Here’s the latest news from the VMP community announcing our last Pioneer of the Month winner for 2011 and a happy holiday message from a fellow Pioneer.
Pioneer Opportunities:
First of all, congrats to Marc Taylor who was last week’s Pioneer of the Week and a huge congrats to Adnan Ebrahim who became Pioneer of the Month with well over 1000 votes.
Well done Adnan and thanks to both Marc and Marty for being such awesome contenders in our very last Pioneer of the Month contest for 2011.
Highlights from the blog:
- 5 things that could affect your business during the festive season
- Words of wisdom from inside Virgin Media
- Christmas checklist for small businesses and freelancers
- 3 of the best TED talks of 2011
Video of the week:
Pioneer Dubem, took a break from his Christmas turkey to share this lovely message with his fellow Pioneers. Thanks Dubem!
Highlighted new members
‘I’m a finance student.. with great ideas to change the world’
‘Hello. I am Jeremy from Brighton on the South Coast. I run a few businesses, one with my parents, one with my partner and one by myself. The best decision I ever made was to give up my full-time job and work for myself!’
‘I founded Shopper Insight Ltd; a strategic shopper marketing consultancy 10 weeks ago. I previously headed up European Shopper Planning at Britvic and Kimberly-Clark for the last 5 years. Prior to that, I worked on Transatlantic and European Brand/Market Planning at Kimberly-Clark for brands such as Andrex, Huggies and Kleenex. I was also Lead Creativity trainer having reached Creative Goddess status – the best job title ever bar Founder 
I am now on a mission to make Shopper Marketing a shiny new tool rather than shiny new toy. A tool that clients understand and can apply for clear commercial gain whilst also delighting shoppers and of course, thereby also retailers and shareholders.’
Thanks for the mention, I’m liking me new name
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