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Want to know how the best sales & marketing people think? Looking for another perspective on a problem? Dreaming of a new career or a startup? Learn everything from startup sales and initial marketing to account management and advertising. Subscribe to The Pitchwerks Podcast. Scot MacTaggart has been a sales rep, a marketer, a manager, a consultant, an executive and an advisor for over 20 years.  He created Pitchwerks to help you to reach your business goals by learning from the experiences of others. Each week, Scot and his extensive network of contacts provide unique insights and examples that can help anyone - from the newbie to the veteran. Learn to present your ideas, explain your value and build your business.  Subscribe NOW.
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Now displaying: May, 2018
May 30, 2018

This week, we take a look at DestyDo, a startup that recently launched after careful long-term planning and methodical execution.  Cofounder Tyler Pratte is in charge of the company’s sales and marketing, and in his short visit to the Epicast studios, he offers Pitchwerks listeners a very clear picture of how orderly a startup can be.  Tyler candidly discusses DestyDo’s partnerships, initial product outline, prototyping, market validation and messaging in an episode that might make some people very jealous.

May 23, 2018

It’s been nearly nine months since Josh Corcoran last appeared on Pitchwerks, and he’s been very busy in the interim.  Josh and his friends at Spare Change (sparechange.tv) have begun their second season of their web series, which combines music and charity to create viral videos.  The second season is more complex than the first, as the new season’s first episode sends the gang to Michigan in a loaner RV from Cruise America. The new season gets even more complex when you realize that Spare Change is about to launch a new series called Food Rescue Heroes, based on the popular 412 Food Rescue charity.  This week, Josh takes us through what’s been changing, and how he’s managing everything.

May 16, 2018

This week, we take the show on the road!  We’re at Pittsburgh’s David L. Lawrence Convention Center to speak with some of the businesses represented on the floor of the Pittsburgh Business Show, where none of the booths has been prepped to be on the show.  Scot speaks with seven different businesses, from food tech to coworking, to hear seven different pitches and how the booth representatives deal with probing questions under pressure. Featured companies include Darieth Chisolm’s 50 Shades of Silence, coworking provider Industrious, and our friend Priya Amin who happens to be working the Flexable booth when Scot comes calling.  

May 9, 2018

If you’ve got your head in a rut, this episode is just what the doctor ordered.  This week, Scot welcomes Dan Finnell into the Epicast Network studios to talk about MindMatrix, a sales enablement product...but the conversation covers a lot more ground than that.  With 40+ years of sales and BD experience between them, Dan and Scot develop a fast rhythm early, and use it to laugh and commiserate on what makes the job hard, what makes it easier, and new ways to think about the challenges of a typical work day.   

May 2, 2018

This week we’ve a real communications expert in the studio!  Norm Goldberg is in the studio. Norm is one of two principals at ThoughtForm, a consulting firm that describes their mission as “beautiful clarity” as they help some of the world’s largest corporations to build and execute multi-layered strategies to improve understanding and collaboration in the corporate / enterprise environment. From the very beginning, Norm and Scot hit it off quickly, and the pace stays upbeat as a result.

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