Start-up Programme
All the advice and practical help you need to start a business is available for free with our team of business start-up advisers. The service takes you through business planning, cash forecasting, marketing and market research, legal and financial requirements.
There is ongoing help and mentoring available as your business grows and you expand and employ staff. There are also discounted membership deals for new start-up businesses.
Call 01782 202222 to speak to an advisor, or email start@staffordshirechambers.co.uk
- Published in Start-Up & Grow
Experian Business Express Credit Reports (Subscription)
Credit Check your customers and suppliers with Experian Business Express credit reports.
Staffordshire Chamber members/customers are entitled to a Free Trial and 20% discount on the product subscription.
Experian Business Express has one of the most predictive scoring models in the industry, which lets you easily determine the creditworthiness of your business’s customers and suppliers. Based on Experian’s scoring model, Business Express can help you predict business credit risks and failures within the next 12 months.
Once set up, you’ll have immediate access to all the data you need to make the right decisions for your business. Our commercial credit reports provide the most complete and in-depth analysis of a business’ credit information.
Features include
- Business information including credit scores and limits
- 3 years account summary
- CCJ information over the last 6 years
- Basic monitoring service
- Non limited business reports
- Parent and ultimate holding companies
- Directors and links to other business interests including shareholders
- 3 years’ worth of full financial information
- Payment data for Limited and Non-Limited businesses
- Ownership – Group structure, shareholders & director search facility
Login and visit the member area to receive your discount here.
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Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire Growth Hub
A free diagnostic service covering all aspects of your business whatever stage you are at.
The Stoke-on-Trent & Staffordshire Growth Hub encourages different business support partners to work together to ensure that they put the needs of the client business first. As part of the Growth Hub service, experts from the Chamber are available to provide face-to-face advice to local businesses and to signpost them to specialised support such as HR, finance and funding, marketing, growth and starting a business.
As part of the Growth Hub service, experts from the Chamber are available to provide face-to-face advice to local businesses and to signpost them to specialised support such as HR, finance and funding, marketing, growth and starting a business.
Call 0300 111 8002 or visit www.stokestaffsgrowthhub.co.uk
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Experian B2B Prospector
Experian B2B Prospector helps you find new customers fast. Your small business marketing relies on up-to-date business marketing data. Knowing that your data is segmented and targeted to your most profitable business prospects means you can lower your marketing costs and conduct your sales campaigns with confidence.
Staffordshire Chamber members or customers are entitled to a 30% off any purchases made.
Choose exactly the kind of businesses you’re looking for, review them before you buy and start contacting them immediately – by email, phone or through the post.
Build a list of your ideal prospects with Experian B2B Prospector
- Over 5.3 million UK businesses with names, postal addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses
- Segment, target, and tailor your list by geography, business type, turnover, number of employees and many more
- Set a specific number of contacts to suit your budget.
- Free Data Validator to ensure you fulfil your GDPR obligations by checking data you have purchased from Experian’s B2B Prospector
Enhance data you have by adding up to 60 data variables to help you get better insight and help segment your existing portfolio. Also provides a FREE data profile report.
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Focus Magazine
Promote your business in Staffordshire through Focus Magazine, the Chamber’s official business publication. Our quarterly magazine has a circulation of approximately 15,000 business and community members in Staffordshire, offering Chamber members the ideal opportunity to promote their achievements and business news to a B2B audience on a regular basis.
Focus Magazine is distributed at all major events attended by the Staffordshire Chamber including the Staffordshire Business Festival and Let’s Do Business Expo, Staffordshire’s biggest annual B2B event. Focus Magazine’s themed issues provide an in-depth look at issues important to our membership; from environmental sustainability to Brexit, we regularly offer opportunities to spark conversation about how your business is contribution to the conversation in Staffordshire.
Submit your press releases for inclusion today or contact the friendly Focus team for information about advertising, features and more email us marketing@staffordshirechambers.co.uk
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Translation Services
Do you want to expand your business? Find support through the Chamber to approach new customers in new markets with support from our Department for International Trade (DIT) Advisors.
Our team can guide you through access to Department for International Trade services designed to introduce you to new markets, give you access to chambers of commerce worldwide via the Global Business Network, signpost trade missions and inward missions to Staffordshire, and provide useful information and research about markets abroad. When you’re entering new markets, or servicing existing customers, you want your message to be correct, whether it’s in English, Chinese or Spanish. Let us support your business in markets where English isn’t the primary language. Translation services can help to avoid the costly mistakes and missed opportunities that come from failure to communicate.
The Chamber can help your business can with contacting prospective customers, creating exhibitions and developing client relationships and more. Let us help your business say what it means with bespoke translation and interpretation services.
Contact the DIT Advisor service today to get started with expanding your business abroad! Email info@staffordshirechambers.co.uk
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Events
Find new customers, promote your business and network with other Chamber members with the range of fun and productive events hosted throughout the year by the Staffordshire Chamber of Commerce.
There’s no better way to raise your company’s profile than mixing and mingling. We host a range of events including lunches, the prestigious annual BCC Chamber of Commerce Awards, the sell-out Speed Networking, activities as part of the Staffordshire Business Festival and Let’s Do Business Expo, new member welcomes and more. The Chamber also hosts a number of sector-specific events designed to provide a targeted networking opportunity for our members working within the same industry. As a Chamber member you can take advantage of “elevator pitch” speaking opportunities at speed networking, maximising membership or potential member events, giving you a unique opportunity to find new customers in a social setting.
- Published in Influence & Network, Marketing & Digital Innovation
PR Opportunities
Make the best of your Staffordshire Chamber of Commerce membership to raise your business’ profile with press and PR opportunities. Tell Staffordshire what you’re proud of by uploading your press releases to the Virtual Members Lounge. It’s free and easy to use, and you’ll instantly reach an engaged audience of local businesses. You can also submit your news items to the Chamber’s official business publication, Focus Magazine. It’s the ideal way to promote news and achievements to a tuned-in B2B audience in print and online. Send your stories to marketing@staffordshirechambers.co.uk
Focus is published quarterly and has a circulation of approximately 15,000. The magazine is also distributed at major business events in Staffordshire including the Staffordshire Business Festival and Let’s Do Business Expo. The Chamber is a central resource for media outlets looking for feature opportunities and commentary from businesses across the county. We’re a key source for helping national and international media access knowledge within Staffordshire because of our membership network!
We connect our members to information requests from professionals working in TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, and online-only publications. Do you have something notable or noteworthy that you think would benefit from additional promotion? Tell us about it by contacting marketing@staffordshirechambers.co.uk
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Sponsorship
Promote your business to an engaged B2B audience in Staffordshire and beyond with sponsorship opportunities with the Staffordshire Chamber of Commerce. Each year the Chamber hosts over 100 business networking events, including sell-out “Speed Networking”. With regular workshops on key business issues including Brexit, workplace wellness and sector-specific seminars, we connect our members with the topics that matter to them. Sponsoring Chamber events is an ideal way to raise awareness about your products and services in the local business community. Promotion promotional opportunities.
As a member, you have exclusive access to digital opportunities to advertise your business. Web advertising is cost-effective and targeted, with packages available to suit any budget. Your sponsorship helps you reach our membership and supports the Chamber’s work promoting Staffordshire businesses within the region and beyond. Digital sponsorship options include advertising on the Chamber’s website, regular email communications or on our social media presence.
Get in touch with the Membership team today to learn more about what sponsorship options are right for promoting your business.
- Published in Marketing & Digital Innovation
