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For an intuitive grasp of business development, see the book The_PayPal_Wars —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.242.87.118 (talk) 10:38, 13 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

This reads like a sales pitch about why I should hire a sales development consultant. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.205.150.226 (talk) 21:20, 7 December 2009 (UTC)Reply

this is a sales pitch for the mentioned company. i say this article needs to be bombed and written again, —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.4.200.233 (talk) 12:46, 19 January 2010 (UTC)Reply

poor article - a sales pitch by the mentioned company, and an incorrect, biased and ignorant one at that. Michaeldarmata (talk) 13:05, 16 November 2010 (UTC)Reply

This is an article on the role of sales & marketing department. Business Develop in the corporate world is related to M&A and other inorganic growth strategies. 90.193.85.100 (talk) 20:21, 9 December 2010 (UTC)Reply

Agreed, this is horrible. How is it rated B? It should be D for Disastrous. Keitsist (talk) 22:22, 21 October 2011 (UTC)Reply

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suggest new subtopic discussing difference between Sales and BD.

Business Development efforts typically differs from sales to in the complexity, duration, and scope of the efforts to provide growth. BD efforts may involve significant effort on the part of the organization, working across engineering, product, finance, and contracts, to secure long term sales revenue of complex systems and services over many years. Sales, by contrast, tend to be shorter cycle capture of revenue for specific items or specific duration services with well defined scope. Integracer (talk) 14:26, 9 August 2026 (UTC)Reply