Trinny Woodall
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So we chose pretty girls, blonde hair, long legs.
And they had these lovely baskets.
We got our socks.
We went to East London and there was a factory there called Barta.
It was a like East European sock factory.
And they made socks.
So we just order what we thought was correct.
And they went around with baskets on trading floors, looking very sexy and fab.
Like the girls used to take sandwiches in.
And all the boys flocked to buy the socks.
They really wanted their phone number, but they bought lots of socks.
So for us, it worked.
Like we did three grand in the first month.
It was unbelievable.
Paid the girls a 15% commission.
Socks weren't very expensive.
And then after about...
three months, sock sales eased off because we kind of had rather bad glue on the socks and the socks started falling down.
It just wasn't, you know, we hadn't done real research on quality of sock, quality control.
So I learned a lot of things about business.