Tag: pitches

  • The true price of sales training

    Studying sales and marketing is expensive. It’s not the courses, seminars, conferences and other sales training that gets me; it’s the “live research” where I actively pay attention to the marketing around me.  Take yesterday for example. The Art Gallery of Ontario called around dinnertime, where Kevin brought me up to date with some of […]

  • The key to the business pitch – that can’t ever be said

    I’ve noticed a trend in the business pitch (yes, I’m a Shark Tank and Dragon’s Den addict, er, enthusiast) wherein people never use the most obvious analogy. In Hollywood, or at least in movies about Hollywood, which I’m sure are 100% accurate portrayals of the culture, there’s this thing where movies are pitched as a […]