Growing your business
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Expanding your business

Helping you take your business to the next level
We’re not just here to help new businesses off the ground – we’re also here to help established businesses reach their full potential.
We offer a range of services designed to give your business everything it needs grow, from support trading overseas to communications consultancy helping raise your profile nationally and internationally.
Our services include:
• Hands on business and technical consultancy from experienced industry experts
• Support preparing your business for trading overseas, including international trade missions helping open the doors which will allow you to access new markets and win new business around the world
• Support indentifying and securing finance and funding to help you expand
• Rapid market research from our Intelligence Service, helping you better understand your market, your customers and your competitors in as little as 48 hours
• Identifying and establishing relationships with potential customers and helping you to tender for their business
• Public relations and communications support, helping you find the right stories to tell – and the ways to tell them - to raise the profile and reputation of your business
• Joint ventures support, using our rich network of regional, national and international contacts to help you develop your business through partnerships and collaborations and by establishing value added resale relationships
• Placement programmes which subsidise your employment costs by pairing you wih top graduates from regional universities
• Access to skilled technical resources to support your businesses, including research and development to assisting you with product development and helping you convert your ideas into marketable software products and services
• Intellectual property and legal advice
• Specialist human resources advice, helping you find and keep the right talent for your business
• Events and networking programme, providing education and discussion, as well as informal networking and business opportunities, featuring nationally-renowned speakers and delegates
• Short-course professional skills programmes
If you'd like to talk to one of our advisors about how Sunderland Software City can help your software business grow give us a call on 0845 872 8575 or drop us a line

