Approaching Potential Partners Via Phone

After you have identified your potential joint venture partners by doing Google key word searches, searches of ezine directories and business directories, the next thing you do is visit the websites of your best prospects. On these websites you will find contact information.
Sometimes you will find only email addresses but sometimes you will find phone numbers. If you have both, choose the phone number contact information first. A personal contact has a better chance of success than an email contact and it’s a lot faster. With an email contact you must wait for the recipient to wade through all of the emails he receives each day and get around to responding to yours.

Make yourself very familiar with the company you are contacting about partnering with. When you make the call have their website open on your browser and be ready to discuss any aspect of the business. You might begin your telephone conversation by saying something like:

“Hello. This is your name with your company name. I am looking at your website right this minute and I am really impressed with what I see. I believe that my customers would be very interested in (name a specific product) that you sell. Your customers would also be interested in our (name the product you sell). They certainly do compliment each other. Would you be interested in teaming up and making a special offer to your customers?”

Don’t just keep talking here. Give the person you are talking to time to respond to your question. If he or she responds in a positive way, begin to make it clear that you are interested in creating a win-win situation and that you are willing to let them win more than you will win…such as offering a 60% commission on sales of your product to their list.