I'm a construction project manager, and I was recently offered a position with the company I work for to be a business development manager and they will include all of the training. Thanks for the information
Hey. You and I are on the same boat. I was moved from Project Management to Business Development of a Facilities Management company. It has been 3 months now and I am slowly learning all there is. The first two months were hard because in this company the business development manager does tendering aswell and that is time consuming but I am getting the hang of it. Good luck in your role. How are you finding it?
Hey, congrats. The same thing happened to me just yesterday! I was just looking at pathways to chartership with the CIOB and my boss asked me if I would switch to BDM. I'll be honest, I'm pretty confused as to which role to choose. Stay with project management or take this new role
Sales takes ready customers and closes the deals using the company's sales system. BD creates the high-quality leads over a long time, aligned with the company's growth strategy, and feeds them into the sales system.
I like your take on business developing, interleaved in there is the fact that Sales are Closers, which leads to something that perhaps many Sales Professionals like to learn is what are the key differences between BD and Sales. Let me give you a starter, I did not get a BD job because they told me I was too good of a Sales guy 🤷🏻♂️
Thanks for watching. You should be glad you didn’t get that job because the answer they gave you was silly. It probably saved you some heartache and frustration.
Well, BD is not sales and isn't related to sales any how, except for the final intersection with sales reps, those who are supposed to close deals (regardless what these deals are)
I'm actually qualified to do this job and I never knew it! It is huge shift from working as a behavioral technician with one kid at a time, I would be working with adults only and maybe a couple of tantrums 😅
You all in RU-vid talk about Business development manager ... I was offered a position from a supervisor to a business development Assistant. I have searched RU-vid but all i see BDM. Please talk about BDA
ok but I want to see it in action there's no way I can walk up to someone introduce myself and ask them for business I have no idea who they are or what they do and asking those questions isn't always welcomed then what after that? we exchange numbers I go over to their house and play video games all day for 3 years until we become friends and they can willingly give me their money to by company? I see how easy it seems on paper this video made it seem super easy but really what's your cost? there's no way you aren't taking them out to lunch or flying around what are your expenses? what are your strategies? do you research people you want to meet before hand like google them or what? there's just no way this is that simple or i'd go outside right now and make me 100k
