You can look at all the blog posts by date here. To see my selection of the most useful and cornerstone articles go to the best bits page.
- 2012: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2011: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2010: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2009: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2008: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2007: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
January 2012
- Need Something Interesting To Write About? Try This.
- The Rise of Cynicism and Suspicion (and what to do about it)
- The Twin Track Strategy For Startup Professional Firms
- The Magnificent Seven Ride!
- Win a Free Website
- How I Escaped My Certain Fate...
December 2011
November 2011
- Should You Outsource Marketing And Business Development?
- The Truth About Email
- Robert Craven Interview
- Do You Trust Me? Check Out My Results on the Trust Quotient Test...
- How Much Should I Give Away?
- Balancing Your Business Development
October 2011
- How My Painful Sales Nightmare Led To A Marketing Breakthrough...
- 7 Mindset Hacks That Will Help You Sell More
- A Surefire Marketing Strategy that Almost No One Ever Does
September 2011
- 3 Critical Marketing Traps for new Coaches, Consultants and Freelancers
- Are Your Benefits Really Benefits?
- The Third Best Decision I Ever Made
- Build Trust and Credibility Before You Ever Meet People
August 2011
- It Ain't What You Do...It's Who You Do It With
- Why your competitors will fail (and you won't)
- How to Win Business with your Blog - Part 9: The Best Resources For Blogging
- How to Email Important People...Free Webinar on Thurs 18th August
July 2011
- How to Win Business with your Blog – Part 8: Where I get my Traffic from
- How to Win Business with your Blog - Part 7: From Subscribers to Clients
- Conversion Optimization: Derek Halpern Reviews ianbrodie.com
- How to Win Business with your Blog - part 6: Conversion
- How to Win Business with your Blog – Part 5: Finding your Voice
- How to Win Business with your Blog - Part 4: Content that Wins Clients
- How to Win Business with your Blog - Part 3: Content
- How to Win Business with your Blog – Part 2: Focus
- How to Win Business with your Blog - Part 1
June 2011
- Linkedin Training: Free Webinar with Lewis Howes
- Going Self-Employed? Complete this survey and bag some free training
- It Never Happens to Me...
- Clients, Not Markets
- Jane Mason Interview
- How to Lose Website Visitors in the First 5 Minutes
- Intrinsic Value Marketing: Marketing that Actually Works Episode 2
May 2011
- Why "Finding the Pain" is a bad strategy
- "Filter Bubble" Marketing
- Marketing that Actually Works
- Are you Spam?
April 2011
- The Excruciatingly Painful Task that's Critical to Your Marketing Success
- What Carl Sagan Taught Me About Marketing
- Do You Really Need a New Sales Process?
- Thinking of becoming self-employed? Check out these resources first.
- What's Your Story?
- John Seddon Interview
March 2011
- Marketing Half Truths
- Drayton Bird Interview
- How to Market Your Product in Mexico (Even If You Don’t Speak Spanish)
- Client Breakthrough Available on Kindle: all Proceeds to Tsunami Charities
- Greg Alexander Interview
- The Authority Formula - A Marketing Case Study
- What's Your Step #2?
- Obliquity and the Branson Effect
February 2011
January 2011
- The SACI Principle
- Accelerating Expertise - Part 1
- Expertise Driven Selling
- Make 2011 a Breakthrough Year for Your Business
December 2010
- How I Get Over 70% Of My Clients From My Website
- Hustle, Hustle, Hustle
- How To Differentiate Yourself When You're Selling
November 2010
- Two Simple Steps to the Greatest Marketing in History
- Don't Vote For Me
- Overcoming Procrastination
- Win £2,000 By Writing Plain English!
- Secrets of Selling Professional Services: Pencil Selling
- Why Are We So Afraid Of Selling?
October 2010
- Three Critical Mistakes to Avoid with Business Videos
- How to be in the Right Place at the Right Time
September 2010
- How to Get More Clients Online: Part 3 - Make it Easy to Become a Client
- John Carlton's "Bar Room Conversation" Marketing Tip
- How To Get More Clients Online: Part 2 - Build Relationships
August 2010
- How To Get More Clients Online: Part 1 - The Power of a Content Rich Website
- The Secret of Writing a Bestseller...
- How to Nurture Business Development Capabilities
- How To Build Yourself As The Authority Figure In Your Industry
- How Not To Keep In Touch - IBM Style
July 2010
- Reducing Switching Costs: A Key Strategy for Accounting and Other "Ongoing Service" Providers
- Social Media vs the Lawyers: The Case of Chris Cardell
- Authority Marketing: The Essentials
June 2010
- Free Teleseminar on Selling Consulting Services
- How to Get More Clients Online - Survey for Free Training
- Linkedin Profiles - My Shocking Findings
- Mastermind Power!
May 2010
April 2010
- An Irrational Fear of Worms...
- Authority Marketing
- Some things are harder than you think...
- Vertical Differentiation
- Getting the Right Mindset for Selling (and it's not what you think)
- The Top 10 Ways to Screw Up a Client Relationship
- Selling Consulting Services: The Myth of "Killer Closing Techniques"
March 2010
- Do You Hate Cold Calling? Here's a Way to Eliminate the Fear, Failure and Rejection
- How a Simple Piece of Paper can Transform Your Success at Selling
- Are You Exploiting This Key Strategy To Get More Clients?
- Have You Forgotten How To Listen?
- How To Get More Referrals Part 2: A Get Clients Video Tip
- Linkedin Funnies
- Are Traditional Websites Dead?
