Meeting with a company to try to initiate a partnership. What should I bring? (Early-stage startup)
Hello,
My business requires partnerships with cinemas. I haven't made any partnerships yet -- this is my first attempt!
I've got slides, fancy graphs, an analysis of current market problems & how my business fixes them. I can explain (and provide numbers/spreadsheets) on how I can increase their revenue, customer base, and improve PR.
I'm pretty confident in my concept, however I'm stuck on what to bring to the meeting.
Should I bring a laptop, with my slides on it? Or should I print a small A5 marketing book (with appropriate graphs/info) and just talk to them (with the booklet for reference & for them to keep).
Current plan:
- Laptop (In case they want to see spreadsheets / statistics / graphs)
- Sheets of graph printouts (To back-up my explanations)
- Marketing material -- business cards, booklets, etc.
Any thoughts?
Cheers!
It sounds like you have a solid plan.
If you're going to use a laptop I'd make sure you have a wireless mouse, and dongles. You never know what type of setup they may have in their conference room.
Also, if you can't get the laptop up and working within a few mins or so I'd say skip it. I've done that before where the whole presentation relied on the laptop and I couldn't get it to work. What a fail lol.
Ooh, the dongles is a good point. Completely forgot about that -- and often they don't have connections for Mac.
Cheers!