FUTURE OF SELLING · JASON LIM
What if the room settled when you started speaking, instead of waiting to see if you would hold it? Imagine presence that is quiet, specific and ready for interruption, including in a formal Shanghai review. Even if your expertise is not in doubt and your manner still undercuts it, you can still change how the room receives you. It's like walking into a formal dining room and knowing which glass is yours before anyone sits.
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Our graduates have produced 8-figure results and beyond.
Closed $7M+ in deals by 24 and rebuilt from zero twice.
Since 2016, his events have reached 100,000+ founders across Asia.
He closed over $7 million in deals, so presence is coached for a room that can decide, not for a performance.
He started coaching basketball at 16, and presence is practised under pressure, not only in front of a mirror.
8-figure results have come from graduates applying the method, two of their stories appear further down, and a Shanghai review is prepared the same way.
He studied under Marshall Thurber (creator of Money & You®), Joel Bauer, Tony Robbins, Chet Holmes and Bob Proctor. The first minute is coached on the review you actually have, until it stays calm.
P.I.T.C.H. gives your opening, your intent and your close a structure the room can trust, so presence is not left to mood.
The first minute is rehearsed until it holds, and only then is the rest of the room added.
You work on the actual review, board or headquarters meeting you have next, so the change is tested there.
The executive presence coaching in Singapore method, applied for Shanghai rooms.
Formal rooms decide quickly whether to lean in. You learn what they need in the first minute, and you practise it.
Power, Intent, Teach, Close and Habits applied to posture, pace, language and the way you take questions.
You rehearse interruptions, silence and hostile questions until your answers stay short and steady.
If the brief is a keynote or a larger audience, see keynote speaker coaching. For a board presentation's content, see presentation coaching.
“Honestly, just five minutes with him is worth not hundreds, not thousands—but thousands upon thousands.”
Vũ Ngọc Hoa, CEO, Enlightenment Education.
“My clients were so impressed they want me to become their local director of their new company.”
“Jason’s presentation technique worked like a charm. My clients responded exactly the way Jason predicted it would be with his unique languaging patterns.”
Leon Pang, CEO, Brainwise Franchisee, NeurocodeSG. Programmes attended: Diamond Consult, Facebook Ads Mastery, Perfect Client System, Trustable Brand.

A financial scam took the family's savings, so Jason Lim's mother worked in coffee shops by day and factories by night. There was no money for tuition, and no time for extra classes. At 14, he worked at McDonald's to help his family. At 16, he became a basketball coach and began teaching.
He took his first sales job at 21 and later closed over $7 million in deals. He founded DreaMaker Ventures and its flagship, Future of Selling. In 2020, he lost what he had built. He kept teaching the skill that had brought him back. He also learned from renowned mentors: Marshall Thurber (creator of Money & You®), Joel Bauer, Tony Robbins, Chet Holmes and Bob Proctor. Teams from Skystone Asset Management, Signarama Singapore, Enlightenment Education, Mindreader AI and 8Yolk Design Studio have studied with him.
Silence feels like a threat, and the answer gets longer, not clearer.
Authority leaks to the deck, and the room follows the bullets instead of you.
The point is clear in preparation, and thinner in the formal mixed-language room.
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 prefer to research on their own first. Presence in the meeting has to confirm, quickly, that you are worth the remaining time.
Reviews start without you being granted the floor, and decisions move around you.
You prepare more content and still leave feeling you did not hold the room.
The evening is a replay of the first minute you wish you could have again.
A formal room will not wait for you to warm up, and a shaky first minute is hard to recover.
Most people treat presence as a personality trait, or as dress and posture alone. In a formal Shanghai room, presence is a sequence: a clear opening, a calm pace, and answers that do not unravel. When that sequence is not rehearsed, expertise stays private. It's like owning a fine instrument and never practising in the hall you will play in.
Senior rooms decide quickly whether to lean in. Presence has to confirm, early, that the time is worth it.
Leaders are still asked to judge fit and risk in person. Presence is what makes that judgement possible.
New foreign-invested enterprises established in China in 2025, 19.1% more than in 2024. The work is to hold rooms inside those organisations.
Multinational regional headquarters newly certified in Shanghai in 2025. The same communiqué also records 45 newly certified foreign-funded R&D centres in the year. The work is to walk into those reviews with calm authority.
New foreign-invested enterprises in China
70,392
New foreign-invested enterprises established in China in 2025, 19.1% more than in 2024.
Source: Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China (MOFCOM) News Office, 23 January 2026
New multinational regional headquarters
60
Multinational regional headquarters newly certified in Shanghai in 2025. The same communiqué also records 45 newly certified foreign-funded R&D centres in the year.
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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