / monthly tracker for all things childhood cancer related. It includes a recommended resource section, helpful tips from other cancer moms, and inspirational quotes. Please check it out HERE; it’s a great way to show your support during National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.
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Collaborating to Impact School Children Globally: The Earth Group

Collaborating to Impact School Children Globally: The Earth Group

Collaborating to Impact School Children Globally: The Earth Group
Collaboration can help you make a bigger impact, reach more people with your message, and spark so much more fun in your projects! As a perfect example of collaborating to impact school children globally, I LOVE my friend's company, The Earth Group. I met founders Matt Moreau and Kori Chilibeck around 2014 through a mutual friend who knew that I would love the way that Earth Group makes a difference around the world and in the community where we all lived.

Community Spotlight: Collaborating to Impact School Children Globally

Let me just share a little bit about The Earth Group, why I love what they have created, and how I have thoroughly enjoyed collaborating with them on projects.
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5 P's of Project Success

5 P's of Project Success

5 P's of Project Success

Bringing projects to life, collaborating with businesses, and securing sponsorship in support of the dreams you are raising and projects you are working on will be supported by a plan. A great way to remember some of the important collaboration, sponsor relations, and project planning tasks is to think about the 5 P's of project success. 

What Are the 5 P’s of Project Success?

In short, the 5 P’s of project success stand for:

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    Products
  2. 2
    Pricing
  3. 3
    Promotions, Processes & Systems
  4. 4
    Publicity & Media
  5. 5
    Plan
Let's run through these P by P.
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Collaboration on Contracts

Collaboration on Contracts

Collaboration on Contracts
Collaboration is a powerful way to increase the chances of being successful in competitive bids on contracts, responding to RFPs (Request for Proposals) or creating opportunities. I have been collaborating on projects and in my business since 1997 and have engaged in collaboration on contracts more than once.

Collaborating on Costs

One of the first times I did a large-scale contract collaboration was about 27 years ago. One of the nonprofit organizations that made numerous referrals to my company (Hammond International Inc.) collaborated on hosting a community conference to bring Dr. James T. Reese to the community to speak on stress management.
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Why Audience Data Impresses Sponsors

Why Audience Data Impresses Sponsors

Why Audience Data Impresses Sponsors
Knowing your audience well helps brand and collaboration partners & sponsors make their decisions on potential sponsorship and collaboration initiatives. To know your audience well, collecting helpful audience data and feedback is important. After all, sponsorship decision-makers want to ensure that the dreams you are raising and the projects you are bringing to life are a fit for their brand’s objectives and marketing goals.

Questions to help you better understand your audience...

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1 5 Sponsor Recognition Mistakes to Avoid

5 Sponsor Recognition Mistakes to Avoid

5 Sponsor Recognition Mistakes to Avoid
The relationship with a sponsor is an important one. Making these avoidable sponsor recognition mistakes can damage relationships and reduce the chances of future sponsorship support with corporate sponsors and business brands.  

Avoid These Sponsor Recognition Mistakes:

Sponsor-seekers, here are a few mistakes to avoid...

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Your Resilience Helps Your Work and Projects Thrive

Your Resilience Helps Your Work and Projects Thrive

Your Resilience Helps Your Work and Projects Thrive

October 10th was World Mental Health Day. This observance inspired me to start writing a blog about mental health and self-care. Let’s discuss how your resilience and self-care impacts your project and business success and your overall well-being in every facet of your life, including sponsorship, collaboration and revenue generation.

Simply put…  Resilient people = More resilient projects and businesses.

When your well-being is a priority, it shows. You show up with more focus, energy, creativity and passion. You make better decisions, tending to be more responsive and less reactive. If things get bumpy, messy or go sideways, you navigate the challenges more effectively. How you show up impacts who you are being. This energy comes through in your conversations and relationships.

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Sponsor Fulfillment Reports: How to Impress Sponsors and Funders

Sponsor Fulfillment Reports: How to Impress Partners and Funders

Sponsor Fulfillment Reports: How to Impress Partners and Funders

If you want to stand out and show your project impact and wins to sponsors, funders, partners and champions, sponsor fulfillment reports can help. Providing data, metrics, and showcasing the projects that sponsors and funders supported is an important part of relationship building, meeting (and exceeding) agreement terms, showing the impact of project support, and setting the stage for more or multiple-year sponsorships and good project stewardship. 

Elements of Sponsor Fulfillment Reports:

Sponsor fulfillment reports can be a combination of documents and evidence. Below are just some of the details you can gather to demonstrate to sponsors how their support has provided a return on investment. 

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5 Activities to Bring Your Project to Life

5 Activities to Bring Your Project to Life

5 Activities to Bring Your Project to Life

Recently, I was speaking at a writer's mastermind group. The topic was how to bring your project to life and build your community. We were focused on books and author communities, but the strategies apply to any entrepreneur, film maker, or media creator with a project and a message for the world.

Funding your projects, raising dreams and bringing plans into reality are big topics to cover, but it really got me thinking about some of the key activities that have helped me bring my books and our Back Home Again movie to life. And, of course, the strategies were rooted in relationships and collaboration. 

In this article, you’ll find a few of the project strategies I shared. You can apply these strategies to your books, projects, launches of books and your other programs.

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Fund Your Projects with Collaboration and Sponsorship

Fund Your Projects with Collaboration and Sponsorship

Fund Your Projects with Collaboration and Sponsorship

If you’re an entrepreneur, having big dreams to raise and bringing projects to life can be inspiring goals. But to fund your projects, you may run into challenges. In fact, lack of funding and support are often what smothers the dream from being brought to life. 

Collaboration and sponsorship could be the funding game changer. 

Think of collaboration as two or more people (or businesses) coming together to solve an issue they could not have otherwise solved on their own. This is why collaboration can help amplify messages, start movements and create a bigger impact. 

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