{"id":371,"date":"2013-11-22T14:09:33","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T14:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/me.business.holycross.edu\/?p=371"},"modified":"2013-11-22T14:09:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T14:09:33","slug":"pitch-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/2013\/11\/22\/pitch-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitch It!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by alum who wish they had more experience in public speaking while on the hill, Pre-Business decided to host a workshop.\u00a0 Professor Pat Bizzell of the English Department, who specializes in rhetoric, was happy to work with the Pre-Business students.\u00a0\u00a0 In the interest of time, we asked students to rsvp with either a product or personal pitch already prepared.\u00a0 After a short intro regarding style, arrangement and delivery, Prof. Bizzell gave the students time to apply these techniques to the pitches they brought to the workshop.<\/p>\n<p>We set up the video camera and one by one the students stood in front of the room to deliver their pitch.\u00a0 Rather than show the footage in front of the group, it was emailed to each student to watch themselves on their own time.\u00a0 This would bring Prof. Bizzell\u2019s constructive criticism to the next level!<\/p>\n<p>Do you have a personal or product pitch?\u00a0 Keep an eye out for our next public speaking workshop!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/11\/Public-Speaking-111213.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-372\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/11\/Public-Speaking-111213-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"Public Speaking 111213\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/11\/Public-Speaking-111213-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/11\/Public-Speaking-111213-1024x663.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/11\/Public-Speaking-111213-768x497.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cassie<br \/>\nAssociate Director, Entrepreneurial Studies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by alum who wish they had more experience in public speaking while on the hill, Pre-Business decided to host a workshop.\u00a0 Professor Pat Bizzell of the English Department, who specializes in rhetoric, was happy to work with the Pre-Business students.\u00a0\u00a0 In the interest of time, we asked students to rsvp with either a product &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/2013\/11\/22\/pitch-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pitch It!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[69,95,158,172,291,367,371,391,514],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-career-planning","tag-coes","tag-entrepreneurial-studies","tag-faculty","tag-liberal-arts","tag-pre-business","tag-presentation","tag-public-speaking","tag-workshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}