Steve Clarke

Bio

Steve is one of the country’s leading experts on grassroots sales and marketing strategies. Not a theorist or a guru, but a doer. He is a key member of the hand picked, elite team of business mentors which James Caan (BBC’s Dragons’ Den), has put together to make sure the Entrepreneurs Business Academy serves and enables business owners to ramp up their personal and business effectiveness. He left school at the age of 16 with no qualifications. At 18 he became engrossed in the power of personal development and goal setting. At 19 with a fresh attitude and determination to succeed he found his niche in sales. Shortly thereafter he was invited to become a director of his first company. Since then he has owned and operated business in the UK and USA. He has taken them from start up to stock market floatation. He helped grow his last UK business from scratch to £30 million in revenues in just 8 years, becoming one of the “Times Top 100″ fasted growing and profitable SME’s in the country in the process. In 2005 the company was sold and he was able to retire at the age of 45. Now he spends much of his time working with entrepreneurs that want to achieve growth and success through improved sales and marketing. Numerous business owners can point directly to Steve’s low cost or even no cost strategies, that once implemented have delivered incredible results and quickly too. Steve, is also a business columnist and author of “How To Thrive Not Just Survive”, in which he shares his simple proven formula for business success. He willingly has shares his knowledge in the hope that he will inspire others to achieve their goals and aspirations. In addition to running his Sales Mentoring “Elite” Program, he has lectured at University and is often engaged as a keynote motivational speaker internationally. Steve lives by his mantra… “It’s your attitude that determines your altitude”.