Week Three: Pitching [Carly Oakman, W14]

Because I am not the strongest person to be doing oral presentations, I found a great deal of comfort in the websites that I looked at with advice for podcast pitches. These next few websites are the ones with the most helpful advice for me and will definitely help me with my pitch next week.

1) How to Pitch a Podcast - San Francisco Book Review
    Even though this website focused mostly on pitching podcasts through e-mail, I was still able to find a few     helpful tips. The best tip I learned was their advice to do a "5 Things You Will Reveal to Listeners". By         doing this, you make the person you're pitching to even more interested in what you have to say, why it is       relevant and it makes them want to hear more. They also mention a section that should be included called       "3 Reasons to Book You" which will happen when you talk about why you yourself will be an interesting       podcaster and how you will engage audiences with your personality and make them want more of what         you have to say.

2) How to Pitch and Idea - www.graphics.com
    I liked the advice given on this website, particularly the part about how to make your idea stand out and         what is interesting about it and why it should be accepted and published. Also, the emphasis on how             important it is to make sure that your idea is narrow enough to make a clear presentation of what you             want to talk about and what issues you are going to address in your podcast.

3) 5 Ways to Successfully Pitch Ideas - www.creativeoverflow.net
    I liked the advice given on this website because it broke it down into clear steps that can be easily                 followed in making my podcast. I liked the part about exploring the weaknesses in your podcast before         you do it, to make sure that it is the best that it can be. I will be sure to do this in my podcast.

For all three of these sources, I evaluated them by first reading all of the information to make sure that it seemed legitimate, and then I went to the bottom of the page to see what information was there (author name, about the website, etc.) Then I was able to say whether or not I trusted the website and its validity.

The advice that I was given when I read from these three websites showed me that I need a great degree of detail for my podcast, along with charisma and interesting twists to my podcast that can help me create the best pitch that I can.

Citations:

5 Ways To Successfully Pitch Ideas to Clients & Investors. (n.d.).Creativeoverflow. Retrieved January 26, 2014, from http://creativeoverflow.net/5-ways-to-successfully-pitch-ideas-to-clients-investors/

Berkun, S. (n.d.). How to Pitch an Idea | Graphics.com. Graphics.com. Retrieved January 25, 2014, from http://www.graphics.com/article-old/how-pitch-idea

How to Pitch a Podcast. (n.d.). San Francisco Book Review. Retrieved January 25, 2014, from http://sanfranciscobookreview.com/2013/02/how-to-pitch-a-podcast/