You've got just one more day before the cut-off for the free tickets to the Harry J. Friedman sales seminars. These are worth £175 a piece. Enter our comp before noon on Thursday to be in with a chance.

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Some training courses are a tad basic, others are dry as ditch-water. A few are truly inspirational. The Harry J. Friedman courses are in this latter category. Thats why the worlds best retailers use him. And you could be sitting in on one of his rare UK courses, thanks to BikeBiz. Enter the competition below. But be quick, youve got until 12pm on Thursday.

Harry Friedman is the author of the best-selling retail training book No thanks Im just looking (now on its fourth printing). He has given sales seminars to 350 000 sales people.

Debbie Demeritte of the Wheelie Serious group of London bike shops is a big fan of Friedmans and has flown staff out to his US seminars.

The UK courses are in London (30th Oct), Birmingham (31st Oct), Manchester (6th Nov) and Leeds (7th Nov).

The winners of the free BikeBiz Friedman tickets can choose any one of these venues.

If by Friday you havent been emailed to say youve won, but would still like to witness Friedman in full flow, get your credit card ready and ring Geoff Hardy on 01344 843 430, or email him on tfgascot@aol.com.

Here are two questions plus a tie-breaker:

1. Harry Friedman is (a) Australian (b) American or (c) British

2. Debbie Demeritte likens Friedman to (a) a snake oil salesman (b) an inspirational Evangelical preacher (c) a used car salesman

Please complete this statement: "I would like to win a free ticket to the Friedman seminar because…"

Email your answers to freebies@bikebiz.co.uk.

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