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SUMMARY:Race to Support Small Business
DESCRIPTION:This event is a collaboration of INSPIREsmall.biz\, H7 Networking\, TTR Networking. Whiteboard Learning\, Rainmakers & Geist Networking Lunch Club. \nNational Small Business Week is May 1st – May 7th\nWe’re wrapping-up National Small Business Week with a casual after-work networking experience with six of Central Indiana’s networking and referral organizations. Membership is not required to attend this event! \nIt’s May in Indiana\nAs festivities begin ahead of the Indianapolis 500 race on Memorial Day weekend\, we invite you to wear black and white to celebrate the checkered flag. \nBe sure to register before Wednesday\, May 4th to have your information included in the program guide.\n  \nMeet Your Hosts\nINSPIREsmall.biz: Connect with fellow entrepreneurs; Learn new skills anytime; Grow your brand with content designed to help small business owners and solopreneurs. \nH7 Networking: An H7 Membership is word-of-mouth marketing that helps you grow your business! Visiting a meeting is free and a great way to see a Virtual or In-Person meeting in action. \nWhiteboard Learning: I work with business owners and sales professionals to fill their sales pipeline full of referrals that are ready to buy from them. No more pounding the pavement trying to get more business. \nGeist Networking Lunch Club: Geist Networking Lunch Club (GNLC) believes in creating sustainable strategic relationships using the Know\, Like and Trust model. GNLC meets each Friday at 12 noon. \nTTR Networking: To The Rescue has over 14 (and counting) of the most successful and active professional networking groups in the Indianapolis and Central Indiana region. \nRainmakers: Rainmakers is a National business development organization for B2B companies. We support entrepreneurial and sales-oriented professionals to reach their goals.
URL:https://gorainmakers.com/event/race-to-support-small-business/
LOCATION:Launch Fishers\, 12175 Visionary Way\, Fishers\, IN\, 46038\, United States
CATEGORIES:Small Business
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SUMMARY:Flipping (OFF) Fears
DESCRIPTION:Every human has fears. Fears can hold us back from being or becoming our best. Join Patty Pavey as a Mental Fitness Specialist as she speaks from experience and the professional fields of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming)\, nutrition\, and much more. One’s individual world and professional world as well as our entire world can be improved by: \n\nRecognizing and identifying fears in ourselves and others\nHow to have a mental shift and find clarity\nHow to recognize your fears\nHow to control your fears\n\n \nRELEASING YOUR FEARS \n  \n  \nOur Facilitator: \n \nPatty Pavey \nPatty is a certified coach\, trainer\, facilitator\, and speaker. She has assisted many individuals to move through the fears of flying\, fear of success\, driving\, being bullied\, going to the dentist\, surgery\, storms\, heights\, and many more. \n  \n\nTHANK YOU to Our Host: \n\n\n\nNexus is more than just a coworking space and venue location. While we do have the typical benefits these spaces offer like high-speed internet and great coffee\, we do things a little differently: our profits support social impact. Our pricing\, amenities and flexibility are all designed to tear down walls for socially-minded companies and organizations to enable them to grow their impact. While our mission and programs are focused on helping people embed sustainable social impact\, our space and memberships are open to people of all walks of life looking for an economical space to work\, meet and hold events\, thereby contributing to social impact. \nLearn more about Nexus here.
URL:https://gorainmakers.com/event/flipping-off-fears/
LOCATION:Nexus Impact Center\, 9511 Angola Ct\, Indianapolis\, 46268
CATEGORIES:Efficiency,Persistence,Small Business
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SUMMARY:Eat + Drink
DESCRIPTION:Rainmakers Eat + Drink is our monthly social event. We travel all around the city to experience Indy’s best independent restaurant establishments.  Everyone welcome! Bring a friend or colleague and participate in a relaxed networking environment while enjoying the great tastes of Indy. \nJoin us in April for this Indianapolis Networking Event! \nCome join us for a private\, pre-dinner bourbon tasting with Executive Bourbon Steward\, Mike Partin. Learn from the expert and refine your bourbon-tasting skills with three hand-picked bourbons. Following the tasting\, we will cleanse the palette with authentic Italian fare at Matteo’s Italian Restaurant. Your taste buds won’t want to miss it\, and neither should you. Bourbon tasting will begin at 5:30 PM\, with dinner following at 7 PM. \n  \nCocktails\nSip and Savor with Darren Heil of Parker Mortgage\n5:30 p.m. – 6:45 p.m.\n\nThank you to our cocktail sponsor Parker Mortgage.\n\n\nDinner\nMatteo’s Italian Restaurant\n7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.\nThank you to our dinner host Matteo’s Italian Restaurant. \n \n  \nNote: We’re responsible for finding a great restaurant! You’re responsible for your food and drink! \nLet’s support a local restaurant\, get to know other folks\, and have great food and beverages all at the same time! \n  \n  \nTHANK YOU to Our Sponsor: \n \nNathan Pfahler \nwith Weichert Realtors for sponsoring Rainmakers Eat + Drink! \nI am happily married to Jennifer Pfahler and we have 2 young boys who are fun and active! I have been a licensed REALTOR since 2005\, started the real estate team of The Pfahler Group\, in 2012\, and have owned my own brokerage since 2018\, purchasing the Weichert Franchise towards the end of 2019. To date\, I’ve been involved in over 700 real estate transactions and am pumped to think about how many families and individuals that means we have helped in their journey to homeownership! \nMy family and I reside in Brownsburg\, IN where we are involved in various school\, church\, and community activities! I am excited to lead a great team and a great brokerage! We would be honored to assist you in your residential or commercial needs. \n 
URL:https://gorainmakers.com/event/eat-drink-16/
LOCATION:Parker Mortgage\, 960 Logan Street\, Suite 200\, Noblesville\, IN\, 46060
CATEGORIES:Networking,Social
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SUMMARY:Excel in Your Business and Personal Life
DESCRIPTION:A New Year\, a new program that will lead you to a fast start to your most productive business and personal year ever. \nThe blueprint series will explore the impact of trust in your personal and business worlds and provide the roadmap for you to implement in your future. We guarantee you will like it! \nLearn how you can gain the competitive advantage when introducing this recipe in your life\, to the point that you achieve when others confidently believe in you. \nWould it be worth you joining us if you understood how to improve customer or client retention\, you receive greater loyalty in your business dealings\, and as a by product your revenue increased? \nCome join us in this exciting new series outlining trust. \n\nJoin us LIVE or Virtually for a special\, hybrid event in April! \n\nApril  Discussion: \nContinuing the Trust theme\, influence is the next pillar we will unfold.  The art of influence definition is; \n          the capacity to have an effect on the character\, development\, or behavior of someone or                something\, or the effect itself \nI have heard from individuals that mix up coercion with influence.  Coercion involves threats\, influence is to gently create a scenario that is a winning situation for both parties. \nThe session will help with this understanding and outline systems that you can incorporate to make it work for you and your counterpart. \n  \n  \nOur Facilitators: \n \nPaul McCoy \nPaul is a certified Business Coach with Tidal Coach\, affiliated with ActionCoach and is passionate about making a difference to businesses that want to improve the way they are currently operating. He has over 25 years of experience as a business executive with experience in team leadership\, program management\, green field site development\, business improvement\, strategy development\, sales\, contracts\, engineering and business processes. \n  \n \nTommy Richardson \nTommy is responsible for the Leadership Development within the Rainmakers organization and Leadership and Personal Development training for executives\, employee groups and members. \nTommy has more than 40 years of experience in business coaching\, training\, and athletic coaching. He has coached more than 1\,000 individuals and teams and facilitated training for corporate teams and executives and is a former president of Toastmasters\, International. \n  \n  \n\n\nTHANK YOU to Our Host: \n\n\nApprentice University was originally created to reduce a talent shortage in the technology industry. However\, we have expanded since then to a diverse community of professionals and students. Our apprentices’ interests range from marketing to cybersecurity to entrepreneurship to media and digital storytelling and more. Our model has undergone a few iterations\, but throughout the changes we remain to guide our students through challenging\, real-world experiences that prepare them for their future. We plan\, arrange\, and manage apprenticeships in the quickly changed\, high-demand careers of the future\, offering professional certificates in marketing\, IT administration\, cybersecurity\, web design & UX\, and much more. We are striving to build the professionals of the future.
