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SUMMARY:Excel in Your Business and Personal Life
DESCRIPTION:A program for you\, individually\, leadership from the inside out and for a team builder developing a high-performance team \nA program for entrepreneurs\, small business leaders\, and any business leaders with teams.  \nIt is a most comprehensive leadership program built on 70 years of leadership experience\, research and certification in the best training programs available\, a proven success model. It will cover the principles\, strategies and habits of people and businesses that excel in the Gold Medal Program. \nDecember Discussion Topic: Getting a Fast Start at the start of 2022 \n\nWe will help you understand the benefits of a road map and how to set it up for next year. We will also discuss how to integrate your goals\, which we developed last month\, to enable you to focus on a smaller number of goals\, and make 2022 a very productive year.\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.
URL:https://gorainmakers.com/event/excel-in-your-business-and-personal-life-2021-12-07/
LOCATION:Broadmoor Country Club\, 2155 Kessler Boulevard West Drive\, Indianapolis\, IN\, 46228
CATEGORIES:Efficiency,Leadership
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20211208T090000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20211209T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20211209T190000
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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:20211214T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20211214T103000
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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:20211215T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20211215T140000
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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:20211216T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20211216T130000
DTSTAMP:20260423T204823
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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:20211221T083000
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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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