Forbes Riley: Pitch Like a Pro! Sales Secrets That Get People to Say Yes | Sales | E409

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What common pitching mistakes make entrepreneurs sound uncertain and how can you fix your networking intro?

Hala Taha 0:00
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Forbes Riley 1:21
55% of how you show up for somebody else in their brain is visual. 38% is the tone of your voice and only 7% of the words that you use. Yet everybody who comes to me only cares about the words. Most founders make this mistake.
Hala Taha 1:35
Forbes Riley. She's the queen of pitching, a best-selling author, TV host, entrepreneur, and pitch expert who has generated over $2.5 billion in product sales.
Forbes Riley 1:45
There's never been an inventor who pitched their own product. In fact, they sucked at pitching. You know why? Because they know so much about the product. They want to tell the backstory and the this. That's not what sells your product.
Hala Taha 1:58
What is something that entrepreneurs say where you immediately hear it and you're like, oh, if you keep saying it like that, you're going to be broke forever.
Forbes Riley 2:05
If you're a network marketer, I can oust you in about 30 seconds and you don't have to say the name of your company. It's the way network marketers are told to speak. It's horrible. Hi, what do you do? I help so-and-so transform and do this and do that. You missed the point. The point of the what do you do at a networking event is I don't really care what you do.
Hala Taha 2:22
I care what you... How do we go about believing more in ourselves? What are some of the things that we can do to get more confidence before we go on and pitch? This is what I want for everybody out there. So... Forbes, welcome to Young and Profiting Podcast.
Forbes Riley 2:34
I'm very excited to be here. I flew all the way to Austin just to talk to you and be here for your audience.
Hala Taha 2:39
I am so honored that you came out here and I'm so excited to talk to you about pitching. You are the pitch queen.
Forbes Riley 2:47
I've got the crown and everything.
Hala Taha 2:48
Yeah. And I have the new book about it.
Forbes Riley 2:50
So apparently I am the queen of pitch.
Hala Taha 2:50
You got all the pitch secrets and us young and profiters, we want to find those out. So my first question to you is, what is something that entrepreneurs say where you immediately hear it and you're like, oh, if you keep saying it like that, you're going to be broke forever.
Forbes Riley 3:06
As an entrepreneur, having now trained people every single week, over 200,000 of them for six years, you open your mouth and I can tell you don't know what you're doing. You say words like actually, basically, like, you know, and everyone does these words. They play small. When I ask somebody, so let me ask you, what do you do? What do you say?
Hala Taha 3:26
I'm a top 100 podcaster, and I'm an entrepreneur with an eight-figure production agency and podcast network.
Forbes Riley 3:34
You know what you just did that you don't realize, and it's okay if I coach you? Yeah. You sort of shake your head no. Isn't that funny?
Hala Taha 3:39
Mm-hmm. I did. I did stutter a little.
Forbes Riley 3:41
You made me nervous because you're the pitch great. You know I'm nervous. Well, here's what most of you guys do. You start going, hi, what do you do? I help so-and-so transform and do this and do that.

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