By Lindsay Griffiths on Are you stuck thinking that business development is too big of a hurdle? Read today’s guest post from rainmaking expert and trainer, Jaimie Field, to find out why it’s not rocket science. *** On Saturday, July 20, 2019, we will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 landing on the moon. Think about this for … Continue Reading
By Lindsay Griffiths on Today’s post from rainmaking expert and trainer, Jaimie Field, comes at a fortuitous moment – I’m in the middle of reading “The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal,” by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz, which delves into the balancing of energy in four key … Continue Reading
By Lindsay Griffiths on In today’s Rainmaking Recommendations post, expert and coach, Jaimie Field is discussing a pet peeve of mine, slacking on your business development in the summer. Read on to find out why you may want to double down instead. *** Want to be a Rainmaker? Then it doesn’t matter what time of year it is. Many … Continue Reading
By Lindsay Griffiths on In today’s guest post, rainmaking expert and coach, Jaimie Field, talks about using Google alerts to learn more about your clients and prospects. *** The last Rainmaking Recommendation discussed the benefits of using social media monitoring to grow your book of business. In this recommendation, I will be showing you how to find and learn … Continue Reading
By Lindsay Griffiths on Are you using social media to its fullest ability to help you in business development? Learn how using social listening can help you to build your book of business in Jaimie Field’s latest post. *** Have you ever thought about using social monitoring to build your book of business? Social monitoring/listening is using tools, like … Continue Reading
By Lindsay Griffiths on Today’s rainmaking recommendation from expert and trainer, Jaimie Field, deals with a topic that is familiar to me – glossophobia, or the fear of standing up in front of a crowd. Is this something you suffer from? Read on… *** Does the thought of standing up in front of a crowd scare you to death? … Continue Reading
By Lindsay Griffiths on Rainmaking trainer and expert, Jaimie Field, is bringing us another solid tip for business development today, and it’s about exercise! She mentions me in here – not by name, but I’m the one who ran the Paris marathon this weekend – but that’s not the only reason I’m sharing this post. I’ll add to her … Continue Reading
By Lindsay Griffiths on In today’s rainmaking recommendations post, coach and trainer, Jaimie Field is talking about what happens when you get writer’s block – and she event mentions yours truly! *** If content is king, what happens when you get writers’ block? You are staring at a blank white screen on your computer, your hands poised nervously over … Continue Reading
By Lindsay Griffiths on Today’s rainmaking recommendation from Jaimie Field is an interesting one, and she and I chatted about it yesterday – it’s one where we don’t totally agree, so readers of Zen, we’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments! My perspective is that dress code varies widely (acceptably so) based on cultural factors – sometimes … Continue Reading
By Lindsay Griffiths on In today’s rainmaking recommendation from expert and coach, Jaimie Field, learn the difference between social media marketing and social media networking, and why you need both in your arsenal. *** One of the things that I haven’t discussed in a deeper manner is how to use various social media networking sites for Rainmaking Purposes. I … Continue Reading
By Lindsay Griffiths on Today, we’ve got a guest post for you from rainmaking expert & coach, Jaimie Field, on a topic that’s a pet peeve of mine – outsourcing relationships. Hint: you shouldn’t do it. *** Lately, I have been seeing tons of ads on Facebook and LinkedIn touting the services of various law firm and legal marketing … Continue Reading
By Lindsay Griffiths on Jaimie Field is bringing us a great post for networking week today, focused on the an idea that I fully embrace, that networking happens all the time, everywhere. *** Monday, February 4th was my birthday. (Yes, this is a shameless plug for you to send me belated birthday wishes.) After a long day at the office, … Continue Reading
By Lindsay Griffiths on Here with this week’s Rainmaking Recommendation is expert and trainer, Jaimie Field! *** Those who know me know that I am obsessed with personal & business development. Since I was 18 years old I have been reading books by Napoleon Hill, Norman Vincent Peal, Dale Carnegie, Tony Robbins, Brian Tracy, Florence Scovill Shinn, and so many others. … Continue Reading
By Lindsay Griffiths on Rainmaking trainer and coach, Jaimie Field, is back with rainmaking recommendations to kick off your new year in the right way. Check out her latest in today’s post. *** A brand new year had started and you are being given a blank slate upon which to write another chapter of your life story. I get … Continue Reading
By Lindsay Griffiths on In today’s Rainmaking Recommendation from expert and trainer, Jaimie Field, she’s discussing one of my favorite things – working with your clients to find out what they really want. *** With all due respect to the Spice Girls (don’t tell anyone, but I know all of the lyrics to their most famous songs), the title … Continue Reading
By Lindsay Griffiths on In today’s Rainmaking Recommendation post from expert and trainer, Jaimie Field, she addresses a question you likely know the answer to – are all rainmaking activities created equal? And if not, should you be devoting your time to lower value activities, and considering “rainmaking” checked off your to-do list? Read on… *** Ever since I … Continue Reading
By Lindsay Griffiths on Rainmaking expert and trainer, Jaimie Field, is bringing us a post today, and the title might make you a bit uncomfortable. But she’s speaking the truth. Read on to find out why. *** I’m in a facebook group with a lot of really great attorneys. And recently, there has been a spate of posts which detail … Continue Reading
By Lindsay Griffiths on Rainmaking expert and trainer, Jaimie Field, is bringing us the latest in her legal branding series today, how to create your personal legal brand. *** Over the past 4 Rainmaking Recommendations (which can be found here) we have been talking about your personal legal brand. Today we speak, albeit in generalizations, how to create your personal legal … Continue Reading
By Lindsay Griffiths on Rainmaking expert and trainer, Jaimie Field, is bringing us the latest in her legal branding series today, with the 8 laws of personal branding. *** The past three Rainmaking Recommendations have been about building your personal legal brand and its importance. Before discussing the many tactics and the ethical considerations in using those tactics to build your brand, I … Continue Reading
By Lindsay Griffiths on Following up on part one of her series on branding, rainmaking expert and coach, Jaimie Field, is bringing us part two today, on what goes into creating your personal brand. *** When attorneys think of brand they usually think of the firm name or about creating a logo or even having a tagline. And while … Continue Reading
By Lindsay Griffiths on Kicking off our 2018, Rainmaking expert and coach, Jaimie Field is bringing us a brand new series on personal branding! *** As we start a new year, I will be starting a new series on branding yourself and your legal services. This will include the why, the what, and the how of becoming a legal … Continue Reading
By Lindsay Griffiths on Today, I’m bringing you a guest post from Rainmaking expert and coach, Jaimie Field, who has some sage words of wisdom for us as we get back into the swing of things in this new year: *** For many people with whom I have spoken, this was a difficult year. I know it was for … Continue Reading
By Lindsay Griffiths on As we approach the end of the year, and you begin to think about what you’ll be doing next year to drive new business for your practice and your law firm, Jaimie Field of Marketing Field asks a tough question and issues a challenge. *** Rainmaking is as much a mind-set as it is a … Continue Reading
By Lindsay Griffiths on Today’s post is a rainmaking recommendation from Jaimie Field, who is bringing us a seasonally appropriate suggestion for using gratitude as a business strategy! *** Next week is Thanksgiving and I have been thinking about the things I am most grateful for this year. If you read the last Rainmaking Recommendation, you will know that it … Continue Reading
