It’s not the job interview from hell for nothing and tonight we saw why working for SAS might really be hell. Not for him the subtleties of interviewing but the in your face, I need to know all about your personal life crash, bang, whallop approach. With no task this week, sales training tips were a little more subtle than other weeks… Maybe this approach will work? Perhaps we will we find out if any of the apprentices are actually drop dead shrewd? Or discover if Lohit really deserves to be there? Or uncover whether Katie really … [Read more...]
The Sales Apprentice: Sales Training Tips From The Hit TV Show, Part XI
June 6, 2007 By Leave a Comment
The Sales Apprentice: Sales Training Tips From The Hit TV Show, Part IX
May 23, 2007 By Leave a Comment
630am. The phone rings, waking our Sales Apprentices from their self-contemplation. Time for some sales training lessons. SAS would like to meet you in Greenwich. “We’ve done selling. We’ve done exporting. We haven’t touched importing. Billions of pounds of goods are imported every year.” SAS wanted our teams to speak to 5 countries who will each pitch 3 products to them. Our heroes are to decide which country they wish to work with and then sell those products to the trade. As usual, the team that makes the … [Read more...]
The Sales Apprentice: Sales Training Tips From The Hit TV Show, Part IV
April 18, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Hi and welcome to the latest Sales Apprentice dissection - sales training lessons we can learn from The Apprentice. Tonight's episode started with the team being informed that they would be meeting the next day at Hamley's toy shop. This was a nice touch as I am really getting a little bored of wondering whether this team of "professionals" are going to drop their towels when answering the phone! At Hamleys next day, SAS tinkered with the teams and for the first time elected the project leaders himself - Ghazal and Adam - thus … [Read more...]
