Streetlance Blog

Hello Streetlance Member, 

• A pitch should be creative and uploaded with a real video or pictures of your own. Posting a pitch, which includes material that isn’t yours and claiming it as your own is considered copyright infringement. No warning will be given if such a situation arises, your account will be banned. 

• Providing any kind of contact information, like email addresses,  phone number, skype address etc, in a pitch is strictly prohibited. 

• Offsite links are allowed. If  used, they should be relevant to the pitch. You may include a link to soundcloud or youtube to showcase your work. Referring to a webpage with examples of your work and/or portfolio is permitted, provided that there are no contact information on it as well. 

• You are responsible for ensuring that the linked content is safe and complies with this site’s content rules. We do not allow advertisement or spam. Offsite links may be removed without notice, as with pitches with no other content than a link. 

• You may provide as many internal links in a pitch as you like. For example: If you have 5 pitches, you may provide internal links to your other pitches in a pitch. 

As much as we love the idea of being able to sell pitches just by offering creativity, skills, introducing yourself and showcase your work, the reality is that it takes a much more unique approach to achieve this. Therefore we have a few tips here to improve your selling:

• Don’t sell anything you’re not good at or familiar with. Quality is important. A few bad reviews can kill your selling in the future. 

• Be clear about what you are selling. Provide a clear description of yourself and what exactly you can do for that amount of price. The buyer should know what to expect and get from ordering your pitch as to avoid cancellation or disappointment from both parties.

• Make a video posting. Uploading a video with an introduction and example of your product or service will create more goodwill. Video postings are much better received and more personal towards the audience.  

• Create more pitches and be creative with it. There are a variety of products or services you can offer with a certain kind of skill. Show people the possibilities and the numerous products/services you can provide by being an artist.

• Commercialize your talent and convert your pitch into sales. What are the needs in your niche? Think about hot topics in the media and trends. I have a great example for this. I used to know an artist selling comic fans a cartoonized drawing of themselves and their favorite comic character standing next to them. Very cool idea right? It was so well received, that he even got orders from Bruce lee fans, making drawings of people and their idol standing next to each other. 

• Promote your pitches socially. So you have spend time and effort creating your own unique and catchy pitches. Don’t forget to spread it in your own social network. Share your pitch with your Facebook friends, ask them to like it and post it on Twitter on a regular basis. This is a very effective way of getting noticed. Pitches that are socially active receive better ranking in our popularity search. Once you made your first sale, make sure that your buyers are happy. Positive feedbacks is the key to continuous business and getting noticed by other buyers.