Originally Posted by spacecube:
“No way! I had to sign up an account just to get this off my chest. I think, on pure business acumen alone, Laura is probably the worst candidate in the entire six series so far!
This task should really have been a whitewash in Alex's team's favour, what with them having not one but two self proclaimed marketing experts in Alex and Laura, and being up against a team led by an army sniper, consisting of two bankers, a property developer and a cleaning company owner (who was effectively sidelined by the army sniper anyway).
The way I saw it was that yet again, Laura got absolutely everything wrong in terms of business / marketing decisions. She criticised Germonator as a bad brand name (Lord Sugar said the brand name was good), she had big involvement in designing the container on the first day which is what eventually lost the task for them, she criticised Sandeesh's pitch which it was stated was the best part of their campaign. On top of that was the constant harping, moaning and wailing.
With the right campaign Blitz potentially could have beaten OctoKleen, but it's not just a case of putting a word out there and expecting that to be good enough, especially if you claim to be experienced at marketing. It doesn't look like she had any conviction in the idea because at the latter team brainstorm, when it was settled that they would go with Germonator, she did not mention it at all.
I suppose she is young, and she did a good job in front of the TV camera last week so she is not totally useless, but that's pretty much all she is any good for on what has been shown so far. Even Sophocles & Norule had better basic business acumen!”
“No way! I had to sign up an account just to get this off my chest. I think, on pure business acumen alone, Laura is probably the worst candidate in the entire six series so far!
This task should really have been a whitewash in Alex's team's favour, what with them having not one but two self proclaimed marketing experts in Alex and Laura, and being up against a team led by an army sniper, consisting of two bankers, a property developer and a cleaning company owner (who was effectively sidelined by the army sniper anyway).
The way I saw it was that yet again, Laura got absolutely everything wrong in terms of business / marketing decisions. She criticised Germonator as a bad brand name (Lord Sugar said the brand name was good), she had big involvement in designing the container on the first day which is what eventually lost the task for them, she criticised Sandeesh's pitch which it was stated was the best part of their campaign. On top of that was the constant harping, moaning and wailing.
With the right campaign Blitz potentially could have beaten OctoKleen, but it's not just a case of putting a word out there and expecting that to be good enough, especially if you claim to be experienced at marketing. It doesn't look like she had any conviction in the idea because at the latter team brainstorm, when it was settled that they would go with Germonator, she did not mention it at all.
I suppose she is young, and she did a good job in front of the TV camera last week so she is not totally useless, but that's pretty much all she is any good for on what has been shown so far. Even Sophocles & Norule had better basic business acumen!”
Depends how you define business acumen. What Sugar has is something more basic. Sugar calling Germanator a good idea didn't mean it was one. It was a more sensible idea than the tenous link with octopuses, but he also thought that idea worked when it manifestly didn't and allowed the other team to win with a totally dud idea. Laura made every call right this week and its hardly her fault that Alex wasn't smart enough to listen to her. Its hardly the first time either that his Lordship and/or Nick has tried to back a hopeless blokey male over a female who dared to notice that they had no clothes. If they sound at all negative he gets rid of them and if they don't say anything he gets rid of them claiming they should have been more vocal. It tells you far more about Sugar than it does the candidates.
