Comments on: Your Verbal Pitch

By: JP

JP — Sun, 07 Jul 2013 07:59:00 +0000

Thank you Rachelle. Given me a great place to start from. My first pitch.
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Elevator Pitching | Pen, Ink, and Crimes — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 22:34:47 +0000

[…] Another useful website is called “10 Tips for a Winning Elevator Pitch” by Rachelle Gardner (nope, no relation). Particularly useful is her helpful advice on the importance of distinguishing the verbal pitch from a written pitch. Her blog can be found at http://rachellegardner.com/2011/07/your-verbal-pitch/. […]

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Burton Haynes — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 01:05:44 +0000

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By: Kimberly Dawn Rempel

Kimberly Dawn Rempel — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 20:57:27 +0000

In reply to Kimberly Dawn Rempel.

Yikes. What I meant to say was that, by writing an elevator pitch, I’m regaining the enthusiasm I had lost.

The elevator pitch did not cause me to lose my enthusiasm… 😛

By: Kimberly Dawn Rempel

Kimberly Dawn Rempel — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 20:55:59 +0000

So helpful! And well timed. I’m regaining the enthusiasm I lost simply by hammering out an elevator pitch.

Thanks!

(btw – you had me laughing out loud with ‘helloooo … you write dialogue!’ bit.

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Blogs for Self-Publishers for July 17 – July 23, 2011 — The Book Designer — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 08:06:50 +0000

[…] Gardner on Rachelle Gardner 10 Tips for a Winning Elevator Pitch “The purpose of your elevator pitch is to get someone to want to hear more. That’s IT. […]

By: Stephanie Scott

Stephanie Scott — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:25:08 +0000

I thought your post series from the last few days on pitches was so great I linked to it on my blog. Just wanted you to know, and thank you for sharing valuable information. 🙂

By: RaeLynn Fry

RaeLynn Fry — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:45:49 +0000

For me, it’s just getting over my nerves! 🙂

By: Peter DeHaan

Peter DeHaan — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:37:45 +0000

My biggest challenge in making a pitch is that the words in my mind have trouble emerging from my mouth. It matters not if I practiced or not. I’ll swap the order of two words or substitute another word for the one I want. The result is that what could have been a powerful moment ends up being an awkward disaster.

(Okay, perhaps that is an exaggeration, but that’s how it feels.)

By: Reba J. Hoffman

Reba J. Hoffman — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 21:09:02 +0000

The biggest challenge I used to have was having a canned “speech” ready. The person I came in contact with asked different questions and I was not able to deviate from my canned response without tripping over my own inadequacy. I learned to not memorize my pitch. That works for me.