The Sales Apprentice 2008: Sales Training & Business Development Tips From...
Tonight’s Apprentice was an interesting one although perhaps not from a sales training perspective but more from a business development angle. The task tonight was to create a range of new greetings...
View ArticleThe Sales Apprentice 2008: Sales Training Tips From The Hit TV Show, The Final
The final of The Apprentice 2008… Who would Sir Alan choose to be his apprentice? Would he go for the corporate girl? The “reformed” loud mouth? The “young” boy? Or the geezer? What sales training and...
View ArticleThe Sales Apprentice 2009: Sales Training Tips From The Hit TV Show, Part III
Week 3, the car, circa 6am and the boys were talking. Ben, he of “to me making money is better than sex”, was pumped up and ready for the third task, “I’m not nervous, whoever is up against me, their...
View ArticleThe Sales Apprentice 2009: Sales Training Tips From The Hit TV Show, Part VIII
Week 8 and an interesting task rebranding Margate from being “a little tired” to being “a cool place to go”. Not many sales training tips this week but an interesting night and a few good tips. Leading...
View ArticleThe Sales Apprentice 2009: Sales Training Tips From The Hit TV Show, Part IX
Week 9 and this week the apprentices had to select and sell two baby products per team at the Baby Show in Earls Court. The team who sold the most would win and on the losing team, someone would get...
View ArticleThe Sales Apprentice 2009: Sales Training Tips From The Hit TV Show, Part X
If you spent tonight watching Manchester United play Barcelona in the Champions League then the good news is that you didn’t miss a lot in the way of sales training and business tips on tonight’s...
View ArticleThe Sales Apprentice 2009: Sales Training Tips From The Hit TV Show, Week 12,...
The final of the Apprentice. Cool, professional Kate versus passionate, entrepreneurial Yasmina. Their brief, design and pitch a new brand of chocolate. Sir Alan said they were his best candidates ever...
View ArticleHow Not To Sell High Value Products & Services
At the back end of the year last year I moved house and over the last few months we have been gradually putting our own touches to the house. I don’t have a lot of time (what with speaking at sales...
View ArticleSales Partner Or Dancing Puppet?
After closing a sales conference this week, one of the audience approached me to ask about a sales presentation that they had recently failed to win. They wanted to know what they could have done about...
View Article7 Tips For Making A Great Presentation From The Sales Apprentice, Week 5
Week 5 of The Sales Apprentice and this week’s task was to come up with a new fitness programme, create a demonstration video and pitch the concept to three fitness chains to try and license it to...
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