The Pitching Manual - How to Pitch?

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Geschäftsmann 2.0

How to pitch?!

Don’t sell: Create interest or makefriends!

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AgendaToday:

1. Intro

2. Pitching basics and tools

3. Prep work

4. pitching within the group

5. selected pitches in front of the audience

6. wrapup, conclusions, takehomes, home work

6 P’s* of a Pitch1. Position

2. Problem

3. Projection

4. Proposal

5. Proof

6. Project (can and should vary)

* By Daniel Priestley

Pitch1. Position – I‘m George, I‘m a fitness instructor an I‘ve worked with people who use

gyms for the last 12 years

2. Problem – After working with so many people I noticed how very skinny menconsistently struggle to bulk up and put on muscle

3. Projection – „When a person is working out every other day and he still isn‘tgetting results his confidence suffers and it can be demotivating in all areas of life

4. Proposal – I have a diet and work-out plan designed especially for skinny Menaged 25-35 who want to bulk up with muscle

5. Proof – I‘ve worked with 35 people now and all of them added over 4kg of musclein three months which is more than enough to show a vicible transformation. I have had this independently verified by one of the USs top sports scientists

6. Project - Now, I‘m looking for a joint venture partner who can market this methodto gym‘s and personal trainers.

Thanks to Daniel Priestley

How to build a pitch?Three steps - that’s how I do it: 1. I write some Keywords for every ‘P’:

1. Position Build trust and competence

2. Problem Can contain “Your personal Why”

3. Projection The Future, can contain an Idea of your “BHAG”

4. Proposal In core it’s the Business Model

5. Proof Proof

6. Project Prepare multiple projects, because this can vary (Distribution, Sourcing, Employees, Funding, etc)

2. I write the whole thing down

3. When done, I start to shorten, if I have more text than on Slide 4 “My Pitch – Eiger Care”, I’m definitively too long. – Taking of irrelevant content

– Less precise

– Less detailed

4. Practice, practice, practice (and memorize the rhythm of of your speech = speed = time)

AgendaToday:

1. Intro

2. Pitching basics and tools

3. Prep work

4. pitching within the group

5. selected pitches in front of the audience

6. wrapup, conclusions, takehomes, home work

Think!• What matters most while pitching?

http://www.eoswitzerland.com/das-auftreten-ist-wichtiger-als-der-inhalt-medientraining-fur-unternehmer-eo-bei-farner-pr/ Source Farner PR

Think!There are a lot of tools - But a fool with a tool is still a fool! So think:

– Who‘s the audience? What is the goal of the pitch?• Pitching for interest

• Pitching to show your value proposition

• Pitching for explaining your business

• Funding

– It‘s always about people: Do you pitch a VC from San Francisco the same way as a private equity banker from Frankfurt ?

Think!1. Numbers tell, Stories sell (see last slide)

2. Decisions are done based on emotions

3. The Decision Area for our brain has not capability forLanguage (Your personal Why, see last slide)

4. My experience shows that most business models and pitcheslack a great Value Proposition!

5. B2B – Pitching: Every Customer Job equals a VP equals a Pitch

Think: Other ways to pitchDid you know that doing work-outs, especially skinny young men consistently struggle to bulk up on muscle? Did you know that the lack of this kind of results can demotivate them in all areas of life and did you know that this is one of the major reasons why people give up their work outs?

Imagine if othey would see quickly visible results and imagine if they would get more than 4 kg of muscle only in three months!

If you’re looking for something like that stop looking. In the 12 years I’m in business I developed a diet and work-out plan designed for skinny Men aged 25-35 . Do you wanna know more?

3 times: Did you know..

2 times: Imagine…

1 time: You can stop looking for, we have it

Stop (if you want to know more…)Thanks to Sam Horn

Next steps and home work (if you haven‘t already done so)

Streamline or improve your pitch to your

– BHAG

– Value Proposition

– Your Why

– Or modify it with a better story

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp0HIF3SfI4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzgzim5m7oU

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Hairy_Audacious_Goal

Just buy the VPD Book!

Questions?

Thank you!

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