The Pitch is a biweekly series which polls our readers on a variety of subjects ranging from investment decisions, political situations, to a possible review of a business idea. The purpose is to not only help our readers gain a better perspective on an issue but to also allow them to bounce ideas off of each other. A successful pitch helps to create a creative and responsive environment to share ideas and where honest opinions can be voiced on the subject at hand.
The Pitch is set to deliver on every Tuesday and Friday along with our Ebook Series. Readers may choose to receive both biweekly series via our RSS Feed, or may view them directly on our site.
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One of the best parts of The Pitch is allowing our readers to submit their ideas, questions, or business ideas to us for us to use in the series. Submitters should take note that while we might receive several submissions for an upcoming pitch, only the best submitted one will make the cut each Tuesday and Friday. All submitted pitches should meet the listed below criteria to even be considered for inclusion in the series.
Do not submit more than 2 different pitches a week.
Do not submitted the same pitch more than once.
Pitches should not include more than 1 subject matter.
Pitches must be at least 200 words long.
Proper styling must be used.
Proper grammar must be used.
No inappropriate language, condescending tones, or attitudes. No call to action against a subject, person, or item.
No inappropriate self promotion.
Any included facts must be accurate.
All included sources must be referenced.
Double check any included code.
If possible, an image should be used to make the pitch more interesting. Hotlinking the image is acceptable.
Pitches should be business, investment, question, idea, or opinion(survey) related.
Acceptable: A submitted pitch asking if you where in charge of the government bailout how specifically would you do things differently than what has been done. The pitch would touch on 5 various points of the government bailout and the author could explain how they would do things differently.
Acceptable: A submitted pitch explaining an investment. The pitch would touch on how they became involved in the investment, whether or not it was profitable, and what mistakes they made and specifically ask from the audience how they could have done things differently to have made the investment better.
Acceptable: A submitted pitch asking the reader to give their opinion about a product, business idea, or website. Care should be taken to not make the pitch sales like or overly instructive. The pitch could inform the reader that the author has a product (ex. cell phones) that is marketed on the net and that would like opinions on a marketing decision to increase awareness of the product.
Unacceptable: A submitted pitch explaining why people should visit a website, buy a product, or use a service.
Unacceptable: A pitch explaining why a service, product, or website is better than another service, product, or website.
Unacceptable: A sales pitch of any kind.
Below you may submit your pitches to us for review and possible use in our bi-weekly The Pitch series. Please makes sure you have read and understand the Submission Rules(Click to read) prior to submitting a pitch to us, as any submitted pitch to us will only get reviewed once.
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