If you're selling something at the end of your webinar,
make your pitch with confidence.
WHITE PLAINS, NY — Citing Westchester's signature strengths and prime assets, County Executive Robert P. Astorino today
made a pitch with the hope of landing Amazon in Westchester.
The Republican National Committee
made a pitch with the subject line «Vindicated» and went on to say, «President Trump has fought back and been vindicated time and time again.»
Simon
makes his pitch with investments from the Dignity Health Foundation and Santa Cruz County Bank
Not exact matches
Jordan: Always
make sure you have eye contact
with whomever you are
pitching to, even if it's into a camera.
Hiipe, a chat app that rewards users
with points to redeem for raffles and discounts, didn't quite
make it onto season 1 of Elevator
Pitch.
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.
And I've seen company owners pay attention during an angel - investor rejection — and then adjust the plan,
make changes and get yes answers
with later
pitches.
If you are going to invest in a trade show
make sure you are patent pending, have a sellable product, a one - page sales sheet, a strong elevator
pitch and you can communicate your cost breakdown,» says Bill McHenry
with ESM Sales and advisor to the Entrepreneurial Center of the University of Illinois and Entrepreneur Center at DePaul University.
The
Pitch will feature five companies
making 5 - minute presentations in Aspen to a panel of judges,
with the audience choosing a winner.
We think it's a pretty compelling story, and, it turns out, it's one that is consistent
with the
pitch we
made a year and a half ago, when we raised our seed round of funding.
«This is a year of really being an influence and a change maker in an amazing city that's really at the forefront of the revitalization efforts in our entire country,» says Greene Groves concluding her
pitch for the program, ending
with a paraphrase of the Michigan governor's
pitch for Motor City: «Yeah, you can go to another city, but if you want to
make a difference, come to Detroit.»
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.
But first let's explore what she considers the biggest mistake entrepreneurs
make when
pitching their products: failing to meet directly
with a buyer.
This style of mixing great info
with the sales
pitch is one of the best ways to
make people pay attention to your sales
pitch without getting turned off by it.
Your elevator
pitch is the first chance you'll have to
make an impression on someone unfamiliar
with your startup, so practice it often to
make sure you have it down.
As she
made a
pitch to the audience to invest in her business, Critters and Conservation, she lured Togi, a Congo African gray parrot
with a stunning red tail, out of his cage to perform a head - bobbing dance on her hand and then moved Señor Lagarto, a three - foot - plus - long Colombian Tegu lizard, onto her shoulder.
It
makes it far easier for a journalist to
pitch her producer a story on fertility acupuncture and interview an expert like Dr Lorne Brown on the subject
with Infertility Awareness Day looming on the editorial calendar than on a random Tuesday.
For example, in an October interview
with industry trade publication Digiday, media consultant Aram Zucker - Scharff compared the project to Facebook's Instant Articles project, which is
pitched as
making news articles easier to read by hosting them directly on the social network's site.
Whether you're
making a VC
pitch, sharing your recommendations
with the board, or selling your newest products or services to a customer, presenting as a team can be significantly more difficult to sound concise, coordinated and cohesive than going it alone.
If I start suggesting that I will only purchase goods and services from a Democrat or a Republican, or only listen to your
pitch if you agree
with my political view, I have draw a line in the sand that doesn't really
make sense.
«I feel like these worlds are so merged over the past few years,» she said of Hollywood and Silicon Valley while
making her
pitch for tech investors to hit up her business associates
with ideas.
Smith started Vice as a print magazine
with Suroosh Alvi and Gavin McInnes in Montreal more than two decades ago;
with Smith at the helm as CEO, it's now a multi-platform content mill
with a reported audience of between 250 million and 300 million people a month, many of them members of Generation Y. Smith
made his money by convincing an older generation that Vice knows millennials better than they could ever hope to, and that
pitch has worked: Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox paid US$ 70 million for a 5 % stake of Vice in 2013, and Rogers Communications (which owns Canadian Business) inked a $ 100 million partnership.
I should have done a photography shoot
with my products in July so I could have
pitched them to magazines in August to
make it into their gift guides.
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.
