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What is Your Elevator Pitch?

What is Your Elevator Pitch?

To pitch, or not to pitch, that is the question....
To this very day, when someone asks me or someone in my purview what their "elevator pitch is" I shudder. Its guaranteed to garner a visceral reaction every time.

Why? Well let me explain.

I have two prominent scars from my early days in Sales:

  1. I messed up my elevator pitch so badly in my 'sales enablement' class, I thought I was going to get fired on the spot!
  2. "Sell me this Pen" - yes, I was actually asked this question in an interview once . . .

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Mark Cope

I am passionate about scaling SaaS organizations. Using my two decades of Revenue Leadership experience, I have honed an approach that yields fast results. I enjoy taking an organization that has huge potential, solves an important problem but might be lacking in execution, and turning that organization around quickly. SaaS startups and scale-ups are at an interesting infection point. Which sales motion is going to be optimal for your organization given the problem you solve, the buyer dynamics and the target personas? My whole approach revolves around levering innovation to drive record-breaking results. This could be PLG-hybrid, PLG-AI or some combination of SLG that is optimized around the bullseye of your ICP. We'll figure out what will drive optimal results in the quickest time.

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