Rainmaker IQ

Simple “snacks” to find, land, and optimize new clients

Gil Gerretsen Gil Gerretsen

What Is Your Business Birthright?

The "Birthright Principle" begins with a simple, but very direct question: Why was your business born and what right do you have for continuing to exist?

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Gil Gerretsen Gil Gerretsen

Buy The Right Business Tools

When growing up, I learned a very important lesson about having and using the right tools for a job or project. The lesson applies to business too.

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Gil Gerretsen Gil Gerretsen

Take Ownership Of Your Audience List

There’s a big business risk too few people see. If you have built your business on someone else's platform, then your business could be gone in the blink of an eye.

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Gil Gerretsen Gil Gerretsen

Which Marketing Numbers To Watch

These 3 clusters of marketing metrics and 18 specific queries help you focus on the right numbers to help you make the right decisions.

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Gil Gerretsen Gil Gerretsen

What Is Your Wisdom Worth?

Could I pick your brain? When I get such a request, I generally respond with something along the line of "Can I pick your wallet?" It generates some interesting responses.

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Gil Gerretsen Gil Gerretsen

Time For Your Marketing Audit?

The end of the year is a good time to conduct a marketing audit - including your social media. Think of is as a report card. Here’s how to do it.

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Gil Gerretsen Gil Gerretsen

What Do You Do For A Living?

This common question and optimal response frustrates a lot of people. Here's some tips on handling it effectively and with style.

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Gil Gerretsen Gil Gerretsen

Learning TikTok For Business

TikTok has added a library of new and refreshed courses to help you gain a better understanding of how to use the platform for your business.

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The Emergence Of KOLs

Key Opinions Leaders are different from general influencers because they only carry weight in a specialized or industry-specific arena.

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A New Way To Build A Better Self-Introduction

If you refine your website’s About Us page and get it right, then your self-introduction during networking or business events can mirror it. It will flow naturally and provide consistency.

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Gil Gerretsen Gil Gerretsen

How Service Firms Can Grow Faster

Key insights to help growth oriented service providers build an innovative and competitive offer which can be consistently repeated to potential customers who become highly receptive to the company’s distinctive point of view.

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Gil Gerretsen Gil Gerretsen

The Business Of Purple Politics

Signs continue to point toward an emerging political landscape that will be developing over the next twenty years and it will have significant business implications.

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