About Us

A Sales and Marketing Resource for Services Professionals

Published since 2005, RainToday is the premier online resource for professional services sales and marketing. We’re proud to have been named Top Sales & Marketing Resource Site of 2010 and 2011.

More than 120,000 RainToday members – in small, medium, and large companies – benefit from our insights, advice, and tools designed to enhance the sales and marketing efforts of professionals in industries such as consulting, marketing, IT services, accounting, finance, architecture, engineering, construction, and law, among others.

Featuring content from top minds including Charles H. Green, C.J. Hayden, Jill Konrath, Bruce W. Marcus, Michael W. McLaughlin, Vickie K. Sullivan, and our own Mike Schultz and John Doerr – RainToday attracts professionals from around the world who want to grow their service business and maximize their success.

RainToday offerings include:

• More than 1,000 articles, insights, and case studies about professional services marketing, sales, and management.
• Monthly webinar presentations by industry experts on the most relevant topics in today’s sales and marketing landscape.
• Podcast interviews with world-renowned services marketers, rainmakers, and firm leaders.
• How-to guides and tools such as Social Networking for Professional Services, How to Write and Market a White Paper, Cold Calling Strategies Kit, and Prospecting for Professional Services.
• Free white papers and ebooks to download containing powerful sales and marketing insights
• Best practice and benchmark research by the analysts and experts at RAIN Group and RainToday.
• And much more…

 

Why RainToday?

You may be thinking: There’s a ton of marketing and sales advice out there. What makes RainToday different?

Fair question.

RainToday is the largest sales and marketing resource for professional service providers.

Every week, we bring you fresh content and new perspectives covering the sales and marketing topics most relevant to services professionals:  lead generation and prospecting, cold calling, referrals, value propositions, sales conversations, overcoming objections, sales training, and more.

Plus, we regularly publish new tools, guides, and additional resources to help you keep your service business ahead of the curve. Our founders  Mike Schultz and John Doerr are two of the world’s most respected sales experts and co-authors of the Wall Street Journal and Inc. Magazine bestseller, Rainmaking Conversations: Influence, Persuade and Sell in Any Situation (Wiley, 2011) and Professional Services Marketing (Wiley, 2009).

Our RAIN Selling^SM methodology has been helping organizations and individuals win more sales and achieve more success for decades.
Combine all this with our Premium Member benefits and special access to Online Learning programs, and you’ve got a resource that will work 24/7 to make sure you have everything you need to find the success you’re looking for.

If you succeed, we succeed. That’s what drives us, and that’s what keeps our members coming back.

Free Basic Membership
Basic Members receive RainToday’s weekly newsletter, Rainmaker Report, which provides tips, tactics, and strategies for professional services marketing and sales from rainmakers, firm leaders, and services marketers worldwide. To sign up as a Basic Member, click here. It’s free!

Premium Membership
Premium Members receive the complete RainToday experience:  free access to sales and marketing articles, live and recorded webinars, as well as the tools, kits, and guides created exclusively for our premium members. Plus, you’ll get special discounts on research and online training programs.   Premium members also have the ability to customize your RainToday experience to stay on top of the topics that matter most. To learn more about RainToday membership options, click here.

Online Training
When you’re ready to improve your selling efforts, check out our outstanding online sales training programs. Tailored for specific industries, these programs guide you step by step through the RAIN Selling^SM methodology – you learn exactly what you need to do to successfully sell your services and win more business. All from the comfort of your own home or office. To learn more about these online sales training programs, click here.

Our Publisher, RAIN Group
RAIN Group is a sales training, sales assessment, and sales performance improvement company that helps leading organizations improve sales results. RAIN Group has helped tens of thousands of people in dozens of countries increase their sales and margins, and achieve the highest career success by helping them develop more leads and convert them into new customers with the RAIN Selling^SM methodology. If your company is ready for in-depth, personalized sales training that will take you to the next level, visit www.rainsalestraining.com to learn more.