Agency Rainmaker TV

Agency Rainmaker TV

Discover the insider secrets on how agency owners leverage their time, treasure, and talent. Each week successful rainmakers will share what they are investing more in, what they are cutting back on, and what are their go-to strategies. Your host Henry DeVries, is a business development columnist with Forbes.com & the CEO of Indie Books International, which he cofounded in 2014 to work with small to midsized agency owners who want to find right fit clients by marketing with a book & speech. Prior to that he helped double revenues as president of an award-winning Ad Age 500 advertising agency.

  1. APR 10

    How To Have No Drama Rainmaking With Matt Klink

    Our agency rainmaker of the week is Matt Klink. Matt is the owner and president of Klink Campaigns, Inc., and a Partner at California Strategies, where he focuses on strategic communications, crisis management, public affairs, issues management, and political campaigns. Throughout his career, he has worked on major corporate, political, and public policy conflicts in more than 35 countries across six continents. Klink’s work sits at the intersection of policy, media, and public perception. He has advised clients in energy, healthcare, finance, telecommunications, shipping, logistics, and other heavily regulated sectors where the stakes are often more about reputation, public trust, and political survival than just dollars. His professional toolkit includes crisis management, media relations, lobbying support, coalition building, stakeholder engagement, and message development designed to stand out and influence audiences. He is a frequent political commentator whose analysis has appeared on international, national, and local television. In California public affairs, he is known for approaching issues with a campaign mindset: defining the battlefield, understanding the audience, shaping the narrative, and never assuming the facts speak for themselves. This philosophy drives his work and forms the core of this book's main argument: in modern business, politics, and advocacy, success often depends on whether leaders can earn and maintain consent from the most important audiences. Matt holds an M.A. in Political Management from The George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management and a B.A. in History from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a former president of the International Association of Political Consultants and is a member of the governing board of GW’s Graduate School of Political Management. In 2024, he was recognized as Advocate of the Year by the Los Angeles County Business Federation.https://indiebooksintl.comSeason 4, Episode 14

    8 min
  2. APR 3

    How To Always Keep Learning With James Kademan

    Our agency rainmaker of the week is James Kademan. Some authors just love to write. James happens to love writing and business. James Kademan doesn't write for everyone. He aims his writing at people that are looking to improve themselves or their businesses. James has learned more than a few times that education is often expensive. However, that education, at least in business, can be quite a bit cheaper by reading some good books and taking some solid advice from great authors. So he did that and started to learn more beyond what the typical business book teaches.With the goal of writing books for small business, he knew the best place to start was in motivating people as fast as possible.James' first real book, You Got This! A motivational guide for achieving your goals was a small slap in the face of typical motivational books. Not through intention, just in its simplistic content. Find it on Amazon and love it. It may take a few minutes of fuming at first, but eventually, you'll get it. People always do.James Kademan's The BOLD Business Book hit the Amazon shelves at the end of September 2017. This is the book that put James on the map with small business owners worldwide. By bringing together business basics and adding in a healthy dose of business education nobody teaches you, all while adding in the wit and humor that only James can bring, you end up with a business book like no other.If you would like to get in touch with James he has a phone that gets answered at (608)210-2221 as well as an email inbox that routinely gets checked via coach@drawincustomers.com.James Kademan offers business coaching through his company Draw In Customers Business Coaching www.drawincustomers.com and lives in Madison, Wisconsin where he routinely talks about small business, avoiding discussing the ever changing weather. Just like everybody else that lives there.https://indiebooksintl.comSeason 4, Episode 13

    7 min

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Discover the insider secrets on how agency owners leverage their time, treasure, and talent. Each week successful rainmakers will share what they are investing more in, what they are cutting back on, and what are their go-to strategies. Your host Henry DeVries, is a business development columnist with Forbes.com & the CEO of Indie Books International, which he cofounded in 2014 to work with small to midsized agency owners who want to find right fit clients by marketing with a book & speech. Prior to that he helped double revenues as president of an award-winning Ad Age 500 advertising agency.