How to Pitch for Success and Improve Your Influence
Learn 12 simple but powerful tips for effective pitching to investors, selling to customers or presenting at work.
What you'll learn
• Identify the basic building blocks of a good pitch.
• Recognize effective structure in a speech or presentation.
• Develop a basic hook for a pitch that catches attention.
• Outline the story elements necessary for a cohesive presentation.
• Delineate between good and bad non-verbal elements of a pitch.
• Detail how to get someone's permission before pitching.
• Name the role authenticity plays in an effective pitch.
• List the three main purposes of a pitch and how they work together.
• Explain what Hollywood can teach us all about pitching and winning.
Requirements
• A computer with a good Internet connection (for lessons and examples).
• Time for lessons and exercises... designed to be bite sized but each lesson will take about 10 minutes.
• An open mind and a willingness to expand your knowledge.
Description
Course Updated 12/30/15: Update included brand new video recordings, updated lessons for all sections, new interactive activity sheets for all lessons, new free resources and examples.
Join over 5,400 students taking this course to learn powerful techniques that help you whenever you need to pitch. Freelancers, entrepreneurs, and professionals.
I’ve been presenting and pitching as a sales person, trainer and coach for 30 years. Now I'm sharing the techniques I used to close millions of dollars in business and to successfully launch my online training business.
What You'll Learn in This Course:
• Discover the secret formula that can make your pitch powerful for inspiring your audience to act.
• Leverage your own individual strengths to connect with an audience of one, or of many quickly.
• Learn to structure for creating a pitch that will be comfortable and interesting at the same time.
• Recognize the elements of a good pitch so you can incorporate them into your own presentations, making you more effective and more influential.
Who Can Benefit From this Course?
Whether you’re a freelancer looking for a gig, a professional preparing for a job interview or an entrepreneur who wants to start your own business, you will benefit from knowing these helpful tricks and techniques.
This course is for anyone who wants to be more effective pitching to investors, selling to customers, or just presenting for work in a project meeting. If you are looking to improve your presentation skills, your public speaking skills, or your leadership skills then this course is for you. Inside you will gain access to simple to use, easy to learn tips that make you pitch more effectively, speak more confidently, and present more comfortably.
Is It Going to Be Boring and Dull?
Using short video lessons in conjunction with examples from speakers and leaders I will show you how to identify the keys to making your pitch memorable and engaging. Pitching is about influence and inspiring others to act. So no, not dull and dreary at all!
Learn to Amp Up Your Presentations
Enroll in the course and I will teach you how to use story structure to create presentations that inspire and let you lead with authority. Being a leader means mastering leadership skills, like communicating effectively and being able to rally a group to action.
This course will give you a fundamental understanding of what makes a pitch good and how to avoid some pitfalls that prevents many people from achieving their goals.
Who this course is for:
• Freelancers who want to network for jobs and gigs.
• Professionals who are preparing for a job interview.
• Anyone who attends (or wants to attend) business networking events.
• Entrepreneurs who need to pitch to customers or investors.
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How to Pitch for Success and Improve Your Influence/001 Course Introduction/001 Course Introduction-en.srt
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