You could offer your customers a larger variety of products or
services. This will allow you to spend less time and money developing new products to
sell.
Your number of sales people will increase because you're combining
with other business. You won't have to spend time and money hiring new employees.
Your marketing and advertising budget will increase. When you form a
strategic alliance with other businesses you both will share the advertising and marketing
costs.
You can now offer your existing customers more back-end and upsell
products. This will increase your sales and profits.
Your business will gain a larger number of skilled people working on
the same project. You will gain the knowledge of the other businesses employees.
You will be able to beat your competition by selling to a larger
target audience. You will also increase the total number of existing customers you can
sell your products and services to.
You can exchange endorsements with your alliance partners. You'll add
more credibility to your business and gain your potential customers trust to buy.
You can expand your business more rapidly. You can develop new
products and services faster with a larger work force.
You'll be able to solve your customer's problems faster with a larger
base of customer service people. You'll also learn new ways to improve your customer
service from your alliance partners.
You'll have a larger number of "strategic thinking" people.
This will allow both businesses to come up with profitable business ideas quicker than
before.