Sentences with phrase «make your pitch about»

Make your pitch about a topic, not about your company.

Today, the state will make their pitch about why the courts should turn their backs on Connecticut's school funding crisis, and leave the ECS formula in place.

The summary statement sticks to three sentences, or sentence fragments, using the correct amount of space to quickly make a pitch about her qualifications.

Not exact matches

We talked with Finkelstein about his experience judging business pitches on the show, the best pointers about how to pitch a business idea, and how to get him to make a deal.

J.J. McCorvey and April Joyner compiled an assortment of tips, including that you'll want to start small, by contacting local media outlets or blogs, make a press list, and know what the reporters you pitch write about.

Like every company making a pitch, we'll tell that tale in about 20 slides and 20 minutes.

French President Emmanuel Macron spoke with Trump at length about the issue during a meeting in Brussels, and even at the Vatican, Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin made his own pro-Paris pitch to Trump and his advisers.

Merely rambling about your company isn't going to make you memorable to people who hear dozens of pitches a day.

Sell yourself: use what you know about the company and how you will make an impact to back up your pitch.

I've written a lot about how to get publicity for your small business, and the one thing I can't emphasize enough is to make sure you're pitching the right journalist.

If you're making a pitch to an investor about your company, don't say, «We typically see people get excited about this feature.»

However, that same pitch would probably interest a site like Telecoms.com, and the readership of this publication is more likely to be someone who makes decisions within their company about what data plans to purchase.

These are calls where you personally made your pitch to investors and analysts about why Wells Fargo is a great investment.

From dimensional direct - mail to video selfies, it's time to get creative about when, where and how you make your initial pitch.

Choose one that'd make the most positive impact with regard to how you feel about your job and pitch your manager on why they should give you an hour a day — or a few hours a week to incorporate it into your work routine.

Sometimes scammers pick up personal information about their targets from Facebook and use it to make their pitches more credible.

When pitching to these bigger companies, ask about the decision - making process and who's involved.

Last fall, the government narrowed a field of about 50 applicants to nine finalists that are made up of groups pitching projects in many different areas, including advanced manufacturing, artificial intelligence and clean technology.

About a year ago, I did a pretty comprehensive analysis of every pitch made on the show through the first five seasons.

«If we get the opportunity to make the pitch,» he adds, «we make the sale about 40 % of the time.»

Translation: This may be the colleague who complains about pitching in on extra work, finishes the pot of coffee without making more, and sets up a print job to run 1,000 copies the morning she knows another teammate is pushing up against a deadline.

There's nothing like standing up in front of an expectant audience when you have no script and no idea what kind of scene you're about to play to put the fear of making a pitch or cold call into perspective.

The basic pitch goes something like this: With up - to - the - minute information at their fingertips, business owners can make more timely decisions about how to manage their funds.

Trump made another pitch for Democratic support on Capitol Hill, where his top aides met with about a dozen Senate Democrats and Trump himself phoned in from his Asia trip.

One big thing that excited lots of entrepreneurs and investors about the JOBS Act was the prospect of investor crowdfunding — the idea that small businesses could go online, make their pitches, and receive direct investment from accredited investors around the world, quickly.

We know nothing about the deals before they walk in and at least 20 percent of the pitches never make it on air.

Horner said Alberta has tried to address some of Ottawa's complaints about the current system by pitching its own proposal — one that would create a new national enforcement agency as well as a national systemic risk committee made up of all 13 regulators and chaired by the federal minister.

The information gained from this research will come in handy when making decisions about pitching your news, ideas and company information to the media.

It's incredibly tempting, especially for new social media marketers, to use social media as an advertising platform, posting about your products on a regular basis and essentially making a pitch to your following.

Because they are the people at the receiving end who get pitched all the time from entrepreneurs, here are five top venture capitalists baring all about what will make them sit up and take notice.

But what I'm trying to say is that I make a pitch for why I think it's important for people to understand it and to try to learn more about it.

Reading about how Warren Buffett waits for «fat pitches» and advises others to limit the number of punches on their lifetime decision card to 20 made me question my own patience.

Make no mistake about it, Apple coming to India is a huge win for India and its pitch as a global manufacturing hub.

If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it all on one turn of pitch - and - toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breath a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: «Hold on!»

