How do you craft a memorable elevator pitch that effectively communicates your personal brand? We asked seven business ...

These days there’s not much need for an elevator pitch—at least not a real elevator pitch that’s delivered when your CEO steps into the elevator. After all, remote working has kept most of us out of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Caroline Castrillon covers career, entrepreneurship and women at work. An elevator pitch is basically a concise introduction that ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. You are more than likely familiar with Entrepreneur‘s popular show “Elevator Pitch,” in which entrepreneurs pitch their company to a ...

An elevator pitch is a concise and compelling summary of your business that can be delivered in the time it takes to ride an elevator, typically 30 seconds to 2 minutes. This brief yet powerful ...

Since the 1950s, sales trainers from all over the planet have pushed the elevator speech as the secret to business networking. That was yesterday. “The elevator speech is dead, or at least it should ...

It’s all too easy to fumble your response to the dreaded, “Tell me about yourself.” Even if it’s not an interviewer asking you that question directly, when presented with the chance to explain your ...

The elevator pitch might seem like an outdated idea—something an intern in a ’90s comedy had to come up with for a big presentation. But with increasingly short attention spans, the immediacy of ...

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For decades, inventors, entrepreneurs and even job applicants have often been asked to give an “elevator pitch” — a description of their idea, product or qualifications distilled down to the length of ...

When Anita Attridge worked in human resources at Merck and Xerox, she frequently kicked off job interviews with a standard request: Tell me about yourself. A striking number of applicants couldn’t ...