February 2010
- Help Me Improve the Get Clients Blog!
- Downselling
- Is it better to be Truthful, or Interesting?
- Are You Nurturing Your Seedlings?
January 2010
- How to Use Linkedin to win new business: poll results
- How To Get More Referrals: A Get Clients Video Tip
- Focus, Focus, Focus
December 2009
- Guru12: The Top 12 Gurus of Professional Services
- What David Maister can teach us about Twitter
- The Business Development Drumbeat
November 2009
- Get More Clients with the Client Breakthrough System
- Get More Clients Podcast: Interview with Tom Searcy of Hunt Big Sales
- Linkedin News and Leadership Poll
- Meet: Lawyers - great idea
- Dealing with a "Stonewall"
October 2009
- Make Business Development a Habit
- The Importance of Authenticity
- Lead Nurturing - Latest Issue of Outside In Newsletter Published
- Is the Free Initial Consultation Dead?
- Win New Clients with Talks and Seminars
September 2009
- Beyond Customer Service
- Can You Get More Clients by Asking for More Referrals?
- Selling With Stories: Answering Tough Questions
- Are you Dr House or Dr Kildare?
August 2009
- Competitive Selling for Professional Service Firms - August Issue of Outside In Newsletter Published
- Get More Clients by Asking Better Questions
- Want to Sell More? Have Something Better to Sell.
- Book Review: Professional Services Marketing
- 10 Linkedin Tips for Professionals
July 2009
- Are You Sales Averse? July Issue of Outside In Newsletter Published
- How to Run Effective Client Meetings - The KFC Approach
- How to Turn Old Contacts into New Clients
- Building a Portfolio of Business Development Approaches
June 2009
- What to Do When You Need Sales Fast : Issue 1 of the Outside In Newsletter
- How to Get More Referrals Using Offers
- The Referral Formula
- Keep out of the "Muddy Middle" when Selling Professional Services
- Creating a Marketing Habit in 21 Days
- Referrals: You've got to have a System
May 2009
- Why You Should Enter Your Contacts in Your CRM System Yourself
- Know, Like and Trust - the Keys to Cross Selling
April 2009
- Sales Excellence Podcast - Episode 4 : Lead Nurturing
- Pain at John Lewis - a lesson in awful customer service
- Sales Velocity: The Hidden Lever
- The Rainmaker Network now Open for Business!
- Helping Professionals Sell Using Empathy Styles
- Sales Excellence Podcast - Episode 3 : An Interview with Mike Southon
March 2009
February 2009
- Networking: Start Early & Start Right
- Sales Excellence Podcast - Episode 2 : Let's Get Real - An Interview with Randy Illig
- Sales Excellence Podcast - Episode 1 : Selling With Stories
- Optimism vs. Accuracy - The Rainmaker's Paradox
- Staying "Front of Mind" with Referral Partners
- Carnival of Trust for February 2009
January 2009
- How Clients Buy 2009: Mandatory Reading for Professional Services Marketers & Business Developers
- What's Your Backstory?
- The Number One Skill in Business Networking
December 2008
- Three Painful Truths for Business Developers
- Book Review: Making the Number - How to use Sales Benchmarking to Drive Performance
- Understand Your Client's Beliefs to Learn How to Sell More
November 2008
- Guest Post: Has social media finally arrived in BtoB marketing?
- Get Your Life Under Control with Zen to Done
- New Report and Free Trial on RainToday
- Don't "tell 'em what you told 'em...."
- Getting Past First Base
- Warming Up Cold Contacts
October 2008
- Sales Wisdom from Spongebob Squarepants
- The Importance of Good Follow-Up
- Thinking vs Doing : Thoughts on Different Personality Types
- More on Online Contact Management - BatchBook
September 2008
- Online CRM/Contact Management Reviews
- Forget Your Competition
- Avoiding the "Treacle Effect" when Selling to Big Companies
- Is Business Development Important for Small Law Firms?
August 2008
- A Sales Conundrum: Do We Need a Sales Meeting to Sell Nowadays?
- Sales: It's the Small Steps that Count
- Interactive Document Creation: Papershow Trial
- Sales Tips from Angelina Jolie
July 2008
- Topgrading for Sales: A Review
- Business Development for Accountants - is there Anybody Out There?
- Social Media and Professional Services Business Development
- Rainmaker Resources | Links & Resources for Professional Services Partners, Business Developers and Marketers
- Becoming a Trusted Advisor
June 2008
- The Myth of Goal Setting
- 3 Quick and Simple Steps to Improve Sales in Professional Services Firms
- Ethics in Sales
- Positive Navel Gazing: Won Sales Analysis
- On Passion
- Do I really need a USP?
May 2008
- What Makes a Good Salesperson? Answering the Impossible Question
- "Banner Blindness" in Real World Sales
- Selling Without Slides
April 2008
- Rejection – sometimes it really is personal
- The Joy of Text (or “Is it just me who hates webinars and video”)
- Back to Basics: The Vital Importance of Sales Activity Targets
- You Are What You Sell
March 2008
February 2008
- Beating your #1 Competitor - the Status Quo
- Turbo-Charge Your Sales Stories;
- Selling With Stories - A Powerful Tool for Building Trust and Credibility
January 2008
- Postscript to Debunking the myths of non-verbal communication
- High Prices really do influence Perceived Quality
- Debunking the myths of non-verbal communication
- "Find Your Style" to Transform Your Business Development Success