URL:https://gorainmakers.com/event/excel-in-your-business-and-personal-life-2-2022-03-29-2022-04-26/
LOCATION:Apprentice University\, 6402 Corporate Drive\, Indianapolis\, 46278
CATEGORIES:Efficiency,Leadership
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SUMMARY:Filling Your Sales Pipeline
DESCRIPTION:Would you like to spend less time hunting for clients and more time helping your clients?  Would you love to have your sales pipeline full of people that are ready to buy from you? If you answered yes to one or both of those questions\, join Denise as she shares strategies and tactics that can save you time AND make you more money as you learn to build your business by referral. \n  \nFilling Your Sales Pipeline Series \nJoin Denise each month as she shares the components of putting together your own customized Referral Marketing plan for your business that when implemented\, will result in you filling your sales pipeline full of prospects that are ready to buy from you. \nApril: Session 3 \nIn Part Three of this series\, we will discuss: \n\nWho are your Credibility and Profitability Relationships?\nHow to Build your Network deep not wide\nHow to stay top of mind with your Key Relationships\n\n  \nOur Facilitator: \n \nDenise Praul \nDenise Praul is a Referral Marketing Strategist and the founder of Whiteboard Learning. She is committed to sharing practical real-world information to help business professionals create referral marketing strategies to grow their businesses. \nShe put her referral knowledge to the test in her own property tax consulting business and significantly and consistently grew the business year after year with no additional investment of money or time. Using that experience and knowledge she developed a duplicatable system to help other businesses have the same success. \nDenise has created a system called Roadmap to Unlimited Referrals that she now trains and shares with other business people to help them significantly grow and scale their own businesses. \nDenise Praul \nWhite Board Learning \n317-989-2222 \nwb-learning.com \n 
URL:https://gorainmakers.com/event/filling-your-sales-pipeline-2022-04-20/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar\, Indianapolis\, IN
CATEGORIES:Small Business
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SUMMARY:LinkedIn Prospecting Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Leverage your LinkedIn account by sharing your needs with fellow Rainmakers and helping them with their ideal connections. Get the meetings you need to be successful in your business! \nEveryone who attends will have a chance to share the following:\nYour name\, The company you represent\, The service or product that you offer your clients\, and how you help your clients. Everyone else will search their own Linkedin connections for this criteria and make immediate introductions.\n\nTo attend this session you must know how to: \n\nSearch and use filters on Linkedin\nHave an all-star profile\nKnow-How to share a profile with a connection\nYou must have a written intro for others to send on your behalf.\n\n  \nIn this session\, you will share the following: \n\nDescribe who is your ideal strategic partner/referral partner.  Who calls on the same person in a corporation that you do?  (CIO/CEO/CFO\, ETC.)\nDescribe who is your ideal client (it’s not“everyone”)\nYou do not need to have a paid LinkedIn subscription\, although it’s nice to have.\n\n  \nWhat to expect (how-to): \n\nRound 1 connect to each other before the actual session (I will send the list of people who registered for this event ahead of time)\nRound 2 explain keywords describing who you want to meet.  Other members will send you a person that fits the bill and you reply through messenger if that looks good.\nRound 3 members send a three-way email or LinkedIn message as a warm introduction using verbiage provided during the session.\n\n\n  \n  \nOur Facilitator: \n \nJim Patton \nJim Patton is a Financial Planner with WestPoint Financial Group.  He provides objective and customized insurance and investment strategies to help meet the financial needs of his clients. \nJim is a graduate of Purdue University where he earned his Bachelor of Science in Economics.  He later earned his Master of Business Administration from Oklahoma University and his MS in Adult Education from Indiana University. Jim is also a graduate of the US Army War College. \nPrior to joining WestPoint Financial Group\, Jim was the owner of J Patton Consulting\, LLC. He also worked for Transamerica Financial Advisors as an Investment Advisor Representative. From 1970 to 2000\, Jim served in the United States Army as a Colonel. During his service\, he was stationed in Germany and Korea. Given Jim’s background\, he enjoys focusing on veteran business owners. \nJim is a member of the Society of Financial Services Professionals and a member of the Board of Directors of the Central Indiana Chapter of the Society of Financial Services Professionals. \nIn his free time\, Jim enjoys spending time with his family and friends. His hobbies include hiking and reading.
URL:https://gorainmakers.com/event/linkedin-prospecting-workshop-2022-04-19/
LOCATION:Online Event\, United States
CATEGORIES:LinkedIn Roundtable
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220329T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220329T190000
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SUMMARY:Eat + Drink
DESCRIPTION:Rainmakers Eat + Drink is our monthly social event. We travel all around the city to experience Indy’s best independent restaurant establishments.  Everyone welcome! Bring a friend or colleague and participate in a relaxed networking environment while enjoying the great tastes of Indy. \nJoin us in March at Sugar Creek Vineyard & Winery! \n  \nAbout Sugar Creek Vineyard & Winery: \nIt began with one of those half serious\, half joking comments after dinner and several bottles of Cabernet when someone says\, “you know\, one of these days we should… \n“Well\, that night\, with three families around that table\, it was filled in with\, “grow some grapes and start a winery”. In most instances\, these ideas are quickly forgotten in the next morning’s bright sunshine of reality”. \n \nNote: We’re responsible for finding a great restaurant! You’re responsible for your food and drink! \nLet’s support a local restaurant\, get to know other folks\, and have great food and beverages all at the same time! \n  \nTHANK YOU to Our Sponsor: \n \nNathan Pfahler \nwith Weichert Realtors for sponsoring Rainmakers Eat + Drink! \nI am happily married to Jennifer Pfahler and we have 2 young boys who are fun and active! I have been a licensed REALTOR since 2005\, started the real estate team of The Pfahler Group\, in 2012\, and have owned my own brokerage since 2018\, purchasing the Weichert Franchise towards the end of 2019. To date\, I’ve been involved in over 700 real estate transactions and am pumped to think about how many families and individuals that means we have helped in their journey to homeownership! \nMy family and I reside in Brownsburg\, IN where we are involved in various school\, church\, and community activities! I am excited to lead a great team and a great brokerage! We would be honored to assist you in your residential or commercial needs. \n 
URL:https://gorainmakers.com/event/eat-drink-15/
LOCATION:Sugar Creek Winery\, 1111 West Main Street\, Carmel\, IN\, 46032\, United States
CATEGORIES:Networking,Social
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DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220329T130000
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SUMMARY:Activate the ROCK STAR NETWORKER in you!
