All BIC 2022 Session Downloads
Please go to the Materials tab at the top of this page to download the agenda and slide handouts for each session.
Intro
Isn’t pitching just for salespeople and startups?
Most academics focus on building our understanding of the world and society around us from a perspective that is meaningful to them and teaching that understanding to students and colleagues. It’s challenging, interesting and (at least) intellectually rewarding work. Pitching may seem like the antithesis of the academic communications. Let me see if I can …
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Pre-Accelerator Webinars
Applicants, Judges & Mentors, welcome to Perfect Pitch at Plano & Simple. You can access the videos below just by clicking on them anytime during the Accelerator. Premium Content will be made available to all participants in the Accelerator as soon as the selected teams have been announced. Remember to hold 14 – 16 March …
Workshop Agenda
Link for each session: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83294673938?pwd=MVZaRk9zUDdXQy9FTFdnYmI3Q1JTUT09 Each session runs from 16:00 – 20:30 EET. Please plan to participate throughout. You will be given time for exercises and coaching to implement as you learn. Times listed in the agendas are approximate. Bonus content is available every day if we finish the planned material. Two breaks will be …
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BIC 2022 Links
Jump to scheduling links for one-on-one coaching… Workshop links Session webinars Click here to join live Session webinars (same link for Sessions 01 – 04) Content links by type By Session & Topic PREPARATION THE 10 QUESTIONS VIDEOS GET READY, GET SET, GO! WRITE YOUR ELEVATOR PITCH SESSION 01 PPP PART 1: TUNE YOUR WORDS …
How to Use This Course
The LearnDash platform that serves this course to you is one of the most popular online course options available in the world. Its integration with WordPress makes it (relatively) easy to integrate and manage. However, as with any technical solution to any complex problem, trade-offs exist. My goal is to provide you with both: Simple …
Welcome to Perfect Pitch
Why pitch? People invest in people who they know, like and trust. It takes time and effort to get to know, like and trust someone. Time is our most valuable resource. It’s the resource investors most hate to part with. A pitch is the most efficient way to convince an investor to invest more of …
All Exercise Downloads
New & Improved: Updated exercises on this page Thanks to your input last week, I am restructuring the course content. One of the results is that I am integrating more closely the downloadable exercises with the online pages. If you’ve already done any of the other exercise files, the new version is similar to the …
Welcome to the Perfect Pitch Workbook – OLD
About Pitching Many people think of pitching as just a sales tactic. They spend more effort on smoke and mirrors to make a visually exciting pitch and less on incorporating critical content and well-designed media to make a pitch that is engaging both visually and intellectually. Both of these assumptions will limit your success. Pitching …