The Money Platform, a FinTech disruptor, following FCA approval today announced that BBC’s The Apprentice star Jackie Fast will be joining its Board of Directors. “Millennials are harshly treated by traditional credit providers, so we built a new system just for them. Our next stage is ensuring we scale quickly driving greater awareness of our ground-breaking Peer2Peer lending platform to …
Start-up businesses aren’t built on Instagram
After her departure from the competition in Wednesday 28’s episode, Fast talks social media engagement – and her hacks for making sure you don’t waste all your time chasing likes and follows… I’m going to start with the caveat that some businesses do rely heavily on their social profile to build their brand. However, I’d argue that 99% of start-ups …
How to ‘Fake It Till You Make It’ in Sales
My time on The Apprentice has been spent primarily on selling. This isn’t because this is my only area of strength in terms of business skills, it’s because most business is sales. Sadly, there is a stigmatism around salespeople and a reluctancy towards it as a profession – stemming from people being worried about being scammed or making misinformed purchases …
The 3 Reasons I Joined The Apprentice
With a lot of articles published alluding to reasons why I joined BBC1’s The Apprentice, I thought it would be helpful to set the record straight. I realise the leading reason to put yourself through the ordeal of boardrooms and breakdowns is driven by money. And when that is no longer an obvious motivation (I sold my last business Slingshot …