DESCRIPTION:A highly active and engaging workshop!\nBuilding one’s business is always on the minds of business owners. We are strategic with plans to build and strengthen the business by setting goals and working with grit to make them come to fruition. \nThis will be an action-packed session! Meeting fellow business professionals\, sharing and honing in on current skills while practicing and polishing additional skills to grow your interactions with others. As well as finding connections that you initiate fostering with others. Some who are new to networking\, or seasoned to learn from all the while have a fun-filled morning with nuggets to add to your networking experience. \nJoin us LIVE in March for this Indianapolis Networking Event! \nMeet fellow business professionals\, polish current skills\, uncover something new\, begin a new relationship\, find some golden nuggets in your backyard. \n\nFast-paced sharing with a focus\nRock your talk for strong clear engagement\nMeet new and seasoned professionals\nIdentify your kind of Magnetism\nTaking the role of Super Star\n\n  \n11 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Networking \n\n\n11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. Session\n\n\n\n\nBe sure to bring with you:\n• plenty of business cards\n• pen & notebook\n• a friend who loves to meet new business professionals! \n  \nOur Facilitator: \n \nPatty Pavey \nPatty has coached and encouraged people her whole life. Teaching and coaching in public schools adult education. Twenty + successful years in a direct sales company in the top 2-1/2 percent of the company. As a Certified Kitchen and Bath Designer\, she owned her own company and design studio traveling\, training\, and mentoring. Today she is the owner of Today’s The Day Coaching. As a coach\, and leadership trainer she has cycled all her education\, experiences\, training\, and skills into empowering people to make better choices to improve their lifestyles for a lifetime. She is passionate and committed to helping individuals and groups in mastering change\, enlivening hope in people who are frustrated\, unmotivated\, stressed\, and unhappy. She assists people who are STUCK TO BECOME STUPENDOUS. \nWith a successful networking background\, she has written a Networking book (Guide To Powerful Networking & Strategic Partnering ) and runs popular networking groups as well as teaches networking classes and workshops assisting people in enlarging their sphere of influence. She loves connecting people and watching others embrace networking and step up their skills as a professional networker. \nPatty has a degree from Purdue and a Masters from Ball State. She was honored a few years ago as one of the outstanding women in business in the Heartland. \nMarried to Chuck for 39 years\, with 3 children\, 5 grandchildren. She loves to travel and meet new people\, read\, exercise\, cook\, and decorate.
URL:https://gorainmakers.com/event/activate-the-rock-star-networker-in-you-2022-03-29/
LOCATION:Nexus Impact Center\, 9511 Angola Ct\, Indianapolis\, 46268
CATEGORIES:Networking,Small Business,Training
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220329T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220329T103000
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SUMMARY:Excel in Your Business and Personal Life
DESCRIPTION:A New Year\, a new program that will lead you to a fast start to your most productive business and personal year ever. \nDealing with Motivation \nMarch Discussion: How to get YOUR Mojo back! \n\nAs your motivation drops since the start of the year\, how to get it\, how to keep it\, or more importantly\, how to get it back if you lost it.\n\nThis session will give you tools and guidance to enable you to turn your motivation around and get back on track.\n\nOur Facilitators: \n \nPaul McCoy \nPaul is a certified Business Coach with Tidal Coach\, affiliated with ActionCoach and is passionate about making a difference to businesses that want to improve the way they are currently operating. He has over 25 years of experience as a business executive with experience in team leadership\, program management\, green field site development\, business improvement\, strategy development\, sales\, contracts\, engineering and business processes. \n  \n \nTommy Richardson \nTommy is responsible for the Leadership Development within the Rainmakers organization and Leadership and Personal Development training for executives\, employee groups and members. \nTommy has more than 40 years of experience in business coaching\, training\, and athletic coaching. He has coached more than 1\,000 individuals and teams and facilitated training for corporate teams and executives and is a former president of Toastmasters\, International. \n  \n  \n\n\nTHANK YOU to Our Host: \n\n\n\nNexus is more than just a coworking space and venue location. While we do have the typical benefits these spaces offer like high-speed internet and great coffee\, we do things a little differently: our profits support social impact. Our pricing\, amenities and flexibility are all designed to tear down walls for socially-minded companies and organizations to enable them to grow their impact. While our mission and programs are focused on helping people embed sustainable social impact\, our space and memberships are open to people of all walks of life looking for an economical space to work\, meet and hold events\, thereby contributing to social impact. \nLearn more about Nexus here.
URL:https://gorainmakers.com/event/excel-in-your-business-and-personal-life-2-2022-03-29/
LOCATION:Nexus Impact Center\, 9511 Angola Ct\, Indianapolis\, 46268
CATEGORIES:Efficiency,Leadership
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SUMMARY:Filling Your Sales Pipeline
DESCRIPTION:Would you like to spend less time hunting for clients and more time helping your clients?  Would you love to have your sales pipeline full of people that are ready to buy from you? If you answered yes to one or both of those questions\, join Denise as she shares strategies and tactics that can save you time AND make you more money as you learn to build your business by referral. \n  \nFilling Your Sales Pipeline Series \nJoin Denise each month as she shares the components of putting together your own customized Referral Marketing plan for your business that when implemented\, will result in you filling your sales pipeline full of prospects that are ready to buy from you. \nMarch: Session 2 \nIn Part two of this series\, we will discuss: \n\nWho is your Ideal Client?\nWhat Problem do you solve?\nHow to active others to create Referrals for you\n\n  \nOur Facilitator: \n \nDenise Praul \nDenise Praul is a Referral Marketing Strategist and the founder of Whiteboard Learning. She is committed to sharing practical real-world information to help business professionals create referral marketing strategies to grow their businesses. \nShe put her referral knowledge to the test in her own property tax consulting business and significantly and consistently grew the business year after year with no additional investment of money or time. Using that experience and knowledge she developed a duplicatable system to help other businesses have the same success. \nDenise has created a system called Roadmap to Unlimited Referrals that she now trains and shares with other business people to help them significantly grow and scale their own businesses. \nDenise Praul \nWhite Board Learning \n317-989-2222 \nwb-learning.com \n 
URL:https://gorainmakers.com/event/filling-your-sales-pipeline-2022-03-16/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar\, Indianapolis\, IN
CATEGORIES:Small Business
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220315T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220315T103000
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SUMMARY:LinkedIn Prospecting Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Leverage your LinkedIn account by sharing your needs with fellow Rainmakers and helping them with their ideal connections. Get the meetings you need to be successful in your business! \nEveryone who attends will have a chance to share the following:\nYour name\, The company you represent\, The service or product that you offer your clients\, and how you help your clients. Everyone else will search their own Linkedin connections for this criteria and make immediate introductions.\nTo attend this session you must know how to: \n\nSearch and use filters on Linkedin\nHave an all-star profile\nKnow-How to share a profile with a connection\nYou must have a written intro for others to send on your behalf.\n\n  \nIn this session\, you will share the following: \n\nDescribe who is your ideal strategic partner/referral partner.  Who calls on the same person in a corporation that you do?  (CIO/CEO/CFO\, ETC.)\nDescribe who is your ideal client (it’s not“everyone”)\nYou do not need to have a paid LinkedIn subscription\, although it’s nice to have.\n\n  \nWhat to expect (how-to): \n\nRound 1 connect to each other before the actual session (I will send the list of people who registered for this event ahead of time)\nRound 2 explain keywords describing who you want to meet.  Other members will send you a person that fits the bill and you reply through messenger if that looks good.\nRound 3 members send a three-way email or LinkedIn message as a warm introduction using verbiage provided during the session.\n\n\n  \n  \nOur Facilitator: \n \nJim Patton \nJim Patton is a Financial Planner with WestPoint Financial Group.  He provides objective and customized insurance and investment strategies to help meet the financial needs of his clients. \nJim is a graduate of Purdue University where he earned his Bachelor of Science in Economics.  He later earned his Master of Business Administration from Oklahoma University and his MS in Adult Education from Indiana University. Jim is also a graduate of the US Army War College. \nPrior to joining WestPoint Financial Group\, Jim was the owner of J Patton Consulting\, LLC. He also worked for Transamerica Financial Advisors as an Investment Advisor Representative. From 1970 to 2000\, Jim served in the United States Army as a Colonel. During his service\, he was stationed in Germany and Korea. Given Jim’s background\, he enjoys focusing on veteran business owners. \nJim is a member of the Society of Financial Services Professionals and a member of the Board of Directors of the Central Indiana Chapter of the Society of Financial Services Professionals. \nIn his free time\, Jim enjoys spending time with his family and friends. His hobbies include hiking and reading.
