Marketing and Sales

Like many businesses across Northern Ireland you may feel your business must develop new skills to help you sell into export markets. Our advice  and consultancy support helps inexperienced exporters to develop exporting skills and enables more experienced exporters to refresh and update their knowledge of best practice in this area.

How we can help?

Export Skills and Knowledge Workshops

We run one-day workshops covering:

  • market research
  • developing an export market plan
  • sales prospecting and networking
  • sales communications
  • managing distribution channels
  • tendering
  • key account management


Each workshop costs £75 (inc. VAT) per person.  Included in the cost is an optional half- day extended personal workshop session with the consultant trainer (one session per company).  The workshops are open to all export-focused businesses in Northern Ireland.

To find out more information and to book places, choose from Core & Essential Export Skills Workshops.

Export Advice Strategy

We also provide export strategy advice about business models, business development, marketing strategy and export planning.

What financial support do we offer?

We offer up to 10 days’ consultancy to help you undertake specific marketing planning projects. This consultancy carries a cost to the business of £100 (plus VAT) a day.

We assess applications for financial support on a case by case basis.

If you are interested in getting advice and support for selling outside Northern Ireland please fill in our short enquiry form or call us on 0800 181 4422.

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