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391. 

     sweetpeanz
     Member

     Hi there

      

     I would love some feedback on my efforts.

      

     Short = Doing Stuff with Kids...fun activities for toddlers and preschoolers...because busy kids are happy kids!

      

     Long = <short pitch followed by> As parents we are told that the most important thing we can give our children is time. But how do we make the most of that time?...and how do we keep it easy and fun to do stuff with our toddlers and preschoolers? The answer is now at your finger tips.

     Indoor activities for rainy days, outdoor activities for other days and craft ideas for every day. Our collection of inexpensive activity ideas is added to every week to keep frustration and boredom at bay.

      

     Thanks

     Tracey

      

      

     Posted 7 months ago #
392. 

     MonjaW
     Member

     hello :-)

     i´ve just started my 31 days journey and i totally enjoy it!

      

     here is my short pitch:

     Make your passion your occupation and become a successful digital scrapbooking designer

      

     and the long pitch

     Becoming a designer is easy when you are mentored by professionals helping you through the long and stony way. We help you to set up your home on the web, market yourself, get into your first store and sell your digital graphics successfully.We take your hand and guide you through.

     Learn Photoshop Element, Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro with us.

     I´ve made the last line bold because I wasn´t sure if I should add it or not to show people that we offer videotutorials on how to learn digital scrapbooking designs using these programs, any thoughts on that?

      

     Posted 7 months ago #
393. 

     Gilang Ramadhan
     Member

     Hi all. Greeting from Indonesia. My name is Gilang Ramadhan, I bought Darren's workbook yesterday, and I just created my own elevator pitch after struggling a few hours for my personal blog.

     {short pitch} I love blogging and adorning wordpress blog. What about you?

     {long pitch} Blogging is sort of conversation online, an exciting way to express what's popping on your mind to share about something useful with others and, wordpress is the best blog engine to accommodate all of your thoughts into a piece of pile chronologically. Want to know how fun playing with your wordpress blog is? Don't delay, let's blogging together with me now! :D

      

     Actually I get some difficulty when choosing on short pitch. It could be something about blogging and wordpress tweaking. Any suggestion and feedback are welcome. :)

      

     Thanks.

     Posted 7 months ago #
394. 

     gnucanuck
     Member

     Well this is going to be the 1st of many posts in this forum as I have taken up the "31 Days to Build a Better Blog Challenge."

     Yes, I am behind in making my posts for the challenge, but I have been writing and rewriting my Elivator Pitch to where I feel comfortable with it for now.

     So here goes nuthing as was said at one time.

     "Turning Our Earth Green. What's it like in your backyard/neighborhood."

     Thats about as short and sweet as I can get it for now.

     I would appreciate it if anyone can make a comment or 3 about it.

     I do have my own hosting and personal website where I'll get this puppy of a blog going here as soon as I get some articles written for it.

     Posted 7 months ago #
395. 

     Denise
     Member

     My blog is called Digging in the Driftless

      

     My subtitle, which I consider my elevator pitch is:  life among the weeds in Western Wisconsin

      

     My longer pitch is at the top of my About Page:

     This blog is anchored in the 44 acres of Wisconsin’s Driftless Area that my husband and fell in love with six years ago.

     We have been catapulted into a crash course on identifying and protecting its complex ecosystems, figuring out how to fit ourselves in with the smallest footprint while exploring how to put some of the acres into sustainable farming and contribute to the local food supply.

     You can peruse my research, hands-on experience and musings including:

     • Prairie restoration
     • Green architecture
     • Gardening
     • Small scale sustainable farming
     • Vegetarian and locavore lifestyle

      

     Posted 7 months ago #
396. 

     marcdavid
     Member

     Very short pitch:

     Build muscle and burn fat with Natural Bodybuilding expert, Marc David, your NoBull concierge.

     Longer pitch:

     Helping to educate and guide people about natural bodybuiilding through proper nutrition and training. I distinguish myself from all the other 'fitness experts' by being somebody you can come to without any prior knowledge of fitness or bodybuilding and get a simple education without the hype and the need for a science degree.