URL:https://gorainmakers.com/event/linkedin-prospecting-workshop/
LOCATION:Online Event\, United States
CATEGORIES:LinkedIn Roundtable
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220310T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220310T100000
DTSTAMP:20260416T223632
CREATED:20220124T210943Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220217T005544Z
UID:124168-1646901000-1646906400@gorainmakers.com
SUMMARY:Rainmakers Speed Networking
DESCRIPTION:Rainmakers Speed Networking is a high-energy and high-impact virtual networking event. Entrepreneurs\, owners\, business leaders and those who have a role in growing sales get a short dose of inspiration from a featured thought leader. The majority of the hour is to help attendees network with targeted\, impactful connections through a series of one-on-one meetings \nThe software-enabled platform will ask you questions that target your connections and we’ll provide a framework for meaningful introductions. We believe in the power of networking and this session is a great monthly habit to sharpen your practice and grow your sphere of influence. \nJoin us!
URL:https://gorainmakers.com/event/rainmakers-speed-networking-5-2022-03-10/
LOCATION:Online Event\, United States
CATEGORIES:Networking,Virtual Networking
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220224T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220224T190000
DTSTAMP:20260416T223632
CREATED:20220119T151129Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220224T183842Z
UID:124133-1645723800-1645729200@gorainmakers.com
SUMMARY:Eat + Drink
DESCRIPTION:Rainmakers Eat + Drink is our monthly social event. We travel all around the city to experience Indy’s best independent restaurant establishments.  Everyone welcome! Bring a friend or colleague and participate in a relaxed networking environment while enjoying the great tastes of Indy. \nJoin us at divvy in February for this Indianapolis Networking Event! \n \nNote: We’re responsible for finding a great restaurant! You’re responsible for your food and drink! \nLet’s support a local restaurant\, get to know other folks\, and have great food and beverages all at the same time! \n  \n  \nTHANK YOU to Our Sponsor: \n \nNathan Pfahler \nwith Weichert Realtors for sponsoring Rainmakers Eat + Drink! \nI am happily married to Jennifer Pfahler and we have 2 young boys who are fun and active! I have been a licensed REALTOR since 2005\, started the real estate team of The Pfahler Group\, in 2012\, and have owned my own brokerage since 2018\, purchasing the Weichert Franchise towards the end of 2019. To date\, I’ve been involved in over 700 real estate transactions and am pumped to think about how many families and individuals that means we have helped in their journey to homeownership! \nMy family and I reside in Brownsburg\, IN where we are involved in various school\, church\, and community activities! I am excited to lead a great team and a great brokerage! We would be honored to assist you in your residential or commercial needs. \n 
URL:https://gorainmakers.com/event/eat-drink-14/
LOCATION:divvy\, 71 City Center Drive\, Carmel\, IN\, 46032\, United States
CATEGORIES:Networking,Social
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220223T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220223T103000
DTSTAMP:20260416T223632
CREATED:20220118T193955Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220217T004347Z
UID:124131-1645605000-1645612200@gorainmakers.com
SUMMARY:Activate the ROCK STAR NETWORKER in you!
DESCRIPTION:A highly active and engaging workshop!\nBuilding one’s business is always on the minds of business owners. We are strategic with plans to build and strengthen the business by setting goals and working with grit to make them come to fruition. \nThis will be an action-packed session! Meeting fellow business professionals\, sharing and honing in on current skills while practicing and polishing additional skills to grow your interactions with others. As well as finding connections that you initiate fostering with others. Some who are new to networking\, or seasoned to learn from all the while have a fun-filled morning with nuggets to add to your networking experience. \nJoin us LIVE in February for this Indianapolis Networking Event! \nMeet fellow business professionals\, polish current skills\, uncover something new\, begin a new relationship\, find some golden nuggets in your backyard. \n\nFast-paced sharing with a focus\nRock your talk for strong clear engagement\nMeet new and seasoned professionals\nIdentify your kind of Magnetism\nTaking the role of Super Star\n\n  \n8:30 a.m. – 9 a.m. networking \n\n\n9 a.m. – 10:30 p.m. Session\n\n\n\n\nBe sure to bring with you:\n• plenty of business cards\n• pen & notebook\n• a friend who loves to meet new business professionals! \n  \nOur Facilitator: \n \nPatty Pavey \nPatty has coached and encouraged people her whole life. Teaching and coaching in public schools adult education. Twenty + successful years in a direct sales company in the top 2-1/2 percent of the company. As a Certified Kitchen and Bath Designer\, she owned her own company and design studio traveling\, training\, and mentoring. Today she is the owner of Today’s The Day Coaching. As a coach\, and leadership trainer she has cycled all her education\, experiences\, training\, and skills into empowering people to make better choices to improve their lifestyles for a lifetime. She is passionate and committed to helping individuals and groups in mastering change\, enlivening hope in people who are frustrated\, unmotivated\, stressed\, and unhappy. She assists people who are STUCK TO BECOME STUPENDOUS. \nWith a successful networking background\, she has written a Networking book (Guide To Powerful Networking & Strategic Partnering ) and runs popular networking groups as well as teaches networking classes and workshops assisting people in enlarging their sphere of influence. She loves connecting people and watching others embrace networking and step up their skills as a professional networker. \nPatty has a degree from Purdue and a Masters from Ball State. She was honored a few years ago as one of the outstanding women in business in the Heartland. \nMarried to Chuck for 39 years\, with 3 children\, 5 grandchildren. She loves to travel and meet new people\, read\, exercise\, cook\, and decorate.
