When building your own venture, you will very likely get to the point when it’s time to pitch in front of interested people like investors, potential partners or during a startup competition. If – for any reason – you do not want to get in touch with these people, here are 9 things to do that nobody will give you a follow-up:
- Pitch overloaded Slides with lots of text and whole sentences. On top, you have dozens of numbers, which are too small to read.
- Read these whole sentences one by one to the audience. They will be happy to not having to read for themselves.
- Use different fonts, font sizes and colors, preferably on each single slide.
- Always use a laser pointer to enhance the effects of the spoken word. It doesn’t matter if you show your back to the audience.
- During the Q&A, justify as much as possible no matter if there was just a comment or a question.
- Additionally, get lost in a never-ending monologue to get rid of more questions.
- Don’t care about time issues! Take as much as you like. They are all here to listen to you, exclusively!
- Don’t waste time to exercise your pitch at home in front of a mirror. You’re a natural talent and you know it!
- Don’t be authentic! It’s much better to play a role (the acting lessons in elementary school finally pay off!).