Posts Tagged ‘elevator pitch’

Big shout out to Brian Anthony Hernandez of BusinessNewsDaily.  He mentioned some of my ideas and the book with several other experts in his on-line article today. Check it out

My friend and colleague, Sunny Kobe Cook, sent me an interesting and timely article from the Harvard Business Review blog.  It was a post by Michael Schrage, a research fellow at MIT, titled “How Your Smartphone Will Transform Your Elevator Pitch.” He recounted some recent conversations he had with entrepreneurs who used their Smartphones to augment their pitch about their businesses. Worth reading if you want to know what’s next in networking.  Guess I need to get better acquainted with my new Droid!

There’s a new article featuring eight tips for crafting your elevator speech. It’s based on an interview I did with Alan Hughes of Black Enterprise Magazine.  Alan did a great job of capturing the foundational tips for standing out and building your business networks.  Click here for the article

Also coming soon is the second edition of my book. It has a new chapter on the elevator speech and personal branding and some new tips in the media section on new web and social media.

It’s already available as an e-book on my site. We’ll have the actual books available by the end of July.

“Your little book was a big hit in my course” says Kathy Berggren, who teaches communications at Cornell University. Using my framework for getting to the “meat of the matter” Kathy’s students were able to experiment with creating effective statements about themselves which they can use in a variety of ways including looking for  work.  They also suggested that I include more details about using the elevator speech for personal branding, job searching, and career transitions.  Great feedback and I am working on the second edition of the book right now and was planning a chapter on how to craft an elevator speech for job hunting!  Thanks to Kathy and her students!  And they will continue to use my little book at Cornell University! Yowser! That’s way cool!