The key ingredient to maximising your business development outreach.
18 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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In this segment, the speaker argues that relevance is the single most critical factor in business development outreach. He explains that outreach that isn’t directly relevant to the prospect will never receive a response. He then links relevance to personalization, stating that genuine personalization—derived from research that resonates with the prospect—adds an extra layer that dramatically improves response rates. He illustrates the problem with a superficial personalization example: mentioning a prospect’s university (University of Birmingham) without tying it to the outreach’s purpose, which comes across as tokenistic and ineffective.










