LinkedIn Client Acquisition · Six Weeks
Rainmaker Sprint
Week 1 live deck — pick the session you are running.
Monday · Theory + Practical
Profile billboard · open the coach · install RAIN · metric + score sprints
Thursday · Profile Clinic
Wins · Gate 1 checklist · hot seats · commit before Week 2
Open with this slide on screen-share. Say which path you are on. Do not start teaching from the chooser — hit Monday or Thursday and move.
Week 1 · Monday
Rainmaker Sprint
Week 1 · Profile
Theory + Practical · P1 · Gate 1 hard
Asset before routine. This week you build the billboard.
Welcome them blunt and warm. Name the week: Profile. Tell them Gate 1 is hard — no soft exit. Do not pitch the whole six weeks here. One sentence: we fix the billboard before we run traffic at it.
Stage map
The 5 P's
P2 · W2
Prospect
ICP + pains
P4 · W3
Present
Lead magnet
P3 · W4
Prospecting
Full RAIN
P5 · W5–6
Pipeline
Close + scale
Teaching order swaps Present (week 3) before Prospecting (week 4). Asset before outreach volume.
Say aloud: asset before routine comes later — this week is the billboard. Point at P1. Do not dig into weeks 2–6. If someone asks about messaging, park it: week 4.
Session promise
You leave with two things
RAIN on your calendar — 30 min, weekdaysProfile rewrite underway — metric headline + score path
Not a lecture dump. Work happens in the room with the coach.
Promise only what you can deliver today. RAIN block installed. Profile rewrite started, not finished. Gate 1 closes Thursday energy, not tonight. No hedging.
Poll 1 · Orientation
First check
Are you here with LinkedIn open?
Yes — profile in another tab 0
Partial — logging in now 0
Not yet 0
Reset poll
First session adapts the wins poll. Click options as people answer in chat or aloud. Do not wait for perfection. If half are not open, give 60 seconds of silence and move.
Diagnostic
Nobody has a lead problem
You have a middle problem — outreach frequency.
How many people did you reach out to in the last 7 days?
Reset poll
Read the thesis once. Run the poll. Most land in 0 or 1–5 — that is the point. Do not shame. Do not invent pipeline maths. Point: frequency is the middle that is broken; profile is the gate before we raise frequency.
Constraint
Rule of One
1 ICP One buyer you can name without hedging
1 Offer One thing you sell — Featured will carry it
1 Channel LinkedIn for this sprint. Not five platforms.
1 Year Run the system long enough to learn
If you split attention across four ICPs, you get four weak billboards.
Blunt: pick one. If they argue for two, say no for six weeks. Channel means LinkedIn is the lab — not "never email." Keep it short.
Why this channel
Why LinkedIn · why now
Buyers already announce pain in public posts and headlines
Profile is searchable billboard + trust stack in one place
Warm motions compound before cold volume (weeks 1–3 → week 4)
You can measure accept rate as an alignment diagnostic
Keep this under two minutes. No channel war. No algorithm myths. Why now: you are here for six weeks with a coach and a gate — use the container.
P1 thesis
Profile is a billboard
You get 4–8 seconds . That is the window.
Photo + banner set the room
Headline is the pickup line — it needs a metric
About + Featured close the loop on one offer
Pretty is optional. Clear is mandatory.
Say the window number once. Do not romanticise personal brand. Billboard = scannable commercial clarity for one ICP.
Teardown agenda
What we will strip and rebuild
1 Banner2 Headline3 About4 Featured5 Featured offer6 Experience7 Skills8 Photo / banner congruency
This is a map, not a live teardown of eight things today. Today we hit metric + score + Featured path. Rest is homework with the coach.
Headline
Pickup line needs a metric
If the headline could belong to anyone in your niche, it is dead.
One number the ICP cares about (result, volume, speed, scale)
One audience named
One outcome or method — not a job title stack
Metric Finder runs later this session. Do not invent a vanity number.
Examples stay generic — do not invent student wins. Push: source of metric must be real. If they have no number yet, that is the sprint, not a crisis.
Congruency
Two silent tick-boxes
Photo and banner look like the same professional — same era, same energy, same offer world
Headline promise matches Featured and About — one offer, not three careers
Click to tick as you say them. Keep practical. No branding theatre.
Literally pause. Let them look at their own profile. Tick on screen as room confirms. Do not turn this into a photoshoot lecture.
Safety + alignment
Acceptance rate is a diagnostic
50% accept target
<30% pause and fix alignment
<20% stop — account safety
Ramp: 5–7 requests/day new or dormant · 20/day established
~100/week cap when young · pending under 500
30 min/day is the block — not heroic hours
Week 1 is warm-ups only. Full outreach volume is week 4.
Read the three thresholds. Stress account safety. Do not let anyone blast connects this week. Numbers are fixed — do not invent extras.
Rainmaker Coach
One coach · four doors
Default
Hosted Coach
Open [HOSTED_COACH_URL] — zero setup.
Door 2
Claude / MCP
Endpoint placeholder: [MCP_ENDPOINT]
Door 3
ChatGPT
Connect path if available; else hosted tab-beside.
Door 4
Perplexity / Grok
Hosted tab-beside. Same brain — do not treat a static prompt as the coach.
One brain. Pick a door and stay there today. No tool-shopping. Placeholders stay as written — do not invent live URLs on the call.
