I am thinking about getting in contact with some companies about helping promote and sell the products I stand by. My question is, How would I go about making contact?
I'm not a pro, I'm just an Average Joe.
The best way is in person and since we don't have the ability to travel the contry trying to find them it's best to take your resume to them at events like the classic, major boat / tackle shows, places where several might be at one time.
If that's not an option, try getting ahold of the company "big guy" on the phone and sell your self along with letting him know you have a resume in the "snail" mail. Email doesn't work well because If they are of any size they will be getting thousands of email requests a week and probably have the spam filter set up to weed them out and it never gets looked at.
Regular mail is about the same as email unless you let them know it's comming!