Episode 393: TMBA393: How to Pitch
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2017
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
http://www.tropicalmba.com/howtopitch/ It's safe to say that Dan and Ian get a lot of pitches in their inbox.
These pitches come in a variety of forms, but the people that send these pitches often follow a lot of the same archetypes. In general, there is a whole lot of asking going on.
On today's episode, Dan and Ian will be following up on their recent sales episode, and providing some useful, actionable information on how you can pitch people successfully through cold emails.
First, they will be sharing some successful pitches they have received, as well as the types of pitches they dread seeing in their inbox.
They will also be sharing a three-step formula to creating winning pitches that won't end up being archived or deleted.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey podcast listener, even if you are alone in your entrepreneurial journey, know that today, right now in your earbuds, you are joined by thousands of entrepreneurs from all around the globe seeking to grow better, more profitable, location independent businesses. |
| 0:17.8 | If you'd like to learn more about what we do and download our entire back catalog, check |
| 0:23.2 | out tropical MBA.com. |
| 0:31.0 | Bossman, are you there? |
| 0:34.7 | I'm here. |
| 0:35.5 | You're here. |
| 0:36.0 | Okay. |
| 0:36.6 | On today's episode, we are going to follow up from our recent sales episode and provide some useful, actionable information about how you can make more sales in your business, specifically how you can pitch people. That is cold pitch people or warm pitch people via email. Now, you know you're no stranger to |
| 0:56.9 | getting lay pitches. I'm skeptical. Very skeptical. You get a lot of lay pitches in your lay inbox. |
| 1:03.1 | I don't know. Probably about as many as you do. I get quite a few. There's a lot of asking going on. |
| 1:08.3 | And I think it's worth taking time to differentiate the types of asks that are successful |
| 1:14.1 | versus the ones that get the old archive button in the Gmail. |
| 1:19.2 | We're going to get into this, but the other day I responded to a couple cold pitches |
| 1:23.6 | that I probably shouldn't have. |
| 1:25.0 | Oh, no. |
| 1:25.5 | Like I knew better. |
| 1:26.5 | Everybody does it. |
| 1:27.7 | Yeah. I don't know if I was no. Like I knew better. Everybody does it. Yeah. |
| 1:28.1 | I don't know if I was like bored or I was just feeling extremely generous that day. |
| 1:32.8 | And yep, right back in my inbox a couple minutes later, the second ask, the third ask. |
| 1:38.7 | And I was like, man, why did I do that? |
| 1:41.3 | I received an email the other day that it was like, hey, Dan, I was just reading |
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