Simply put, marketing is communicating what you can do for prospective clients by creating awareness.
Rainmaking is converting those people into prospective clients by creating relationships.
Marketing educates your prospective clients and referrals sources about the services you can provide to them.
Rainmaking creates the relationships which allow your prospects and referrals to know that you can provide these services just for them.
Marketing uses a lot of reactive tactics to generate awareness of your services. For example (this is not even close to an exhaustive list – there are more than 100 ways to get your services known):
- Advertising
- Blogging
- Websites
- Newsletters
- Articles
Rainmaking uses proactive tactics to get to know people personally which will allow them to make the decision to hire or refer you. For example (Again, this is not even close to an exhaustive list – there are more than 100 ways to create relationships which will get you clients):
- Networking
- Referral Systems
- Entertaining for business (coffee/lunch appointments)
- Social Networking (yes, even online networking can be used for Rainmaking Purposes and will be covered in future blog posts)
So while Marketing will get you known, Rainmaking will get you clients.
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