Swindon & Wiltshire News
Wiltshire sales expert heads for the Big Apple
Wiltshire sales expert Alison Edgar is travelling to New York as part of a national business mission for SMEs to explore opportunities overseas.
Managing director of Sales Coaching Solutions Ltd, Alison will join more than 60 UK-based small businesses and journalists to meet entrepreneurs who are successful in the Big Apple. She leaves Wiltshire for the event on Thursday, September 25.
Alison said: “It’s brilliant to be able to take the opportunity to meet other business owners from a city like New York. We can learn from each other and become more educated around exporting our talents to new markets and new people – even if an ocean separates us.”
Alison is well known as the founder of Sales Coaching Solutions, a specialist sales training provider based in Wiltshire. Her company focuses on sales and customer service training for start-up enterprises, SMEs and corporate organisations. The company is also a pioneer in the government’s Growth Vouchers initiative.
On Friday, she was invited by Emma Jones MBE, the founder of Enterprise Nation, to talk to Lord Young, enterprise adviser to the Prime Minister, about how she has used the Growth Vouchers initiative to support small businesses and start-ups..
Alison has also been appointed as the regional representative for the South West on the national Growth Vouchers Promotional Panel, helping to introduce the scheme to companies wanting to grow their business.
During the two-day mission to New York, organised by Enterprise Nation, Alison will visit the premises of Etsy, an online e-commerce site for handmade and vintage items and meet members of the growing Freelancers Union.
Guest speakers for the event, organised by Enterprise Nation, include angel investor Heidi Messer, Judith Clegg, founder of TakeOut who divides her time between London and New York, and Rachel Shechtman, founder of Story, New York’s most successful retail pop-up.
