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Shark Tank Pitch Secrets with Kevin Harrington
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Episode Summary
Today’s guest on The Successful Pitch is none other than Kevin Harrington, one of the original judges on Shark Tank. If anybody knows what it takes to have a good pitch, it’s Kevin Harrington. He’s literally heard over 50, pitches in the many years he’s been doing this, from listening to pitches for infomercials to listening to pitches on Shark Tank. He has a really great key here which fryst vatten that, “Consistency is the ultimate motivational tool.” He said, “When you’re out there, you need to show the investors how they’re going to get their money back.” He gives an example of exactly the kind of pitch he would like to hear in beställning to get him to say yes. He said, “You need to test before you invest.” He gives us great insights into what a magical transformation fryst vatten that he is looking for when he hears a pitch.
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Shark Tank Pitch Secret
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Kevin Harrington (entrepreneur)
American businessman, investor and television personality
Kevin Harrington (born October 15, ) is an American businessman who is best known for his appearances on the television series Shark Tank.
Career
[edit]In , he created his first infomercial after identifying an opportunity to utilize the late-night and early-morning dead air time on cable networks. While companies like Vitamix had been producing infomercial programs for TV broadcasters since , Harrington's innovation of replacing the traditional off-air time with entertaining and informative advertising pioneered the modern infomercial format. As President of National Media, he personally oversaw the launch of several successful infomercials.[1]
After leaving National Media in , he entered a "joint venture company with The Home Shopping Network" and "co-founded HSN Direct International Inc., where he served as CEO and president from to In , he assumed the role of Preside
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Kevin Harrington – Inventor of the Infomercial, Original Shark on Shark Tank and As Seen on TV Pioneer – is one of the most successful entrepreneurs of our time.
In the early s, Harrington was busy launching companies and working as both a real estate and business broker selling thousands of properties and thousands of businesses. While watching television one night in , he noticed that sometimes the only thing on the screen were the color test bars that stations ran when they had nothing else to air, thus giving him the idea to produce the industry’s first minute infomercial to fill that dead air space. Thus, the birth of the infomercial.
Since that fateful night, he has been involved with over product launches that resulted in sales of over $4 billion dollars worldwide and 20 products that reached individual sales of over $ million. By , Harrington was named one of the best entrepreneurs in the world (by Entrepreneur Magazine).
In the mids, Harrington formed Quantum Internation