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Mastering your Elevator Pitch Robert Upton

Master Your Elevator Pitch

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How to master your elevator pitch to drive meaningful relationships with your clients and prospects. (Original presentation from 5/29 Sip & Social: Master Your Elevator Pitch)

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Mastering your Elevator PitchRobert Upton

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Robert UptonSr. Business Development Manager

“Master Your Elevator Pitch”“Master Your Elevator Pitch”

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What is the problem?

Connecting with your clients and prospects is more difficult than ever.

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Somewhere we took a wrong turn

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What is an Elevator Pitch

An elevator pitch is a concise compelling statement about your

business designed to open a conversation and qualify a lead.

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4 Components of Successful Pitch

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• Introduction

• Product

• Why

• Transition

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Rules for Every Marketing Effort

Easy to Understand Relevant to the hearerCompelling information

Answer the “Why?”Use testimonials, statistics or hard

factsTest Refine Test

Be Different!!!Mastering Your Elevator Pitch

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What is our Goal?

• Engage with relevant, compelling, tangible benefits

• Open conversation

• Qualify the person you are speaking with

• Develop a lead or referral source

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Your Unique Selling Proposition

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• Pick 5-10 benefits

• What problems do you solve for your clients?

• What measurable results can your clients expect?

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Transition Question

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• Tie your pitch to their need

• Engage and qualify

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Tag Line

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• Summarize your value proposition

• Leave your audience with key words

• What is the thought you want them to remember

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Putting it all together

Who are you? Who do you

serve?

• Hello my name is

• From

• I work with

What your company does?

• Our company…

1-3 concise, powerful tangible

benefits (USP)

• By

• With

• So that

Transition question or

tagline

• How does your company …

• Tagline

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Introduction EngageWhyProduct

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Things to Remember

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• An Elevator Pitch is a conversation starter

• Engage with tangible information

• Answer the “why”

• Be concise

• Test, refine, test

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Thank You

Robert Upton

Red Door Solutions

@[email protected]

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