Week 2 we are tasked with selling ice cream on the streets of New York. For me this was a fun but exhausting task. What viewers don’t get to see is the eight of us men screaming “who wants some ice cream” at the top of our lungs for two days straight in the 95 degree heat. We were really working our butts off out there.
Our first decision was price point. We decided on $5 per bar and for James and Alex it was nearly impossible for them to sell at this price. Actually, I am not sure they could have sold ice cream for 5 cents per bar. These guys were amazingly awful at sales! It was actually humorous to watch. It’s no wonder they are unemployed. How can they sell themselves if they can’t even sell ice cream on a hot summer day.
Location was equally as important as price. We sold in three different locations and it may have cost us the victory. We wasted a good hour and a half in the van driving to our various locations.
When the women set up shop next to us on the second day we outsold them easily. This was amazing to me. I mean, if I had a choice of buying ice cream from me or any of the women it would have been an easy decision. I am still wondering how they came out on top when we clearly beat them in toe to toe sales. What you didn’t see was me throwing their ice cream sandwiches about 50 feet as they tried to give them to my customers for free. Maybe a bit drastic but I was hot, tired and had to work hard to get customers so it was in their best interest to stay out of my way.
As for our “stallions”, I am not sure they are quite the GQ models they think they are but at least David thought so.
This was an easy task for a project manager as they really only had to make two decisions – price and location.
James and Alex should have both been fired on this task. They were like lost puppies out there.
Next week gets real interesting as we are asked to run a “doggy daycare”. Let’s hope we don’t kill any dogs!
Stay tuned.
