Elevator Pitch Links

6/12/2007

Listed below are links to a number of articles, presentations, and books that discuss how to create a good Elevator Pitch (with the best resources at the top of each list).

The Best Articles About The Elevator Pitch

• Bill Joos Fast Company Interview - Page 1
• Bill Joos Fast Company Interview - Page 2
• Bill Joos Fast Company Interview - Page 3
• The One-Minute Pitch
• Ten Tips for Perfecting Your Pitch
• What Makes an Effective Elevator Pitch?
• The Art of the Pitch
• How to Perfect the Elevator Pitch
• 8 Steps to Creating an Infectious Business
• Perfecting the Elevator Pitch
• The One-Minute Entrepreneur
• Honing Your Pitch

More articles about Elevator Pitches

Personal Elevator Pitches

• The Key to Improving Your Networking Results
• Know What an Elevator Pitch is? You Should.
• The Thirty Second Elevator Pitch Technique

The Basics of Communication

• Inverted Pyramids in Cyberspace
• Tagline Blues: What's This Site About?
• Microcontent
• Mystery, Mastery, and Mystery: The Ideologies of Web Design
• Why Web Users Scan Instead of Read
• Top Ten Guidelines for Homepage Usability

Presentations About Elevator Pitches

• Preparing Your Elevator Pitch (.pdf)
• Elevator Pitches (.ppt)
• The Elevator Speech: It's Important Role in Science  (.pdf)
• The Elevator Pitch (.pdf)

Books About Elevator Pitches

• The Art of the Start (Amazon.com)

Books About Why You Need an Elevator Pitch

• The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing (Amazon.com)
• How to Get Your Point Across in 30 Seconds or Less (Amazon.com)
• Selling the Dream (Amazon.com)

Books About Presenting

• Presenting to Win (Amazon.com)

Visual Communication Experts

• Edward Tufte
• XPlane

Sample Elevator Pitches

• AllFusion Modelling Suite
• Centre College
• MyHousePrice.com
• Mentor Associates

How Ideas are Pitched in Hollywood

• Anatomy of a Logline
• Meet Hollywood's Mr. Pitch
• The Logline: What is it, Why You Need it, How to Write it
• The Logline
• The Perfect Pitch (Amazon.com)
• Pitching Hollywood (Amazon.com)
• Pitching Ideas Hollywood Style
• Pitching Made Perfect
• The Hollywood Film Conference
• Pitching Your Script

Articles About Presenting

• How Fitch Makes Its (Fast) Pitch
• How to Deliver the Big Pitch
• How Accel Partners Turns Pitches Into Hits

More Articles About The Elevator Pitch

• 3 Steps To A Great Elevator Pitch
• Perfect Pitch
• Creating a Powerful Elevator Pitch
• The 30-Second Business Plan
• Calling all CXOs: How Well Do You Communicate?
• Refining the Pitch
• Elevating Your Pitch
• Your Company's Story: A Turn-Off or a Turn-On?
• Message Modules
• Plan Your Pitch Down to the Word
• The Elevator Speech
• Elevating Your Business With Your Elevator Speech
• What is Your Elevator Speech?
• Ride an Elevator to Fame and Fortune
• The Elevator Speech
• What VC's are Looking For
• Guerilla Writefare
• It Flies, It's On Fire
• Everybody Needs an Elevator Pitch
• 15 Seconds in Hell
• 5 Tips for a Perfect Elevator Pitch
• The Art of the Elevator Pitch
• Make the Most of the Elevator Pitch
• The Fundamentals of an Elevator Pitch
• Pitching a Dream
• Passing the Elevator Test
• The Art of the Elevator Pitch
• Is Your First Paragraph a Turn-Off?
• Elevator Speak
• Your Elevator Pitch