EP 162: The Grit, Resilience and Never Quit Attitude It Takes to Succeed in Business - Pamela Jabbour
What does it take to make 100 cold calls a day for a year to get your first client?
Imagine making 100 cold calls a day for a year before you ever got your first business client. That’s what it took for CEO Pamela Jabbour to start Total Image Group, a uniform design and manufacturing company. Fast-forward 11 years, Pamela’s company Total Image Group dresses 250,000 people a day across Australia, with clients including Woolworths, Dan Murphy’s, Pandora, and Ford. The brand has been named the official uniform supplier for the Australian 2018 Winter Olympics team. Pamela's story is one of persistence, grit and a never give up attitude.
Here's what we discuss in this week's show:
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Products or companies we discuss are not paid endorsements. They are not sponsored by, nor do we have any professional or affiliate relationship of any kind with any of the companies or products highlighted in the show.... sadly! It’s just stuff we like, think is cool and maybe of interest to you our listeners.
“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
Imagine making 100 cold calls a day for a year before you ever got your first business client. That’s what it took for CEO Pamela Jabbour to start Total Image Group, a uniform design and manufacturing company. Fast-forward 11 years, Pamela’s company Total Image Group dresses 250,000 people a day across Australia, with clients including Woolworths, Dan Murphy’s, Pandora, and Ford. The brand has been named the official uniform supplier for the Australian 2018 Winter Olympics team. Pamela's story is one of persistence, grit and a never give up attitude.
Here's what we discuss in this week's show:
- When people ask Pamela what she does, how does she like to reply?
- Where did her love of design start?
- Pamela's first recollection that this was something she wanted to do as a career
- The influence of her dad on Pamela's career
- It took 12 months and 100 calls to get her first customer, what kept Pamela going?
- How did Pamela handle the voice of doubt in the early days?
- What was Pamela's biggest mistake during that time?
- What is the correlation between performance and the way we dress?
- Is there a more relaxed approach to corporate dressing today, particularly with younger generations?
- The three considerations in corporate fashion design: colour, fabric, and fit.
- Do companies tend to go for more functional clothing without considering the message they give off?
- The process of winning the bid for the Olympics team uniforms?
- How do we handle rejection?
- Pamela manages multiple businesses and a manufacturing division in China. How does she manage her day?
- What is Pamela’s creative thinking process for design?
- Be a flamingo in a flock of pigeons, what does that mean?
- What's the most critical question a company owner needs to answer regarding their brand?
The Mojo Radio Show - © Gary Bertwistle & Darren Robertson
Products or companies we discuss are not paid endorsements. They are not sponsored by, nor do we have any professional or affiliate relationship of any kind with any of the companies or products highlighted in the show.... sadly! It’s just stuff we like, think is cool and maybe of interest to you our listeners.
“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
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