{"id":191,"date":"2014-12-25T18:29:13","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T23:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnelrick.com\/blog\/?p=191"},"modified":"2014-12-25T18:29:13","modified_gmt":"2014-12-25T23:29:13","slug":"writing-the-elevator-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnelrick.com\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"Writing the elevator speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>Have you ever tried to design an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elevator_pitch\">elevator speech<\/a>? The elevator speech not only is useful for describing your business to others, it&#8217;s also a valuable tool for catalyzing your business brand in your own mind. Here is a simple approach to writing the elevator speech. Simply copy and paste the below into your favorite word processor and replace the bold-italic parts with your answers. Then, start editing and tweaking until it become authentic for your vision.<\/p>\n<p>Choose as specific an answer as you can and repeat the exercise for every sub section. You&#8217;ll be surprised at how easily the answers will come when you are thinking of &#8220;a twenty-five year old unmarried female college graduate who wants to start a home business&#8221; instead of &#8220;any entrepreneur&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Give it a shot today and repeat every month to observe how your company is evolving over time. It may surprise you. I guarantee you&#8217;ll learn something valuable.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hello, my name is<strong> <em>your name<\/em><\/strong> with <strong><em>your company<\/em><\/strong>. We help <strong><em>specific customer type<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0like you who have the problem\u00a0<strong><em>specifically<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<strong><em>describe the problem<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0which costs you\u00a0<strong><em>describe costs and pain<\/em><\/strong>. And that really costs you\u00a0<em><strong>underlying pain<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We help you by <em><strong>overview of solution<\/strong><\/em>. This means you will\u00a0reduce\u00a0<strong><em>primary cost<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and will gain\u00a0<em><strong>primary benefit<\/strong>. <\/em>And what that really means to you is\u00a0<strong><em>deeper benefit<\/em><\/strong>. And you can know this is true because\u00a0<strong><em>give brief explanation of why<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Have you ever tried to design an elevator speech? The elevator speech not only is useful for describing your business to others, it&#8217;s also a valuable tool for catalyzing your business brand in your own mind. Here is a simple approach to writing the elevator speech. Simply copy and paste the below into your favorite &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/johnelrick.com\/?p=191\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Writing the elevator speech&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnelrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnelrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnelrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnelrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnelrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnelrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnelrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnelrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnelrick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}