Sentences with phrase «making pitches»

No, he wasn't as dominant live as the box score might suggest... but isn't a good game plan, doing your homework against the guys you're facing and making pitches they don't expect and can't do much with, a component of a «great» pitching performance too?

We have an active salesforce that is going out and making pitches to customers, giving them ideas and letting people know what we do.

And if evangelicals stop trying to convert others, they will be rather lonely, for advertisers, New Age pitchpersons and advocates of every other therapy and worldview are aggressively making their pitches.

But we looked at the behaviors of people making pitches, and categorized them based on the stereotypes around masculinity and femininity — men are assumed to be more confident, aggressive and bold, and women are supposed to be more expressive.

• China Sinochem Group, a Beijing oil producer, is calling for banks to make pitches ahead of a potential $ 2 billion IPO in Hong Kong of key oil assets, Reuters reports citing sources.

The contests are highly competitive, and you typically make a pitch to a set of judges (mostly investors), so make sure your pitch presentation is fantastic and show how it is intended to change lives.

The contests are highly competitive, and you typically make a pitch to a set of judges (mostly investors), so make sure your

In this period of peak startup funding — and competition for capital, don't make the pitch mistakes I did.

They let you make your pitch even if they have no interest in buying.

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

To making your pitch memorable, get your participant involved in a dialogue.

Here's what she says needs to happen before you make a pitch for capital.

Other services have made that pitch, of course, but too often they've felt like handicapped versions of cable at a lower price point.

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.

That makes Pitch Night NYC a powerful opportunity.

Your heart is deaf to the rejection, though, and you keep knocking on doors and opening your suitcase and making your pitch.

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

Among the worst mistakes you can make pitching investors is not anticipating the fundamental questions they will want answered.

«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.

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

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

He speaks some Japanese and figured he could make the pitch himself.

It can be hard to walk into the office of a potential client and make your pitch, particularly if you've never done it before.

There are things you can do however to make your pitch go down easier, or let's be honest, simply get noticed.

Trying to do much more is not going to make your pitch more effective — it is merely going to increase the likelihood that you will not get through it, which can be the kiss of death.

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.

But when she enters a room to make her pitch, she knows she only has one shot — regardless of whose daughter she is.

Learn to supply «extras» that multimedia reporters need (videos, infographics, etc.) to make your pitches stand out.

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

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

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.

Kalanick said he was «constantly making a pitch to partner with them,» something that Drummond had advocated for.

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.

America Online co-founder and former chief executive Steve Case made a pitch for stronger, less - divisive leadership, citing the example of Franklin D. Roosevelt:

When states make their pitches to companies, those pitches invariably include selling points that will somehow be paid for by taxpayers.

CNBC's Closing Bell turned to mayors, CEOs and celebrities from those cities to make their pitch to Amazon and CNBC's audience.

Don't forget to communicate your passion for your product or service, which will help make your pitch memorable.

If you're selling something at the end of your webinar, make your pitch with confidence.

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.

Make your pitches personal, specific to the journalist or publisher you're pitching and your response rates shoot way up.

Next, we had to make our pitch to the right reporter.

And he made that pitch to Amazon shareholders.

A former entrepreneur, improv comedian and venture capitalist shares how to make your pitch stand out.

Entrepreneurs have 50 options when it comes to forming a business, and some states do more than others when it comes to making their pitch.

And finally, try to make your pitch timely.

Specifically, the purpose of a cold call is to set an appointment to make the pitch.

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.

His portal, FundFindr, was not geared towards consumers funding frivolous food projects — instead, it's a more serious endeavour, aimed at helping entrepreneurs make pitches to investors.

MaRS is proud to host this year's CIX Cleantech conference on October 15, where top start - ups from across the country will make pitches, Dragon's Den style, to potential investors.