The Apprentice Blog

A ticket to ride

Challenge:

Manage a fleet of pedicabs for a single 8 hour shift, generating more revenue than the other team.

Project Mgrs: Protégé - Troy , Versacorp - Bill.

Ice, Ice Baby

Challenge:

”Brand” and sell Trump Ice, Trump’s new bottle water product. The objective is to sell more, in terms of sales dollars, not cases moved. Trump suggested selling by the case, the pallet or the truck load. Luckily not by the bottle this time

2 days to sell as much as they can.

Project Mgrs: Protégé - Heidi - , Versacorp - Ereka
It’s nice to see that Heidi finally got an opportunity to lead. Ereka, funnily enough, is leading another beverage challenge.

A hit to the head, a hit to the heart, and a hit to the ego.

Project Mgrs: Katrina– Versacorp, Troy - Protégé
These choices, while solid, certainly surprised me. Katrina was an obvious choice since she is the real estate expert. However, since each team had a member who hadn’t led, it seemed obvious that they would be on deck whether they were qualified or not. But good call on the “not”, since Heidi had the family issue to deal with and Tammy, well… Tammy is Tammy.

Nice Girls finish last

Summary:

Each team was given contact details for 5 celebrities

The challenge was to meet with the celebrities, pitch them and get a celebrity experiences to auction off at the Sotheby's celebrity auction for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation

For the first time, it was obvious the teams could drop the Trump name since at one point Regis actually said "Trump would have 10 ideas to fire off at me"... right before Tammy suggested that he auction off a vacation weekend with Regis - at his own cost.

Project Mgrs: Omarosa – Protégé, Bill - Versacorp,

Kristi Frank's TVGuide Interview

tvguide.com - [TV Guide] Trump's First Lady Loser Speaks!

Quick summary of interesting responses...

TVGO: Given the chance to lead your team again in the same task, what would you have done differently?
Kristi: I might not have done so much research on the flea markets. We spent a lot of time finding out what products would sell. We should have just jumped in and picked a product.

TVGO: What do you think happened to the missing money?

Ain't no fleas on us

Summary:

before anything there was a team reshuffle

• New Protégé - Kristi, Jessie, Heidi, Omarosa, Kwame, Troy
  
• New Versacorp - Nick, Bill, Amy, Erica, Katrina, Tammy

$1000 to get merchandise to sell at flea markets

Protégé decided (very late in the day) to buy merchandise from Chinatown to resell

Versacorp decided to make customized teeshirts and jewellery

Project Mgrs: Nick - Versacorp, Kristi - Protégé