Geoff Vickers (Enable Creativity)

To start my own business was something I always had wanted to do and 2003 gave me that opportunity. Over six years on, business is going very well. I have been working with clients of all sizes from start-up's to multi-national corporations including many of the clients I had been working with prior to 2003. I offer my clients my 33 years experience, an extensive knowledge of production methods, and experience of working with some of the UK's top marketing departments. Because I work from a home based studio, with very low overheads, you will be pleasantly surprised how far your marketing budget will go. I offer my clients uniformity across all their promotional materials because of the wide range of services I can supply. These services include: logo design and corporate branding, advertising campaigns and web sites, through all types of printed promotional literature and communications, including packaging, point-of-sale and exhibition graphics. This uniformity helps build a strong brand with which to compete confidently to win new business.

My first position in the Advertising industry with Bowden Dyble and Hayes in Manchester in 1976, one of the top agencies in the North of England. Two years later I was 'head hunted' by The Quick Brown Fox to join their very busy studio. After only 12 months I became studio manager. I was asked to run the retail department of the studio working on accounts such as Comet, Halfords and Martin Dawes. In 1985 I was made an Associate Director in charge of the sales team. My clients included ICI (now AstraZeneca), British Aerospace and Brook Motors. In 1990 I moved to Macclesfield Design Resources as a Director. Within the first 5 years, we increased the business substantially winning some excellent contracts. Our biggest gain being AstraZeneca's complete portfolio of medicines, our brief was to promote to their pharmaceutical operations, doctors and specialists worldwide, this included exhibitions, direct mail and packaging. By 2000 we employed 17 staff, moving to superb offices in a renovated church. Unfortunately, due to the MD's illness, in 2003 the company came to an end. In 2003 I started Enable Creativity, my own business.