Are You Nailing Your Pitch?
October 5, 2011 by Kevin Michael Gray
How do you respond when someone asks the dreadful question "What do you do?" today's featured article from Moomkin.com employs some helpful 'pitch conversational' advice. Read more below:
The most popular question asked at a network meeting, sales meeting and of most business professionals is “What do you do?” At some network meetings like Business Networking International©, FemFessionals©, or other major networking events, attendees are asked to stand up and give a 30 Second Pitch. Although this is an expected activity every week, the thought of those 30 Seconds strikes fear in the heart of many.
Imagine that you are in a networking meeting and you hear a person get up and babble for 30 Seconds (usually they go on for much longer). What do you think about them? What do you think about their business? How much confidence do you have in their product? We asked networking attendees these questions and the answers were clear.
Attendees said that they remembered how poor the pitch was but they forgot what the offering was. They also avoided the speaker after the event because they did not want to get caught in a conversation full of babbling and sputtering. What’s even worse is that they did not want to do business with the speaker because they felt the company was unorganized.
