Liz Jackson

Liz Jackson launched her company over six years ago in the UK with the help of the Prince of Wales Trust, where she received £1000 grant. Today, Great Guns Marketing is turning over nearly £2 million and growing at a rate of forty percent per annum. With eight branches across the UK, the company is booming. By the end of 2005, Liz plans to have sixteen Great Guns branches all set up and running smoothly. Great Guns Marketing is an outbound business-to-business appointment making agency.

For Liz Jackson especially, this is an amazing achievement as she is totally blind and only thirty one years of age. The year Liz started her business, she lost her sight completely. However, this didn't stop her from pursuing her dreams.

Liz Jackson truly is an inspirational figure. With no advanced educational background (Liz came out of school with 3 O'levels and didn't bother pursuing her educational career any further), she has gained over fifteen years experience in telemarketing. After leaving school, Liz got a job with BCMS, a mergers and acquisitions company. It is here where her telemarketing career began as she was recognised for her ability to communicate affectively over the phone. As part of her role at BCMS, Liz was sent to Chicago to set up a call centre. Being visually disabled didn't stop her and as she traveled alone and lived there for three months whilst setting up the project.

In June 2004, Great Guns Marketing won the Customer Focused Award (part of the National Business Awards sponsored by Orange). The award was presented to the company that best demonstrated its ability to place the customer at the heart of its business and deploy and manage its resources to most effectively meet the needs of its customer base (please find attached a press release), These prestigious awards were described by Chancellor Gordon Brown as The Business Oscars.

Liz Jackson won the Women Mean Business Award, sponsored by T-Mobile and the Sunday Express Britain's biggest award dedicated to women running their own businesses. The award is designed to recognize the growing importance of independent businesswoman to both the economy and the community. Liz took away with her a big cheque of £10,000 and £3000 worth of telecommunications equipment all from T-Mobile. It was a fabulous evening where Prince Charles even sent Liz a message to express his congratulations!

Liz Jackson has an extraordinary story to tell and she speaks to a range of companies and organisations on topics such as entrepreneurship, motivation, Women in Business, Telemarketing: and Communication.

Speaker topics:-

Motivation
Customer Service
Entrepreneurship
Leadership