All posts tagged "pitching for business"

• Fit Focus Flair

  How Microsoft killed the art of public speaking- Ed Reid’s Blog

  Here’s another funny piece to make you think, from Ed Reid, a brilliant independent consultant based in the UK . How Microsoft killed...

• Confidence

  How to undermine your point with weak language

  Imagine the scene.  You’ve spent days preparing a major presentation to a new client, and you’re coming to the end of the...

• Fit Focus Flair

  What’s the best way to sell an idea in a sales pitch?

  It’s a question I’m often asked by clients-  The honest answer is, obviously, ‘It depends on who’s in the audience’ but in reality you...

• Presentation Content

  Presenting to a divided audience- lessons from Mr President

  It happens a lot doesn’t it? We have a proposal to present to a group of clients, and we know that the...

• Fit Focus Flair

  Making a proposal to interest groups that unites rather than divides

  It happens a lot doesn’t it? We have a proposal to present to a group of clients, and we know that the...

• Business Development

  The job of a consultant- In its simplest terms

  We’re restoring our house.  A beautiful, but bedraggled victorian place, in Oundle, UK. The previous owner lived here for thirty years and...

• Delivering your presentation

  Pitching- If you’re not committed you’ll fail and hate yourself anyway

  Here’s a great clip from YouTube with Michelle Pfeiffer explaining how she got the most important role in her life- Elvira, in...

• Fit Focus Flair

  When the presentation doesn’t matter- England crash out in the first round of a World Cup- Again!

  England was  humiliated yesterday.  Not by its football (soccer) team, or football ‘fans’,  for once, but at the FIFA held unveiling of the countries chosen...

• Stand Out

  Write better proposals- Use a simple story structure every time

  A successful business proposal begins with a compelling framework – a structure for your proposal that sells your ideas in the context...