TradeStart – Assistance for New Exporters
Want to start exporting but not sure where to start?
TradeStart is a package of free services to assist your business to develop overseas markets and make your first export sale! Offered to you by the Small Business Development Corporation in partnership with Austrade, TradeStart can assist you to:
Assess your export capability
- Review your export capability and evaluate export readiness
- Identify target markets
- Provide advice on financial and management issues
- Prepare for your selected market
- Advise on international marketing strategies and your marketing plan
- Provide feedback on promotional material
Inform you of economic conditions and commercial practices in your target markets
- Evaluate the suitability of your product/service for target markets
Visit your selected market
- Make appointments with selected relevant business contacts
- Arrange interpreters and translation of documents (at your cost)
- Briefings by Austrade staff in-market on local practices and culture
Follow through by your export advisor
- Assess the outcomes of your visit
- Assist you to achieve maximum impact from the visit
Your reward for taking up this personalised support will be a business which is export ready, has properly identified target markets, has market contacts and is well briefed on local practices and cultures.
To be eligible, your business must have:
- A current ABN;
- Australia as its main place of business;
- Not completed TradeStart, the former Export Access program, or received Austrade's new exporter services during the last three years (some exemptions apply);
- No recurrent export revenue in the same market over the last three years; and
- Most importantly, be willing to commit the time and resources to the program and possibly undertake overseas market visits at your own cost.
Contact the SBDC TradeStart Export Advisor Mike O'Donnell
on telephone (08) 9220 0222 or email Tradestart@sbdc.com.au for more information
and to apply.
