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Kickstart UK: how it works

What it means to your business

Use your list of 200 potential customers to generate sales in any way you wish. With an average success rate of 0.5% to 1%, that’s one or two extra orders, and even more importantly one or two new customers who you can work with over an extended period of time.

Depending of the value of a new customer to you, you might have just found the answer to driving growth in sales and profits for your business!

What it means to your new customer

They have just identified your company as providing a valued service that will help them grow and evolve over the coming months.

You don’t need to be coy about asking for them to trade with you, if once they understand your offering they want to deal with you, then you have done them a huge favour by making contact.

Getting Started

  • Register your company details using the online form.

  • Choose the contacts you want to talk to by using the selection tool. Use different criteria to explore ideas and target companies who will understand the relevance of your offering.
  • You don’t need to find exactly 200 contacts with your selection. If the results return more than 200 contacts, click the link "take 200 free" and you will download your free contacts.
  • If your targeting needs are more specific, please contact us. There is a £25 charge for this service but your list of contacts will still be free of charge.

  • We will phone you to validate your free account. To do this we need a UK landline number for your business. Once we have validated your account it will be activated.

  • You can now download your free contacts from one of your 'Targeting Ideas'. The download will include:
    • the list of contacts;
    • a copy of the legal terms and conditions;
    • an invoice for the list of contacts and a balancing discount from the Kickstart UK scheme;
    you will have nothing to pay.

Using Your Contacts

  • Use your list of contacts to find new business, you can:
    • telephone the contacts;
    • write to them; or
    • do a combination of these.
    Here is some brief advice on how to use your list of contacts.

  • Start doing business with your new customer – look after them!

Many studies show that time and money are much more effectively used in looking after existing customers. If you have an existing customer list, you should consider getting it cleaned and updated. Our free audit system will provide a detailed report of just how accurate your existing data is, along with options for improving it.

Help Spread the Word

Tell everyone else you know about Kickstart UK. The more people who use and benefit from this scheme, the greater the impact on the economy.

The information you give to Kickstart UK will only be used by us and will not be provided to others. You may be contacted by us separately in the future to add your details to the marketing database we supply to others - which is in the spirit of Kickstart UK of course.