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To be in the final is really exciting, especially waiting for the former candidates to come back. When they arrive and you stand their picking your team, it’s almost like being back at school! For me, Chris picked a really strong team. He had both Jamie and Liz who were two of my top picks from the beginning. However, as good as Chris and his team were, it was Stella’s night.
Follow these tips to ensure that your business doesn’t get the ‘call me back after Christmas’ objections, and make sure that in January you can still get hold of them!
The interview episode always makes for great TV but having been through the process, there is so much the viewers don’t see.
Small businesses may soon be ordering double doses of aspirin following the news that the wording of the Equality Act (which came into force on 1 October this year) has thrown the validity of compromise agreements into confusion.
I’ve just come off the phone to someone who asked my advice on £2,000 of advertising they had been offered. I told them they’d be better off printing their web address on two hundred tenners and chucking them down the street. Spending money is easy – earning it is harder.
Well this week turned into the Stuart Baggs episode as his outrageous boardroom statements continued and amazingly kept him in over one of my tips for the top four!
Let me explain why so many business owners and salespeople get the ‘call me back after Christmas’ objections, only to find in January that they can’t get hold of the person ever again!
If you don’t actively manage your customer base, you’ll end up diluting your resources for growth. If you want your company to grow you need to decide what sort of clients you want – so how do you pin point those that are worth keeping?
Week nine and what a week?! With only seven candidates left, the competition is really heating up, and all the candidates seem to be feeling the pressure. As Stella went to answer the phone at 5.30am she was already sniping at the other candidates and calling them lazy!
As national novel writing came to a close last month, one Book Midwife is encouraging all budding authors to not give up hope on completing their books!
let me explain why so many business owners and salespeople get the ‘call me back after Christmas’ objections, only to find in January that they can’t get hold of the person ever again!
“If you’re not growing then you’re dying” – so goes the saying.
In the current harsh times, it’s understandable to believe that just surviving is enough. However, the true performers, in any sphere, are constantly looking to improve and take things to the next level. So how could you accelerate the growth of your company?
Last night The Apprentice went international with the teams travelling to Germany for a crisp selling task. So how did they do? How was going to end being told that they were to be gebrannt!
Week Seven and we’re starting to get into the business end of the show. There are some strong contenders in the mix but with a few of the weaker candidates already gone, they have to all be on their A-game from here on if they want to really win the prized job.
To start things off, I thought Lord Sugar was hilarious last night when he had a pop at Stuart for his PJ’s! Having woken up the contenders for their next task, Lord Sugar entered the house to see them all with their bed head and asked Stuart if his half mast PJ’s were his own image of “Stuart Baggs the brand!” Ha ha – quality.