     Any comment or suggestion on my pitches welcome... :)

     Posted 7 months ago #
397. 

     wonderwebby
     Member

     Thank you! My elevator pitch has changed a few times over the last couple of years. But the tips in 31Days helped me to get it right. I think. For now :) When I first started it was "wondering about the wonderful webby things. But now it's:

     Wonderwebby: Imagine New Ways to Make a Difference

     (I had included "Using Social Media" at the end...but with the name Wonderwebby, I'm hoping the tech bit is already evident!)

     I'm still getting the longer pitch right, but so far it read:

     " I hope you discover inspiration and creative ideas on this blog, so that you can imagine new ways to make difference with social media. Perhaps you are looking for ways to help people collaborate in your community or workplace. Perhaps you want to change the world through your non profit, aid organisation or government agency. Wherever you live, work or volunteer I’m certain that you can find simple, effective and fun ways to use social media."

     I expand on this with the themes I write about. Perhaps I should include them in the above paragraph instead, somehow. Thanks for the challenge and tips!

     "The three themes I’m writing about in 2010 are LIVE, PLAY and CREATE.
     

     • LIVE: to share ponderings from a working mother on motivation, time management and finding focus, so that you can do good.
     • PLAY: to enjoy learning, find inspiration and join in fun online creative challenges (this is my favourite!) so that you can do good.
     • CREATE: to discover practical steps to create social media, so that you can do good."

      

      

     Posted 7 months ago #
398. 

     leahmariephoto
     Member

     Hi everyone!

     I'm just starting on my two blogs.

     The first is for my business, blog.leah-marie.com.

     Short: Love and Life in Buffalo. Captured.

     Elevator: The Leah MacVie Photography Blog captures wedding, photography, and Buffalo trends. Discover tips for planning your wedding in Buffalo, and connect with local vendors. If it is photography you seek, learn more about Leah and view her calendar for current bookings. View Leah’s current work and projects.  

     The second if for my personal/education blog, leahmacvie.com.  

     Short: Educational trends you can build on.

     Elevator: I love learning about educational trends, and I love sharing what I learn. I believe that we need choices and options in order to solve educational issues. I know education can save the world. I blog for those who want to listen.  

     This was a really hard process, and I'm still not sure about them, like most others. I think these will probably turn into an evolving process and they'll get tweeked as I become more sure of the blog content.  That's about all the advice I can give others as well: treat it as something you can evolve on.

     *******

     
     

     www.leahmacvie.com (Education, Inspiration, and Technology)

     Posted 7 months ago #
399. 

     explorelife
     Member

      I just got my 31 days thanks to the kindness of my wife.  She is a gem.

     
     

     My elevator pitch is:  A Personal Journey In Changing Times: Finding Peace, Passion and Purpose

     
     

     So many great ideas here.  Nice work letting your creative genius shine.

     Joseph at www.explorelifeblog.com
     

     Posted 7 months ago #
400. 

     austinhmorgan
     Member

     Hey everyone - I'm Austin Morgan from the personal finance blog Foreigner's Finances. I'm pumped to meet some new bloggers, learn a ton, and improve my site. I just finished Day 1 and here's what I came up with:  

     Foreigner's Finances - Mapping the Money in Your Life

     I'm Austin Morgan - the foreigner.  I'm a twenty-something American teaching English in Japan, and I'm not immune to the money battles we all will face in life. Don't you wish we had a money map in our lives sometimes? Loans, savings, debt, mortgages, and careers - it never seems to get any easier.

     Foreigner's Finances is the co-captain through your inaugural money journey. FF will not only guide you through the new money decisions you'll face in your life, but it'll provide you a friendly face to learn from, bounce ideas off, and relate to.

     Japan's played a huge role in my life, and FF we'll also take a look at what we can learn financially, and personally, from not just the Japanese, but other cultures as well. Perspective is inspiration and we can learn a lot about ourselves by stepping outside of our personal space bubbles and getting our minds reworked sometimes. Let's face it, we're all global now.