After all that, and more, a tiny sliver might go towards helping the poor, but the poor often don't get helped until they sit through the religious pitch, which makes it about as «charitable» as a Time - Share breakfast.

Occasionally she would hem and haw about having to make food for everyone all the time and someone else would offer to pitch in.

I know it seems like a small gesture when it's only you, but just think about if everyone was to pitch in, then it would become a global initiative and make one happy planet.

The River Plate president has been complaining about the synthetic turf and poor condition of the pitch ahead of their make - or - break Copa Libertadores tie in Peru.

That argument about the inflated prices of players and having a great chance of buying a flop, while losing a player that does pitch in with crucial goals, regardless of his defensive absence (even though in 2016/17 his defensive work has drastically improved) makes a point.

They've endured some indifferent results this season, but he'll be hoping that they've built a resolve about them now and can push on to make their superior quality across the pitch make the difference.

If you were on the pitch and you make back passes, lose the ball easily, don't charge down at opponent when in position, then you look at your manager / coach and he's seated, relaxed, not even bother about your abysmal display, the player wouldn't even be bothered to make any improvement

As reported by Metro, the summer signing from Lyon has been talking about life at his new club in the Premier League and he made a point of praising the attitude and effort that he sees from Alexis in training as well as out on the pitch.

I make a simple yet realistic statement about what use is two football pitches to the unfortunate children who only God knows what kind of mental scaring ordeals they have been through and how food and shelter would have been much more appropriate, instead.

This piece got me wondering about the lowest output teams have gotten from their pitching staff that still managed to make the playoffs.

He joked about how being able to wear Jordan cleats on the field is even part of his gamesmanship — opposing batters are always trying to sneak a look at his shoes, so he'll make sure to pull the pants up and make a show of tying them, so his opponents are thinking about the kicks and not the next pitch that's coming.

Seager came up and demolished National League pitching at the end of last season, which is understandably making folks optimistic about him.

What we don't want Is waste chances we most certainly we will come across before they do and waste — make no mistake, the Unite sausage lovers will be out with pitch forks talking about big team United are and how we have failed to put them away.

Mertz should never have been our captain in the first place... who has ever heard of a team that makes 11th hour transfer buys (Arteta & Mertz) then seemingly places those same individuals into prominent leadership positions from the get - go... indicative of the problems that have permeated our clubhouse for the better part of 7 years under the Kroenke & Wenger... what is wrong with the players chosen and / or the management style of Wenger that doesn't develop and / or encourage strong leadership from within... Mertz was the fine collecting lackey from year one... this is what happens when you don't get world - class players because many times they want to have a voice on and off the pitch and this can't happen when you play for a fragile manager who has developed a coddling wage structure where everyone is rewarded for simply wearing the shirt and participating in the process... not enough balance between performance and pay, combined with the obvious favoritism shown to some players regardless of their glaring lack of production... remember that Ramsey has played in positions that make no sense considering his skill - set (out wide) and has forced other players off the field or into equally unfamiliar positions with little or no justification (let's remember when you read articles about how Ramsey's goals this upcoming season being the potential X-factor for our success that this is the same individual who didn't score a goal until the final week last season)... this of course is just one example of many... before I hear another word from Mertz I want this club to address the fact that no former player of any real consequence has any important role in the management structure of this club, yet several former Gunners have expressed serious interest in just such an endeavor (Henry, Viera, Adams, Bergkamp... just to name a few legends)... there is only one answer: an extremely insecure manager!!!

we well be better without both of them the only biggest mistakes wenger made during summer was not to sell both and recruit replacements we had the entire 3 months to do something about transfer activities wenger blow up 100mln to 120mln and thats the price you pay if you do nt have oversite too much power on single's person hands — from kitchen to training on pitch and i hate to say in my opinion Wenger is trying to be like a CEO / Coach at the same time.

And when you look back at the last decade, none of those youngsters have progressed in the way that they were hyped up to and yes I'm talking about the likes of Ramsey, Walcott, Jack Wheelchair and the Ox who all had a one season wonder of some sort, during one point in their Arsenal careers, thus far and We can't keep using this excuse for not buying ready made quality, which would instantly improve our chances of winning a major trophy or two, but No, Wenger wants to stick with a theory which clearly isn't working for us on the pitch, but he doesn't really care, as long as it works out well for saving the penny's and the pounds, in the place where it matters most for Arsenal fc, in the bank.