by chala | Dec 3, 2019 | Uncategorised
I got a call on a Sunday afternoon last week. It was from my old university. The person who was calling was young and had a thick accent I could barely understand. Because she was calling from my university and it’s been a few decades since I had anything to do...
by chala | Dec 3, 2019 | podcast, Polish My Pitch
Hashim was the second accountant in the group who came at me with a generic pitch. What’s interesting is that he already had a niche that was a very specific one who had big pain around taxation that he wasn’t talking about in his pitch. Once we went through the...
by chala | Nov 26, 2019 | podcast, Polish My Pitch
Like every single coach I have ever met in my life, Carol was positioning herself as a leadership coach when we first met. When I dug deeper and asked her to look at the biggest problem she’s ever solved and what industry that client was in, all the answers were...
by chala | Nov 19, 2019 | podcast, Polish My Pitch
Confused minds don’t buy. When I first heard Jas’ elevator pitch during a networking event and again in the podcast, I couldn’t understand if he was an accountant, a bookkeeper or a financial consultant. Through our session, we were able to not only get him to a...
by chala | Nov 12, 2019 | podcast, Polish My Pitch
Michele’s initial pitch was all about the way her products made people feel. While I’m all about bringing emotion to marketing, it was too generic for my taste. Any time you start a pitch by targeting an entire gender, watch out because you’re being too general....
