Preparation

• Preparation

• Preparation is the key to a perfect pitch. Here's a checklist that explains the things you should be thinking about...

Visual Aids

• Visual Aids

• Early in any pitch preparation a decision must be taken over whether slides or a pitch book will be used. There are a number of benefits to using something the audience can see, and some caveats...

Practice

• Practice

• Doing something a second time is always easier and a third time easier still. Despite knowing this, people rarely practice enough, which is a mistake...

On the Day

• On the Day

• Here's a checklist of things to do on the day of the pitch...

Asking Questions and Listening

• Asking Questions and Listening

• The worst pitches are when one person speaks and the audience merely listen. The best are when a conversation takes place with all those in the room...

Physical Choices

• Physical Choices

• The way we look can project many different messages to our audience. Here are some tips to ensure your physicality is right...

Vocal Choices

• Vocal Choices

• When making a pitch, the vocal objective is to be both clear and interesting...

Closing

• Closing

• It’s easy and logical to close a pitch when the end has been reached, but look for signals from the audience. If the audience is no longer listening, then continuing may do more harm than good...

Notes

• Notes

• Notes should be taken during the pitch, but probably not by you. So have someone else there whose job it is to take notes...

The Post Mortem

• The Post Mortem

• Post-pitch analysis is an important part of the pitching process and both positive and negatives aspects should be reviewed, to better inform future pitches.

Actions

• Actions

• This video contains some day-to-day, effective ways you can develop your Pitching skills.