CONVINCE CLIENTS TO BUY YOUR RISKY, UNIQUE, AWARD-WORTHY IDEAS.
Even if the concept is totally insane, your client's terrified, and your knees knock at the thought of public speaking.
YOUR BEST IDEAS SHOULD
BE THE EASIEST TO SELL.
WHY AREN’T THEY?
It’s because your creatives have put 10,000 hours into their craft, and less than 10 learning how to sell it.
So you walk away from a pitch frustrated that the client bought the “safe” concept instead of the best one.
You overload your few “client-facing” creatives to compensate for the talented-but-inexperienced ones.
Or you roll the dice when you allow your most creative (yet inexperienced) teams to pitch their own concepts.
All while gritting your teeth as you watch award-worthy ideas suffer death by a thousand cuts.
The best ideas should win. But they won’t without help. That’s why I help creatives become more persuasive than the love child of Don Draper and Don Vito Corleone.
WIN MORE. EARN AWARDS. GET BETTER PROJECTS. MAYBE TAKE A NAP.
With the Sell It Great method:
Internal ideas are presented with clarity and brevity.
Clients can be pitched by the creatives who know the work best, rather than forcing your few client-facing teams to pick up the slack.
Teams will have a better chance to sell in the best idea (duh) but also–
They’ll be better equipped to manage client relationships, so the work has the best chance to survive unscathed through to production.
That all leads to success for the agency, and a serious load off for owners and department heads.
THE THREE QUALITIES
OF GREAT PRESENTERS
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STORY STRUCTURE
Every successful pitch answers four questions. Know them, and you won’t just have a story- you’ll have a client who wants your idea to succeed even before they hear it.
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DELIVERY
Using slides- and your voice- to create engagement with your audience. In short, how to turn a presentation into a conversation.
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ADAPTABILITY
Being prepared to improvise. The skills to defuse, defend, and triumph in the face of objections.
Nice things said by real people
TIME FOR A
THIRD PERSON
INTRODUCTION
BEN LEVY
Ben’s pulled all-nighters for clients like Coca-Cola, Virgin Airlines, Liberty Mutual Insurance, and Jägermeister.
His work has been recognized by the One Show, CLIOs, WEBBYs, FWA, Archive Magazine, and Cannes.
He used to be a terrible presenter. He got better. Now you can too.