How To Pitch Effectively To Influencers (Without Being A Pain) And Grow Your Business Fast — With Sarah Jones
Today’s guest is the founder of Introverted Alpha and she is here to talk about how she has grown her business to $317,000 annually. She has been featured in Forbes, Business Insider, The Huffington Post and lots more. She is clearly very good at implementing because she has used Ramit Sethi’s 0 to launch a program to grow her business substantially over the last 3 years. I am delighted to welcome Sarah Jones from introvertedalpha.com
In this episode we talk about how to approach influencers and create a compelling pitch that is more likely to get a “yes please”. Sarah has used her pitching approach as one of her many tools to grow her business in a very short time frame! Her honesty and candour are disarming.
So listen up … Cause there’s a lot of wisdom in her words! 😉
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Books Mentioned:
- The Pumpkin Plan: A Simple Strategy to Grow a Remarkable Business in Any Field – by Mike Michalowicz
- Profit First A Simple System to Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine – by Mike Michalowicz
- Better Than Before: What I Learned About Making and Breaking Habits–to Sleep More, Quit Sugar, Procrastinate Less, and Generally Build a Happier Life – by Gretchen Rubin
Key Points and Insights
- 1:42 – Ash talks about the outreach email Sarah sent and thought it was fantastic
- 4:01 – Sarah’s recommendation on how to make an outreach email
- 8:07 – Being authentic and considerate to your audience
- 9:10 – Test and Learn approach
- 11:07 – Habit Formation
- 15:17 – Email Follow-ups
- 19:14 – Action Steps and Key Insights
- 21:30 – Biggest mistakes in pitching
- 28:02 – Tips on Pitching – How to Cold Pitch Top Bloggers
- 30:01 – Book Recommendation
- 31:32 – How to contact Sarah