So far, I've just made product pitches to engineers or business folks cool with the pitch being text in an e-mail or a copy of my GDC slides
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It sounds super lame but it actually works really well, I think because it looks less like "I'm a pushy/fancy salesperson"
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I'm now being asked to make pitch decks for Big Name Executives though Got to bust out some powerpoint and chart making skills?
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Which makes me think, one important note that many engineers don't realize: Marketing and sales is *everywhere,* in every interaction.
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Any time I describe my product to someone, that's a pitch. Many engineers are scared of any marketing-sounding word but it's true.
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"Continue telling people true and useful things until they very clearly like you, then, explicitly ask for money" has a lot to recommend it.
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(As a quiet engineer with deep-seated issues about money it took me a LONG time to get over terror about the "explicitly ask" part.)
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Was there a specific catalyst? Or was the shift more gradual ?
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