Rainmaker IQ - The BizTrek Blog
Pithy and practical tips exploring ways to land and optimize new clients
Getting The Green Light From Prospects
The green, yellow, red way of thinking can be a great way of evaluating and managing both prospects and customers.
How To Re-Balance Your Marketing Budget
When you start thinking of your various marketing initiatives as stocks within a portfolio, it becomes easier to evaluate them.
How To Rethink Marketing Bias
Why you must constantly ask yourself whether any unintended marketing biases are creeping into your customer messaging.
How To Prosper In A Recession
As you anticipate or experience a recession, you’ll likely find four psychographic patterns that can guide your priorities and messaging.
How to Make Better Referrals
It’s something most people struggle with. They don’t know how to make referrals well, and they don’t know how to receive them well.
Leverage The Slinky Theory Of History
How a Slinky toy can help you through many business decisions that create difficulty for others.
Which Marketing Culture Do You Want?
Will your business seek to become a tree, a crop, a flower, or a weed?
How To Lead A Growth Team
President John F. Kennedy did one thing that every business owner should emulate.
Break Your Boundaries Like A Rock Star
The practice of breaking boundaries has vital business implications. Successful entrepreneurs dare to do things differently.
Watch Out For Business Beaver Dams
We often let beaver dams into our business, causing a business plateau or growth ceiling. What should you do?
Avoiding Tumbleweed People
They are now-and-then people who tend to blow through our lives. They can also be a dangerous and risky nuisance.
Why Rainmakers Avoid Sales Decks
If you use pitch or sales decks then you should probably stop. There are better ways to close new deals.
Overcoming Bad Business Habits
How to red flag, and then fix, the things which are holding your business back.
How To Leverage Recessions
Recessions are a desirable realignment cycle. Here are some rainmaker ideas to burn down old ways so new growth can emerge.
Why You Should Help Young Rainmakers
Youthful rainmakers can take your business to a much higher level if you learn how to cultivate them.