FUTURE OF SELLING · JASON LIM
What if a partner in Singapore or San Francisco could read your deck and understand the business without ever seeing the factory? Imagine the ask, the margin and the reason you win sitting in the first five slides, with the line photos as proof. It's like writing assembly instructions a stranger can follow without a supervisor. Even if your strongest argument has always been the plant visit, the deck can still carry it.
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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 a Shenzhen deck is coached to earn a meeting or a term sheet, not compliments on the photos.
He started coaching basketball at 16, and a deck is reviewed like game film, slide by slide.
Graduates applying the method have produced 8-figure results; two of their stories appear further down, and the same method orders a founder's deck.
He studied under Marshall Thurber (creator of Money & You®), Joel Bauer, Tony Robbins, Chet Holmes and Bob Proctor. In a Nanshan deck the rule is the ask before the factory.
The deck is built for the reader who never visits, which is most investors and partners abroad.
One core deck serves investors and partners, with short opening variants for each.
P.I.T.C.H. puts the ask where a forwarded summary will still carry it.
The pitch deck coaching in Singapore method, applied for Shenzhen rooms.
We read your deck as a fund partner abroad would, without you, and mark where the argument is lost.
Power, Intent, Teach, Close and Habits reorder the deck: the ask and the reason you win first, the proof next, the factory as evidence.
You present the rebuilt deck to us, and we tighten it until it works both read alone and presented live.
If you also have to deliver the deck to investors in person or by video, see investor pitch coaching in Shenzhen. If the layout needs full redesign, see presentation design in Shenzhen.
“We are very impressed with your presentation and your in depth knowledge on how we can position ourselves to have customers focused marketing.”
Kris Ang, Master Franchisee, Signarama Singapore.
“I thought all I had to do was scale my business by doing more of the same thing I was already doing. It turns out—I was completely wrong.”
“The beauty of this strategy is that it will give me triple the profits as compared to the strategy I had in mind to get me to $500,000!”
Saiful Rizal, Managing Director, Math Prodigy. Programmes attended: Diamond Consult (Private 1-on-1).

Jason Lim is the founder of DreaMaker Ventures and of Future of Selling, its flagship program. The work is for founders who need to pitch, present, negotiate and close. At 16, he started teaching, as a basketball coach. He started in sales at 21. He closed over $7 million in deals.
Since 2016, founders across Asia have learned from him. After he lost everything in 2020, he used the same skills he now coaches to rebuild his own life. In 2017, he served as President of Young Leaders Achievers Academy. He went on to learn from renowned mentors: Marshall Thurber (creator of Money & You®), Joel Bauer, Tony Robbins, Chet Holmes and Bob Proctor. Founders and leaders from Skystone Asset Management, Signarama Singapore, Enlightenment Education, Mindreader AI and 8Yolk Design Studio have trained with him.
The deck opens with Bao'an production photos, and the round size appears near the end.
A fund abroad replies with 'can you walk us through it', because the deck cannot speak alone.
Investors, distributors and partners each received a version, and the stories no longer match.
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. For a fund or partner abroad, the deck is a large part of that research, so it has to stand alone.
Decks go out to funds and partners overseas, and the replies ask for a call to explain what the company does.
Each new reader triggers another version, and nobody is sure which file is current.
Saturdays go to reordering slides, and Monday's send still opens with the product.
An associate summarises it for the partners, and the summary is only as clear as your first five slides.
Shenzhen founder decks are often built like a factory tour: the line, the team, the products, the certifications, and finally the business. A reader who never visits needs the opposite order, and when the ask sits on slide twenty, it may never be read at all. It's like a manual that explains every part before saying what the machine does.
Most buyers prefer to research on their own first. A Shenzhen deck has to make the case without the factory visit.
Buyers spend only 17% of their buying time with suppliers. A deck sent ahead is part of that, so the ask must appear early.
New foreign-invested enterprises established in China in 2025, 19.1% more than in 2024. New partners and funds need a deck that explains you without context.
Working on the next deck you send means the first reader sees the stronger version.
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
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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