The CBS is designed to help ambitious, early stage technology companies to generate product sales revenue. The service helps companies to:

• identify and remove barriers to commercial success

• improves sales revenue growth

• improve company marketing and sales capabilities

• improve long term growth potential.

Co-ordinated by Scottish Enterprise, participating companies will receive intensive sales and marketing support over a 12 month period from experienced private sector experts. Last year, the portfolio of 10 companies secured an additional £1.114M in sales that they attributed to the service.

Cost-Benefit

Phase 1:  Diagnostic Review (100% Scottish Enterprise funded)

Phase 2:  Implementation Support (50% Company/50% Scottish Enterprise)

This represents a minimum investment from participating companies of £7.5K to receive £20K of professional sales and marketing support.

Organisations face increasing pressure to rapidly respond to changes in the macro and micro-economic climate. So why do so many still operate on a rigid system of annual plans, budgets and forecasts? Budgets and planning can be outdated before the data reaches your desktop. The perspective you saw yesterday is different again today. And this can impede your ability to respond to opportunities and threats in the marketplace.
Developing rolling forecasts can be your key to effectively improving profitability and operating performance in these turbulent times.

This event marks the launch of the Girl Geek Speaker Series 2010 bringing high profile speakers from Silicon Valley and the EU to events across the Scotland and the UK.
Come and join our friendly crowd for drinks, dinner, networking and the chance to see the rising stars of our
generation.

Sponsored by Inter Connect.