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Next Steps In Your Accountability Partnership

Guest post by: Denise Griffitts

Article Overview: After you've successfully worked with a partner for a while, you may be wondering what options you have for furthering your relationship. I've created this list of some of my favorite next steps.

Next Steps In Your Accountability Partnership

After you've successfully worked with a partner for a while, you may be wondering what options you have for furthering your relationship. I've created this list of some of my favorite next steps:

1. Commit to another session.
   
   If you've completed six months together and like how things are going, sign on for another six months or a year together. If it's working, keep it going! Set new, higher goals, and commit to helping each other meet those milestones.
2. Create a Joint Venture.
   
   After connecting with an accountability partner for some time, you get a pretty good sense of their strengths and weaknesses, and how they like to work. If your styles (and businesses!) seem compatible, you might want to think about creating a joint venture (JV) partnership. Think about teaching an online course together, or creating a case study of your partnership successes. Turn your experiences into cash!
3. Co-found a mastermind group.
   
   Are you ready to invite a few more friendly faces to join your band of two? As discussed in a previous section,accountability groupscan be extremely powerful. And having two people who already know and are committed to each other to form the core of the group will help set the tone, as well as give you some tried-and-true ground rules for starting.
4. Meet and greet.
   
   If you've only been connecting remotely - online or by phone - think about taking your relationship to the "real world." A great option is to meet up at one of the many excellent Internet marketing conferences or seminars around the world - I guarantee that when you meet each other in person, you'll feel like you've known each other for years, even if you've just been corresponding via email for a few months.
5. Move on.
   
   It may seem a tad callous to just move on from a successful partnership, but it doesn't mean you're saying goodbye to the person. As your business enters different stages of development and you encounter new challenges, you may require a different type of accountability partner - and that's okay. Think of a new way you can work together, or if you want to keep the relationship up but at a lower level of commitment, spread out your meetings (once a quarter is the minimum to keep the flow of things going).

All healthy accountability partnerships - and businesses - change and grow over time. Recognizing the new stages you're entering and honoring your current needs is a critical part of being a successful businessperson.

Stay tuned for the rest of this article which has of necessity been broken into a series:

• 1. Accountability Partners For Internet Marketers
• 2. Setting up An Accountability Partnership
• 3. Live and In Person: Setting up an "IRL" Accountability Partner
• 4. Virtual Accountability Partners
• 5. Mentoring Partnerships
• 6. The More the Merrier? Partners versus Groups
• 7. Five Tips for Great Accountability Partnerships
• 8. Trouble-shooting Your Accountability Partners
• 9. Online Resources For Accountability Partners
• 10.Next Steps In Your Accountability Partnership
• 11.Conclusion

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