An effective elevator pitch contains clear language that your listener understands and is personalized for the intended audience.

I have composed an outline below designed to help you craft your pitch and have included mine as an example. Once you customize your pitch, practice it until it rolls off your tongue smooth as ice...

Elevator Pitch Structure: 15-20 second verbal business card.

1. Summary label (professional definition).
2. Where you've been professionally (background).
3. Where you are currently (current position/title).
4. Where you are going (aspirations).

Build a Connection:

1. Inform - Cite an interesting fact that will resonate with your catcher.
2. Help - Look for opportunities to help him or her & add some value.
3. Relate - Find something you both have in common, like your favorite team.

Primary Points of Contention:

•Your goal is to plant as many seeds as possible.
•Don't include your education (makes you sound inexperienced)
•Be confident, not arrogant (don't brag).
•It must be short! (15 - 20 sec).
•More generic than specific (think big picture).
•Know your audience (what kind of industry jargon to use or not use).
•Follow your elevator pitch with questions about their works.
•In general, don't ask for anything, like a business card (extend yours first).
•Be unique!

Here's mine...

“I’m a business developer specializing in B2B sales within the finance and technology industries. I have worked with hundreds of community banks & credit unions in the KY, IN & OH markets. I’m currently doing freelance IT work with online reputation management. I help businesses and individuals shine on the web. But looking at the big picture, I‘d like to reconnect with my financial institution network. More specifically, providing IT and/or financial solutions, anywhere from network management/cloud security to wholesale and correspondent mortgage lending”.

It's almost 2 months into the new year and most people are still working on their resolutions and goals for 2019. When setting goals for yourself whether it's during a job search or to land a new job that will promote new opportunities and growth, it's important to set goals and work hard to attain them. To keep fighting even with the going gets tough!

Never have a lack of goals
If you're bored with life- you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things- you don't have enough goals. - Lou Holtz

Vision is everything
If you don't know where you're going, you will probably end up somewhere else. -Laurence J.Peter

Dream enormously big
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. - Les Brown

Persistence makes all the difference
Never quit! It's the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don't quit until you attain it. When you do, set another goal, and don't quit until you reach it. Never quit! - Bear Bryant

Goals gives our lives meaning
The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score. -Bill Copeland
Setting goals and then working ridiculously hard to achieve them sets you on the path of living a purpose driven life

True success is all about working toward meaningful goals and dreams
A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at. -Bruce Lee
Achieving our dreams and goals is fantastic but that's not the most important in setting goals.
The most important thing is the type of person we become along the way.

*Stop playing small
*The great danger for most of us lies in not setting our aim too high and falling short;but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. - Michelangelo
There's no benefit from playing small and setting your aim too low.

Where are you headed?
If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time. - Zig Ziglar
If you don't set your goals in life then it's almost certain that you will be disappointed with your results. You'd be setting yourself up for failure.

Stay Focused at all times
You are never too old to set another goal or dream a new dream - C.S. Lewis
Nelson Mandela was 75 years old when he was elected president of South Africa.
Another man in his 90's ran a 26 mile marathon . Don't ever say you're too old.

I suggest at the end of each week you set up a weekly review and analyze where you are in the process of achieving your goals. This will help you stay on track. I hope you enjoyed some of my favorite quotes. :)

Hi everyone!!

Food for thought for Life:
I feel in today’s world, man or woman is a success who has lived well; laughed often; and loved much; who has gained the respect of people that count and the love of their children; who has filled his or her niche and accomplished his or her task in life; who leaves the world a little better place than he or she found it.

Hardships, poverty, and wants are the best ingredients and the best foundation for the success of a man or woman. I feel our business in life is not to get ahead of other people, but to get ahead to better ourselves and the environment around us.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience you lived in your life. You lived through the hard times. I want you to look fear in the face and you fight that fear until hell freezes over.

Don’t let life disappointments discourage you; you only live once, so let’s go get it!
Life is like a sport, play to champion your goals and to learn and grow from your loses.

Have a great day,

Bobby G

#faith #family #motivation #fitness #entrepreneur #ceo #world #gym #goals #career #jobs

If not you are doing yourself a disservice! Here are 3 reason to write your goals down TODAY.

More likely to succeed: According to a long term Harvard study on written goals; students with written and defined goals earn 10x as much money as the other 97 percent of the class COMBINED. WOW! (Forbes magazine)

Emotion Proof your days: When we are hit with a life blow or are just having a bad day, we can unknowingly panic and get off the true goal path. You may need to find a job before the next rent is due but today the stress is so heavy that instead of hitting your goal for applications submitted you start to look for quick money. Maybe you waste the day doing online surveys that never seem to pay you. At the end of the day your diversion from the goal path has taken you backwards. You lost focus on solutions and worked on short-term fixes. That means instead getting a new pipe under the sink you tape the leak. When we fall off the goal path just like a taped pipe the problem will come back in a worst state in the future.

When our goals are written we can refer to them and avoid the steps backward caused by emotional upheaval.

We know what to do at every moment! The incredible thing about goals is they provide us with a clear direction on action at every moment. We can at any time ask ourselves. “Will this get me closer or further from my goal?” From this point and magic question we can make the choice that empowers our life.

Action steps: Write down some goals that are based on what you desire and not so much based or just escaping the current situation. If you need work immediately set a goal that is passed you just getting a job and is more toward you having the resources you need already in hand. You are a powerful creator of life don’t sell yourself short when writing goals.

You Got This!

You know I don’t even get on this app for posting comments are what ever this app is really for I used this app too make a resume and for jobs . I’m not mad that I made a lot of mistakes in the past but ,I learn form my mistakes . I look around everyone wants something that someone has well I don’t . I like who I am today and I say this becuase a lot of people today are very negative it’s sad sometimes I don’t even think people know that there being negative and some know that they are but swear up and down there trying too give constructive criticism but it’s not really it’s just a power trip too make them selves feel good becuase really for real there not happy in there life are environment that there surrounded by every day . Well I may not be rich and I may not drive a fancy car but I have A high school diploma I’m very intelligent and I achieved a lot of goals in my life I still have more to come so too all don’t let nothing no one stop you stay #Blessed

The easiest companies to work for is one that has a clear vision. One that has a Captain that can see through the fog or over a horizon. Having a person at the helm that will not be detoured from their goal or vision for the company.

I have found this to be true for any sized company doing any type of business. When the passion of doing something great takes over, customers will recognize that passion and want to be a part of it. Employees are able to be more confident because they are certain of the companies direction and future.

A company without a strong vision is like a ship with no-one at the wheel, destined to let the market waves jostle it in every direction.

When life hits you in the face, fight back! When you want to throw in the towel and just want to give up. Pick yourself up, pick up the pieces and push through. You know, it's interesting! When you were a kid, there was no limits, and you constantly kept dreaming of what you wanted to be, how your life would look like or even where you would live. THEN! Life hit you in the face and reality started to set in. You started to think your passion, dreams, goals, was just an illusion, but it's not.