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I am so thrilled today to have an amazing person who I met what about three years ago Ron.

When I was in the world of PR specifically and you had just launched your product which is evolved over time just like I've evolved over time.

So today we have Ron Story Jr. from Pitch TV here who also is one of our

show sponsors which I'm so grateful for. So Ron, thank you for being here.

No, thanks for having me. I really appreciate it.

And I'd love to hear a little bit about your journey into Pitch DB, podcast, pitching, and

you know, using your previous skill set in this thing that's like everybody needs to be

using right now but so many people still don't understand.

Well I think the thing that sends me apart from everyone else that you'll ever hear talking about

podcast or speaker booking or press is we've booked more than 10,000 conversations, right?

So we served about 80,000 pitches a month

for our clients, and that's not including inside of the software that's just on the done

for you side so we know from actually doing it what needs to be done and then we

put that in the software on the other side. So a lot of this conversation will just be kind of recanting

what we've done more than me kind of theorizing.

I'll just talk about the results that we've got.

Yeah, that's fantastic fantastic but how did you

decide to start pitch TV in the first place? Yeah so basically my background is as a

financial advisor so I spent the first 10 to 12 years of my life cold calling people. This was before email was even I remember my first email was like didn't even have graphics in 1996 when I first went to college and you didn't even have a computer you logged

into an email server at the university but in the middle of the hallway so you

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