the miamiing, that s basically it. chris. i think i will give him a ten. i can understand the improvement. i think you can get a ten and still improve. i think the pitch is crisp, the information was good. the place i would consider adding, i d take out some word to have more room for the impact of what i feed. what was interesting that you didn t say is i feed bodies, like the product is all handled. you just need the revenue extra money for bodies is kind of cool. so i m excited for you. congratulation, you got one mu examiner about to go online and buy some right now. good luck with everything you are doing. thank you for what you are doing for the world as well. thank you so much for joining us today. if you missed anything openforum.com/your business. will you find all of today s segment plus web exclusive content with a lot more information to help your business grow. you can follow us on twitter and
a board of advisers or board of directors, what itself the ideal way to determine a compensation package or how to participate with that board member. that s a good question, there is something different about a board of advisors and board of drenlors. let s talk about advisers first. well, i have been on several different boards of advisory and one or two directors and the thing with advisory is that usually there is a promise of shares. we were joking they re never worth anything. the compensation package, it s really most time the advisers are looking at how much of my time do youp and what are you asking me for? can i be helpful or are you stamping my name on your product. you want to really understand how you can best work with that person in a way that helps grow them, also that you leverage what they re best at so you can get the most value out of that experience with them. what i was going, what chris talked about is actual lay couple of different things that
10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. it depends on the you are targeting a lot of people or one. chris s point if you are sending it to a mass group of people, constant contact, look at the data and look at the open rates and try a couple of different times and whenever you get the highest little of engagement. that s what you should go with. the beauty of the internet. all data. chris, brad, thank you so much, so good to see you both. we appreciate your advice. stick around. i need you for the elevator pitch a little later in the show. if any of you have a question from our experts, we answer them every week on the show, go over to our would be site. the address is open forum.com/your business-it the ask the show link to submit a question for our panel, if you d rather, e-mail us your questions t. address is your business@msnbc.com.
we become the next under armour and get 10 to 1520% return. thank you. you have come full uniform i have to say. that was one of the bet elevator pitches we ve ever heard. i m not the judge. chris, brad, on a scale of one to ten, i want to hear not how good the product is but how good the pitch is. all right. i like the colors very much. thank you, i appreciate it. brarksd no looking at chris. i just saw that. i gave a nine but i gave a fin because i alwaysly the there is a little room for improve. to add a little bit more. i thought he made great eye contact. i thought he covered all the salient points and gave a relative growth trajectory which we know as under arm our. he did a great job. where is the room for improvement? i think the room for improvement is a bit crisper on
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