Role Models

The best writers in the world learned to write in part by reading lots of other good writers great novelists spend their time reading lots of other great novels.

They don’t just read their time and then spend their time reading comics or watching sports and never reading novels they immerse themselves in the world they want to excel at.

The same should be true of you when it comes to giving your elevator pitch.

There are so many places where you can find great elevator pitches.

I mean there’s a primetime show on NBC Shark Tank where you can and on and on CNBC to where you can watch people giving pitches.

Now they’re a little bit longer than what most people consider elevator pitches but some of them are quite brief and you can learn a lot from it because always within the first minute you get a sense of what their business is.

That’s important.

You can go to other web websites like ultra light startups has tons and tons of fantastic elevator pitches.

They’re really brief.

They’re less than three minutes of Internet startups here in New York City.

Just go to YouTube and type an elevator pitch and you’ll see all kinds of examples so don’t try to just come up with something from scratch in a vacuum.

Learn from what other people do.

Now if there are people in your industry you know or good at it research that go to their Web sites don’t copy anyone’s style or say exactly what they’re saying but have influences.

If you spend hours and hours and hours looking at other people give great elevator pitches it’s going to rub off on you solve it.

It’s going to shape your thinking it’s going to elevate your standards.

So before we really dive in here I do want you to spend a little time finding some elevator pitch role models so please do that now if nothing else just go to youtube and type in great elevator pitches see what you find.

See what you like.