URL:https://gorainmakers.com/event/activate-the-rock-star-networker-in-you/2022-02-23/
LOCATION:Nexus Impact Center\, 9511 Angola Ct\, Indianapolis\, 46268
CATEGORIES:Networking,Small Business,Training
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220222T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220222T103000
DTSTAMP:20260416T223632
CREATED:20220118T190441Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220217T001924Z
UID:124125-1645518600-1645525800@gorainmakers.com
SUMMARY:Excel in Your Business and Personal Life
DESCRIPTION:A New Year\, a new program that will lead you to a fast start to your most productive business and personal year ever. \nThe blueprint series will explore the impact of trust in your personal and business worlds and provide the roadmap for you to implement in your future. We guarantee you will like it! \nLearn how you can gain the competitive advantage when introducing this recipe in your life\, to the point that you achieve when others confidently believe in you. \nWould it be worth you joining us if you understood how to improve customer or client retention\, you receive greater loyalty in your business dealings\, and as a by product your revenue increased? \nCome join us in this exciting new series outlining trust. \nFebruary Discussion: \nBuilding on our latest presentation on Trust\, we explore more aspects that support organizations to become better\, stronger\, more attractive to work for and support a better working environment whilst being successful and more profitable.\n\n\nTrust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships. \n– STEPHEN COVEY \n\n\nOur Facilitators: \n \nPaul McCoy \nPaul is a certified Business Coach with Tidal Coach\, affiliated with ActionCoach and is passionate about making a difference to businesses that want to improve the way they are currently operating. He has over 25 years of experience as a business executive with experience in team leadership\, program management\, green field site development\, business improvement\, strategy development\, sales\, contracts\, engineering and business processes. \n  \n \nTommy Richardson \nTommy is responsible for the Leadership Development within the Rainmakers organization and Leadership and Personal Development training for executives\, employee groups and members. \nTommy has more than 40 years of experience in business coaching\, training\, and athletic coaching. He has coached more than 1\,000 individuals and teams and facilitated training for corporate teams and executives and is a former president of Toastmasters\, International. \n  \n  \n\n\nTHANK YOU to Our Host: \n\n\n\nNexus is more than just a coworking space and venue location. While we do have the typical benefits these spaces offer like high-speed internet and great coffee\, we do things a little differently: our profits support social impact. Our pricing\, amenities and flexibility are all designed to tear down walls for socially-minded companies and organizations to enable them to grow their impact. While our mission and programs are focused on helping people embed sustainable social impact\, our space and memberships are open to people of all walks of life looking for an economical space to work\, meet and hold events\, thereby contributing to social impact. \nLearn more about Nexus here.
URL:https://gorainmakers.com/event/excel-in-your-business-and-personal-life-2/
LOCATION:Nexus Impact Center\, 9511 Angola Ct\, Indianapolis\, 46268
CATEGORIES:Efficiency,Leadership
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220218T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220218T113000
DTSTAMP:20260416T223632
CREATED:20220125T190450Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220125T190450Z
UID:124154-1645176600-1645183800@gorainmakers.com
SUMMARY:Optimize 2022 - New Year - New You!
DESCRIPTION:Optimize 2022 will provide you with the necessary tools & strategies to create the success habits you want & need along with tracking. \n  \n\nCome and learn the powerful habits that you need to maximize success in 2022! Based on years of helping others succeed and now revealed in Optimize 2022! You’ll get a true behind the curtain look at those habits that propel so many to success. \nIn this session you will discover\, practice and develop the critical success habits to maximize your potential. You will learn those habits that are holding you back and inhibiting your success. You will receive a comprehensive booklet to record your strategies and monitor your habits progress. \nTommy and Jack will enable you to practice properly and provide accountability to you so you can build the habits necessary to propel your success. You will become the person it takes to realize your dreams and goals in 2022 and beyond. \n  \nYour Facilitators: \nTommy Richardson – Mentor to many professionals and sought after coach\, speaker and mentor. Tommy was an executive at a national property and casualty insurance company succeeding in many roles along his journey to the executive office. Past President of Toastmasters International and avid learner\, Tommy is committed to learning and growing in helping business professionals and athletes succeed and grow by sharing the Mental Game . \nJack Klemeyer – Creative leader who is committed to helping his clients succeed and thrive. Jack believes that if you’re not learning and growing you certainly should be. A certified coach and member of the faculty for the John Maxwell Team\, Jack helps others set\, reach and achieve their goals. \n 
URL:https://gorainmakers.com/event/optimize-2022-new-year-new-you/
LOCATION:Online Event\, United States
CATEGORIES:Efficiency,Leadership,Small Business
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220216T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220216T140000
DTSTAMP:20260416T223632
CREATED:20220123T183226Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220124T125707Z
UID:124140-1645016400-1645020000@gorainmakers.com
SUMMARY:Filling Your Sales Pipeline
DESCRIPTION:Would you like to spend less time hunting for clients and more time helping your clients?  Would you love to have your sales pipeline full of people that are ready to buy from you? If you answered yes to one or both of those questions\, join Denise as she shares strategies and tactics that can save you time AND make you more money as you learn to build your business by referral. \n  \nFilling Your Sales Pipeline Series \nJoin Denise each month as she shares the components of putting together your own customized Referral Marketing plan for your business that when implemented\, will result in you filling your sales pipeline full of prospects that are ready to buy from you. \nFebruary: Session 1 \nIn part one of this series\, we will discuss: \n\nWhat is Referral Marketing?\nThe difference between Reactive and Proactive Referrals\nHow many Referrals you need to meet your 2022 Sales Goals\n\n  \nOur Facilitator: \n \nDenise Praul \nDenise Praul is a Referral Marketing Strategist and the founder of Whiteboard Learning. She is committed to sharing practical real-world information to help business professionals create referral marketing strategies to grow their businesses. \nShe put her referral knowledge to the test in her own property tax consulting business and significantly and consistently grew the business year after year with no additional investment of money or time. Using that experience and knowledge she developed a duplicatable system to help other businesses have the same success. \nDenise has created a system called Roadmap to Unlimited Referrals that she now trains and shares with other business people to help them significantly grow and scale their own businesses. \nDenise Praul \nWhite Board Learning \n317-989-2222 \nwb-learning.com \n 
URL:https://gorainmakers.com/event/filling-your-sales-pipeline/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar\, Indianapolis\, IN
CATEGORIES:Small Business
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220210T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220210T100000
DTSTAMP:20260416T223632
CREATED:20220124T210943Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220217T005237Z
UID:124152-1644481800-1644487200@gorainmakers.com
SUMMARY:Rainmakers Speed Networking
DESCRIPTION:Rainmakers Speed Networking is a high-energy and high-impact virtual networking event. Entrepreneurs\, owners\, business leaders and those who have a role in growing sales get a short dose of inspiration from a featured thought leader. The majority of the hour is to help attendees network with targeted\, impactful connections through a series of one-on-one meetings \nThe software-enabled platform will ask you questions that target your connections and we’ll provide a framework for meaningful introductions. We believe in the power of networking and this session is a great monthly habit to sharpen your practice and grow your sphere of influence. \nJoin us!
