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Do you feel there wasn't really much of a feeling of you working as a team for this task then? I know you were given seperate pitches to do, but this was still a team based task... |
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Also for Team Inspired - I noticed that Arran wasn't actually involved in the delivery of any of the pitches for your team. I don't think he's here right now, but can someone tell me what exactly he did on this task? |
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Arran unfortunately skipped one whole day so when he actually did show up we had all been almost done with our pitches. So I told him if he'd like to do the pricing or if he'd like to do a still art pitch and we disregard mine (that's how much I wanted to integrate him and not make him feel marginalized) or if he'd just like to review mine and add things to it. He said he liked mine a lot and was going to add to it, which was okay but honestly not enough because I had everything done anyways. And after that I actually asked about him in the main chat twice because I wanted him to help with the questions but he never answered. I just didn't feel that he was involved really though I really tried my best to integrate him.
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Roxie, the prices of my art work was on the website of the artist so no research was carried out for my items.
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I felt like Shadi tried to integrate Arran more for the sake of trying to integrate him than anything else. Anything that Shadi delegated to Arran he could have actually got done quicker himself (as could Roxie or myself, come to that). It's commendable how much Shadi made an effort with Arran, but I don't feel like he should have had to.
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Roxie, the prices of my art work was on the website of the artist so no research was carried out for my items.
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Arran unfortunately skipped one whole day so when he actually did show up we had all been almost done with our pitches. So I told him if he'd like to do the pricing or if he'd like to do a still art pitch and we disregard mine (that's how much I wanted to integrate him and not make him feel marginalized) or if he'd just like to review mine and add things to it. He said he liked mine a lot and was going to add to it, which was okay but honestly not enough because I had everything done anyways. And after that I actually asked about him in the main chat twice because I wanted him to help with the questions but he never answered. I just didn't feel that he was involved really though I really tried my best to integrate him.
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I felt like Shadi tried to integrate Arran more for the sake of trying to integrate him than anything else. Anything that Shadi delegated to Arran he could have actually got done quicker himself (as could Roxie or myself, come to that). It's commendable how much Shadi made an effort with Arran, but I don't feel like he should have had to.
That's disappointing to hear. Aside from this, were there any other issues in your team? One thing that struck me on the evaluations was an issue brought up about George being very last minute in terms of showing his pitch to Shadi and also having issues with the numbers of said pitch, both of which caused quite a bit of panic - can anyone elaborate on this?
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Anyway, getting on to the actual products chosen for the pitches. I must say I was impressed with the selection of art on the whole across both teams, a good range of work was chosen and many interesting artists were picked. Can you give me some insight into the decision process behind picking these artists and pieces of art - were they artists you were already familiar with or were they found through on task research?
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Anyway, getting on to the actual products chosen for the pitches. I must say I was impressed with the selection of art on the whole across both teams, a good range of work was chosen and many interesting artists were picked. Can you give me some insight into the decision process behind picking these artists and pieces of art - were they artists you were already familiar with or were they found through on task research? |
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That's disappointing to hear. Aside from this, were there any other issues in your team? One thing that struck me on the evaluations was an issue brought up about George being very last minute in terms of showing his pitch to Shadi and also having issues with the numbers of said pitch, both of which caused quite a bit of panic - can anyone elaborate on this? |
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Anyway, getting on to the actual products chosen for the pitches. I must say I was impressed with the selection of art on the whole across both teams, a good range of work was chosen and many interesting artists were picked. Can you give me some insight into the decision process behind picking these artists and pieces of art - were they artists you were already familiar with or were they found through on task research? |
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Anyway, getting on to the actual products chosen for the pitches. I must say I was impressed with the selection of art on the whole across both teams, a good range of work was chosen and many interesting artists were picked. Can you give me some insight into the decision process behind picking these artists and pieces of art - were they artists you were already familiar with or were they found through on task research? |
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Before I get to the results, I'd like to ask both teams a question. As I said before, this was a unique task in terms of involving you having to privately pitch to specific members instead of pitching to everyone publicly on the thread. How did you find this different way of pitching? Do you think that you handled the Q&A section well and were able to adequately answer each question?
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I believe that for a first time on having to go through the Q&A, I thought that I did well and it all seemed to go better than I thought it would.
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Before I get to the results, I'd like to ask both teams a question. As I said before, this was a unique task in terms of involving you having to privately pitch to specific members instead of pitching to everyone publicly on the thread. How did you find this different way of pitching? Do you think that you handled the Q&A section well and were able to adequately answer each question? When I actually pitched to him, I felt that it went very well. He said that he really liked the way that I pitched to him and the artwork. Possibly the prices could have been more concrete, and I accept responsibility for that, but otherwise I think I did a very good job. I was surprised that he didn't ask more questions though. |
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I liked this one-on-one pitch because you could basically structure the whole pitch to what they wanted, as Aliyah said on the thread she wanted art that moved her and told a story I could base my pitch around that and present that as the theme across the art pieces. Whereas the structure for pitches for everyone else can a bit more difficult I feel because different people pay particularly close attention to different sections so structure is a little more vague and hard to pinpoint. I enjoyed my Q&A session as Aliyah really enjoyed the pitch and she seemed so intrigued by the processes behind the art in her questions. I thought my answers went well as I presented a series of points backed up by lots of sources and market research.
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To answer your first question, I actually researched about so many Still Artists and chose the one I felt strongly about the most, this is how I came to decide on Elaine Schaffner. I had many others but I felt that Elaine's work spoke to me.
As for your second question, I felt it was a creative way of pitching. It definitely went smoothly, I don't think any pitch lasted more than 15 to 20 minutes. Everything was precise and to the paint, and the buyers were all great. |
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to the point*
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Before I get to the results, I'd like to ask both teams a question. As I said before, this was a unique task in terms of involving you having to privately pitch to specific members instead of pitching to everyone publicly on the thread. How did you find this different way of pitching? Do you think that you handled the Q&A section well and were able to adequately answer each question? |
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Before I get to the results, I'd like to ask both teams a question. As I said before, this was a unique task in terms of involving you having to privately pitch to specific members instead of pitching to everyone publicly on the thread. How did you find this different way of pitching? Do you think that you handled the Q&A section well and were able to adequately answer each question? ![]() As for the Q&A section though it was a bit rushed due to not having much time to answer the questions I think I did pretty well on the whole on my answers though the lack of feedback due to the time constraints wasn't particularly helpful. |
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Okay, I think I've heard enough, we'll discuss the losing team further after results are revealed.
I'll start with the pitch for models and sculptures, which was delivered to Tyjet and done by George on Team Inspired and Steve on Team Aptitude. Tyjet decided the winner of this pitch and the team he would have gone with was... |
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Good luck team. And good luck Team Aptitude!
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Team Inspired.
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Thank you, David! Pleasure doing business with you.
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I'll reveal the results of Katie's pitches now - which was for the still life paintings, for which Shadi pitched for Team Inspired and Naruto for Team Aptitude.
Katie decided that the winning team for this pitch was... |
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