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2. What do you do?

Example answer: I provide techniques to help business people write a successful 3 minute business profile.

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3. Who do you do it for? (... why do you do it, who are your customers?)

Example answer : I work with everyone who wants to be confident when providing their first contact pitch regarding their business and/or service.

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4. What are benefits of someone using your product/service?

Example answer: My customers have increased confidence when using their pitch or profile whether one-on-one or in large groups, speaking with great ease. It eliminates hesitation when asked, "What do you do?", and gets to point immediately, leaving other person in no doubt whatsoever about your business.

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................................................ Words and phrases to *avoid*. Don't limit yourself! ................................................. I only ... I could possibly ... Maybe ... If only I could ... Soon I will ... Possibly It should be ok I'll do my best ... No problem ... (avoid this negative one!)

Q : Can you come up with a strong, positive alternative to any of these?

Q : Have you caught yourself saying any of these words or phrases above? Time for change!

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* Sound confident - your new pitch will impress everyone.

* Your words are important - use right ones to always sound positive and excited about your business.

* Try not to sound too giggly or immature - you can easily make yourself sound professional and friendly by carefully choosing your words.

* Using weak words (as shown above) makes you come across as being indecisive, not quite in control, unable to be positive about what you're doing and when you plan to do it.

* Pay more attention to way you answer phone, talk with a prospective client, follow up a lead ... and be brave enough to change your words if you need to!

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Think you can now write about YOUR business, product or service? Take a deep breath, and start getting your thoughts on paper or computer.

It may take a few goes to get it just right, but keep at it - a fabulous 30 second pitch is worth its weight in gold!

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The issue being referred to here is commercial reality. If it can be shown that only or dominant reason that a particular change in operations is made is to obtain a taxation benefit, then change can be challenged under Anti-Tax Avoidance Measures.

So, it would be wise to think of ways that a business may be reasonably separated into discrete business units. For example, are there local and overseas customers? Can overseas customers be serviced from another company, and therefore not have to be charged GST? They cannot claim GST charged by another country, and higher price to them may make them think about using your service.

If there are adult and children’s classes for martial arts classes, can they be split up into different companies, with neither company having to register for GST? If customers are private individuals, and not businesses that can claim GST, why keep business large and have to pay GST, whether or not you can recover GST from customers in your pricing?

If you have an arts and crafts school, can you separate arts from crafts? Are there different teachers? What is commercial reality for change?

If you are exporting products, they will be exempt from GST. No tax planning is required in case of export of products. So we are talking about services that are provided in one country for benefit of overseas customers or clients.