     Come along for the ride as we explore ways to dominate our finances, prepare for the future, and maximize our lives. Are you with me?

     :::: So what do you guys think?

     Posted 7 months ago #
401. 

     fiyah
     Member

     My elevator pitch for my blog, Weird Amazon Shit, is this:

      

     The biggest online store has some seriously weird shit. Here's where you can find it.

     The biggest online store has some seriously weird shit. Here's where you can find it.

     
     

     <a href="http://weirdama

     Posted 7 months ago #
402. 

     Christie.m.will
     Member

     Hi, I’m Christie and I am only doing this because I firmly believe that if I don’t start using my mind again for something other than coming up with new ways to keep my two year old and four month old from slowly driving me insane, my brain will shrill up and die.

      

     My blog The Red-Headed Step-Child  how I, a bitter jobless, stay at home mommy, amusingly navigate my way through, meltdowns, mayhem, and martinis.

      

      Any feedback is appreciated!

     http://thered-headedstep-child.blogspot.com/

     Posted 7 months ago #
403. 

     The_Wandering_Scientist
     Member

     *Sigh* I'm always late to the party.

     
     

     Anyway, my blog is Learn Chinese Fast Online.

     My elevator pitch is "A newbie's journey to learn Mandarin Chinese in 1 Year"

      

      

      

      

     Posted 7 months ago #
404. 

     MLCs Mom
     Member

     Hey! Just wanted to share my link on my pitch... http://www.mommymadnessonline.com/2010/01/day-1-elevator-pitch-2/. It was pretty easy to do.  Just took some info from my blog title, about me and tweaked it a wee bit! Would love your feedback. 

     Posted 7 months ago #
405. 

     lindacamurato
     Member

     Hello everybody,

     I started a blog about wealth manifestation. I realized I am already stuck with task/day number 1 :-(

     I called my blog wealthmanifestology.com, the science of manifesting wealth,

     I am a fan of the law of attraction stuff that talk about the process of manifesting, and I also like to give people reviews and links about business opportunities. Would you help me combine both aspects? How can I present a blog that will talk about both. 

     My wish is to explain that the secret teachings focus on the mindset while there must be Action too or you manifest nothing. And that is because people need to take action that I wanted to talk about great business opprtunities...

     I don't know if it makes sense at all,

     Thank you for sharing your thoughts,

     Linda

     www.wealthmanifestology.com

      

     Posted 7 months ago #
406. 

     tattertots
     Member

     Hi, this is what I came up with:

     Colorful scoops of a mix-marriage couple, ex-nomads, with one toddler in tow. Place where the slightly Americanized wife channels her mundane sometimes knotty thoughts on mommyhood, toddlerhood, living back in her home country, occasional traveling loaded with photographs from her aperture challenged fingers.

     While for the short one it’s a bit more challenging. I’ve come up with several ideas but like these the most:

     “Have a scoop (or two)…sprinklers provided”

     “Have a scoop (or two)…life is just that colorfully delicious”

     “Scoops on living, mommyhood, toddlerhood and everything else around the loop”

      

     I’m leaning on the last tag line, what do you think? Any input is highly appreciated! Thank you!

     TatterScoops: Scoops on living, mommyhood, toddlerhood and everything else around the lo

     Posted 7 months ago #
407. 

     simondroog
     Member

     Here's my attempt at writing an elevator pitch:

     A Guide to Architecture focused on Concerns of the User
     We think a different approach to architecture is needed. Architects seem to have lost their way – they focus too much on appearance, fame and glory. We need to find our way back to architecture that is dedicated to the people that have to live in it.

     "Being aware of the basis concerns of people and all the different architectural means can help architects during their design process to produce architecture attuned to the concerns of the users."

     We want to explore possibilities for producing better architecture – architecture that will enhance the quality of life instead of damaging it.

