83 — Partnerships (Network & Relationships)
Your network is your net worth — but only if you actually manage it.
What Lives Here
Business relationships that drive growth — partners, advisors, affiliates, distribution relationships, and the strategy for building your enterprise network deliberately.
- Key partners — active partnerships with terms, value exchange, and status
- Advisors — who advises the business, their domain, compensation, and involvement
- Affiliate network — affiliate/referral partners, commission structure, performance
- Prospects — potential partnerships being cultivated
- Network map — the broader relationship ecosystem mapped by category
- Partnership SOPs — how you onboard, manage, and evaluate business relationships
Suggested Folder Structure
83 Partnerships/
├── key-partners.md ← Active partnerships: who, what we do together, terms, status
├── advisors.md ← Advisor roster: domain, compensation, meeting cadence
├── affiliate-network.md ← Affiliates: performance, commission rates, communications
├── prospects.md ← Partnerships being cultivated with next steps
├── network-map.md ← Relationship ecosystem overview by category
└── sops/
└── partner-onboarding.md ← How you bring on and set up new partnersZeus’s Note
I used to manage partnerships in my head. Wrong move. Active partnerships have commitments, terms, and value flows in both directions. Not tracking them means you miss obligations and you don’t know which relationships are actually driving revenue.
The advisors file was clarifying — I had 8 advisors at one point. Some were meeting regularly. Some I hadn’t spoken to in 6 months. The file forced me to decide who was actively adding value and who I needed to either re-engage or part ways with.
Prospects is my favorite file in this folder. It’s a living list of relationships I’m building toward a business purpose. Not transactions — but investments. Each entry has a “next step” field. If something has been in “next step: coffee” for 90 days, it’s not actually a prospect.