He has gone so far as to decorate his apartment
with Uber paraphernalia because it
makes his
pitch more convincing when he's FaceTiming potential drivers or sending Snapchats
with his contact information.
Throughout his campaign, Trump
made explicit
pitches to small business owners — who returned the attention
with their support.
From Martha Stewart's American
Made event to Entrepreneur magazine's recent spread on the theme, the obsession
with the
Made in America label has reached a fever
pitch.
Another Super Bowl first - timer, Fiji Water
makes its debut at the big game this year
with an ad
pitching the water as «Nature's Gift» while showing images of the Fiji islands juxtaposed
with urban cityscapes.
Using these tips to
pitch our startup at GrowFashion got us the attention of Fortune 500 companies and taught us how to
make a valuable connection
with our audience and leave a lasting impression in less than five minutes.
Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick said he was «constantly
making a
pitch to partner»
with Google's self - driving car unit, but Alphabet's Larry Page wasn't interested.
Even
with some edited phrasing, your
pitch may still need refinement - and in fact, too much wordsmithing can
make you sound like a commercial
with buzzwords and industry jargon.
Kalanick said he was «constantly
making a
pitch to partner
with them,» something that Drummond had advocated for.
Practice
pitching with HubMasters: When it comes to public speaking, practice
makes perfect.
In fact, Clary and Vines - Haines — then 56 and 72, respectively — were
pitching Ice Chips, candy
made with xylitol, a natural sweetener that protects teeth and is safe for diabetics.
Give away something memorable: You only get 60 seconds to impress the open - call directors, so
make sure you impress them
with something physical or memorable, preferably at the end of the open - call
pitch.
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.
You might
make a playlist for presentations
with tips on speaking, structuring
pitches, and Q&A s, or an analysts playlist
with tips for your software, acronyms, and how you clean your datasets.
Instead, Adams
pitched a plan to have Coca - Cola goad fashion labels into
making products
with recycled material.
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.
Miniso's
pitch to customers of «aesthetics and intelligent design» that will «enrich» their lives taps into that,
with the added promise of rock - bottom prices,
making it something of a stylish Dollarama — the storefront window has a large sign proclaiming «$ 2.99, High Quality Life» and items in the store retail for anywhere from $ 1.50 to $ 25.
In an interview
with CNET, Osterloh and Nest CEO Marwan Fawaz
pitched the decision to move Nest to Google as the right decision because it
makes it easier to build new Nest products that use Google's artificial intelligence technologies.
The sessions combine various selling exercises, including question - and - answer forums
with real customers and what Macdonald calls «the dreaded role - playing,» wherein recruits are videotaped
making sales
pitches and then critiqued (read: roasted) by their classmates and instructors.
With promises of more transparent government, better - trained police and improved public schools, four of the leading candidates for Baltimore County executive
made their
pitch to voters at a forum Saturday in Woodlawn.
Hedge funds designed to protect against falling and volatile markets have
made a strong
pitch to investors: Trust us
with your money, and we'll
make lots of it for you when years of relatively smooth, positive stock returns inevitably end.
WhatsApp's offices in Mountain View, California, were almost empty,
with less than 10 desks atop stained carpeting,
making the space look large, said Leitersdorf, who
pitched an investment.
«Don't try to take too many people
with you when you
make your
pitch.
When I heard that Texas Gov. Rick Perry was
making a trip to Maryland to lure businesses out of our state, I had to laugh out loud («Gov. Rick Perry to visit Maryland
with pitch for Texas,» Sept. 12).
With that backdrop of doubters and detractors, Noah Kagan, employee # 30 at Facebook, pitched Mark Zuckerberg with what he thought was a genius idea: prove the Facebook skeptics wrong and show them that the fledgling startup could make real mo
With that backdrop of doubters and detractors, Noah Kagan, employee # 30 at Facebook,
pitched Mark Zuckerberg
with what he thought was a genius idea: prove the Facebook skeptics wrong and show them that the fledgling startup could make real mo
with what he thought was a genius idea: prove the Facebook skeptics wrong and show them that the fledgling startup could
make real money.
When this is the case, a sales representative could well be slowing down the sales process by trying to
pitch to an IT person
with no decision -
making authority.