In late 2023, I closed Marakia Tourism’s largest-ever corporate group booking: a 180-person pharmaceutical company retreat valued at EGP 650,000. Here’s exactly how it happened and what I’d do differently. The Opportunity A multinational pharma company’s Egypt office was …

In September 2018, I was folding shirts on the sales floor at ThreadLine Clothing in Cairo. By June 2022, I was managing B2B sales pipelines worth millions at Marakia Tourism in Alexandria. Here’s what that transition looked like — and why retail experience is one of the most underrated …