Friday Poll: What Is Your Elevator Pitch?

    • 1373 posts
    August 1, 2014 12:51 AM PDT

    Happy Friday, everyone!

    This week’s poll question was inspired by an article written by sales/business writer Geoffrey James, in which he explains how to give a flawless elevator pitch when someone at a social or networking function asks you what you do for a living.  So, we’d like to know:
     

    What is your elevator pitch?

    Looking forward to reading your replies!

    • 21 posts
    August 1, 2014 6:57 AM PDT

    I have influence over 60,000 consumers who choose to listen to me.  I have the privilege of introducing them to great businesses like yours (assuming I am talking to a business owner/decision-maker)

    • 1373 posts
    August 1, 2014 9:28 AM PDT

    Nice!

    • 7 posts
    August 1, 2014 9:50 AM PDT

    Our “elevator pitch” is so short it can be delivered on a fast-moving escalator!  Actually, we have two of them – one for our prospects, and one for theirs:

    To radio station GMs and Sales Managers: 

    “Hundreds of stations use our system to bring in 1,000 more cash ads each year, usually from local accounts who had never bought from them before.”

    To their would-be advertisers:

    In the first minute of the interactive online video presentation we customize for stations, as dozens of sponsor logos scroll up the screen, the narrator says:

    “The Time Capsule has been delivering customers to advertisers just like (you), on hundreds of radio stations across the country for the past 30 years.”

    • 455 posts
    August 4, 2014 10:08 AM PDT

    Pick a well know, appropriate size venue in your market and do the following as it relates to your audience size.

    If I could put you in front of a full house at the Orpheum would you be interested in talked to me? What if I could do that three times a day...365 days a year.

  • August 6, 2014 8:47 PM PDT

    LOVE it!