Q: Even if you consider your sales pitch incredibly interesting and persuasive, you only have about a 60 second time frame to get someone interested in what you have to sell. You should be able to get anyone interested in what you’re selling in one minute or less. If you sound like you are forcing the conversation, your audience will either become disinterested or annoyed.  Give the person you are selling to the opportunity to ask questions and make comments, and be sure to genuinely listen to what they say. Ask open-ended questions that require your audience to give a complete response. Yes-or-no questions shut down conversation and make you seem closed off from hearing what your audience may have to say. Don’t manipulate their answers. Trying to put words in a persons mouth will frustrate them and make them less interested in hearing your pitch. You would be better able to sell something to a close friend or family member, right? That’s because you have a bond with them that makes them want to help support you. If you are able to build a genuine relationship with a person, they will be much more likely to buy something from you. Even if telling the truth means pointing out a flaw of your product or service, be honest. This is appealing to many people; honesty is refreshing and desired in a salesperson. Thinking you know how a person will respond or how a sale will go will likely lead to disappointment. You will react in a set manner and lack the flexibility necessary for a good sale. Allow your pitch to be fluid, matching both your audience and the environment. Whoever you’re selling to, whether it be a lady from down the street or the CEO of a company, will want to feel justified in their opinions. Should your audience agree or disagree with your pitch, validate them so that they know their opinion is justified.  If they disagree with what you tell them, agree that the way they understand things is correct. Simply help to change their perspective with solid examples and real conversation. Validate their need for your product. Help them to feel justified in their purchase of what you’re selling.
A: Keep your pitch brief. Don’t control the conversation. Build rapport. Be honest. Don’t enter a sale with expectations. Validate your audience.

Q: Take elements of something that happened to you or someone you know and consider how things would have played out if circumstances had been different. For example, if you talked your mother out of going to the grocery store after noticing ominous clouds on your way home from school, imagine how your life would have been different if your mother had gone to the store and it was demolished by the tornado. Go somewhere public where you can observe people coming and going, such as a shopping mall, nightclub, or auditorium. As you watch them, ask journalist questions to yourself about them. Where are they going? What are they doing? Where did they come from? Do they have a family? What do they enjoy doing? What do they hate? Whether you call it a log, journal, or diary, recording your daily experiences with other people, places, and events gives you a written resource to draw from whenever you need story ideas. The more detail you put in your journal when writing down your experiences, the more detail you can take from them and put into your story, enhancing its believability. Spending time with other writers, either by participating in a writing group or by taking a creative writing class, gives you the chance to bounce ideas off other people and draw support from them. Another person's perspective may be enough to encourage you to accept the idea that's been kicking around in your head and run with it, or you can trade story ideas you can't develop for ideas your fellow writers can't develop but that you can.
A: Ask "what if". Watch people. Log your experiences. Get together with other writers.

Q: Many sake varieties are served warm. Instead of warming the sake directly, it's best to heat the ceramic container holding the sake in hot water. Fill a kettle with water and bring it to a boil. Alternatively, you can fill a saucepan with water and bring it to a boil over medium heat. Some sake varieties are actually served chilled rather than warmed. These varieties, which include ginjo, daiginjo, junmai, and namazake, should be served between 40 °F (4 °C) and 50 °F (10 °C). Serve these directly from the refrigerator.
A: Boil the water.

Q: Your toes should be pointing upwards, towards the top of the water. Your knees should be at 90 degree angles. Your hips need to be at about 110 degrees. When your feet are flat against the wall, use them to push off. Your body should shoot off the wall like a torpedo. The harder you push off, the faster you will spring off the wall. As you are pushing off the wall, start rotating so that your back is facing the ceiling. Your belly will be facing down at the pool floor. Twist your hands and look towards the direction you want to twist. Don't move your head. After kicking off and during rotation, you can perform a few strong dolphin kicks. This is optional, and may be something you want to do after you get better. Swim around 10 to 15 feet ( approximately 5 meters) underwater using the butterfly kick in streamline position. Start the pull with the arm that was closest to the bottom as you rotated. Your hand should exit the water as you finish the pull. Now resume your freestyle stroke.
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Untuck your legs and press your feet flat on the wall. Straighten your legs as your push yourself off the wall. Rotate onto your stomach. Resurface and begin swimming normally.