{"id":2580,"date":"2016-05-17T00:56:44","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T00:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=2580"},"modified":"2016-05-17T00:56:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T00:56:44","slug":"caseys-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/caseys-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Casey’s rules"},"content":{"rendered":"

For this post I wanted to analyze all the different tips out there on \u201cselling yourself\u201d. As I was reading through the different blogs, articles, and chapters, I decided that I would share some things that I do to build my confidence before and interview, sale, or big pitch. So here are some of Casey\u2019s rules on selling yourself\u2026.enjoy!<\/p>\n

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  1. Pitch to yourself in the mirror.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    When I\u2019m getting ready for a performance of any kind (sports, music, or professional) I find that I am my biggest critic. To get past this I watch myself give my pitch so then I can fix what I don\u2019t like and change what looks bad from a 3rd<\/sup> part perspective. Also it\u2019s yet another method to help yourself learn your pitch from top to bottom.<\/p>\n

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    1. Reassure yourself, not just for the pitch but for the sole purpose of self-love.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      One thing that I like to do is write down positive attributes of myself (and my pitch) and then follow that up with facts to back it up. So for example, one of my attributes may be \u201cI\u2019ve grown as a sales person in the last 6 months\u201d and a fact to back it up might be \u201cI know this because my closing numbers have gone up and I use a completely different method of selling\u201d.<\/p>\n

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      1. Know your weaknesses just as well as you know your strengths<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        It\u2019s important to know what you\u2019re good at, but it\u2019s equally as important to know what you aren\u2019t good at. This takes time, energy, and lots of thought sometimes to figure out. When you find out what you\u2019re not so good at (for me it\u2019s follow through) you can then set specific goals to make sure that you stay on task and focus on building up that weakness.<\/p>\n

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        1. Pitch to kids<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          This is one of my favorite things to do. When I\u2019m going for a big interview or pitch I ALWAYS pitch to my nephew first (he\u2019s 8). I do this for a few reasons. One is that he is completely honest in every aspect of the pitch from \u201cthat shirt doesn\u2019t look good\u201d to \u201cyou keep moving around and I don\u2019t know why\u201d. Granted, sometimes the pitch is over his head but he reminds me to keep it simple, short, and convey all the essentials of the pitch. Not to mention, his attention span is about the time I have to give and elevator pitch so it works out well.<\/p>\n

          There\u2019s some of my favorite methods to \u201csell yourself\u201d and prep for a big performance!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          For this post I wanted to analyze all the different tips out there on \u201cselling yourself\u201d. As I was reading through the different blogs, articles, and chapters, I decided that I would share some things that I do to build my confidence before and interview, sale, or big pitch. So here are some of Casey\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2582,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions\/2582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}