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…a Rainmaker is a person who brings revenue into an organization, be it profit or not-for-profit… That revenue is the aqua viva – the lifeblood – of the organization.
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Big-hitting Rainmakers are among the highest paid employees in every company in every industry.
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Rainmakers help the customer see the money… [they] turn benefits into dollars.
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Rainmakers don’t sell products; they sell the dollarized value the customer gets from the products. Rainmakers sell money.
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Rainmakers do nothing that might decrease the odds of making the sale.
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Rainmakers always probe for objections. Rainmakers love objections… because they understand the brilliant subtlety of turning objections into objectives.
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…the agreement to see you is a setting of the table to do business. Rainmakers understand this reality, and it gives them the bedrock confidence to make the sale.
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Rainmakers get buying commitments before they give selling demonstrations.
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The Rainmaker prepares for the input sessions with carefully crafted needs analyses and situation-understanding questions. No question is too trivial, too obvious, too mundane to ask.
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