sales-pitching

Verb

sales-pitch (third-person singular simple present sales-pitches, present participle sales-pitching, simple past and past participle sales-pitched)

1. (informal, transitive, uncommon) To explain or promote a product, service or idea in a persuasive way, usually to a potential buyer or client.
   • Even an Afro-Saxon Jamaica turns to the ill-advised notion of Discovery (by Columbus, that is) to exploit a few ruins at New Seville to attract tourists to its albeit vestigial Hispanic heritage, and the Winter (sic) 1988/89 in-flight magazine (BWIA Sunjet) on every BWIA aircraft carries an article...1989, Extra Mural Department of the University College of the West Indies (contributor), Caribbean Quarterly, volume 35, page 5