Do you know of a good restaurant?

ON ANOTHER DAY, at the end of a tour of a museum and gallery in the Glass House Mountains, we asked our guide if she could recommend a local restaurant.

She did better than that. In addition to her hearty recommendation, she gave us two discount coupons for the place she recommended.

Pretty impressive. This is called a Joint Venture.

The local restaurant owner obviously knows something about giving a little to get a lot and knew that tourists get hungry after a morning tour. So he approached the tour guides and asked if they would like a supply of discount coupons to pass on to their tour groups who might be looking for a casual, but comfortable dining experience.

And why wouldn’t the guides want to provide their guests with recommendations and coupons to a restaurant that they enjoy themselves? Perhaps the guides get a free meal once a week for their recommendations.

Joint Ventures, where two or more companies help one another, are an excellent way to attract business that you would not have otherwise have gotten.