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Budding Stockton entrepreneur aiming to win Richard Branson startup competition

Budding Stockton on Tees entrepreneur Beverley Rose-Olmez is asking for the support of fellow North East residents and businesses, by voting for her online, to help her reach the semi finals of Richard Branson’s business investment competition called Pitch to Rich.

With her start-up marketing business, called Campaign Kick-off Workshops, Beverley is hoping to achieve over 500 votes by the first round deadline date of 5 May 2015.

Beverley is entered in the Start-Up category, with the two other categories being, New Things and Grow. The top fifty entrants with the highest votes from each category will automatically progress her through to semi finalist status in this UK wide competition.

The semi finalists will be revealed on 19 May 2015, and finalists announced on 2 June 2015. The final pitches will be made to Rich at a live finale event in London on 26 June 2015, where the ten best pitches will win a share of more than £1m in prizes.

Currently in the pre-launch phase, Beverley is productising her 21 years worth of international marketing and events management knowledge, and specifically, will be delivering the marketing tools which helped her achieve finalist status in the Interim Marketing Manager of the Year Awards 2014, for a project where she helped to globally launch an aviation sector client’s product.

Global business managers will be able to receive the workshops via Skype, in-house one-to-one or by traditional group workshops.

Beverley said: “I’ve had such amazing support so far from friends, family, business colleagues and the global business community, but I am desperate to get masses more votes, to get me through to the semi finals.

“Business wise, I’ve already received over £3,000 worth of prospective sales enquiries, but it is about the votes at the moment, and if the people of the North East are kind enough to support me by voting online, then I would also ask them to remember to confirm their vote by clicking the email link that they receive from Virgin Media Business.”

Famous fellow Teessiders who have already supported Beverley via re-tweets on Twitter include Paul Daniels (comedy magician), Gary Havelock (1992 world speedway champion), Adele Parks (author), Mark Benton (actor), Katherine Copeland (Great Britain Olympic champion) and Mackenzie Thorpe (artist).