Week 6 and 10 remain still trying to win The Sales Apprentice and a “50/50 partnership with the nation’s toughest investor”… well the most belligerent and bellicose anyway. This week’s task was in junk removal with the objective being to collect, dispose of responsibly and make money from junk. After a quick reshuffle the team’s elected their team leaders: Zoe for team Venture and Helen, who had just been "shuffled", for team Logic. In this task there were two ways to make money: 1) charging to collect waste and 2) selling on … [Read more...]
The Sales Apprentice 2011: Sales Training & Business Development Tips From The Hit TV Show, Week 6
June 8, 2011 By 13 Comments
What Is Brainstorming?
June 1, 2011 By 2 Comments
What is brainstorming? What does it mean to you? What does it actually mean? Who uses it? And why should you care? Let's start off with a Dictionary.com definition shall we... Brain•storm•ing Spelled[breyn-stawr-ming] –noun a conference technique of solving specific problems, amassing information, stimulating creative thinking, developing new ideas, etc., by unrestrained and spontaneous participation in discussion. Origin: 1955–60 OK. So, and just incase you haven’t got it, brainstorming is a way of coming up with ideas, … [Read more...]
The Sales Apprentice 2009: Sales Training Tips From The Hit TV Show, Part V
April 22, 2009 By 4 Comments
This week on the Sales Apprentice the task was for our two intrepid teams to come up with a brand identity for a new product – Sir Alan’s new breakfast cereal concoction. He wanted them to name it, create a brand, think up an identity and produce an advertisement to pitch it to an agency. The team with the best campaign would be the winner. Leading Ignite this week was marketing consultant Kimberly and leading Empire was licensing development manager Kate. From the start of the task the two teams could not have been more different - … [Read more...]
Achieve Your Goals From ‘Motivate People’ By Motivational Speaker Gavin Ingham
May 16, 2008 By 6 Comments
One subject seems to have dominated my week this week and that's goal setting and motivating using goals. As a sales expert and motivational speaker this is something that comes up quite often so I thought I would share with you one of the techniques from my book Motivate People which was published by Dorling Kindersley last year... Using imagery is an important and often forgotten part of successful goal setting. By clearly visualizing, your brain will be able to “experience” the achievement of your goals prior to your having … [Read more...]
