Tag: Manipulation

Pitch away, no one cares

Posted on by philipdodson

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We spend a great deal of time trying to perfect our pitches, we attend seminars, retreats, buy books and listening to ‘experts’ all telling us how to deliver the ‘killer’ pitch.

The reality is no one cares anymore for our pitches, and in fact, they were too busy rehearsing their’s to be listening to yours anyway.

Want more business?

Then connect with people, help them, share something with them and give them something useful. Build trust, build a relationship and most importantly tell your story so that you inspire them to want to be part of your tribe.

Manipulation and sales are dead.

The truly genuine successes in life are the ones who don’t care about perfecting a pitch or what everyone else thinks, they create something that matters to them and share it with people who will care as they are connected.

The mass is melting and disappearing with it is the perfect pitch.

Trying too hard

Posted on by philipdodson

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Sometimes in life, we try too hard to make something happen.

We get so fixed on achieving a particular outcome and in doing so, we end up trying to control things that we can’t.

The only thing that we have control of is ourselves. We control our thoughts, our beliefs, our actions, everything to do with us.

Beyond that, everything else is controlled by others. Others that we can inspire or influence, but ultimately they will decide, not us.

None of us like to be controlled by others, or feel that others are trying to manipulate us. We do however respond to something inspiring, something that reaches out to our values, that matches our feelings.

When we listen to a person who is talking genuinely about something, with passion, and that person is not selling something, but instead sharing their thoughts, their story and without an agenda, then that is when we feel we have chosen, we have the freedom.

So in business, it is more important to communicate your message and then make it easy for people to buy, rather than trying to control others through manipulation. Essentially marketing rather than selling. Sharing rather than coercing. Giving instead of taking.

The harder we try, the more we have to control and the more we control, the more we erode the freedom of others and push them away.