This guide is designed to help you determine what stage you are at in the exporting process and to provide information about resources, programs, and services that will help you to start exporting or continue to export from Nova Scotia.

At What Stage Are You? Read the statements below to help determine which stage best fits your current situation.

Are you interested in exporting?

• I know little or nothing about exporting. What is it?
• I have started to wonder if exporting is right for me and/or my company.
• I would like to export, but I don’t know how to get started.
• I’ve received an out-of-province/country order, now what do I do?

If this fits your situation, click here.

Are you preparing to export?

• I have a product or service already selling in Nova Scotia.
• I have the capacity to make or do more than I am right now.
• I have researched other markets where I think my product or service could do well.
• I understand there are differences when selling my product outside of Nova Scotia.
• I am committed to a distant market.
• I have available financing to take my product or service to a new market.
• I have looked at my product and service and have modified it to fit an export market.

If this fits your situation, click here.

Are you already exporting?

• I have experienced increased sales locally and would like to explore other markets.
• I have exported before, but it did not prove successful for me.
• I have limited sales in my current export markets and would like to look at another market.
• I have exported, but it happened by accident.

If this fits your situation, click here.