Pitch Perfect, Bill McGowan
Pitch Perfect, Bill McGowan
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Pitch Perfect
How to Say It Right the First Time, Every Time

Author: Bill McGowan

Narrator: Bill McGowan

Unabridged: 7 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 04/01/2014


Synopsis

Media guru and Emmy Award-winning correspondent Bill McGowan—coach to some of the biggest names in business and entertainment, including Eli Manning, Kelly Clarkson, Jack Welch, Thomas Keller and Kenneth Cole teaches you how to get your message across and get what you want with pitch perfect communication.  He is also a trusted advisor in the C-suites of tech companies like, Facebook, Spotify, AirBnB, Dropbox and Salesforce.com.Saying the right thing the right way can make the difference between sealing the deal or losing the account, getting a promotion, or getting a pink slip. It’s essential to be pitch perfect—to get the right message across to the right person at the right time. In Pitch Perfect, Bill McGowan shows you how to craft the right message and deliver it using the right language—both verbal and nonverbal.Pitch Perfect teaches you how to overcome common communication pitfalls using McGowan’s simple Principles of Persuasion, which are highly effective and easy to learn, implement, and master. With Pitch Perfect you can harness the power of persuasion and have people not only listening closely to your every word but also remembering you long after you’ve left the room.

About Bill McGowan

Bill McGowan is the founder and CEO of Clarity Media Group. A two-time Emmy Award–winning correspondent, McGowan has conducted hundreds of interviews with newsmakers, CEOs, celebrities, authors, editors, attorneys, and athletes. McGowan now uses that experience to coach and train everyone from corporate CEOs to celebrities such as Spotify Founder and CEO Daniel Ek, actor Rob Lowe, jazz great Wynton Marsalis and baseball superstar Alex Rodriguez. He also speaks regularly to large corporate audiences at such companies as VISA, Comcast, L’Oréal, NFL, Netflix and Meta. He lives in New York City.


Reviews

Seven Principles of Persuasion: Headline principle: start with best material Scorsese Principle: Hold your audience's attention with visual images. No-Tailgating Principle: Avoid verbal fender-benders and career-wrecking moments by maintaining a safe talking distance. The Pasta-Sauce Principle: avoid b......more

Goodreads review by Maren

The kind of book you should read once in a while to brush up on the basics of public (and semi-public) speaking. It would have been even better if it was 100 pages shorter and didn’t read like an infomercial for McGowan’s consulting business.......more

The final message I received was "Practice as much as you possibly can."......more