Sales Pitch Speech Assignment

• Goal: Persuade a college audience to buy a product or service by appealing to their needs. Sales speeches incorporate the principles of persuasive speaking in a familiar format and can be fun as well.
• Requirements: Five-minute speech. Visual aids: one required (the product or image of the product). Sources: at least two, cited using MLA. Notecards: five permitted. 
• Recommendations: The challenge of this speech is to choose a product or service that would be useful or relevant for your particular audience. The theme of the speech should complete the sentence, “I want my audience to purchase…” The most compelling research sources are those that are unbiased, not product websites. Failure to cite sources or meet the time requirement will result in a maximum possible grade of “D”.
• Due: 2/24

Suggested outline

Something to inspire