About Vee Roberts
Brand & Marketing Practitioner, Author & Consultant
www.insight2marketing.com
Vee Roberts launched her business on £100 in 2013 and is a multi-award winning Brand and Marketing Practitioner, Author and Coach. A mother to 4 children aged 7 to 26, she is also dedicated to teaching, serving and empowering business owners – developing credible, consistent brands and monetising them, using online and offline strategies. Running more than one business, both as the Director of insight2Marketing and Founder of inspireUrBiz networking events, Vee regularly shares her knowledge on marketing, branding and social media as a Guest Speaker and Trainer. Vee Roberts studied branding, marketing and communications to Post Graduate level and has also worked in a range of senior marketing roles – a total of more than 26+ years in the industry. After becoming a young mother in her teens, she entered a 4 year career in telesales leading her to find her true passion and purpose of marketing and communications. Commencing on a Marketing Management role via Global Telecoms giant British Telecommunications, she then went on to spend several years working in Senior Marketing and Director roles for a number of companies, including public sector, national charities and SMEs. A period in her life which she describes as an enjoyable challenge. She says: “Being thrown in the deep end, as a single mother too, I was successfully able to work my way up the Corporate ladder. Doing so taught me a great deal about integrated marketing solutions and effective budget management”. Redundancy led Vee to take a leap of faith, becoming self employed she started her own business. Working on contracts within local government and bigger public
agencies proved to be something she really enjoyed. But still something was missing. She wasn’t free to do as she pleased. Vee Roberts decided to become her own boss working by her own rules. It was a risk she was prepared to take, fed up of the office politics and bureaucracy. With less than £100, she successfully set up her own business from scratch, using her own knowledge of affordable marketing solutions to make it happen. She was able to grow her business brand online and offline successfully. And, she now uses her 19+ years of ‘planning and hands on’ experience to make it happen for other business owners too. Her ethos is “Working smarter not harder, whilst remembering that baby steps are better than no steps”. To date, her success rate with business owners is excellent – rated 5 stars. Her passion and proven success is in generating awareness, leads and income as a result of effective branding and integrated marketing campaigns. She enables businesses to refocus their marketing efforts in a way that will save both time and money long term. Many of the businesses she works with have seen a drastic improvement in their bottom line and also reported improved perception, better customer retention and increased sales. Her clients come from a range of sectors including Commercial, Not-for-profit, Healthcare, Arts & Entertainment, Fashion, Hair & Beauty, Education and Tourism. Vee is all about serving people and gets her buzz seeing businesses flourish. With her wealth of knowledge on marketing, branding and social media, Vee is often paid to speak at conferences and events on the subject of marketing, branding or social media.
Achievements and highlights 2022 ●
International Interview ABS TV - Caribbean ●
Mentor for Virgin Business Startup Mentor for Natwest Bank
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Featured in Telegraph
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Feature in The Independent
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Featured in The Daily Mail
Featured in The Evening Standard
Featured in a 3 part series - BBC Radio Surrey Member of Chatered Institute of Marketing ● ●
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Member of the RSA
Speaker at Ealing Business Expo
Croydon Lead for Federation of Small Business
Launched and self published - Brand & Marketing Planner (5th edition)
2021 Featured on Times Radio London
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International Interview ABS TV - Caribbean
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Affiliate Member of Chartered Institute of Marketing Croydon Lead for Federation of Small Business
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Speaker at Beckenham Business Association Expo
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Speaker at Digital Growth Live Expo
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Became a Trainer for Enterprise Nation
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Speaker at Grow Your Business Show Epsom
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Speaker at BOB Expo Manchester
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Speaker at Digital Women Expo
Launched and self published - Brand & Marketing Planner (4th edition) ●
Launched a free business app - www.insight2marketing.com/app
2020 ● ●
Delivered a masterclass for Natwest Bank
Featured in Afro Caribbean Food Pull Out - The Voice Newspaper ●
Croydon Lead for Federation of Small Business ●
Spoke at Digital Women event 2020
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Spoke at Social Day 2020
Launched and self published - Majestic Marketing Planner (3rd edition)
2019 Featured in Forbes
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Featured on BBC Radio London
Social Power Summit -USA (Speaker) ●
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Fellow of FRSA
Grow Your Business Expo - Speaker
Awarded Woman of Global Impact - Women’s Economic Forum ●
Mentor for Cherie Blair Foundation
Launched and self published - Majestic Marketing Planner (2nd edition)
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2018 ● ●
Winner of 2018 BE Mogul award : within top 100 UK Black influencers Launched and self published - Majestic Marketing Planner (1st edition) Winner of LIFT EFFECTS inspirational woman
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Nominated for social media entrepreneur of the year - Social Day Awards ●
Virgin Business Startup mentor
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Natwest Bank mentor
Endorsed as a Guest Expert Writer for Social Media Examiner
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Winner of BEFFTA Top 1000 BEFFTA Honours list Winner of Iconic Woman Award – New Delhi India ●
Nominated for Whole Life Activation award
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Nominated for Star Dust Awards by Radio Works
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Nominated for National Diversity Awards UK 2017 Featured on Good Morning Antigua and Barbuda TV
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Featured in Antigua Observer
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Featured in Caribbean Times Interviewed on Vybz FM Antigua
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2016 ●
Nominated for National Diversity Awards UK 2016 Interviewed on YourDigitalNetwork.co.uk
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Star Awards – Community Champion
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Featured in Supermum Surrey Featured in Talented Ladies Club
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Featured in Antigua Observer
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Featured in Caribbean Times
Interviewed on Sun Radio
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Interviewed on Vybz FM Antigua
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2015 ●
Back to Black Award Winner ●
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REEBA Award Winner
Global Entrepreneurship – High Impact Host Award
Featured in The Voice Newspaper ‘Sisters Doing it for Themselves’ ●
Interviewed on Colourful Radio Featured in the Croydon Guardian
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2014 Interviewed on MumToMillionaire
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Interviewed on Tea and Talk with Lily ●
Featured in Croydon Guardian
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Featured in Croydon Advertiser
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Interviewed on Croydon Radio
Global Entrepreneurship – High Impact Host Award
References and Show Reel available on request