Ramina is a media marketing professional with more than eight years of professional experience in Media marketing / Strategy planning and Business Development. She helps start-up companies in finding a way to brand themselves in the market. She is a confident communicator and believes in building a strong relationship with the clients and co- workers.
She has a post-graduation diploma in advertising and marketing as well as an MBA. Her expertise in advertising, media planning, brand development and marketing has given her much credence among her colleagues. She started her first venture, Gojilove, to create awareness and educate society by stating the benefits of pleasurable objects and bring change to the society in controlling population, have better and safe sex lives. It is an online store for erotics and accessories, pleasurable objects and sexy luxury intimate wears.
Please provide a brief overview of your product/ service.
Gojilove is India’s premiere online store for personal and intimate products, erotics and accessories, pleasurable objects and sexy luxury intimate wears, and recently we have also introduced fashionable dresses.
What inspired you to build the above product/ service?
Lack of authentic products and also none of the shop creating awareness and educating society by stating the benefits of pleasurable objects and bringing change in the society in terms of controlling population, having better and safe sex lives. Goji Love addresses the needs of the people without them being embarrassed about it. It places the products as classy and elegant and gives its customers the options of discrete delivery.
What is your life mantra?
Life doesn’t just happen, it requires our participation (the law of karma)
What was the most challenging part of your journey till now?
Getting right people to work as a team and right vendor to cooperate, making them understand the nuances of the business.
Share some details about the investments that you have been able to fetch for the business till now.
Bootstrapped and we wanted to keep that way for some time as we had many Angels approaching us but now we would be pitching to the serious Investors and Angels who can also be a strategic partner in our business.
How do you protect yourself from the problem of Brain Drain?
Keep Motivating and inspiring, be a colleague always!
According to you, what are the three qualities an individual must have to achieve success?
Discipline, Passion and being Proactive!
Share any one habit which you think makes you more productive.
Listing down “things to do” in a day and also check it if you have achieved that before you sleep.
Share any one habit which you wish to change in yourself.
Trusting people easily
Answer in less than 50 words
Keep motivating yourself and going even if it slows down, its ok that is a part of the journey.
- One mistake you believe every individual must avoid:
Over expenditure on anything and everything, start saving from day one as you anyway have to spend on many things.
- One most important lesson that you have learnt till now:
Every penny counts and every traction matters so our ambition was to start selling from day one and we achieved that with customer’s satisfaction.
What are your plans for next 3 years?
Our plan is to become the most trusted place for pleasurable products where you can find anything and have it delivered to your doorstep the next day. We are working and trying to improve by implementing and delegating whatever is needed – be it in customer care, improving quality, or faster delivery. We are also really looking forward to bringing in more innovative and interesting products, which are not available in the Indian market, as we want to be a pioneer in bringing such amazing products, which have been tried, tested and enjoyed in other countries across the world
If you get a chance to start your career again what would you do differently this time?
Everything happens for a reason, every day is a new day to start fresh and proving your own self so don’t look back.
What are your top three getaway destinations?
Goa (for Portuguese food), Sri-Lanka (for hospitality) and Manipur (being my hometown and not able to go frequently and spend time)
Share a quote that inspires you the most.
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world”-By Mahatma Gandhi