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Entrepreneurs are Performers Marylene Delbourg-Delphis Twitter: @ mddelphis Blog: Grade A Entrepreneurs

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Page 1: Marylene Delbourg-Delphis : Entrepreneurs are Performers

Entrepreneurs are

Performers

Marylene Delbourg-Delphis Twitter: @mddelphis

Blog: Grade A Entrepreneurs

Page 2: Marylene Delbourg-Delphis : Entrepreneurs are Performers

You must tell your story to…

•  Partners •  Employees •  Mentors, Advisors, VCs… •  Friends & Family •  And of course… customers •  You are an evangelist who wants to be evangelized

Entrepreneurs are actors

Page 3: Marylene Delbourg-Delphis : Entrepreneurs are Performers

Poetae nascuntur, fiunt oratores

•  Even if you are an engineer…

•  Even if you are shy •  Etc…

•  You must sell, and to do that, you must be able to recount what you do.

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Simple tips •  Share your passion as often as you can to hone

your skills: Make it clear to any audience

•  See if people can repeat your story – and what they remember.

•  Write your script. Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse until it becomes natural.

•  Avoid empty adjectives and buzzwords: Live in everybody’s daily life.

•  Listen how customers speak of their problem to have the right words.

•  Share your customers’ passion: your story is yours when you speak like them – yet better…

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Thank you!

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