Book Titles

How to Become a Rainmaker
The Rules for Getting and Keeping Customers and Clients

By Jeffrey Fox

Year Published: 2001
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Categories: Buying, Rainmakers, Sales, Selling

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How to Become a Rainmaker:

…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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How to Become a Rainmaker:

Big-hitting Rainmakers are among the highest paid employees in every company in every industry.

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How to Become a Rainmaker:

The most important factor in any business or organization is having a customer… without customers no organization can continue to survive.

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How to Become a Rainmaker:

The customer should do business with you because you will make him feel good, or you will solve his problem, or both.

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How to Become a Rainmaker:

The first commandment of getting and keeping customers is to treat each customer as you would treat yourself.

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How to Become a Rainmaker:

Ninety percent of all sales calls are won or lost before the salesperson sees the customer.

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How to Become a Rainmaker:

Customers buy for only two reasons: to feel good or to solve a problem.

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How to Become a Rainmaker:

Rainmakers help the customer see the money… [they] turn benefits into dollars.

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How to Become a Rainmaker:

Always show the customer the money. Always dollarize. Quantify the customer’s return on his investment in your product. Calculate the financial consequences… of going without your solution.

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How to Become a Rainmaker:

Rainmakers don’t sell products; they sell the dollarized value the customer gets from the products. Rainmakers sell money.

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