Book Titles

Ditch the Pitch
The Art of Improvised Persuasion

By Steve Yastrow

Year Published: 2014
ISBN-13: 978-1590791264
Categories: Buying, Persuasion, Selling

26 Quotes Found

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Ditch the Pitch:

Use the start of a conversation to get you and your customer in sync, not worrying about whether you are communicating a perfect story, beginning to end.

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Ditch the Pitch:

You should always shift your agenda to your customer’s requests if you can.

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Ditch the Pitch:

It is tempting to fight your customer’s truth, denying it, arguing against it, resisting it, but that won’t get you anywhere.

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Ditch the Pitch:

When creative ideas first see the light of day, they are usually rough likenesses of their eventual selves. Great ideas are developed through a series of iterations.

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Ditch the Pitch:

One of the great ironies of human communication is that words can get in the way of effective communication.

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Ditch the Pitch:

…resist at all times the temptation to say anything as long as a sentence the same way twice. Rephrase it. Reword it. Recast it. Rewrite it. Redo it. There are may ways to say the same thing.

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