> As a business person, you're going to have to sell yourself/your services to other people. Perhaps that's not too different from pitching yourself to an "anonymous promotions committee"?
Talking to a customer is (usually) a human process involving an actual conversation. Back-and-forth, incremental, and to the point about business needs of the customer and how you can satisfy them. As a sibling comment said, they have 'skin in the game', they're there to get shit sorted out, they need that shit sorted out and you're there explicitly to help them do it.
Pitching to a promo committee is filling out a form (including fantastic questions like "what's one thing you're good at") where you have no feedback on what the other side is thinking until they tell you 'yay' or 'nay' a month later. Good luck again in half a year. Oh, and those committees will give your packet just a couple of minutes because there's a few hundred of them that they need to handle. Hopefully your packet doesn't get reviewed right before lunch when they're cranky.
Talking to a customer is (usually) a human process involving an actual conversation. Back-and-forth, incremental, and to the point about business needs of the customer and how you can satisfy them. As a sibling comment said, they have 'skin in the game', they're there to get shit sorted out, they need that shit sorted out and you're there explicitly to help them do it.
Pitching to a promo committee is filling out a form (including fantastic questions like "what's one thing you're good at") where you have no feedback on what the other side is thinking until they tell you 'yay' or 'nay' a month later. Good luck again in half a year. Oh, and those committees will give your packet just a couple of minutes because there's a few hundred of them that they need to handle. Hopefully your packet doesn't get reviewed right before lunch when they're cranky.