#1738 - Q&A: How to approach a company about a partnership?
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2021
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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 next step?
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| 1:05.0 | Today's listener has an interesting challenge. He is a customer of a company. He bought a product. |
| 1:11.5 | They shipped it to him. He actually wants to reach out to this company and offer it to partner |
| 1:16.0 | with them. He'll tell you the story, but basically he's worried about the right process for doing so. |
| 1:20.7 | Now if you spot an opportunity, if you see something where you might be able to help somebody out, |
| 1:26.2 | or help a company out, and also do well for yourself, which is what side-assault school is all about, |
| 1:30.9 | help others, help yourself, how can you reach out to that person or company in the right way? |
| 1:36.7 | Now some good news here right off the bat. It's actually not that hard, or at least it's not hard |
| 1:40.9 | to avoid making some simple mistakes just by putting a small amount of effort and care into it. |
| 1:45.6 | But that said, welcome to side-assault school. My name is Chris Gillibault, your host. I'm excited |
| 1:50.6 | to bring you this daily series, this conversation, dialogue, case studies tips, questions and answers, |
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