URL:https://gorainmakers.com/event/rainmakers-speed-networking-5/2022-02-10/
LOCATION:Online Event\, United States
CATEGORIES:Networking,Virtual Networking
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220127T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220127T180000
DTSTAMP:20260416T223632
CREATED:20211208T210822Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211229T132158Z
UID:124107-1643301000-1643306400@gorainmakers.com
SUMMARY:Rainmakers Speed Networking
DESCRIPTION:Rainmakers Speed Networking is a high-energy and high-impact virtual networking event. Entrepreneurs\, owners\, business leaders and those who have a role in growing sales get a short dose of inspiration from a featured thought leader. The majority of the hour is to help attendees network with targeted\, impactful connections through a series of one-on-one meetings \nThe software-enabled platform will ask you questions that target your connections and we’ll provide a framework for meaningful introductions. We believe in the power of networking and this session is a great monthly habit to sharpen your practice and grow your sphere of influence. \nJoin us!
URL:https://gorainmakers.com/event/rainmakers-speed-networking-4/
LOCATION:Online Event\, United States
CATEGORIES:Networking,Virtual Networking
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220125T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220125T103000
DTSTAMP:20260416T223632
CREATED:20211221T153555Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220118T185735Z
UID:124113-1643099400-1643106600@gorainmakers.com
SUMMARY:Excel In Your Business And Personal Life
DESCRIPTION:A New Year\, a new program that will lead you to a fast start to your most productive business and personal year ever. \nThe blueprint series will explore the impact of trust in your personal and business worlds and provide the roadmap for you to implement in your future. We guarantee you will like it! \nLearn how you can gain the competitive advantage when introducing this recipe in your life\, to the point that you achieve when others confidently believe in you. \nWould it be worth you joining us if you understood how to improve customer or client retention\, you receive greater loyalty in your business dealings\, and as a by product your revenue increased? \nCome join us in this exciting new series outlining trust. \nOur Facilitators: \n \nPaul McCoy \nPaul is a certified Business Coach with Tidal Coach\, affiliated with ActionCoach and is passionate about making a difference to businesses that want to improve the way they are currently operating. He has over 25 years of experience as a business executive with experience in team leadership\, program management\, green field site development\, business improvement\, strategy development\, sales\, contracts\, engineering and business processes. \n  \n \nTommy Richardson \nTommy is responsible for the Leadership Development within the Rainmakers organization and Leadership and Personal Development training for executives\, employee groups and members. \nTommy has more than 40 years of experience in business coaching\, training\, and athletic coaching. He has coached more than 1\,000 individuals and teams and facilitated training for corporate teams and executives and is a former president of Toastmasters\, International. \n  \n  \n\n\nTHANK YOU to Our Host: \n\n\n\nNexus is more than just a coworking space and venue location. While we do have the typical benefits these spaces offer like high-speed internet and great coffee\, we do things a little differently: our profits support social impact. Our pricing\, amenities and flexibility are all designed to tear down walls for socially-minded companies and organizations to enable them to grow their impact. While our mission and programs are focused on helping people embed sustainable social impact\, our space and memberships are open to people of all walks of life looking for an economical space to work\, meet and hold events\, thereby contributing to social impact. \nLearn more about Nexus here.
URL:https://gorainmakers.com/event/excel-in-your-business-and-personal-life/
LOCATION:Nexus Impact Center\, 9511 Angola Ct\, Indianapolis\, 46268
CATEGORIES:Efficiency,Leadership
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220119T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220119T123000
DTSTAMP:20260416T223632
CREATED:20211208T210543Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211229T132224Z
UID:124106-1642590000-1642595400@gorainmakers.com
SUMMARY:Rainmakers Speed Networking
DESCRIPTION:Rainmakers Speed Networking is a high-energy and high-impact virtual networking event. Entrepreneurs\, owners\, business leaders and those who have a role in growing sales get a short dose of inspiration from a featured thought leader. The majority of the hour is to help attendees network with targeted\, impactful connections through a series of one-on-one meetings \nThe software-enabled platform will ask you questions that target your connections and we’ll provide a framework for meaningful introductions. We believe in the power of networking and this session is a great monthly habit to sharpen your practice and grow your sphere of influence. \nJoin us!
URL:https://gorainmakers.com/event/rainmakers-speed-networking-3/
LOCATION:Online Event\, United States
CATEGORIES:Networking,Virtual Networking
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220118T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220118T190000
DTSTAMP:20260416T223632
CREATED:20220104T151741Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220112T182029Z
UID:124117-1642527000-1642532400@gorainmakers.com
SUMMARY:Eat + Drink
DESCRIPTION:Rainmakers Eat + Drink is our monthly social event. We travel all around the city to experience Indy’s best independent restaurant establishments.  Everyone welcome! Bring a friend or colleague and participate in a relaxed networking environment while enjoying the great tastes of Indy. \nJoin us in January at Luciana’s! \n \nNote: We’re responsible for finding a great restaurant! You’re responsible for your food and drink! \nLet’s support a local restaurant\, get to know other folks\, and have great food and beverages all at the same time! \n  \n  \nTHANK YOU to Our Sponsor: \n \nNathan Pfahler \nwith Weichert Realtors for sponsoring Rainmakers Eat + Drink! \nI am happily married to Jennifer Pfahler and we have 2 young boys who are fun and active! I have been a licensed REALTOR since 2005\, started the real estate team of The Pfahler Group\, in 2012\, and have owned my own brokerage since 2018\, purchasing the Weichert Franchise towards the end of 2019. To date\, I’ve been involved in over 700 real estate transactions and am pumped to think about how many families and individuals that means we have helped in their journey to homeownership! \nMy family and I reside in Brownsburg\, IN where we are involved in various school\, church\, and community activities! I am excited to lead a great team and a great brokerage! We would be honored to assist you in your residential or commercial needs. \n 
URL:https://gorainmakers.com/event/eat-drink-13/
LOCATION:Luciana’s Mexican Restaurant and Cantina\, 5910 W 86th St\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46278\, United States
CATEGORIES:Social
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220111T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220111T173000
DTSTAMP:20260416T223632
CREATED:20211208T210054Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211229T132251Z
UID:124105-1641916800-1641922200@gorainmakers.com
SUMMARY:Rainmakers Speed Networking
DESCRIPTION:Rainmakers Speed Networking is a high-energy and high-impact virtual networking event. Entrepreneurs\, owners\, business leaders and those who have a role in growing sales get a short dose of inspiration from a featured thought leader. The majority of the hour is to help attendees network with targeted\, impactful connections through a series of one-on-one meetings \nThe software-enabled platform will ask you questions that target your connections and we’ll provide a framework for meaningful introductions. We believe in the power of networking and this session is a great monthly habit to sharpen your practice and grow your sphere of influence. \nJoin us!
