Business Development For Dummies
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Business Development For Dummies

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eBook - ePub

Business Development For Dummies

About this book

Growing a small business requires more than just sales

Business Development For Dummies helps maximise the growth of small- or medium-sized businesses, with a step-by-step model for business development designed specifically for B2B or B2C service firms. By mapping business development to customer life cycle, this book helps owners and managers ensure a focus on growth through effective customer nurturing and management. It's not just sales! In-depth coverage also includes strategy, marketing, client management, and partnerships/alliances, helping you develop robust business practices that can be used every day. You'll learn how to structure, organise, and execute an effective development plan, with step-by-step expert guidance.

Realising that you can't just "hire a sales guy" and expect immediate results is one of the toughest lessons small business CEOs have to learn. Developing a business is about more than just gaining customers – it's about integrating every facet of your business in an overarching strategy that continually works toward growth. Business Development For Dummies provides a model, and teaches you what you need to know to make it work for your business.

  • Learn the core concepts of business development, and how it differs from sales
  • Build a practical, step-by-step business development strategy
  • Incorporate marketing, sales, and customer management in general planning
  • Develop and implement a growth-enhancing partnership strategy

Recognising that business development is much more than just sales is the first important step to sustained growth. Development should be daily – not just when business starts to tail off, or you fall into a cycle of growth and regression. Plan for growth, and make it stick – Business Development For Dummies shows you how.

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Information

Publisher
For Dummies
Year
2015
Print ISBN
9781118962718
eBook ISBN
9781118962701
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Introduction
  5. Part I: Getting Started with Business Development
  6. Part II: Planning for Business Development
  7. Part III: Making the Most of Marketing
  8. Part IV: Seeing What Sales Can Do for You
  9. Part V: Managing Your Customers for Business Success
  10. Part VI: Making Influential Friends: Partnerships
  11. Part VII: The Part of Tens
  12. About the Author
  13. Cheat Sheet
  14. More Dummies Products
  15. End User License Agreement