     I've used it in the About page of my blog: http://experiencingarchitecture.wordpress.com/about/

     Experiencing Architecture - A Guide to Architecture focused on Concerns of the User

     Posted 7 months ago #
408. 

     elersong
     Member

     I see that I'm in good company by a lot of people just trying to fumble through this workbook like I am. Let's hope this isn't a sham like so many others that I've paid for. :(

     Anyway, here's my Elevator Pitch for MPSN:

     MyPersonalScienceNerd explains advanced level science to beginner level people.

     So far, that's my favorite. I've also come up with four others that I'm not really crazy about, but feedback is ALWAYS welcome.

          MPSN removes the hard from the hard sciences.
         MPSN feeds curiosity about our world and it's workings.
         MPSN - Couldn't you be doing better in biology/chemistry/enviro class?
         MPSN - Trust Us, Biology/Chemistry/Enviro isn't ACTUALLY difficult.

     In case they didn't do a good job of conveying the point of the blog, it's an online natural science reference magazine that's meant to cater to the background and skills of normal people who haven't had years of classes. It's a great place to get little questions answered like "why is the sky blue?" or "why does oil float on water?" It's also a wonderful reference for students who don't understand what their teachers are trying to teach them because the site also covers skills like calculations and lab technology.

     Essentially, we translate the textbooks from professorspeak into regular english.

     Feedback?
     

     MyPersonalScienceNerd 

     
     

     Posted 7 months ago #
409. 

     Melissa @Cellulite Invstgtn
     Member

     @elersong I like the first two taglines the best. I think the emphasis on a weak word like "actually" in the last one makes it less compelling. Maybe you could think of a word or phrase that would give more meaning to that line? Also, all the slashes are distracting. Maybe you could play of the "personal science nerd" idea and create a tag line about how your personal nerd is doing the heavin thinking for you... (just a vague idea, you'd have to polish it up. A lot!)

     Here is my first elevator pitch for the Cellulite Investigation. It's longer than the others I've read through, but Darren said an elevator pitch could be up to 150 words so I thought it would be okay. Any thoughts on that?

     Short version: "What would happen if our national intelligence system assigned one of its analysts to the Cellulite Investigation? Will she be able to crack the case?"

     Longer version:

     What would happen if our national intelligence system assigned one of its analysts to the Cellulite Investigation? The blogosphere is about to find out. 

     <!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--><!--[endif]-->

     At the Cellulite Investigation, your trusty Cellulite Analyst uses standard investigative procedure to gather evidence on the causes and cures for cellulite. She documents victim testimony, tracks and observes suspects, interviews subject matter experts, and scans the global chatter for hot new leads. 

     Early evidence indicates that Suspect Number One (a.k.a. “Genetics”) acted with accomplices and is likely to be the fall guy in a more complex operation. 

     Thanks in advance for any feedback! Feel free to email/Tweet me if you want to work together on this whole blogging thing!
     

     Posted 7 months ago #
410. 

     chris2x
     Member

     short: The Amateur Traveler helps you find the best travel destinations.

     longer: The Amateur Traveler is an online travel show that focuses primarily on travel destinations and the best places to travel.  It covers everything from knowing what to put on your Chicago dog when you go to the Windy City to swimming with whales in Tonga. It includes both a weekly audio podcast, twice monthly video podcast and a blog.

     ---
     
     Chris Christensen
     Amateur Traveler podcast, chris2x.com

     Posted 7 months ago #
411. 

     elle
     Member

     Ok, here it goes:

     Couple money is about working as a team to reach fufill you passions by working on financial freedom. Love triumphs debt. It covers personal finance from our perspective as we eliminate debt and build mobile income. 
     

      

     Couple Money

     Posted 7 months ago #
412. 

     prolificliving
     Member

     I am still struggling with mine but I'd love to give some feedback to the recent entries...for whatever it's worth :)!

      

     elle: here is my suggestion:

     Money between couples OR A couple's finance - Couple money doesn't resonate so much with me.

     Also the rest of the sentence is a fragment... "working as a team to reach AND fulfill your passions"?

     And "Working on YOUR financial freedom."

     And I prefer "Dynamic" income rather than "mobile"

     __________

     chris2x:

     "The Amateur Traveler helps you find the best travel destinations."

