InterTradeIreland Funding
If your business is an SME based in Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland, you may be eligible for funding through InterTradeIreland’s Trade Export Pathway or Acumen programmes, which are designed specifically to help you grow your export business on the other side of the border.
As an approved InterTradeIreland consultant, SalesPlus can establish if your business meets the eligibility criteria for InterTradeIreland funding, assist you with completing your application, and work with you as your consultant on the funded project.
Trade Export Pathway Programme
The aim of the Trade Export Pathway programme is to support businesses that are either looking to enter the cross-border market for the first time or are already engaged in cross-border trade and wish to grow their export business further.
Tailored support is available for each step along the Trade Export Pathway; funding is provided for a specialist consultant to work with you and your business to establish and grow your exports over time.
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As approved InterTradeIreland consultants, we can establish if your business meets the funding eligibility criteria, assist with completing your application to secure funding, and work with you as your consultant on the funded project.
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Take a look at our explainer video below to find out how it works and how to apply.
The focus of InterTradeIreland's Trade Export Pathway programme depends on which step of the pathway your business is currently at. Tailored support is available for each of the below steps, giving you the opportunity to have a specialist work with you and your business to help establish and grow your exports over time.
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Research
For businesses in need of further information regarding key aspects of their cross-border market, such as possible routes to market and the scale of market opportunity, InterTradeIreland can provide funding to eligible companies to conduct research into their cross-border market, so that they can plan their approach to their cross-border market appropriately.
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Plan
For businesses in need of a cross-border export sales & marketing plan before they can meaningfully implement export sales activity in their cross-border market, InterTradeIreland can provide funding to eligible companies for the development of such a plan.
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Implement
For businesses that have fully researched their cross-border market opportunity and have a pre-existing cross-border export sales and/or marketing plan, InterTradeIreland can provide funding to eligible companies to assist with the implementation of that plan across the following areas: building sales development leads, leads prospecting and generation, and strategic cross-border business planning.
Acumen Programme
Successful Acumen applicants receive funding from InterTradeIreland for the recruitment of an experienced and skilled, full-time or part-time sales resource, for the purpose of achieving the following objectives:​
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A focused and efficient cross-border sales and marketing strategy.
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A new and growing cross-border sales pipeline.
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An improved understanding of how to trade within a cross-border market.
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Enhanced capability & skills of your management and/or sales teams.
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Increased ability to recruit, manage and retain a sales resource.
As approved InterTradeIreland consultants, we can establish if your business meets the funding eligibility criteria, assist with completing your application to secure funding, and work with you as your consultant on the funded project.
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