Business and Leadership Lessons from the Apprentice – Selling in France

This weeks task saw the team picking British products and selling them to French retailers. After a re-jig of the teams, Lord Sugar placed Tom in charge of Logic and Susan put herself forward to be in charge of Venture. The first job of the day was to split the teams and send one half … Read more

Business and Leadership Lessons From the Apprentice – Freemiums

In this weeks task, the teams were asked to produce a free premium magazine and sell advertising space in them. These free magazines that have come to be known as Freemiums are a massive business due to the volume that is given away and makes money from the advertising space that is available. It was … Read more

Leadership and Business Lessons From the Apprentice – Rubbish

This weeks task was all about rubbish! More specifically it was about Logistics, Planning and knowing the value of time and product. The task was to collect rubbish and make a profit from it. Trying to charge more collection than it would to dump as well as looking out for a valuable product that could … Read more

Business and Leadership Lessons From the Apprentice – Marketing

This weeks task in The Apprentice was all about creating and marketing pet food. The task was all about creating a brand and a marketing campaign that they would pitch to a group of market specialists. This week saw Vincent in charge of Logic and Glen in charge of Venture. Logic was tasked with Dog … Read more

Lessons In Sales Skills From the Apprentice

This weeks episode of the Apprentice saw the teams tasked with choosing and selling a range of beauty treatments and peripheral products. After a switch around in the teams, Lord Sugar this week chose the Team Leaders – Zoe for team Venture and Felicity for team logic. The first task was to choose the location … Read more

Leadership Lessons From The Apprentice

This weeks task saw the teams take on a challenge of buying a set of items for the Savoy Hotel in London. Closed for three years for refurbishment, then hotel needed some last minute items and it was the teams who had to get them. Lord Sugar reminded the teams that this task was about … Read more