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Five Ways to Upgrade Your Business Development Strategy

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Five Ways to Upgrade Your Business Development Strategy

By Fatima MansoorNovember 12, 2019No Comments

When it comes to growing your business at a steady yet consistent pace, improving your business development strategy is crucial. Adaptability and perseverance are key traits for business development due to changing corporate dynamics and constant innovation in the digital stratosphere. Infusing these qualities can bolster your business development process. You can also seek small business consulting professional for this purpose.

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How to Strategically Tackle an International Business Opportunity

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How to Strategically Tackle an International Business Opportunity

By Kayleigh AlexandraOctober 08, 2019No Comments

There are various points during the growth of a business that typically prove quite challenging — making the first sale, earning the first advertiser, forming the first partnership, to name a few. It all comes down to breaking new ground: doing something unprecedented, with little to no relevant experience and mostly determination and enthusiasm to get you through.

When an international business opportunity presents itself, it’s likely to be a step up in terms of challenge, presenting both literal and figurative gaps to overcome. Pass the test with flying colors and you’ll expand your skill set, impress those around you, and prime your company for exciting new deals down the line. Get it wrong, and you might be left waiting for another chance.

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A 10-Point Checklist for Global Business Expansion

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A 10-Point Checklist for Global Business Expansion

By Fatima MansoorMay 14, 2019Comments Disabled

Transforming your business into a global venture can be a lucrative and appealing endeavor. Plenty of entrepreneurs would risk taking this chance; however, it is vital to understand that taking your business global may prove to be a treacherous and frustratingly daunting experience if you are not prepared and careful.

There’s a lot to do – researching a new client base, learning and adhering to new standards, laws and regulations, searching for reliable and trustworthy global partners, and familiarizing yourself with the local traditions and culture just to name a few.

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Customers, Markets and Relationships: Creating Value for Business Development | Extraordinary Business

By Fatima MansoorOctober 10, 2018Comments Disabled

As crucial as business development is, it is one of the most ambiguous and divisive concepts in the business world. If you ask ten business development VPs (or similar level execs) about it, you can get just as many different answers. Their responses will peg business development to different elements ranging from “sales” to “partnerships” to “hustling”! And they may all be right in their own way. This begs the question, what exactly is business development?

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Business Development Strategy | Extraordinary Business

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Business Development Strategy | Extraordinary Business

By Beth BowlingMarch 21, 2018Comments Disabled

Business Development Strategy: A High-Growth Approach

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You hear them everywhere, acronyms and job titles that make you wonder what they’re talking about and what they do. When janitors are called Custodial Engineers, business meetings are filled with jumbles of letters you aren’t quite sure how to decipher, and sales, marketing and business development no longer mean what they did twenty years ago, it gets to be too much.
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Business Development in 2017 – What You Are Missing | Extraordinary Business

By Ravinder KapurFebruary 14, 2017Comments Disabled

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Small and medium-sized businesses are often tempted into thinking that they don’t need to market their products or services. This complacency usually arises when the business has a loyal set of customers and growing revenues and profits. The company owner thinks that when the firm already has more customers than it can handle, it would be a waste to spend on business development.
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Better! | Extraordinary Business

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Better! | Extraordinary Business

By Rick MeekinsMarch 23, 2016Comments Disabled

Intentional Steps to Building a Better Brand

As a business owner who has been around for a while, you are good at what you do. No question about it. Your company wouldn’t still be around if you didn’t. Question for you: What makes your company good? What makes it great? What makes it better than the competition?

How many times have you received a marketing message wherein a company or their products claim to be pretty good, adequate or good enough? Probably not too often, or at all. Perhaps there might be the company that claims to be the cheaper (think “knock off!”) version of a very expensive item or brand, but even they describe their products as “just as good without the price tag.”

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Better!

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Better!

By Rick MeekinsMarch 23, 2016Comments Disabled

Intentional Steps to Building a Better Brand

As a business owner who has been around for a while, you are good at what you do. No question about it. Your company wouldn’t still be around if you didn’t. Question for you: What makes your company good? What makes it great? What makes it better than the competition?

How many times have you received a marketing message wherein a company or their products claim to be pretty good, adequate or good enough? Probably not too often, or at all. Perhaps there might be the company that claims to be the cheaper (think “knock off!”) version of a very expensive item or brand, but even they describe their products as “just as good without the price tag.”

Question is: What is better? How does a company present itself as truly better? [···]

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With Which you Have Naught | Extraordinary Business

By Rick MeekinsMarch 05, 2015Comments Disabled

Defining and employing the right tactics to reach your audienceStress. Woman stressed

Have you ever noticed that the way you speak to your parent probably isn’t the way you would speak to your kids or friends? No brainer, right? Mom might be more of a Facebook or text messaging person, where you might use SnapChat or something to that effect with your friends.
So what about your markets? What will offend them? What will get their attention? What will cause them to act?
Just like with your personal relationships, there is no single way to communicate with everyone in every circle. Truth is, there is no communication pattern that you can use even with a seemingly single group of people. As you know, there are many things that will impact the way that information is received – stressors and situations can be game changers.
So wherein is your responsibility?
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