URL:https://gorainmakers.com/event/rainmakers-speed-networking-2/
LOCATION:Online Event\, United States
CATEGORIES:Networking,Virtual Networking
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220106T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20220106T100000
DTSTAMP:20260416T223632
CREATED:20211208T205426Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211229T132317Z
UID:124102-1641457800-1641463200@gorainmakers.com
SUMMARY:Rainmakers Speed Networking
DESCRIPTION:Rainmakers Speed Networking is a high-energy and high-impact virtual networking event. Entrepreneurs\, owners\, business leaders and those who have a role in growing sales get a short dose of inspiration from a featured thought leader. The majority of the hour is to help attendees network with targeted\, impactful connections through a series of one-on-one meetings \nThe software-enabled platform will ask you questions that target your connections and we’ll provide a framework for meaningful introductions. We believe in the power of networking and this session is a great monthly habit to sharpen your practice and grow your sphere of influence. \nJoin us!
URL:https://gorainmakers.com/event/rainmakers-speed-networking/
LOCATION:Online Event\, United States
CATEGORIES:Networking,Virtual Networking
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20211221T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20211221T093000
DTSTAMP:20260416T223632
CREATED:20201210T184247Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211104T140427Z
UID:123609-1640075400-1640079000@gorainmakers.com
SUMMARY:Profitable Partnerships
DESCRIPTION:New business opportunities sourced by referrals are obviously the best way to grow new business. The biggest challenge to building a referral-based business seems to be consistency and predictability. In this short session\, Nikki will help participants lay the groundwork for success in building successful partnerships. \nDecember Topic: Sustainable Business Development Partnerships \n\nDuring this December session\, Nikki will revisit the groundwork for successful partnership formation and discuss the important components to partnership sustainability. You have to be selective and secure the right partners and then have a system to sustain them. \n\n\nWHO is managing the process and accountability?\nEvaluate success\nGet more strategic with your joint efforts\n\n\n\n  \nOur Facilitator: \n \nNikki Lewallen \nNikki Lewallen is an accomplished leader\, business development pro\, speaker and philanthropist. As CEO of Rainmakers\, Nikki supports the Indianapolis business community by providing a platform for business growth through relationships. A natural connector of people\, Nikki’s expertise in business development enables her to find and nurture strategic relationships that result in meaningful business outcomes. One of her favorite things is to learn new\, authentic business development practices and teach them to others. Under her leadership\, Rainmakers has served over 5\,000 members to date. \nAs reflected in her leadership style\, Nikki is an avid proponent of robust company culture. She believes that for people to succeed in business and life\, it is necessary for them to find meaning in their work. Today\, Nikki works nationally alongside CEOs\, Presidents and key executives to build highly engaged employers. She has built a national network of the best HR and talent solutions to tie her gift of connecting to the resources leaders need to move the needle on employee engagement\, ultimately helping more people “Love Mondays.” \nNikki is the show host for Gut + Science\, a podcast that convenes key leaders across the globe to solve and innovate talent topics\, building very best workplaces. The international show currently engages an audience of 70K+. Nikki is the Director of Partnerships for Wambi\, a healthcare technology company that helps people-first leaders create cultures of gratitude. \nNikki holds a variety of non profit board positions around Indianapolis including Thrivent Financial and Purposeful Living INC. Rainmakers\, as an organization\, is committed to featuring local nonprofits at every event and giving back a minimum of 5% profits each year to important causes. Nikki believes that we all want to give back and Rainmakers serves as a platform to make it easier for people to get involved with a charity the pulls on their heart. \nNikki grew up in the Indianapolis area and holds an undergraduate and graduate degree from Indiana University.
URL:https://gorainmakers.com/event/profitable-partnerships-2021-12-21/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar\, Indianapolis\, IN
CATEGORIES:Partnerships,Small Business
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20211216T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20211216T130000
DTSTAMP:20260416T223632
CREATED:20211005T143425Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211022T143412Z
UID:124067-1639652400-1639659600@gorainmakers.com
SUMMARY:Activate the ROCK STAR NETWORKER in you!
DESCRIPTION:Building one’s business is always on the minds of business owners. We are strategic with plans to build and strengthen the business by setting goals and working with grit to make them come to fruition. \nThis session will be an action-packed 90-minutes! Meeting fellow business professionals\, sharing and honing in on current skills while practicing and polishing additional skills to grow your interactions with others. As well as finding connections that you initiate fostering with others. Some who are new to networking\, or seasoned to learn from all the while have a fun-filled morning with nuggets to add to your networking experience. \nJoin us LIVE in December! \n  \nMeet fellow business professionals\, polish current skills\, uncover something new\, begin a new relationship\, find some golden nuggets in your backyard. \n\n\n11 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. networking\n11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. Session\n\n\n\n\nBe sure to bring with you:\n• plenty of business cards\n• pen & notebook\n• a friend who loves to meet new business professionals! \n  \nOur Facilitator: \n \nPatty Pavey \nPatty has coached and encouraged people her whole life. Teaching and coaching in public schools adult education. Twenty + successful years in a direct sales company in the top 2-1/2 percent of the company. As a Certified Kitchen and Bath Designer\, she owned her own company and design studio traveling\, training\, and mentoring. Today she is the owner of Today’s The Day Coaching. As a coach\, and leadership trainer she has cycled all her education\, experiences\, training\, and skills into empowering people to make better choices to improve their lifestyles for a lifetime. She is passionate and committed to helping individuals and groups in mastering change\, enlivening hope in people who are frustrated\, unmotivated\, stressed\, and unhappy. She assists people who are STUCK TO BECOME STUPENDOUS. \nWith a successful networking background\, she has written a Networking book (Guide To Powerful Networking & Strategic Partnering ) and runs popular networking groups as well as teaches networking classes and workshops assisting people in enlarging their sphere of influence. She loves connecting people and watching others embrace networking and step up their skills as a professional networker. \nPatty has a degree from Purdue and a Masters from Ball State. She was honored a few years ago as one of the outstanding women in business in the Heartland. \nMarried to Chuck for 39 years\, with 3 children\, 5 grandchildren. She loves to travel and meet new people\, read\, exercise\, cook\, and decorate.
