Other business services or support

SBBC provides a dedicated service as a reliable point of contact for all the business issues you want us to handle in Central Europe, Slovakia or Great Britain representing our client's interests with suppliers of services, and providing independent, objective analysis and advice. Specific business support includes marketing services, problem solving and web research.

• Web research

Clients often know what they need to find out from the Slovak Internet, and if they spoke Slovak they would not need us. But they don't. We know the Slovak Internet backwards and thanks to access to native speakers of East European languages living in Slovakia we can search and collate results in other languages.

• Setting up an office / facility

Depending on our client's strategy, we can assist in setting up an office in Slovakia or Great Britain.

This service usually consists of selecting the most appropriate location, finding premises, and taking care of all the accompanying legal requirements, such as registering a subsidiary. For some businesses, the right way to approach the market may be to put their website into the local language or to create a call centre. We can take care of outsourcing local support services.

• Help with negotiations

Negotiations are a complex aspect of conducting business on an international scale and many foreign business professionals coming to Central Europe or Great Britain find it challenging to communicate with local partners.

Successful talks call for an understanding of the intricacy of cultural differences. Our consultants are familiar with the way of doing business in each of these countries and will help support meetings and negotiations.

• Managing a distributor or agent

Are you dissatisfied with your partner on the any of the CEE markets? Do you wonder why sales have been below potential and are still dropping?

SBBC can offer the service of managing your distributor or agent. As we are close to the market it will be easier for us to find out what's going on. We will monitor and assess your partner's efforts and potential, and evaluate the reasons for business being below expectations and make recommendations for further action.

• Marketing services

Sometimes the most appropriate approach for a foreign company to undertake in a target country is direct marketing, PR, a telephone survey or other approach. Depending on the scale we can manage the process of making sure that an agreed message is taken to either potential channel partners or end users in the local language.