Sentences with phrase «pitch than on the pitch»

For someone who's long been touted as the midfielder to hold his own for many years, Wilshere has spent more time off the pitch than on the pitch.

Not exact matches

Dig Deeper: 4 Tips on Managing a Virtual Workforce Finding Value in Your Co-working Spaces: The Right «Fit» «Somebody asked me to pitch him on why we were better than another space,» says Bacigalupo.

Rotem's sales pitch is that while owners may lose a small margin on sales, the new customers that come in should more than make up for it.

Desktop personal assistant Cubic has raised more than $ 100,000 on Indiegogo — and found a brilliant way to pitch a reporter.

«More often than not, it's the obvious questions people fall down on because they think them through superficially,» says Martin Soorjoo, founder of San Francisco - based Investor Pitch Clinic and author of Here's the Pitch: How to Pitch Your Business to Anyone, Get Funded, and Win Clients (Wiley, 2012).

The focus is on educating, entertaining, and delivering value to the consumer, rather than giving a hard pitch for your products or services.

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.

Whether that means doling out mouthwatering samples from behind the counter, creating interactive games to play on the web or offering online courses that teach people how to make their own pasta, today's marketers need to deliver more than slick sales pitches and rock - bottom prices — or risk getting left in the dust.

On average, they found candidates more intelligent, likable and employable when they heard rather than read their pitch.

On the expo floor, more than 500 vendors will employ a slew of tactics to rise above the collective cacophony of cybersecurity sales pitches.

The Oracle of Omaha spoke on Thursday afternoon with Dan Gilbert, the Quicken Loans CEO who has bought more than $ 1 billion in Detroit real estate in the last several years and who has pitched Buffett on Detroit before.

Rather than its narrowly - framed focus on wealthy individuals taking unfair tax advantage, people are beginning to wonder whether the proposals will hit more broadly than pitched, and whether that in itself is unfair.

The problem is that VCs spend, on average, less than four minutes reviewing pitch decks.

To its credit, Essential does seem to be pitching its add - ons as simpler accessories more than things that'll change the way you buy phones.

Vaynerchuk admits that he's «betting on the jockey a lot of times»; in other words, the product itself is less important than the person who pitched it.

In them, potential founders arrive on Friday with nothing more than an idea and leave on Sunday evening (usually without much sleep), having met a co-founder, built a prototype or demo, and pitched investors.

But lately he's changed his sales pitch to focus a little more on the fact that 100 percent of profits go to charity — the company will surpass more than $ 500 million in total giving this year.

As months turn into years, you may find that staying in the office is less risky than taking a chance on pitching your business to potential clients or expanding to a new location.

For instance, on August 1 a Canaccord sales pitch described a block of AAA paper the firm had secured as a product offering better returns and better liquidity than GICs, which are «non-redeemable» and «only insured up to $ 100,000.»

While you're more than likely to get a heavy sales pitch touting all the benefits when shopping, consumer advocates say these plans, which can cost hundreds of dollars depending on the product you're covering, generally are not worth the money.

Trust is built more on reliable reviews than ever before, and no longer will a fancy sales pitch close deals.

Its purpose should be to engage readers on the level of shared values rather than being a typical product pitch.

What that means is more than 99 % of the entrepreneurs waste their energy on pitching their unfundable businesses to investors.

One source said it can be tough work to make what he described as a «boring pitch» to investors for a direct lending strategy that, while prosaic, would more precisely match a given investor's requirements than any other investment option on the menu.

Only follow - up on your pitch twice, other than that you're being annoying to the writer who likely saw the email or message and decided they didn't want to move forward.