     My first thought would be based on what criteria? Based on my needs and interest as a traveler or your expertise as to where we should go or based on budget and circumstances.....maybe QUALIFY your statement with more focus.

     Ok that's it from me. Now I'll shut up :)!

      

     Posted 7 months ago #
413. 

     wahyu
     Member

     please somebody help me for my blog's pitch.

     http://www.learnfree-parenting.com

     I'm going to write about pregnancy, baby care, and parenting.

     please correct my pitch above:

     "what you need to know to be the best parents"

     where you can find guide to be the best parents

     Posted 7 months ago #
414. 

     elle
     Member

     @prolificliving: Thanks for the feedback. I'm working on refining it. My husband and I are talking about it this weekend (he's my tech support). Hopefully you'll see some updates to our About page.
     

     Posted 7 months ago #
415. 

     SmartLivingDiva
     Member

     New to this so it's all a bit scary but what I came up with is:

     Offering lifestyle advice to busy women everywhere so that we can all have our cake AND eat it.

     It pretty much tells it like it is!

     Posted 7 months ago #
416. 

     Melissa OConnor
     Member

     We are redesigning our current website into a blog.

     Here is my Elevator Pitch..

     Your Ceiling Fan Resource Blog

     I'm having trouble with the longer version though.

     The First Ceiling Fan Resource that is dedicated to Everything Ceiling Fans. We Discuss Popular Ceiling Fan Questions,  the latest Designs,  and News in the industry.

     What do you all think. 

     I know it needs help. We want to be the Resouce people go to when they have a question of are looking for the latest designs & news about Ceiling Fans.

          

     Posted 7 months ago #
417. 

     bjzdesign
     Member

     Hi Gang,

     I just purchased the book and am looking forward to an awesome experience!

     My "Elevator Pitch" is not very long as I am using my blog to promote my book, but here is what I came up with, "The Music, Poetry, and Photography from the Somewhat Lucid Imagination of Bryan J Zimmerman."

     I look forward to your thoughts!

     Kind Regards,

     Bryan J zimmerman

     "I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity." - Edgar Allen Poe
     

     
     

     <span style="font-size:

     Posted 7 months ago #
418. 

     StephenScott
     Member

     My blog is about my paintings - my goals for now is to increase trafic and to increase the conversion of viewers to buyers... selling art on the internet is a difficult task, but it can work if the works are good.  

     My elevator pitch / byline:

     Paintings that capture a tiny instant in time of a multi-threaded story in progress. Take a look around – there’s probably a painting here that you’ll want to take home!

     http://theartofstephenscott.blogspot.com/

     Cheers Stephen

     Posted 7 months ago #
419. 

     Maria Rattray
     Member

     Hi there,

     My blog will be about Attraction Marketing as opposed to traditional forms of Internet Marketing. 

     My surname is Rattray and we often hear others talking about 'getting away from the rat race' - very close to 'getting away from the Rattrays' I think. 

     So I played around with this idea and decided to use a picture of the Pied Piper using music to lure interested prospects, as opposed to rats!  

     

       Anyway, here is the wording I came up with. 

      

     Are you a struggling Internet Marketer?  Are the traditional methods of selling worrying you?  Become the Pied Piper of Network Marketing.  Let us provide you with that 'secret'  music that your rats will be compelled to follow.

      

      

     Posted 6 months ago #
420. 

     ForexTreeDude
     Member

     Here is my elevator statement for the blog.

     The Forex Tree Dude shares his experiences with learning forex to help other Forex beginners know that they aren't alone. It very common that most are not willing to share their mistakes they have made in this industry,  which is filled with pitfalls every were that would love nothing better to separate you from you  monies. The Finical Sector is filled with very polished and well trained people some with good harts and intensions and some not. This is a series that will help the not so well educated, polished and perhaps new persons such as myself, so that they will not need to make the same mistakes I did. As this blog grows we will include others to share the same stories and solutions they found along the way.

     The Forex Tree Dude

     Posted 6 months ago #

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