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right calm show my name is Andrew Krause
I'm the co-founder today what we're
going to do is give you confidence for
those of you that have never contacted a
company we're going to give you the
confidence to go actually contact a few
you don't have to have an idea you don't
have to contact some of these for your
ideas you're going to use the the
approach that I'm going to show you
right here and it's kind of homework and
I want you guys to reply in the comments
down below as to how it went okay and
I'm going to go ahead and monitor is not
forever not for the next ten years but
for the next for the next couple weeks
I'm gonna go ahead and monitor the
comments I want to see how you guys did
so a lot of people are really afraid of
contacting companies and by doing what
I'm going to show you here is is it's
going to take that fear away when you
realize that you can contact companies
you can submit ideas so I'm going to
show you how to just get a phone number
for a couple companies and call them and
and ask them if you can submit an idea
okay and just having done it so if they
say no that's fine
if they say yes but I don't know how to
put you with whatever just that you know
that you contacted a company and you
took away some of that fear that you
actually did it you call the company it
wasn't scary it was doable and that's
what we're going to try to do today okay
so I'm going to shrink my video down
here so in order I want to give you some
criteria here for what you're trying to
do you're just trying to find a company
so it doesn't add I would recommend not
doing it in an area that you're working
in just so that you're not fearful of
messing something up so I just went on
target comm here and I'm going to use a
example I use often I'm gonna type in
kitchen cutting board okay
so what am I doing here I'm just looking
for any random company to call but a
company that's actually in a major
retailer you want to be in so I typed in
kitchen cutting board in a target and
you can see here this company is this
Farber we're right and in this cup
selling these that's far everywhere this
company is our architect yeah and then
you see some more chicago cutlery
architects architects I'm not telling
you to contact these companies guys you
need to do this yourself find a random
coming because if all you are calling
the same company that's not going to
work well they'll be like what's going
on here so so we got the name of the
company it's right here this one the
name of the company is farmer and this
one is architect so let's do architect
first so I'm going to do is I'm going to
copy the name of that company I'm going
to open up a new tab in my browser not
hard to do right and I'm going to search
architect now it's a kitchen product
right so I'm going to type architect
kitchen products because it's a it's a
cutting board so I'm going to type
because what we're looking for is the
company website okay so right here we
found them real easy
I didn't just type in architect because
I did that before and you get all these
architects right they're doing buildings
and things but I type in architects
space kitchen space products and it's
right there architect products and you
know it's the company because you can
tell by looking at their their homepage
you know it's okay this kitchen products
all right what I like to do is I like to
just jump right down to the bottom look
for a contact us button I'm going to do
that I found about an oh damn okay just
a form what sucks okay let's see if we
can find a number here I'm going to
click on this little phone symbol and
guess what it takes us to the same page
so they're not giving us a phone number
are they now let's see so all their
brands so they have architect EcoSmart
homegrown gourmet products MIDI RIA
Madeira and TSP let's click on TSP
didn't take us to another website has
all their products really really helpful
but still don't have a click on contact
us again okay just phone number now I
could Google for this I could type an
architect corporate website I did that a
minute ago it didn't work but you could
dig up the phone number for this company
you could also drop them an email
through this form and say you
now I I'm looking to submit I'm an
independent product developer I'm
looking to submit a product to your
company who would be the right person to
contact you could put your your first
name last name email and your message in
there and send it to them okay or you
could google a little bit more and you
could find their their corporate website
and call their corporate number so let's
do this again with a company I'm more
familiar with farber where so again I'm
going to copy the name of that company
and I'm going to paste it in here type
in let's do it again
Farber we're kitchen products okay and
let's see Farber where I see Farber
where cookware calm these other ones
were like Walmart and stuff see where
this takes us that's awfully slow top of
a more of an ordering website let's go
down the bottom contact us cookware
recipes about us sometimes see videos
now you know I came across another fara
where site when I search this before
let's take a look instead of doing
however we're kitchen products you see
this is a perfect example of the same
thing doesn't work all the time
Farber wears a very big company so we're
just going to search far aware now that
is much better I kind of did this on
purpose guys but and I just see Farber
wear calm you can also just type the
company name calm that's quite often
what it is so I win their website okay
and it's showing you all their different
products here you can click on and get
more info but right big is hack right up
there is just contact oh okay you know
any questions about any of our products
please call these corresponding numbers
below cookware cutlery like a different
phone numbers they're very customer
oriented now these are customer numbers
you know what you don't want to talk to
these folks but that's okay they want to
talk to them to help you contact one of
these numbers and then say you know I'd
like to get ahold of a marketing manager
for your flatware say I'm not I'm not a
customer
I like your corporate number you could
just say you know because the people
that pick up these lines if they're just
doing flatware and they're like they're
used to helping customers so say you
know I'm not a customer I'm a vendor and
I'd like your corporate number you could
say that and they'll probably give it to
you they'll give you the corporate
number they don't have it right here
you could probably dig around and maybe
find it some other way on the internet
as well but anyway so I don't want
people to say well I can't get phone
numbers so I just want to give you a
basic basic overview and if you do this
with a couple companies on a website
like Target both do cutting boards do
something else do anything and you can't
find a number just look at another
company like if both these two didn't
produce a number you can do chicago
cutlery and do the same thing because
the main goal here is for this video is
not showing you how to how to search for
companies and phone numbers the main
goal is I want you to call these
companies and basically say are you open
to product submissions and say can I
submit a product to you that's what I
want you to do I want you to call these
companies and say I'm a product
developer I develop and licensing
products and can I submit a product your
company what would be the approach what
would be who should I call who should I
talk to and they may not know and if
they don't say well you know how about
your marketing manager handles your
flatware or the handle is your cutting
boards or something like that
so I'm not telling you to call these two
companies I'm telling you to call a
company any company and realize there
are guys hey take a hike buddy you know
they're not going to say that they're
good but I'm not going to tell you that
all your calls are going to be like all
they told me exactly what to do but
you're going to realize like if it
wasn't scary I can keep calling
companies keep trying to figure out
different ways to get in and the
gatekeeper isn't going to tell me to
take a hike in most cases all right so
that's the reason why I want you to do
this so go ahead and do that tell me how
it went in the comments down below I
can't go back and forth million times
but for a couple weeks I will take a
look at that and I will respond to what
some people say about what their
experience was and it should be fun so
take care keep inventing we'll catch
over the next time see ya bye
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