Business partner, should you have a business partner or should you go at it alone?
We're going to answer that question today.
Hi there, I'm Angela Brown and this is Ask A House Cleaner.
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All right, on to today's show,
which is from a house cleaner who
just started her own business, and we're going to call this house cleaner Mary.
Now, Mary is paying for all the advertising, she's paying for all the Facebook Ads,
she's paying for all the legal stuff to set up her business, but here's the catch.
Mary just went into business with her friend Paula, and pretty much Paula is doing nothing
so far, except here's the catch.
Paula's husband, has jumped in and is micromanaging all of the details that Mary is putting together,
and Mary's paying for it.
So, she says, "Hey, what is the deal here and what am I supposed to do?
Am I supposed to go into business with Paula's husband?
Am I supposed to just keep it to working with Paula?
Do I even need a business partner?
What is the best way to handle this situation?
Okay, well that's an excellent question, and my answer is,
it really depends on how you set your business up.
There are a lot of house cleaners, that because of their inexperience, they feel like if they
partner with someone else, the two of you can figure it out together.
That may be true, and there are partnerships that work, but here's the challenge.
If you don't know what you're doing and you take someone else on, then it's probably a
good chance they don't know what they're doing either, and so instead of the two of you figuring
it out together, now what you have is somebody saying,
"Well I think it should be done this way,"
and their husband jumping in over their shoulder saying,
"No, it should be done this way,"
and now you're battling and dealing with a lot of weird energy
that has no place in a startup business.
Do you really need the business partner?
I don't know.
Maybe you do, maybe they provide skills you don't have, and if that's the case, then we've
got to set boundaries from the very beginning.
Now, boundaries, I know we talk a lot about boundaries and expectations,
but boundaries rule everything, everything.
If you get in your car and you drive down the road, there is a speed limit,
that speed limit is a boundary.
It says you cannot go faster than what we recommend on this sign, and if you do, and
you know the consequences, you are prone to getting a speeding ticket.
What happens with a speeding ticket?
You get points on your driver's license.
If you get enough points on your driver's license, either your insurance goes up or
they take your driver's license away, and you lose your driving privileges.
Those are boundaries.
Now, it is important that we have boundaries,
because nobody really knows how far they can push.
Now, my guess, because you're asking this question,
is that Paula's husband has overstepped his boundaries okay?
This is not going into business with Paula's husband, this is going into business with Paula.
So from the very beginning it's important to set up those boundaries.
I've got a couple of books that I'm going to put in the links in the show notes,
so that you guys can just brush up on your boundaries skills.
Boundaries are something we use every single day in every walk of life, whether you're
raising children, whether it's with a new relationship, whether it's with somebody you've
been married to for 15 or 20 years, whether it's your in-laws, there are boundaries that
we use for everything, and with no boundaries there's a lot of stress and a lot of chaos,
and a lot of hurt feelings.
So if you have boundaries, you might come off as being a little bit professional,
or a little bit obsessive or whatever, but I promise you this, your life will be so much
easier and it will have so much less stress, and you will find so much more joy, that you're
going to call me up on the telephone and you're going to say, "Angela, oh my goodness, thank
you so much, I read the book on boundaries and my life has never been better."
The life for me improved a thousand percent when I started setting boundaries,
and it will for you too.
You've got to have boundaries.
All right so going back to the business owner.
Do you need a business owner?
I don't know.
If you're a small startup house cleaning business, there's enough guidance that you can probably
find your own way.
My recommendation would be, unless there's a need to bring on a business partner,
don't do it.
I have started several businesses in the past
that had business partners, and there comes a time when you are doing all the work.
Even if you've clarified your expectations, you are passionate about your business,
and a lot of times the other person you've gone into business, is not, they are not as passionate
as you, and they don't share the joy of the journey.
Therefore, you put in all the time and all the effort and all the energy, and it's your
resources and money, and then they just show up and want to collect a paycheck.
At some point, because you have boundaries, you have to cut them loose
and send them on their way.
So, my suggestion would be, before you get in the thicket of it, and before it becomes
this really intertwined chaotic mess of he said, she said, "Well my husband said," and
all these things, cut the ties and move on.
Because if you're running a business, your goal is to get from point A to point B, and
how quickly can you do that?
Every person that you bring in that has a say in what's going on, you're bringing in
more red tape, and this is your business.
So why would you give all of your power away to someone else, and I'm talking about Paula's
husband, who doesn't even belong in the business.
Yeah, he's her husband, and so I'm sure he has an opinion,
but for him to be micromanaging what you're doing in your business, that's wrong.
I mean, that's not going to build goodwill, that's not going to turn out well at all.
Unless you have an agreement with him that he gets to be a consulting partner, and you
put him on the payroll, and he has a specific set of requirements and duties, and you let
him know how far he's allowed to go, if that's not in place he doesn't belong in your business.
If you run him out,
you could offend Paula and now you have an antagonistic partner on your hands.
It might be easier just to go back to square one and do the business yourself.
Reasons you might consider having a business partner are many.
There are lots of people that go into business together, but unless you're very, very clear
about what your reasons are, and they make sense to you logically, not just today, but
in the long haul, and I'm talking about five, 10 years down the road.
If you go into business with someone, what does your business look like
five or 10 years down the road, with this person as your business partner?
If you can't answer those questions, you should not have a business partner.
Anyway, that's my two cents for today and good luck with this situation, because it
sounds like you're already in a sticky mess.
So get out of the sticky mess as quickly as possible, clean up after yourself and move
on your way and do this smoothly and peacefully and with boundaries.
Alrighty, and until we meet again,
leave the world a cleaner place than when you found it.
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