URL:https://gorainmakers.com/event/rock-star-networker-3/
LOCATION:Nexus Impact Center\, 9511 Angola Ct\, Indianapolis\, 46268
CATEGORIES:Networking,Small Business,Training
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20211215T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20211215T140000
DTSTAMP:20260416T223632
CREATED:20210315T231015Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211202T142937Z
UID:123844-1639573200-1639576800@gorainmakers.com
SUMMARY:Referrals to Revenue
DESCRIPTION:Do you find yourself worrying or wondering each week where your next client is coming from?  Would you love to have your sales pipeline full of people that are ready to buy from you? If you answer yes to one or both of these questions\, join me each month for Referrals to Revenue\, where I will share different tactics and techniques to help you stop hunting for clients so you can spend more time helping your clients. \n\n  \n\nDecember Topic: The Top 5 Tactics for Building Your Business By Referral \nEveryone knows that referrals are the best way to grow your business\, but few people actually have a plan to drive more referrals to their business.  In this session\, Denise will cover the top 5 tactics you can use in 2022 to close more sales and make more money by referral.\n  \nOur Facilitator: \n \nDenise Praul \nDenise Praul is a Referral Marketing Strategist and the founder of Whiteboard Learning. She is committed to sharing practical real-world information to help business professionals create referral marketing strategies to grow their businesses. \nShe put her referral knowledge to the test in her own property tax consulting business and significantly and consistently grew the business year after year with no additional investment of money or time. Using that experience and knowledge she developed a duplicatable system to help other businesses have the same success. \nDenise has created a system called Roadmap to Unlimited Referrals that she now trains and shares with other business people to help them significantly grow and scale their own businesses. \nDenise Praul \nWhite Board Learning \n317-989-2222 \nwb-learning.com
URL:https://gorainmakers.com/event/referrals-to-revenue-2021-12-15/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar\, Indianapolis\, IN
CATEGORIES:Efficiency,Small Business
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20211214T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20211214T103000
DTSTAMP:20260416T223632
CREATED:20201211T201404Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210802T200857Z
UID:123669-1639472400-1639477800@gorainmakers.com
SUMMARY:LinkedIn Prospecting Roundtable
DESCRIPTION:Leverage your LinkedIn account by sharing your needs with fellow Rainmakers and helping them with their ideal connections. Get the meetings you need to be successful in your business! \nEveryone who attends will have a chance to share the following:\nYour name\, The company you represent\, The service or product that you offer your clients\, and how you help your clients. Everyone else will search their own Linkedin connections for this criteria and make immediate introductions.\nTo attend this session you must know how to: \n\nSearch and use filters on Linkedin\nHave an all-star profile\nKnow-How to share a profile with a connection\nYou must have a written intro for others to send on your behalf.  I have attached a variety of samples from other members that might be helpful when putting together your intro.\n\nIn this session\, you will share the following: \n\nDescribe who is your ideal strategic partner/referral partner.  Who calls on the same person in a corporation that you do?  (CIO/CEO/CFO\, ETC.)\nDescribe who is your ideal client (it’s not“everyone”)\nYou do not need to have a paid LinkedIn subscription\, although it’s nice to have.\n\n What to expect (how-to): \n\nRound 1 connect to each other before the actual session (I will send the list of people who registered for this event ahead of time)\nRound 2 explain keywords describing who you want to meet.  Other members will send you a person that fits the bill and you reply through messenger if that looks good.\nRound 3 members send a three-way email or LinkedIn message as a warm introduction using verbiage provided during the session.\n\n\n  \n  \nOur Facilitator: \n \nJim Patton \nJim Patton is a Financial Planner with WestPoint Financial Group.  He provides objective and customized insurance and investment strategies to help meet the financial needs of his clients. \nJim is a graduate of Purdue University where he earned his Bachelor of Science in Economics.  He later earned his Master of Business Administration from Oklahoma University and his MS in Adult Education from Indiana University. Jim is also a graduate of the US Army War College. \nPrior to joining WestPoint Financial Group\, Jim was the owner of J Patton Consulting\, LLC. He also worked for Transamerica Financial Advisors as an Investment Advisor Representative. From 1970 to 2000\, Jim served in the United States Army as a Colonel. During his service\, he was stationed in Germany and Korea. Given Jim’s background\, he enjoys focusing on veteran business owners. \nJim is a member of the Society of Financial Services Professionals and a member of the Board of Directors of the Central Indiana Chapter of the Society of Financial Services Professionals. \nIn his free time\, Jim enjoys spending time with his family and friends. His hobbies include hiking and reading.
URL:https://gorainmakers.com/event/linkedin-prospecting-roundtable-8-2021-12-14/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar\, Indianapolis\, IN
CATEGORIES:LinkedIn Roundtable
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20211209T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20211209T190000
DTSTAMP:20260416T223632
CREATED:20211114T132505Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211116T213111Z
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SUMMARY:Rainmakers Holiday Tastings & Connections
DESCRIPTION:Jingle Jangle Jingle – It’s Time to Mix & Mingle! \nJoin us and Broadmoor Country Club to celebrate the holidays! We will enjoy tastings & conversation together and in person at Broadmoor while networking and getting to know one another. \n  \n  \n  \nTHANK YOU to Our Host: \n \nConveniently located near downtown Indianapolis\, the Broadmoor Country Club truly offers something for everyone through an extensive array of programming and amenities for members of all ages. Golf aficionados will love the beautifully-preserved Donald Ross designed course\, while golfers and non-golfers alike can enjoy the myriad dining\, recreation\, social activities and amenities the club has to offer. \nCall to visit Broadmoor Country Club today. Learn more here. \n__________________ \nTHANK YOU to Our Event Sponsors: \n  \n \nNathan Pfahler with Weichert Realtors \nI am happily married to Jennifer Pfahler and we have 2 young boys who are fun and active! I have been a licensed REALTOR since 2005\, started the real estate team of The Pfahler Group\, in 2012\, and have owned my own brokerage since 2018\, purchasing the Weichert Franchise towards the end of 2019. To date\, I’ve been involved in over 700 real estate transactions and am pumped to think about how many families and individuals that means we have helped in their journey to homeownership! \nMy family and I reside in Brownsburg\, IN where we are involved in various school\, church\, and community activities! I am excited to lead a great team and a great brokerage! We would be honored to assist you in your residential or commercial needs.
URL:https://gorainmakers.com/event/rainmakers-holiday-tastings-connections/
LOCATION:Broadmoor Country Club\, 2155 Kessler Boulevard West Drive\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46228
CATEGORIES:Networking,Social
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20211208T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20211208T100000
DTSTAMP:20260416T223632
CREATED:20201211T192656Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211116T180314Z
UID:123627-1638954000-1638957600@gorainmakers.com
SUMMARY:Build an Effective Website - In 5 Easy Steps
DESCRIPTION:Proven Website Strategies the Work! \nDecember Topic: 5 ways to tell if your website efforts are moving the needle​ \nYou’ve put in the hard work to redo your whole website\, or at least key parts of it\, but how do you know that your effort is paying off? Don’t wait until it’s too late to find out it still isn’t working.\n\n\nDetermining early indicators (of success or failure)\n\n\nInstalling the most important tool every website needs to have\n\n\nPicking the right goal\n\n\nLearning your numbers that matter\n\n\nCourse correcting (when you are off)\n\n\n  \nOur Facilitator: \n \nNeil Richmund \nNeil Richmund is a unique blend of marketing strategist and web designer – with a passion for helping businesses\, non-profits\, and schools to improve their visibility and be successful online.  Neil’s 15 years of experience as a pastor and teacher in Christian schools has inspired him to bring an educational perspective to marketing by teaching his clients to use the tools available to them (but often mystify them).  In his 10 years as a web designer\, Neil has seen firsthand the impact that an improved online presence has on helping organizations to be successful online\, and he is eager to share that knowledge with others.  Don’t let his Aussie accent fool you though–he has called the US home for over 30 years!
URL:https://gorainmakers.com/event/gimme-five-2021-12-08/
LOCATION:Zoom Webinar\, Indianapolis\, IN
CATEGORIES:Small Business,Website Marketing
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