The Pitch Small Business Competition: How it works

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HOW TO BECOME CHAMPION IN 10(awesome) SLIDES

Transcript of The Pitch Small Business Competition: How it works

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HOW TO BECOME

CHAMPION IN 10(awesome) SLIDES

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Whether your business is trading or not, as long as your business is less than three years old

you're eligible to enter The Pitch 2015. Get in!

Some (dubious) ideas from

if you get stuck for inspiration…

- Pirate themed bungee jump- Cheese toastie pop-up - Organic hoverboards- Urban pedalos - Edible jumpers

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Head to www.thepitch.uk and register with an email address. Once you’ve set up an account you can

start filling out the application form. You can do this on your PC, laptop, tablet or mobile! Or I guess a

smart TV if you’re really clever...

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Add an (optional) 100 second ‘pitch’ video. You can film this from a webcam or mobile phone! Upload

straight to your account!

Some video efforts from The Pitch team

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Once entries close on 31 July our panel of expert judges will shortlist 100 contestants to join us at The

Pitch Boot Camps in October. The shortlist will be announced in early September.

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All shortlisted contestants will be given a profile page on The Pitch site, which you'll be able to share online in a bid to secure

votes for The Pitch 2015 Digital Marketing Award. The contestant with the most votes will be announced at The Pitch Final in

November.

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Make it to the shortlisted 100 and you’ll be invited to one of our Bootcamps in either Manchester (8 October) or London (22 October), an opportunity to hone your pitching skills, with intensive coaching and mentoring sessions from experts.

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After boot camp you’ll need to complete a short online second stage application form. This will help our judges to narrow down

the 100 shortlisted contestants to the 30 finalists.

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From the 100 shortlist, just 30 will be selected to compete at The Pitch Final in Bristol on 12

November. The finalists will be announced at the end of October.

*Isambard Kingdom Brunel may not attend live events...

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On Thursday 12 November at The Pitch Final, our final 30 contestants will pitch to a live audience, including judges,

investors and supporters to become The Pitch Champion 2015! As well as the live pitches, The Pitch Final will include networking,

business breakout sessions and much more*

*posh biscuits, high fives, exposed brickwork, a reasonable level of debauchery etc

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Enter now at www.thepitch.uk

But don’t just take our word for it...