In her first design internship, Shana Sherwood picked up a crystalline bit of business advice—the kind that still bounces around your head more than a decade later. These days, she is a partner at ...

In the world of business, your customers (clients, guests, or whatever you call the people you do business with) may refer to you as a vendor, supplier, dealer, etc. That represents a financial ...

The same goes for vendor relationships in which advisory firms can have several to dozens of partners, whether it's operating off a third-party platform or using a single tool from a software provider ...

The State of Trust Report by Vanta, which surveyed IT and business leaders in the U.S., U.K., and Australia in July 2025, found that nearly half (46%) of all respondents experienced a data breach from ...

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Like a seesaw, business partnerships work best when both sides remain conscientious about each other’s needs. Seesaws are built to go up and down, but a continuously unstable equilibrium leaves both ...

Managing vendors was once a tedious and manual endeavor. Emails, spreadsheets, and phone calls made it easy for important details to fall through the cracks. Today, that landscape is evolving.

Similar to how quickly many consumers now upgrade to a new phone — often within just a few years — vendor relationships are getting shorter as more advanced technology enters the market. Processing ...

An e-mail comes in. It's a quote request. The client has included a copy of your competitor’s bid and asks you to submit pricing. A Sales Vault client of mine called me this morning with this very ...

Vendor relationships need to be evaluated constantly, as they are there to help MPSs and integrators grow their business. If that's not happening, it's a problem. suriya / stock.adobe.com Mike Nunn: ...

The best wholesale supply houses have learned how to truly partner with their top vendors to maximize their sales potential and profits. If you are not meeting with vendors on a semi-regular basis to ...