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Join us for this week’s rainmaking recommendation from trainer and coach, Jaimie Field.

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Way back in 2013, I wrote a blog entitled: The Mathematics of Time for Rainmaking.  In it, I dispelled the myth that I hear from my clients who are in Mid-market and Big Law firms: “I don’t have the time to do Rainmaking.”

So, I showed you how much time you really did have. Let’s run the math once more. Again, we are starting with the following assumptions:…
Continue Reading Rainmaking Recommendation from Jaimie Field: How to Spend Your Time on Rainmaking (the Pandemic Edition)

Join us for this week’s rainmaking recommendation from trainer and coach, Jaimie Field.

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Since the pandemic started, I have been doing a tremendous amount of virtual networking with a plethora of people. I am speaking specifically of group networking, not just virtual one-on-ones. And I have noticed something very interesting:  many have trouble describing what they do for a living in a few short, memorable sentences.   This is why you need to create an Audio Business Card, also known as an Elevator Pitch.   …
Continue Reading Rainmaking Recommendation from Jaimie Field: The Art of Introducing Yourself (Your Audio Business Card)

Join us for this week’s rainmaking recommendation from trainer and coach, Jaimie Field.

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Referrals can be one of the best Rainmaking tactics you can use to grow your book of business.  But, many lawyers aren’t getting the quality or quantity of referrals that they would like.

Here are 10 reasons you’re not getting referrals:…
Continue Reading Rainmaking Recommendation from Jaimie Field: 10 Reasons You Aren’t Getting Referrals

Join us for this week’s rainmaking recommendation from trainer and coach, Jaimie Field.

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It’s a bit weird, but I have recently been revisiting what I had written in the past when I began my blog in 2009 to see how much of it is still applicable to my Rainmaking Training and Coaching.  I wrote the blog you are about to read almost seven years ago, and it still stands today, but it has been updated. …
Continue Reading Rainmaking Recommendation from Jaimie Field: Three Rainmaking Habits To Develop

Join us for this week’s rainmaking recommendation from trainer and coach, Jaimie Field.

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In this last part of the series about how to become an authority, I reiterate the definition that I have come to love:

Authority = Expertise* + Influence…
Continue Reading Rainmaking Recommendation from Jaimie Field: How to Become an Authority: Influence

Join us for this week’s rainmaking recommendation from trainer and coach, Jaimie Field.

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Originally published on January 2, 2013

Shhhh… don’t tell anyone – particularly the other Rainmaking Trainers and Legal Marketing “experts” out there.

There is no one way to become a rainmaker.  

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Continue Reading Rainmaking Recommendation from Jaimie Field: The True Secret to Becoming a Rainmaker (revisited)

Join us for this week’s rainmaking recommendation from trainer and coach, Jaimie Field.

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HBO is currently airing a documentary entitled Fake Famous.  The movie’s premise is to see if the filmmakers can take three ordinary 20 somethings and turn them into Instagram Influencers.  Without explaining the entire film of the documentarians using fake bots for followers, likes, and comments, they succeed in turning one woman into an “influencer” – which the film explains is someone with a tremendous number of followers.  As a result of this perceived authority, she received a lot of free stuff from companies just to mention them on her Instagram account and enhanced her acting and modeling career. …
Continue Reading Rainmaking Recommendation from Jaimie Field: Why You Need to Be Known as An Authority

Join us for this week’s rainmaking recommendation from trainer and coach, Jaimie Field.

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We all know that attorneys hate the words “sales,” “selling,” “sell,” and so forth.  To lawyers, these words are genuinely offensive.

One of the biggest excuses I get for lawyers not becoming Rainmakers is “I didn’t go to law school to become a salesperson.”  In fact, I had used this excuse when I first started practicing. …
Continue Reading Rainmaking Recommendation from Jaimie Field: You Are Already a Salesperson – Embrace It!

This week’s rainmaking recommendation is one that ILN members will be intimately familiar with – the virtual networking event! We are only a few weeks removed from our first virtual conference, which, while it was not the same as meeting in person, was still a success. Read on to hear expert and trainer, Jaimie Field‘s advice for navigating these events.

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While not exciting, I’ll begin this Rainmaking Recommendation as I have the last three, because I am hoping that this is getting tattooed on your brain: …
Continue Reading Rainmaking Recommendation from Jaimie Field: Using the Rainmaking Cycle to Become a Rainmaker (Part 2(c) – The Virtual Networking Event)