How Is Your Business Partner Making Money?

If I can’t figure out
how someone is making money
from a business partnership,
I run far, far away.

Often, I can guess.
For example,
writers are currently up in arms
because Goodreads is starting to charge
for contests held on their site.

I expected that.
They were spending resources
on improving how contests
were run.
They were doing that
for a business reason.
Goodreads couldn’t charge
the readers entering the contests.
The other choice
was charging
the hosts of the contests
(writers).

Figure out how
your business partner
is making money
from the association.