The key to a perfect presentation is to practice until you get it right. Another thing is to familiarize yourself with the information that you will be addressing to your audiences. We have been practicing very hard since the day Mr. Wong Yu Vee announced that all the teams will be pitching their ideas in the Breakthrough Session.

When we first joined Maybank Moneytree YES Challenge 2, we were asked to send in our elevator pitch. As we continued expanding our ideas, we found out that the initial elevator pitch can no longer be used. Therefore, we spent some time constructing a brand new elevator pitch. It was hard for us as we need to put in a lot of details within the 2 minutes elevator pitch. Apart from that, it was a challenge for us to find the right words to use in order to be able to deliver the information we want to the audiences.

We have decided to split the elevator pitch into four sections. Each of us will be talking on one section. When we first started rehearsing, we did not manage to speak fluently. As we go along, we managed to figure out how to pitch our business ideas. We tried using different voice tones and different body postures.

Constant eye contact with your audiences is one of the things that we have learnt from making presentations in university. Therefore, we took turns to sit down and listen to each other’s presentation. We pointed out the weaknesses and errors that are made and suggested ways to help each other perform better. We were quite satisfied at the end of the day because we think we have improved if we compare the way we presented at the beginning of the rehearsal.