Q&A: How to approach someone about a partnership opportunity?
Today’s listener has an interesting challenge: he wants to reach out to a company he bought a product from and offer to partner with them. He’s already tracked down their key employees on LinkedIn. What’s the best way to approach them?
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What It's About
Today's listener seeks advice on how to swipe left with a potential business partner.
Notes from Chris
Episode 1738
Today’s listener has an interesting challenge: he wants to reach out to a company he bought a product from and offer to partner with them. But he’s worried about the right process for doing so. If you spot an opportunity, how can you reach out in the right way? Good news here: it’s not that hard. Or at least it’s not hard to avoid making some simple mistakes by putting a small amount of effort into it. Also, I love that his “day job” is selling on eBay and his side hustle is in fulfillment—he’ll tell you more."Hi, this is Andrew Hyam from Denton, Texas, and I've been listening to the show since early in the first year, my day job is selling on eBay and Amazon and my Side hustle is offering 3FL fulfillment services for smaller ecommerce and local businesses as value cube industries. So I have a few fulfillment customers currently and I'm always looking for more. I recently discovered a company selling a product that aligns with some of my passions about ecology, saving the earth and all that. I went to purchase it and try it out. The product works great and I plan to order more when I run out. But here's the thing. It ships from Canada and I'm in the US. I paid ten US dollars for the product and I learned from a Canadian reseller, Friends, that the company probably paid 10 Canadian dollars just to ship it to me. This means they basically made no money on the transaction. So of course I want to help this company sell more and get their shipments out quicker and cheaper. The problem is I'm not a natural sales person. I contacted the company through their Facebook page and they have a customer service rep who says she passed my information on I've done research on the company and its key employees and found their pages on LinkedIn. Two of them only allow followers, but one employee is wide open. So here's my question. What's my line here? I don't want to piss off a potential client, but I really want their business and we would be perfect for them for so many reasons. How can I approach this company in a way that I can actually get the business without coming off rude, unprofessional or like some sort of stalker?"Listen to today's episode to learn more...
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