Canada's largest health startup showcase takes over MaRS Discovery District in Toronto on May 7 Last year's winners scaling their companies internationally, raising more than $ 36 million in combined funding On May 7, MaRS HealthKick 2015 gives 39 health startups the chance to pitch cutting - edge health technologies and products to an audience of more than 350... Read Moon May 7 Last year's winners scaling their companies internationally, raising more than $ 36 million in combined funding On May 7, MaRS HealthKick 2015 gives 39 health startups the chance to pitch cutting - edge health technologies and products to an audience of more than 350... Read MoOn May 7, MaRS HealthKick 2015 gives 39 health startups the chance to pitch cutting - edge health technologies and products to an audience of more than 350... Read More

When focusing on a niche market, your sales and marketing pitches will be more centered on your ideal customer, which leads to more sales because you are focusing on one need rather than multiple needs.

Over half of the global staff in more than 100 locations throughout the world submitted, voted or commented on at least one of the 392 pitches to the «DFAT Ideas challenge.»

And yet Peggy's preamble to her Burger Chef pitch contained this admission against interest, in reference to the moon landing broadcast: «I certainly can't tell a better story than the one we saw [on television] last night.

It is in the book (along with tons of dairy - free living info and many other awesome recipes, if I do say so myself), which can be ordered on Amazon for an insanely good price... but enough with the sales pitches... I am more than happy to share -LSB-...]

I know we're short in central midfield, but Arsenal would actually be better off playing with a man less, than having Ramsey on the pitch, and Giroud proved over a whopping FOUR YEARS, that he isn't good to be our main striker.

Yes, you want to win every game you are part of, as you don't step out on to the pitch thinking of anything other than three points and a win; each game has its own «consequence» — but over a 38 - game season — one's title ambitions won't face obituary by the result of this clash between Everton and Arsenal.

I don't blame Giroud for have very little talent, or Mert for being slower than my grand mother, or Flamini having the control of a 2 year old in a bumper car, or Sanchez getting injured when he is played whilst being burned out, or Cazorla for getting injured and left on the pitch playing with knee ligament damage God knows prolonging his return date by how many weeks.

His love for his players has become a weakness which players have started exploiting and getting away with delivering less than 100 % on pitch.

He has the passion but not the ability and I still believe he has a vital role to play in Arsenal season, albeit more as a presence off the pitch than on it.

This means that as things currently stand, we only have two fit centre backs in Chambers and Holding going into the start of the season and so we could see these two pairing up on the pitch sooner than we think!

Even some lacklustre clubs like westham dis us by saying that they have better players on the bench than we have on the pitch.

We are ranked the 5th out of the 20 most valuable team (forbes), that's higher than Chelsea, City, Dortmund, Atletico and more, and we can't even compete on the pitch with them?

Just because our last two captains Arteta and Vermaelen spent more time in the treatment room than on the pitch does not make it a good idea, so it seemed logical that the boss would hand it to another player who would be playing and it was reported that it could be our midfield maestro Santi Cazorla.

Gibbs will more than likely have to make a decision on his future, with the left back failing to get much time on the pitch.

Danny Welbeck can at times become a forgotten man at Arsenal, with the striker having spent far more time on the treatment table than he has on the pitch.

I like him on pitch but he is not bigger than arsenal.

, ozil as our attacking mid (because there's no one better at making positive things happen on the pitch than him), sanchez on the left, welbeck up top, and Walcott on the right.

You will get to play more games and avoid being on the bench more than you will be on the pitch because at Barcelona, I doubt if you will ever be consitent in their first team.

Two options: (1) sign a classic CDM who is better than Flamini or (2) sign a physical box to box type who can play CDM when needed (either Coq not available or 2 CDMs on the pitch required).

I'd always rather see him on the pitch than in a studio.

However in this match, the two often seemed unco - ordinated on the pitch, especially as we saw the likes of Cavani easily beat the back line of defence on more than one occasion.

Money should not be an issue as we have over 200 million in the bank and a top striker on the pitch is more valuable than a few more millions in the bank.

of course, it seems we need to pick MOTM from who performs less worse than actually picking the best man on the pitch for us but yes, Rooney's marking and closing down Arteta after United's goal did affect our tempo

We are better than United and we're gonna have to show it on the pitch.