02Service
We find your French-speaking clients on your behalf – you get confirmed meetings.
We build the prospect list, reach out in your name in French, and hand over only the contacts who said “let’s talk”. No bulk mailing, no empty promises, no need to hire a full-time French-speaking employee.
01When you need this
This service is for companies that are ready to expand, but stalled at the start.
If one of these scenarios sounds familiar – the service is probably a fit. If you’re unsure – book a free 30-minute call and let’s decide together.
A
Your product works at home, but you can’t break into French-speaking markets
You have a product or service that customers value at home or in other European markets. Attempts to enter France, Belgium or Switzerland end in silence, or in a polite “we’ll get back to you”.
B
You tried writing in English – emails go unanswered
From LinkedIn or cold mailing in English – no reply. The rare contacts who do respond give a polite “we’ll call you” and then go quiet. You can tell the language barrier is real, but you don’t see the way around it.
C
A French-speaking employee on payroll – still too risky for now
One full-time hire – minimum 2,000 EUR/month, plus taxes, plus hiring costs, plus the risk they don’t fit. You want to test the market before that kind of commitment.
D
You need real meetings, not another strategy document
You already have a strategy, you already know the market is interesting. What’s missing is someone who picks up the phone, speaks French, and lines up the first real conversations with decision-makers.
02What we do
Four concrete tasks we take off your plate.
01
Building the prospect list
We find companies that match your product profile in France, Belgium, Switzerland and Luxembourg. We deliver not just company names, but specific decision-makers.
The first version of the list arrives in about two weeks. You review it, adjust the criteria, we refine. The final list is your property – you receive it with full contact information, even if we decide not to continue working together.
02
Outreach in your name in French
We write the emails and make the calls ourselves, from an address set up in your name or ours – whichever we agree on. Every contact is personal, tailored to the company and the individual.
We decide whether a contact is worth following up on. You don’t spend time figuring out why a particular French prospect said “no”. We report back only when there’s something to report: either a meeting, or a substantive “this direction isn’t working, moving on”.
03
Setting up the first meetings
When a partner says “yes, let’s talk” – we hand you a ready meeting with full context: who they are, what they do, what we’ve told them, what they expect.
If needed – we sit in on the first call as your representatives or interpreters (separate service, “Participation and representation”). After the meeting – we share our read: what they actually said, whether “yes” really means yes.
04
Audit of your current activity
If you’ve tried and it isn’t working – we start not by building a list, but by looking at what you’re doing now. We review your emails, your contact choices, the responses you get (and don’t get).
This is often the first step when an in-house team has already worked on French-speaking markets. After the audit, we say plainly where it’s stuck: language, contact selection, framing, or basic process etiquette.
What we don’t do.
Worth clarifying upfront, because the market offers different propositions too. If you need any of these things – it’s more honest to say now that we’re not the right choice.
Cold mass mailing
We don’t send hundreds of identical emails through automation tools. Every contact we make is personal – it’s the only way that works in France.
Sales guarantees
We don’t guarantee a partner will buy. We guarantee we’ll reach the right people and that you’ll know why they bought or didn’t.
Posing as your employee
We clearly represent French Bridge, unless we agree otherwise. The French don’t appreciate hidden roles – it undermines trust.
03How it works
Five steps from the first call to a delivered meeting.
01
Free call
30 min, we understand the product, market and goal. We assess whether we can help.
30 min
02
Strategic consultation
1 hour, 150 EUR. We agree on targeting, criteria, scope.
1 h · 150 EUR
03
List building
First version in ~2 weeks. You approve and adjust criteria.
~2 weeks
04
Active outreach
We write and call ourselves. Short weekly reports.
Ongoing
05
Meeting handover
When a partner says “let’s talk” – we hand over with full context.
As it flows
04Price and format
Project-based pricing – agreed individually.
The cost depends on market scope, list size, and how much active outreach is needed. The start is always the same: free call, then a 150 EUR strategic consultation. From there, we propose a concrete scope and price. Below – a comparison with the alternative most often considered.
Alternative
French-speaking employee on payroll
from 2,000 EUR / month
- Full-time focus on your company
- Long-term internal knowledge building
- Hiring costs – 1 to 3 months of searching
- Salary + taxes + office
- Risk they don’t fit – back to zero
- Time before they build a contact network
Our service
French Bridge engagement
from 150 EUR consultation
- Starts from a single consultation – low risk
- Existing network of 200+ contacts
- 12 years of experience in francophone B2B markets
- Clear scope – you pay for real work, not a position
- Can be paused or split into phases
- Not 100% of time dedicated to your project
In practice: most clients start with the 150 EUR consultation, then move to a project format that typically falls between 1,500 and 6,000 EUR for the first phase. We propose an exact price after the strategic consultation, once scope is clear.
Are you a manager who needs to show this to your boss?
Forward this page – your boss will find everything needed to decide: what we do, what we don’t, pricing orientation and a comparison with hiring an employee.
05Why us
12 years of real experience in francophone B2B markets.
French Bridge is a service built on 12 years of real work with French-speaking B2B clients. The foundation: products from the Baltics and Northern Europe sold into French, Belgian and Swiss markets. This work requires not just the language, but the cultural context – when a French “yes” really means yes, when it’s a polite “no”, how decision-making differs between Belgium and Switzerland.
Over 12 years in francophone markets, the same picture keeps coming back – most companies stall not because of the product, but because they don’t know how to open the conversation there.
- 12 yrsof real experience with francophone B2B clients
- 200+business contacts in France, Belgium and Switzerland
- 50%meeting conversion on cold outreach to French companies
- 5 lang.EN, FR, LT, ES, RU. Native-level French
06Questions
What people most often ask.
Didn’t find your answer? Bring it to the free intro call – we’ll answer everything specific to your situation.
Will the list be mine, or do you keep it?
The list is yours. We hand it over with full contact information – even if we decide not to continue working together. It’s an asset of your company, built for you, and it stays with you.
How much of my team’s time will this take?
At the start – 2 to 4 hours per week, the time needed to agree on criteria and approve the first list. After that – around 1 to 2 hours per week for review and approval. In meetings, as long as the meetings take. What matters is that you invest time, but not so much that your existing work stalls.
How will you know which companies are right for us?
We start with you – who your best current clients are, their size, industry, who their decision-makers are. Then we project that profile onto the francophone market. The first list is a hypothesis; your first comments refine it. After the first conversations, we see very clearly where it lands.
If I’ve already tried and it didn’t work – what will change?
Likely a lot. First – the language: an email in French gets a completely different reaction than the same email in English. Second – contact selection: in France, decisions often pass through certain intermediary people that outsiders skip. Third – tone and phrasing. In the audit we first look at which of these three is blocking – usually not all three at once.
Do you work exclusively in one industry?
No. We’ve worked with manufacturing, services and trade. But honestly – if we see that we don’t know a particular industry from past work, we say so in the first call, so you can decide with full information. That usually doesn’t mean “no” – just that in the early phases we’ll spend more time on understanding your product and market.
How does this differ from chambers of commerce or government export agencies?
Those organizations offer general export support – overviews, events, matchmaking platforms, free consultations. That’s useful at the very start. We pick up where they leave off: at the level of one company, with a concrete list, concrete calls, and confirmed meetings. Most of our clients have already worked with those organizations, and still come to us when they need someone who actually picks up the phone.
How is my company’s information protected?
Before any project, we sign an NDA alongside the service agreement. This is standard practice – we work with your client list, product details, sometimes pricing. All of it stays between us.
First step
Let’s start with a 30-minute call.
We’ll get to know each other, understand your product and market, and assess whether we can help. No commitment, no fee.
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