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Business Development

Career Conversion Programme

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APACSMA | E2i Partner

Duration
4 Months

SKILL LEVEL
Intermediate

LECTURES
18 Modules

Duration
4 Months

SKILL LEVEL
Intermediate

LECTURES
18 modules

Sales Executive
sales sdr

Business Development Career Conversion Programme

Business development professionals or managers [BDMs] develop a growth strategies focused on both financial gain and customer satisfaction for their organization. While the role and scope differ from company to company, BDMs are involved in identifying potential business revenue areas through strategic partnerships, identifying profitable product solution streams and profitable channels. Contributing to business and market intelligence supporting new development areas, BDMs are also involved in scanning the market for competitive activities, business position in the market, conducting research to identify new markets and customer needs, planning campaigns, manage and executing blitz days via SDRs/BDRs, build pipeline and arranging meetings with potential leads and opportunities.

Certified Business Development Professional Coursework:

Module 1: Introduction to Business Management & Development

The objective of this module is to familiarize the learner with business management and development. This module covers the fundamentals of business development, business to business sales and sales foundations.

Module 2: Strategic Planning

This module covers how to establish and articulate organization’s core competencies, vision, mission, strategic filters, and how all of these factors combine to create a compelling strategic plan. Plus, how to create strategic initiatives, implement your plan, and assess the progress that you’re making (or not making) towards your goals.

Module 3: Pre Outreach Strategic Planning

This module covers how to conduct a competitive analysis for your business, best practices for conducting research on your competition, discerning your own strengths and weaknesses, how to identify your audience and target personas, analysing your sales competitors and research your target market. 

Module 4: Lead Generation Foundations

This module teaches the essentials of lead generation: identifying qualified leads and converting them into loyal customers who advocate for your brand. It also explains the framework for identifying your business and lead generation objectives and your target audience and discusses how to engage and entice prospects with effective branding and content. It also covers the fundamentals of an email marketing drip campaigns.

Module 5: Scanning Potential Opportunities within Industries

This module covers the techniques and tactics to understand and sell in different kind of industries such as government, technology companies, professional services, financial services, telecommunication, manufacturing, healthcare, retail and consumer products. 

Module 6: Understanding Territory Management and Account Segmentation

This module includes sales territory management, different types of account and engagement with account, and micro and macro analysis of the accounts.

Module 7: Channels and Partner Models

This module will teach you how to identify, develop, and build strategic business partnerships and sustain them over time. It also covers strategies that can help experienced reps take their communication and negotiation skills to the next level.

Module 8: Creating Go To Market Plans

This module covers the process of defining your business, researching the market, determining your product, sales strategy, day-to-day operations, staffing, and financial forecasting. It also shows how to create the GTM plan, and shows how to build a product strategy that’s tailored to the market and customer base you aim to reach.

Module 9: Prospecting and Pitching

In this module, best practices for creating sales pitches are discussed. It covers how to analyze the competitors and create the best sale pitch with competitive differentiation, and how to deliver an authentic elevator sale pitch. This module also covers the basic fundamentals of sales prospecting.

Module 10: Persuasion and Influence

This course covers basic psychology concepts that make it easier for potential customers to say yes to you, including four key personality types and ideas for working successfully with each. It also covers the neuroscience of sales and the essentials of influence and persuasion. 

Module 11: Understanding Various Sales Methodologies

In this module, the learner will learn the various types of sales methodologies such as solution sales, rvalue selling, cross and upsell, joint solution selling, challenger sales etc.

Module 12: Social Selling Skills

This module teaches the fundamentals of social selling, how to build your trusted professional profile in LinkedIn, how to use social research to attract the ideal prospects, how to prospect using LinkedIn Sales Navigator, how to find the right audience and engage prospects using content and LinkedIn events. It also covers how to build your network within the buyer’s community and how to take the online conversation offline. 

Module 13: Presentation, Virtual Meeting and Demo Skills

This module covers the anatomy of great presentations and explains how to effectively win clients over and gain their business. It also show how to communicate more efficiently and effectively in your presentations, as well as how to hold your client’s attention. It also covers essential tips of conducting a productive meeting online, choosing the right platform, setting expectations, clarifying roles, and creating a meeting agenda. Finally, covers practical strategies for following up with prospects in a way that keeps the momentum of a great sales meeting going.

Module 14: Digital Communications Skills

This module covers the essential business etiquettes needed for wiring an email, text message, or sending a voicemail. It starts with email, explaining everything from setting up signatures to striking the right tone, how to best use autoresponders, acknowledge receipt of an email, and follow up on unanswered email. Next is the text etiquettes, including what and what not to say in a text message. Finally, covers phone etiquette, including proper greetings, voicemails, out-of-office messages, and essential phone behavior.

Module 15: Digital Sales and Sales AI

This module helps learners to integrate digital techniques into their sales process to acquire more prospects, reduce lead times, nurture customers and drive revenue using sales automation techniques, technologies and tools.

Module 16: Forecasting, Reporting and Business Reviews

This module covers sales pipeline management, sales forecasting, sales performance measurement, managing leads and opportunities, and how to prepare for annual, quarterly, Monthly and 1:1 reviews business review. 

Module 17: Essential Skills for BDMs

This module explains how to work in the matrix organization, manage matrixed employees, excel as an employee in a formal or informal matrix, and capitalize on the unique opportunities that a matrix offers, including the ability to reach a larger network. It also teaches how to develop, launch, track a high-performing cross-functional sales team, and how to work effectively in the virtual team. It also covers how to hone and master your interpersonal communication skills, soft skills in depth, some of the most essential soft sales skills, including building connections, listening, managing in difficult times and managing stress for positive change.

Module 18: Virtual Sales & Remote Working Foundations

This module covers the fundamentals of virtual selling and remote working, how to create a productive work environment at home by structuring a day correctly and avoiding distractions.

Assessment and Exam Matters

Exam Exam and Certification Matters

All students will receive a Certification of Completion by Asia Pacific Sales & Marketing Academy upon completing all online modules and passing all integrated quizzes.

For Certified Status

Students opting for Certified status will have to register at edu@apacsma.com. Our Educational Consultants will reach out to you on the process, assessment, and certification fees. 

Exams will include knowledge verification assessment, capstone project &/or an assignment. Students will have to pass with 75% and above (in combined aggregate score) to be eligible for Certified status. Dual endorsed certification will be issued by Asia Pacific Sales & Marketing Academy and Institute of Sales Professionals, UK with official recognition as Certified Business Development Manager (CBDM™). CBDMs can use this credential on their name card and on LinkedIn.

To Claim APACSMA Digital Badging

APACSMA will issue a digital badge and eCertificate within 2 weeks of completion. You will receive a notification from edu@badges.apacsma.com.

To help showcase your achievements, APACSMA has developed together with industry bodies and academia to provide you with unique blockchain verified credentials, a digital version of your qualifications and abilities.

Once you have accepted your badge, you can broadcast the badge directly to your social networks: LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook; over email; embedded in a website or in your email signature.

For more details on badging click here. 

What Course To Take Next?

Students who receive this certification are ready for the  Certified Account Management Professional course.

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