Elevator Pitch Activity

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Elevator pitches are short pitches that give someone an immediate understanding of your idea that is supposed to persuade a person of interest to you. The conventions of an elevator pitch would be proper grammar, no long explanations, and short length. Often people try to establish credibility with the person of interest before they make their pitch. It is most often the pitcher speaks first but it may be the person of interest speaks to you, then you give your pitch after an interest in you is already established .

In our first video, we listen in on an excellent elevator pitch delivered by Jordan Belfort, the main character in The Wolf of Wall Street. The strengths in this pitch are his exciting word choice, the promises he makes, and his overall confidence all the way throughout the pitch. The problem with this however is he may come off as too cocky or overly confident to some people. In our other example, it is two men giving the pitch (taken from The Office). The main struggle in this one is the lack of seriousness in Dwight's actions and voice. He is distracted from his colleagues pitch the entire time and distracts his colleague and the person of interest the entire time. The strengths about this one is that he seems to never stop naming the benefits of working with Dunder Mifflin Paper Company. He has a ready stock of convincing points to win a person of interest over to get them on board with his company. Also, his tone is optimistic and he seems excited to work with the person of interest.



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