By Mei-Lin Chow · Jul 18, 2026 · 2 min read

Realistically, pick one piece, act on it in a quiet hour, and come back for the next — that beats reading all of them. There is no order police here, but the plumbing really do make the other primers land earlier than expected.

Business Development missteps worth avoiding

Business Development — up close
Honestly, the breakdowns carry our name, so anything we would not tell a visitor in person does not go into print.

Honestly, give Business Development a week of poking at it and most visitors know which camp they are in. Broadly, for some regulars, Business Development repays attention many times over; for others the candid answer is “not yet”.

Budgeting for Business Development

Budgets in Business Development rarely break where most people expect — it is the cost of switching later that catches them out. We set out where the money actually goes in Business Development, and which corners are safe to cut. Realistically, the realistic range for Business Development is wider than headlines suggest, and anyone quoting one figure is talking about a different situation.

Updates

Dates on these primers are real: a page marked this year was read again this year, without dressing it up. Put simply, we update rather than republish, so links first-timers saved keep working and stay valid.

If this was useful: Ask us anything about Business Development — we did and Your Business Development questions, answered.

Mei-Lin Chow
UX designer with a side habit of reviewing productivity apps she inevitably abandons after a fortnight.