Friday, January 27, 2012
Elevator Pitch
Not going to lie about not being too excited about this elevator pitch, but I'm excited to improve on public speaking and having a valuable pitch for future job interviews. When I heard we would be doing an elevator pitch during this class I immediately thought of the movie Love and Other Drugs about the explosion of the drug Viagra. The main character Jake Gyllenhaal is a sales rep for Viagra and has to memorize his pitch perfectly and literally uses it in an elevator to score his first sale. On to the pitch, Memorizing is key and my thinking is once you've mastered that then everything else becomes easy. The trick is how to memorize and become confident you will not blank out in front of a crowd or become nervous for whatever reason. I know we talked about different ideas in class and they are definitely helpful, but does anyone recommend anything out of the box or have memorizing skills from theater or anything else?
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I agree with you in not being too excited about having to memorize an e-pitch! Memorizing has always been really tough for me... and nice relation to the movie Love and Other Drugs! I used to do a lot of acting when I was a little kid and I found that if I would think of a song and put my lines to the beat of the song, it was a great way to start to get it in my head. Jingle Bells is always an easy go-to.
ReplyDeleteI too, am not very excited about this e-pitch either. All I have been thinking about is when Professor Micheletto said on Friday that one of us on Monday will completely blank on their pitch. It got me pretty nervous. The best way for me to memorize things is to write them down over and over again. It's worked for me in the past when I really needed to memorize something and hopefully it does for tomorrow.
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