In this week’s In-Ear Insights, Katie and Chris talk vendor and partner management, aka third party relationship management. What is it? How do you choose vendors and partners who fit your requirements best? How do you position yourself as the vendor of choice? Tune in to find out!

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In this week’s In-Ear Insights, let’s talk about third party relationship management.

Now, Trust Insights is very often a third party vendor or a partner to other companies.

And we in turn also have partners and vendors.

And in the current economic environment, particularly in B2B, and in tech, there’s tons of layoffs and things a lot of people starting up their own things, a lot of people trying to figure out what to do next.

A lot of companies are in a position of, hey, we just laid off everybody.

And now look, there’s still a lot of work to be done.

No one’s here to do it.

Well, I guess we better bring in some partners to do the workforce.

So Katie, for people who are particularly who are on the brand side, who suddenly find themselves with all the work, but none of the people, what should they be doing what should be thinking about when they bring vendors in, because I know the the instinct is crap, just bring some companies get the work done now.

And obviously, it’s like anything, you don’t want to bring in the first thing that comes along, like, you know, you’re the adoption agency for the for your dog, just grab the first dog, you see, you test out the different personalities, take it for a little walk and stuff and see if they gel with you.

When you have a when you’re evaluating a third party vendor of some kind, how do you take them for a little walk?

Well, let me backtrack a little bit and clarify that this is why I’m not allowed to go to the shelters and adoption agencies because I would just take the first one, and then the second one, and then the third one, and then all of them.

But, you know, when you’re bringing on a vendor, or an agency, or a contract, or any third party, that you have to do relationship management with you, really, it’s an interview, you know, and so, you know, Chris, you and I come from the ag