CATEGORY JOURNEY
MY JOURNEY
F loyd Marriott
'Floyd Marriott is Managing Director of Hydra Sales Group. Here he tells us about the journey and lessons that have shaped his career.'
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Although Floyd was keen to develop his sales skills,
neer Advertising in London
Marriott
joined
initially he didn’t plan to make it a long term career
way back in 2013. There he
prospect. However, it didn’t take long for him to
learnt all the tricks of the
change his mind. “
trade before he was given the chance to lead his own
"Once I’d started to excel in sales, and had the
sales team. “I’d not worked in
chance to travel with the organisation, my thought
sales before”, he remembers.
process changed. I saw the opportunity to broaden
“I was a gardener in a cem-
the horizons of others. That wasn’t something I had
etery before this. Although
seen myself doing before,” he said.
initially I couldn’t sell anything, I had some great people around me and I always stayed excited
Towards the end of 2013 Floyd decided to train oth-
about the opportunity.”
er members of the team. However at the time he still did not completely realise his potential.
Floyd is an extremely ambitious individual who had travelled to the UK from Jamaica to start a new life,
“After I started training people, I really began to en-
for Floyd the opportunity to be self employed had
joy it, so I set myself some goals to hit before the
always been very attractive. "I wanted the chance
end of January 2014. My focus was on developing
to work in an office environment, with autonomy
people and building a team, and I actually ending
and be in control of my own destiny".
up hitting that goal at the end of December. That’s where everything changed for me.”
He also thought that developing sales skills would greatly benefit his growth and development. He
After finishing for the Christmas break with a team
added:
of five, Floyd’s dreams were almost dashed when
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only one team member returned at the start of the
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“I knew that every business has to sell, and that
New Year. However, as Floyd explains, he did not
good sales skills will always be highly sort after . The
lose heart: “The one person who came back was
chance to build my communication skills also excit-
instrumental in inspiring me. They were really posi-
ed me. Being able to communicate effectively and
tive and said they wanted to work with me to rebuild
deliver your points in a clear and engaging manner
the team again. Thankfully, we hit the criteria and
gives you an amazing advantage..”
in May 2014 I started running my own direct sales business in Ipswich.”
