FUTURE OF SELLING · JASON LIM
What if the first minute made people sit forward, not reach for the pack? Imagine no more filling the silence with a hurried opening, and finally a start that sounds like the work you have already done. Even if you have been told to just be more confident, you can still hold a board table in your own words. It's like finding the note the room was waiting for, instead of turning the volume up on the noise.
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20+ years of coaching, starting with basketball at 16.
Closed $7M+ in deals by 24 and rebuilt from zero twice.
Since 2016, his events have reached 100,000+ founders across Asia.
Our graduates have produced 8-figure results and beyond.
He closed $7M+ in deals by 24, so presence is coached as something that wins a decision, not as a stage mannerism.
Coaching since 16 on a basketball court means the drill is simple: watch the opening, adjust, run it again until it holds.
8-figure results belong to graduates who put the method to work; two accounts appear later here.
The list in the story below starts with names such as Marshall Thurber and Chet Holmes.
P.I.T.C.H. points your opening at one decision, so the first minute earns you the rest of the meeting instead of giving it away.
Each step builds on the last, and you practise it on your own board presentation before the next one begins.
You work on the board presentation already in your calendar, so the change is in your mouth before the date, not after it.
The executive presence coaching in Singapore method, applied to Bangkok board and regional rooms.
A board decides first whether it trusts the person speaking. You learn to open inside that fact, not with a tour of the pack.
Power, Intent, Teach, Close and Habits, applied to how you stand, how you pause, and how you finish the board presentation.
Risk, cost and timing questions are practised until the answers stay short when a more senior person is in the chair.
“Honestly, just five minutes with him is worth not hundreds, not thousands—but thousands upon thousands.”
Vũ Ngọc Hoa, CEO, Enlightenment Education.
“Although it was only for a short 2 hours, I've gained a lot of insights on how I should position my business for greater success.”
Ethan Lin, Co-Founder, Mindreader AI.

"If it's not good enough to teach my own brother, then it's not good enough to sell." That is the standard Jason Lim sets for Future of Selling, the flagship of DreaMaker Ventures. He founded both to offer less pain, fewer regrets, and more time for the people his graduates love.
While he was young, a financial scam took the family's savings. He started coaching basketball at 16 and entered sales at 21, later closing over $7 million in deals. Through DreaMaker Ventures and Leaders of Tomorrow, he teaches founders to make their value clear. Through it all he learned from renowned mentors: Marshall Thurber (creator of Money & You®), Joel Bauer, Tony Robbins, Chet Holmes and Bob Proctor. Among those who trained with him are leaders from Skystone Asset Management, Signarama Singapore, Enlightenment Education, Mindreader AI and 8Yolk Design Studio.
The opening is busy, the point is late, and people start checking the pack instead of listening.
The content is sound, but the delivery undercuts it, especially when a more senior person is in the chair.
Under pressure the answers get longer, and the room hears uncertainty instead of a decision.
Time buyers spend with suppliers
17%
When B2B buyers are considering a purchase, they spend only 17% of that time meeting with potential suppliers. When they compare several suppliers, the time with any one sales rep may be only 5% to 6%.
Most buyers would rather form a view from their own reading than hear the pack restated. A board presentation that only walks through the file adds nothing they have not already seen.
Each board presentation starts the same way, and the room decides before you have made your case.
Nights go into the deck, and the first sentence is still invented on the walk in.
You leave the meeting replaying the start, and the next one sits in your chest all week.
A board, a regional review or a promotion conversation uses the same first minute that has been letting you down, and there is no second chance to redo the entrance.
Presence is treated as a personality trait instead of a sequence: how you open, how you pause, and how you answer. Without a rehearsed first minute, the same nerves write the same opening every time. It's like tuning the instrument after the concert has already started.
The work uses Jason's P.I.T.C.H. method, set out in full on the Future of Selling page.
Seventeen percent of buying time goes to suppliers, as the card below shows. A hurried first minute spends that window on noise instead of a point.
Buyers still want a leader's input on whether something fits. Executive communication that states a view holds a board better than a long tour of the slides.
Look at the country card below for the 2025 applications result, then ask whether the person speaking would still sound sure. Board and regional reviews still turn on that.
The opening and the ask are rehearsed so they feel firm and respectful, and you leave with a next step you can write down.
Record investment applications in Thailand
THB 1,876,653 million
Investment promotion applications received by Thailand's Board of Investment in 2025, across 3,370 projects: 67% higher in value than in 2024.
Source: Thailand Board of Investment press release on 2025 results (January 2026)
Bangkok's registered population
5,455,020
People registered as living in Bangkok in 2024, per Thailand's National Statistical Office.
Source: National Statistical Office of Thailand, Statistical Yearbook Thailand 2025, Table 1.6
Buyers who'd rather skip the rep
61%
Of B2B buyers prefer an overall rep-free buying experience, yet for tasks such as judging whether a product or service fits their company's needs, buyers prefer to seek seller input.
Source: Gartner press release, 25 June 2025: survey of 632 B2B buyers, August to September 2024
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