In association with BusinessZone.co.uk's The Pitch 2010, watch live online as former Dragons' Den panellist Doug Richard offers expert instruction on how to pitch your business.
Being able to pitch your business quickly, efficiently, happily and successfully is key to its success. As a business owner you pitch customers, strategic partners, suppliers, potential team members and members of your community each and every day. You have to get it right.
So join us for a remarkable opportunity on Monday 21 June. Doug Richard at University College London, in partnership with The Pitch 2010, will deliver 90 minutes of LIVE instruction on how to pitch your business perfectly.
You'll find it is easier, more fun and more effective than you ever thought possible to get a perfect pitch for your enterprise. You'll discover just how much you can love telling people what you do and why it is important. You'll look forward to seeing the way their eyes light up and you'll discover how and why a pitch can work such magic.
This is an exceptional event, delivered both face to face to participants in London, and online via S4Stv. Sign up now to attend. Not only will you have a great time, you'll master one of the most important business skills you can learn. See you there!
Event details
Perfect Your Pitch will be personally hosted by successful serial entrepreneur and angel investor Doug Richard on Monday 21 June 2010.
Doug has pitched hundreds of businesses, products and services to thousands of people. He's helped the businesses he's funded learn how to pitch more effectively, heard thousands of pitches from businesses who've come to him for money. The BBC's Dragons' Den allowed viewers at home to see just how easy it is for a pitch to fall apart under pressure, but it also demonstrated how the perfect pitch can have investors standing in line to jump on board.
Learn just how much fun you can have pitching your business when you know how to do it exactly right.
This FREE 90 minute pitching master class will take place at University College London and broadcast LIVE as an interactive S4STV webcast. Watch this webcast LIVE wherever you are in the world and join in by posing your burning business questions and comments to Doug through the completely interactive communications feed.
At "Perfect Your Pitch!" you will learn:
- What defines the heart of a perfect pitch
- The financial figures you must have on the tip of your tongue
- How and where to practice your pitch, and how to tell if someone finds it interesting
- The words and phrasings to use and those to avoid
- How to tell people, from a customer's perspective, the why your business offers an exceptional value
- How to look and feel confident when pitching
Who should get involved?
- Owners and managers of growing businesses
- People thinking about starting a business
- Business, marketing and MA students
- Pros interested in understanding financing better
What is included?
- 90 minutes of free pitching tuition with one of the UK’s leading entrepreneurs
- Access to online resources and materials, including membership of VentureNavigator
- Interactive chat room allowing you to pose questions and comments to Doug and his entrepreneurial featured guests including Jenny Twigg, runner-up in The Pitch 2009.
Tickets
To watch and take part in the live webcast is FREE. Click here to book your place.
You are guaranteed to leave this event filled with new ideas, new enthusiasm and new skills!
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