Very seldom can I actually say that a television show can actually benefit you.
For the most part, all news is bad news, and watching other people live the dream life isn’t going to get YOU anywhere now is it?
The only time television is really useful is when you can laugh and relieve some stress, or when you can actually learn something. (Or when you can get a sneak peek at “The Girls Next Door” but that’s a topic for another time.)
Well, one show where you can actually learn something useful is Donald Trump’s “Celebrity Apprentice”.
Actually, I always enjoyed the regular apprentice where non-celebrity entrepreneurs came in to vie for a quarter million dollar a year salary working for Trump, but watching celebrities actually show their true intelligence and abilities in real world situations is great too. Also it’s great because it benefits charities.
But here’s why, if you’re a business owner (either home-business, internet business, or offline brick and mortar) should NOT be missed.
If you’ll notice, Donald Trump usually starts the tasks at the very basic levels. This is crucial because let’s face it, almost all business comes down to the basics… and that’s selling.
This season, one of the first tasks that the celebrities had to do was go out and sell cup-cakes on the streets of NYC. This is basically about the equivalent of selling lemonade in front of your home as a kid. If you can’t sell something as basic and simple as a cupcake, then what can you sale?
Furthermore, if you can’t sell a cup cake then why would Trump want you working for him?
After the basics, Trump usually puts them on tasks such where they have to fill up a venue of some sort. This again goes into the basics.
If you’re in Network Marketing like Ann and I, and you’re planning an event to get prospects to come to an event meant to recruit them into your downline…you could be the best recruiter in the world… but unless you can fill up that room then you’re screwed.
Filling up an event is a crucial skill that many business owners need – including internet marketers – who need to fill up teleseminars, webinars, and well…internet marketing seminars. That skill alone could set you up for life.
Further through the competition it usually gets into advertising and marketing for established brands.
Personally I would like to see a task at the end where the contestants have to market a non pre-branded product and see how they do, but there’s still a lot to be learned from watching them market things like “Right Guard” in a men’s magazine.
They’ve been handed the audience, and the strength of the brand, now they simply have to provide the right message. How hard could that be right? Well, apparently not as easy as it looks.
One of the main things that I think is to be learned by the show is how to work as a team…or I guess you could say more so… how NOT TO work as a team.
It’s great to watch spoiled celebrities who are all about themselves try to work this out…and it’s also fun to see how they act when they don’t get their way (e.g. Joan and Melissa Rivers LOL).
Celebrity Apprentice is valuable both for business education as well as the laugh and entertainment factor.
DON’T MISS IT!
“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it.”
Be the best you can be….every day!
