Rainmaker
Categories: Careers
Ooh, you wanna be this person. "Rain" = money, like the whole rapper thing where they shoot out the dollar bills like a croupier at a Pai Gow table.
A rainmaker is someone who brings in business, and the term usually applies to professionals in a given vertical industry. Like...a rainmaker in a law firm is the gal who gets the big oil company to hire their firm to defend it after the last oil spill. Or it's the lawyer who could simply run fast enough after the ambulance to get the motorcyclist's cell number so that they could sue the semi driver who hit her. A rainmaker at an investment bank wins banking business; SoNSo.com hires that banker to help them execute the merger they want to make with their competitor for a big, fat fee.
The term is kinda ironic, in that most people think of rain as bad, at least in business. Black clouds. Dark skies. Foreboding music. But no. In this case, rain is good, and you want to be...wet. Ahem.
