Listen to “#767 Stop Wasting Your Investor Meetings & Start Mastering Storytelling” on Spreaker.
On this episode of The Small Business Radio Show…
SEGMENT 1 with Donna Griffit, starting at 0:00: The story you tell as a small business, and more importantly as a startup, will influence your ability to attract customers and investors.
Donna Griffit is World Renowned Corporate Storyteller, Pitch Alchemist, and Best-Selling Author of “Sticking to My Story” – The Alchemy of Storytelling for Startups. Donna has worked globally for 2 decades in over 30 countries with Fortune 500 companies, startups, and investors in a wide variety of industries, helping them create, edit, and deliver powerful presentations, pitches, and messages. She magically spins raw data into compelling stories that captivate audiences and drive results. Through her guidance, clients have raised over $1.5 Billion.
- Why storytelling is so important for businesses
- How to tell your story in a pitch deck to investors and other ingredients to a winning pitch deck
- Common mistakes entrepreneurs make with their pitch presentations
- How to identify and express your secret sauce to investors
- How important are demonstrations in a presentation?
- What investors talk about after you leave
- Tips for researching and targeting investors
- Evolving your presentation based on the feedback you get… be careful!
- Important formatting and design elements for your pitch deck
- How the pitching experience for female entrepreneurs is different from male entrepreneurs
SEGMENT 2 with Dax Cornelius, starting at 27:00: You may have heard the terms quiet quitting, quiet hiring, and loud quitting. All of these trends reflect significant shifts in employee behavior and attitudes in the modern workplace. Employees across the globe are reporting feeling disengaged and unappreciated. In a new study that promises to reshape our understanding of work dissatisfaction and its implications on individuals and organizations, Bastion Transform sheds light on factors driving work dissatisfaction in today’s work environments.
Dax Cornelius served as an US Air Force officer (major) and highly decorated F-16 combat fighter pilot. He provides the foundational leadership and vision as the CEO/USA of Bastion Agency which provides full-service marketing and communications across an integrated ecosystem for next-generation communications in a digital era. Dax brings a wealth of M&A, sales and branding expertise, leveraging prior experience with Air Force branding initiatives and having generated more than $1 billion in sales and product launches.
- What’s going on with the global workforce post-pandemic?
- How has the global pandemic and other external factors influenced the “great resignation”?
- Key findings of the Bastion Transform study regarding employee satisfaction and expectations in the workplace
- The factors that truly impact an individual’s performance and the team’s performance—Clarity, Empowerment and Mindset.
- How to provide clarity in an organization. Where does a small business owner start?
- Unlocking the potential of your small by unlocking the potential of the people within
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