Questions
About the introductions we make.
The questions we hear most often, answered plainly.
- Did this email actually come from a person?
- Yes. Every introduction is written, signed, and sent by Joe Parker. There is no team behind the message and no automated sequence. If something in the email feels specific to your business, that is because someone read your work and wrote you about it.
- How did you find me?
- By paying attention to your business in the course of our own. We follow specific industries and read what people in them publish, ship, and say. You were not pulled from a list.
- Is this a paid placement or sponsored content?
- No. We are paid by the practitioner on the other side of the introduction, and only if the introduction turns into a working relationship. There is no fee for receiving an introduction, and the email itself is not sponsored content.
- Am I obligated to respond?
- No. If the timing or fit is wrong, the simplest thing to do is nothing. We send one short follow-up to confirm the email landed, and if you do not respond to that, you do not hear from us again.
- Will I be added to a list?
- No. We do not maintain general lists or sequences. We follow specific businesses, write when there is a real match, and stop when the timing is wrong.
- How do you vet the people you introduce?
- We work only with practitioners we know directly - usually through prior collaboration or a long stretch of close observation. We do not represent anyone whose work we have not seen up close.
- What kinds of service providers do you introduce?
- Generalist. Prospect Elm is not locked to a vertical. The match is whoever is genuinely right for what you are building, regardless of category.
- Can I request an introduction to someone specific?
- Sometimes. If we know the person, and the match makes sense for both sides, we are happy to facilitate. If we do not know the person well enough to vouch for them, we will say so.
- I would like to be introduced through Prospect Elm. How does that work?
- If you are a service provider whose work we already know, the next step is a short conversation. If we do not yet know your work, the conversation is longer - we do not represent practitioners we have not seen up close.
- What happens on the booking call?
- Fifteen to thirty minutes. We confirm the match, talk about what you need, and agree on whether the introduction makes sense. There is no pitch.
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