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If appropriate, give the the elevator pitch and a 1min demo on your live product.

I want to point out the the above snippet assumes/implies a fairly deep knowledge of your intended audience, the problem space you are working in and several other things, any one of which might be the real problem as to why the OP is not getting traction.

Not a criticism. Just ...an elaboration, I guess.

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I think if you want to be successful you need to have good knowledge about your audience. Maybe not when you are first starting out, but you should when you have a product to sell.

You won't be a good golf club salesman if you know absolutely nothing about golf.

That's part of my point. We don't know where the OP is coming from though in terms of how well he/she knows the problem space, etc. If they don't know it well enough, perhaps pointing this out will help them.

If potential customers tell you there's an issue with your approach, that's extremely valuable too.

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