
"Business Development" is so much more than sales and marketing. This podcast is for motivated business leaders dealing with complexity, wanting to make changes happen. Brought to you weekly by Andy Baqone and Scott Snowden, you'll get validation that you're on the right track and you'll come away with new ideas to accelerate your plans. From the rocky shores of Lake Ontario and the dreary streets of London, this transatlantic duo opine about the things they wish they'd known long ago - most of which they've just figured out.
Sales methodologies month has begun, and we’re starting with the Challenger Sale. This one is all about helping customers think differently — which sounds noble until you realize it also means saying, “Are we sure that’s actually the problem?” without getting escorted out of the room. In this episod...
Complex selling sounds like it should require a giant tech stack, seven dashboards, and at least one acronym nobody fully understands. But in this episode, we discovered something slightly annoying: the best tools are often the simplest ones. We talked about: – borrowing ideas from completely differ...
Complex selling is never just about “the buyer” and “the seller.” We wish it were. It would make life much easier, and we could probably all spend less time in meetings pretending the spreadsheet is “basically under control.” In this episode, we talk about stakeholder engagement — the people inside ...
This week, we’re recording together in London for a rare in-person episode, which naturally means things go slightly off the rails before we even get to the topic. We kick things off with a story about hiring event security, where we learned the hard way that ticking qualification boxes doesn’t alwa...
This week, we dive headfirst into the world of complex deals and team selling — and discover that the secret to winning big opportunities isn’t bringing eleven people and a 300-slide deck into a meeting. In fact… it’s usually the opposite. We explore why complex deals are more often lost to internal...
In this bonus episode, we doubled down on what actually drives healthy teams and results—and spoiler alert: it’s not luck, and it’s definitely not another fancy spreadsheet. We kicked things off with a simple but powerful reminder: just showing up (literally, in person) can unlock opportunities you ...
This week, we wrap up our “Healthy Team, Healthy Results” series with a tools episode—but not the kind you’d expect. We kick things off with a story that perfectly proves why getting out from behind the screen still matters. What started as a routine 15-minute client meeting turned into a game-chang...
We used to think “healthy body” in business conversations meant… well… eating a salad and pretending we enjoy it. Turns out, it’s a bit more important than that. In our latest episode, we got into something that doesn’t get talked about enough: > Leaders set the tone — not just with strategy, but...
In our latest episode, we got into a conversation that started with a global meeting powered by live AI translation (very cool, slightly sci-fi), and quickly turned into something deeper: Why do some teams just work … while others feel like chaos in slow motion? We’ve both seen businesses where: The...
Ever sat through “training” where you click play, zone out, and hope there’s no quiz at the end? 😅 Yeah… we’ve all been there. In our latest episode, we talk about why most training doesn’t work—and what actually does. Turns out: It’s not about more content It’s not about clever hacks And it’s defi...