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What Is Business Development?

The 5% Institute

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Maintaining strong relationships with customers is crucial for long-term success. Business development teams focus on nurturing existing customer relationships, enhancing customer experience, and identifying opportunities for upselling and cross-selling.

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What Is Sales? The Career of Champions

Salesforce

Above all, relationships are important to account-based sales. One example of account-based sales is pharmaceutical sales. As an illustration, pharmaceutical reps focus on a specific high-value practice. That’s because they often involve high-value products and services which take time to sell.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

Selling today requires our traditional soft skills of empathetic listening, communication, relationship building, and decision-making. That sales is hard and there is more to it than relationship building. Buyers want someone to collaborate with them over the long term to deliver their business outcomes. Enthusiasm.

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