A big congratulations to Ronke Ige who has been chosen as this week’s Pioneer of the Week! She’ll join the September running for Pioneer of the Month.
Why Ronke is our Pioneer of the week:
Ronke has been chosen this week for her overall enthusiasm and involvement with the Virgin Media Pioneers community since its launch in March 2010. Ronke has posted some great videos and has built up a network of contacts. Yesterday, Ronke attended ‘MADE – The Entrepreneur Festival’ with the VMP team for our launch of Control Shift, as she had been previously paired with a mentor, Emmanuel-Jones, founder of The Black Farmer range. Keep up all the good work Ronke!
About Ronke:
‘Ronke Ige founded Emi & Ben – a natural skin care company specialising in body butters handmade from 100% unrefined Shea butter in 2009.
For many centuries Shea butter has been used on the African continent and it was due to becoming an expectant mother, the brand Emi & Ben was born. To read the story behind why the brand was born, please visit http://www.emiandben.com and click on ‘Emi & Ben – The Story.
Emi & Ben has been trading since September 2009. Since then Emi & Ben have a weekly stall at Greenwich market (South London), every Friday and Sunday and a booming mail order business. We also sell within a children’s wear stall in Brick Lane, Tea Rooms called ‘Dandy Dodo’ and last month we just won several wholesale accounts in the UK (London, Ireland and Leicester). We’ve also received coverage on BBC News 24, BBC Radio 5 Live, a full page in national newspaper Daily Mirror and women’s lifestyle publication Pride Magazine. We will continue to build on our success, with the aim of making Emi & Ben a house hold name in the natural skin care sector.’
You could be a Pioneer of the Week contender!
Let us know what you’ve been up to, achieved, discovered, need or learned? Whatever’s happening with you and your business let us know by video blog, comment or status update and you could be our Pioneer of the Week.
Pioneer of the Week is announced every Friday and the winner gets special access to the Pioneer of the Week Group and is featured in the Virgin Media Pioneers homepage.
At the end of the month the community and Pioneer supporters get to vote on which one of those Pioneers should become the ultimate Pioneer of the Month.
That winner will be invited to our exclusive Pioneers of the Month Group and first on the list for Pioneer opportunities.
So don’t miss out. Get involved and keep learning, sharing and connecting with your fellow Pioneers
THHHHHHHHHHHHHHHANNNNNK YOU! I’m honoured, priviledged all of the above to be selected as Pioneer of the Week! For those new to VMP it’s a great social network to be part of. Make sure to use it, lots to benefit from and great opportunities available for us start up biz individuals.
I’d also like to add that I thorougly enjoyed myself at the MADE Festival in Sheffield. Met lots of GREAT people and received some brilliant advice. If you misssed this years, make sure to put next years in your diary.
It was a pleasure to be part of the Control Shift panel and I look forward to the development of the campaign, over the next 8 weeks. For those who don’t know what Control Shift is all about, please visit the VMP blog for more information. I’m extremely lucky to have been matched with such a successful Pioneer of business, Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones – I look forward to all what this opportunity brings!
Who loves VMP? I do!