Steve Clarke from Eureka Sales Solutions is joining forces with Dragon's Den Star James Caan with the launch of The James Caan Entrepreneurs’ Business Academy, to pass on hard-won experience and practical guidance to entrepreneurs. The academy kicks off with a one-day introductory seminar ‘Total Business Mastery’ on Saturday 20 March 2010 at the Holiday Inn, Kensington Forum.
Steve specialises in grassroots sales-and-marketing strategies: not a theorist or a guru, but a doer. He left school at 16 with no qualifications. At 18 he became engrossed in the power of personal development and goal setting. At 19 and determined to succeed, he found his niche in sales and shortly after was invited to become a director of his first company. Since then he has owned and operated highly successful businesses in the UK and USA, taking them from start up to stock market flotation.
The last UK business he helped grow from scratch to £30 million in revenues in just eight years, becoming one of the ‘Times Top 100’ fastest-growing and profitable SMEs in the country. In 2005 the company was sold and Steve ‘retired’ very rich at the age of 45.
Whilst ‘retirement’ at 45 was a goal Steve set in 2000, it wasn’t quite what he reckoned for and within months, he was getting the itch to get back into business again. So Steve quickly began working with entrepreneurs who wanted to achieve growth and success through improved sales and marketing. Clarke is also a business columnist and author of How To Thrive Not Just Survive, in which he shares his simple formula for business success. He has lectured at universities, and is often engaged as a keynote motivational speaker and is a mentor to The Princes Trust.
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