Working on My Elevator Pitch
Posted on : 23-08-2010 | By : Danielle | In : Blogging, Freelancing
Tags: Elevator pitch, Facebook, FAQs Help and Tutorials, Marketing, Online Communities, social media, Social Network, twitter
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Day 1 of the 31 Days Blog Challenge is to come up with an elevator pitch. I remember doing this one before but I think I missed the point of it.
The point of an elevator pitch is to have a response to people question when they say, “Exactly what do you do?” (and you know if you tell them that you’re a freelance anything that is going to be the first question they ask!) – you need to have something short and sweet to tell them that explains what you do in simple words.
Now, if you look at the title of my blog I guess it isn’t exactly clear. Text Media? What’s that? I guess that text media is my play on text writing and social media. So Text Media is any type of social media that is based on words – like Facebook, Twitter, or blogging. It can be other things as well – article marketing, bookmarking (although I’m not really big on that yet), LinkedIn…and some others that I haven’t really gotten into so we’ll leave it at that.
You should have a short version to give to those who are just asking to be polite and likely won’t sit through a 3 minute spiel but you should also have a longer version that you can use when they really do want to know what you do.
So, my short version elevator pitch:
I help people with written social media like blogging, Facebook, and Twitter.
And my longer version:
I help people with written social media like blogging, Facebook, and Twitter. I write profiles for their social media accounts, I help set up their accounts or their blogs, and I write the content. It can be as simple as writing a blog post for them a couple times a week or it can go as far as writing the blog post and then spreading it through their social networks.
