Elevator Pitch - Going Up?

Elevator Pitch:

“An elevator pitch (or elevator speech) is an overview of an idea for a product, service, or project. The name reflects the fact that an elevator pitch can be delivered in the time span of an elevator ride (for example, thirty seconds and 100-150 words).”

[Wikipedia April 6th 2009 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevator_pitch]

Typically the ‘elevator pitch’ is intended for possible funding sources, such as Venture Capitalists or Angel Investors. For me, I’m not intending to go out for funding for List Central, I’m bootstrapping this one the whole way, but I have still found the need to hone my elevator pitch. There are many occasions when a quick, succinct, and intriguing summary of your project is needed.  Networking events, social events with friends and family who want to know how you spend your time, discussions with potential collaborators, and  attracting future users. Darren Rowse, of Problogger, suggests to the students of his 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Challenge that the most important reason to compose an elevator pitch is to ensure that “YOU as a blogger to have thought through and crystallised in your mind what your blog is about“. I must say, I agree with him, both for bloggers, and for small business owners who aren’t necessarily looking for funding such as myself.

With all of this in mind, I set out to write my elevator pitch for List Central. What do you think of it? Le me know in the comments, because I would love to know.

List Central Elevator Pitch

An emerging publishing platform found somewhere between blogging, and micro-blogging to be known as List-blogging. With the social ranking of Digg, the utility of  Remember the Milk, the link and image sharing  Delicious and Flickr and the content ownership of Facebook, coming together to create a niche online social community and utility for people who love lists.

The flexible interface enables users to create, manage, and share lists of any variety, for the purpose of fun, organization, online social interaction, and even self-promotion. With both public and private lists, List Central allows users to organize their thoughts, work flow and life management, while also having fun sharing lists with others. Bloggers will find List Central to be particularly beneficial, as it can be used both to organizing blogging activities, and to promoting posts in a new and interesting way.

Created by a creative and highly motivated web-prenuer who is skilled in the fields of web development and design, and is eager to build List Central into a much loved loved corner of the Internet for a wide variety of users.

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