Rainmaker IQ
Simple “snacks” to find, land, and optimize new clients
How To Realign Your Marketing Portfolio
When you start thinking of your various marketing initiatives as stocks within a portfolio, it becomes easier to evaluate them.
How To Spot When Egos Are Killing Sales
Why you must constantly ask yourself whether any unintended marketing biases are creeping into your customer messaging.
Leverage Recessions For Revenue Growth
As you anticipate or experience a recession, you’ll likely find four psychographic patterns that can guide your priorities and messaging.
How To Give And Receive Referrals By Email
A simple formula to give and receive great business referrals.
The Key To Anticipating And Spotting Trends
How a Slinky toy can help you through many future business decisions that create difficulty for others.
How Marketing Culture Impacts Results
Will your business seek to become a tree, a crop, a flower, or a weed?
The Simple Key To Business Turnarounds
President John F. Kennedy did one thing that every business owner should emulate.
Navigating Plateaus And Business Uncertainty
Here's how to think, and what to do, when you face a shift in the direction of your business.
Your 4 Options When Revenues Go Flat
The growth route you were planning to take has you stopped in your tracks. You only have a few choices.
How To Remove And Fix Growth Barriers
Savvy business owners and leaders watch out for bureaucratic tendencies or habits that can block new growth and revenues streams.
How To Handle Pesky People In Business
They are now-and-then people who tend to blow through our lives. They can also be a dangerous and risky nuisance.
Using Sales Napkins Instead Of Pitch Decks
If you use pitch or sales decks then you should probably stop. There are better ways to close new deals.
How To Handle Improper Business Practices
How to red flag, and then fix, the things which are holding your business back.
Responding To Evolving Business Storms
Recessions are a desirable realignment cycle. Here are some rainmaker ideas to burn down old ways so new growth can emerge.
A Simple First Step Before Business Exit
We all know that there's always a chance that the unthinkable will happen. Here's what you can and should do about it.
How To Train Young Revenue Producers
Youthful rainmakers can take your business to a much higher level if you learn how to cultivate them.
How To Get Great Advice For Your Business
As a company grows and becomes more successful, a business advisory board can become a very helpful resource. However, there’s a good way to build one and a poor way to build one.
The Right Way To Reach New Prospects
If you have been disappointed by your outreach marketing campaigns, then consider adding this powerful ingredient.
Designing Your Next Business Lifecycle
The ability to anticipate the future is one of the key ingredients to great leadership and business success, especially during a business plateau.
Using Change To Fuel Business Growth
Change can bring painful times, but it can also be the source of gold that was previously hidden from view.