BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS

 

MBD Incorporated

7422 Carmel Executive Park

Charlotte, NC 28226  USA

Phone: 704-553-0000

  
Insight # Title
1 Always have a Goal....Activity is not Accomplishment
2 Conceptually- stay outside your comfort zone
3 Know that you have value in the Relationship
4 Know Your Value... Your Purpose Statement
5 C3 (Credibility, Confidence & Courage)= Success in Business Development
6 Just because you have it.... Doesn't mean they need it
7 No Problem....No Need....No Prospect
8 In Business Development, Stay Professionally Involved but Emotionally Detached
9 Your Prospect doesn't care about you, but they love to talk about themselves
10 The 3 P's: Principles, Purpose and Process
11 Don't get mad at people for doing what you never told them not to do
12 The burden of proof is on the prospect
14 Don't look too good nor talk too wise
15 Master long-term thinking like a business professional vs. short-term thinking like a Sales Person
16 The thinking that got you here today...is not the thinking that will get you where you need to go
17 When the pain of change is less than the pain you're in ...you will change
18 Why people don't buy: No pain, no match, no crisis, no trust
19 Your meter is always running. It's always a business relationship
20 Everybody wants to go to heaven...no one wants to die
21 If your head doesn't get there first, your tail never will
22 Only decision-makers can discuss money
23 How you do in your roles in life is not a reflection of you as an individual
24 Be professionally involved and emotionally detached
25 Any strength to an extreme becomes a weakness
26 You will never listen yourself out of business
27 Everyday you do business with someone, you are one day closer to ending it
28 There are no customer who don't buy, only prospects who don't qualify
29 The key to business development is learning what pains you solve
30 If you sense it or feel it, say it tactfully
31 The problem the prospect brings you is never the real problem
32 All motivation is ultimately self motivation
33 Bad business is worse than no business
34 No one will ever get mad at you for doing something they gave you permission to do
35 Wherever you are in life, you are there by choice
36 It's easier to find a diamond in the rough than it is to apply pressure to coal
37 Good Matters Get Better, Bad Matters Get Worse
38 Your Prospect Needs To Be Working As Hard To Buy As You Are To Sell
39 Sales is no Place to Evaluate your Self Worth
40 A Good Business Development System Forces You to Get No's Early and Often
41

People don't Fight Change.... They Fight Being Changed

42 Defend Your Limitations and Sure Enough they're Yours
43 Thinking Comes Right Before Trouble
44 Business Development is Hysterical Activity On the Way to the Grave; It is not Relevant Social Behavior
45 Work on the Right Side of the Problem
46

The Problem a Prospect Brings You is Almost Never a Technical Problem

47 Goal Power: All Motivation is Self Motivation
48 How Good are You at Successfully Failing?
49 What is Business Development?
50 What is Your Business Development Culture?
51 Are You a Strategic Business Leader?
52 Change is Coming. Are You Ready?
53 Digging the BD Ditch" Are You Turning It Around or Digging Deeper?