Month: May 2020

What Are Collaboration Agreements, and Why Do All Creative Businesses and Ventures Need One to Avoid Disaster?

Business collaborations are extremely effective in growing creative brands. However, without a collaboration agreement, your business cannot license or sell your product without the consent of all collaborators. This substantially limits your rights as a creator. The collaboration agreement contains provisions governing the relationship between your business and other creative collaborators. It outlines the terms …

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Why Your Business Needs a Non-Disclosure Agreement to Maintain Your Competitive and Economic Edge?

Anytime you will be sharing your business’s proprietary information with anyone, they should be signing a Non-Disclosure Agreement. Employees, contractors, and collaborators have access to some of your business’s most valuable assets, like business and marketing plans, new product developments, technology, and customer lists, just to name a few. A Non-Disclosure Agreement contains provisions that …

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Are Your Independent Contractors Growing Your Business, Or Preparing to Sink It?

An Independent Contractor Agreement is used to structure business arrangements with providers that will not be considered employees of your business. It governs the most impactful components of the relationship between your business and the contractors you hire to help it grow. This agreement secures your business’s rights to the products or other work contractors …

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Stop Betting Your Business On A Generic Service Agreement

Service agreements are arguably the most important contract you’ll ever use in your service-based business. Why? Because they determine when, how and IF you get paid for your services. And getting paid for your services on a predictable and consistent basis is absolutely imperative to build a successful business, wouldn’t you agree? In theory, your …

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