Brain sprint A
Onboarding & Voice Capture
10:00
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Skill
Onboarding & Voice Capture
Say to coach
Get me started / onboard me
Done when
Name, offer, account age/connections, minutes/day captured
Paste back
One line in chat: offer + minutes/day committed
Start timer when most have the coach open. Walk the room. Do not rewrite their offer for them. Capture only — scoring comes later.
Install
Put RAIN on the calendar
Calendar event named RAIN
30 minutes · weekdaysPriority when time runs out later: Influence → Ask → Reach → Nurture
This week: warm-up motions only — profile views, likes, thoughtful comments on ICP posts. Full outreach is week 4.
Make them open the calendar now. Name it RAIN. Say warm-ups explicitly twice so nobody sends 20 cold requests tonight.
Poll 2 · Commit
Calendar check
Is RAIN on your calendar for all five weekdays?
Yes 0
Doing it now 0
Blocker 0
Reset poll
Harvest blockers in one sentence each. Fix the real ones (shared calendar, wrong timezone). Do not accept "I'll do it later" without a time.
Brain sprint B
Metric Finder
12:00
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Say to coach
I don't have a metric for my headline
Routes
Three routes the skill will walk — pick one candidate with a source
Done when
One candidate metric + source
Paste back
Metric + where it came from (chat)
No fake metrics. If stuck, they stay in the skill until one honest number appears. You are not the calculator — the coach is.
Live demo
Facilitator scores a profile live
Watch the motion. Then you run it.
Open Profile Builder & Scorer
Paste headline + About (and Featured if ready)
Get a score number — then rewrite the headline with the metric
Demo stays on facilitator screen. Students wait for the next sprint.
Notes-only beat: you demo. Keep under 5–7 minutes. Narrate bluntly what failed on the sample. Do not score a student live without consent.
Brain sprint C
Profile Builder & Scorer
15:00
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Skill
Profile Builder & Scorer
Say to coach
Score my profile and rewrite the headline with a metric — here's my current About / headline: …
Done when
Score number + rewritten headline with metric
Paste back
Score + new headline in chat
Start timer hot. Hover for stuck students. Gate fragment today is score + headline — full ≥75% rewrite is homework.
Share-back
Paste score + headline in chat
Format:
2–3 hot reads if time — one fix each, then move
No pile-on critique from the room
Call 2–3 pastes. One concrete note each. Protect dignity. If score is low, name the next edit — do not spiral.
Homework · Gate 1
Before Thursday clinic
Rewrite profile end-to-end
Score ≥75%
Metric in headline
One offer in Featured
2–3 posts live
Daily warm-up RAIN block running
Post profile for review
Gate 1 is hard. Soft profiles do not advance cleanly into Prospect.
Read the list once. Emphasize hard gate. Ask interviews are later weeks — not this homework. Warm-ups only in RAIN.
Poll 3 · Temperature
Where are you
Temperature check
Clear 0
Need one thing repeated 0
Stuck on metric 0
Reset poll
If "stuck on metric" is high, name office-hours / coach re-run — do not reopen a 20-minute teach. One repeat max.
Close
Thursday is the clinic
Bring a scored profile — aim ≥75%
Hot seats run with the coach open
Gate 1 gaps get named in public
Rail stays on P1 until Gate 1 clears. See you Thursday.
End clean. No "stay tuned." Remind Gate 1 hard. Point them at Daily RAIN Coach for the block. Stop talking.
Week 1 · Thursday
Profile Clinic
Week 1 · P1 · Gate 1 hard
Wins · one new thing · hot seats · commit
Clinic energy — less lecture, more reps. Open with warmth, then get ruthless on Gate 1. LinkedIn and coach open before you start.
Gate 1 on screen
Hard gate checklist
Score ≥75%
Metric in headline
One offer in Featured
2–3 posts live
Daily RAIN block running (warm-ups)
Missing pieces get named today — not next week.
Leave this up while people arrive. Tick nothing yet — that comes after hot seats / poll. Say the gate is hard once.
Poll 1 · Wins
Accountability open
Did you finish what you said you would?
Reset poll
Strong form. Celebrate Yes briefly. Partial and No are data — not drama. Ask one person in Partial what the single blocker was.
Intake
Park questions here
Visible parking lot — we burn them after the one-new-thing or in hot seats.
Capture fast. Do not answer mid-intake. If a question is week-4 outreach, park and label it week 4.
One new thing · ≤10 min
Featured offer + post types
Featured · one offer
One clear commercial object: what it is, who it is for, what happens next. Not a scrapbook of every PDF you ever made.
2–3 posts · why
Proof the billboard is alive. Types: point-of-view, proof/metric story, ICP pain mirror. Ship plain language.
Tight teach. Then back to clinic — no slide marathon.
Cap at 10 minutes. Featured first. Posts second. Stop even if incomplete — hot seats matter more.
Clinic mode
How hot seats run
Volunteer or draft — screen share profile
Brain open: Profile Scorer / Conversation if needed
One primary fix per seat — not a redesign committee
~8 minutes each · timer on the next slides
Room gives notes only when asked. Facilitator drives.
Set norms once. Protect the person on screen. Coach does the heavy rewrite suggestions; you decide the one fix.
Hot seat 1 · 8 min
Seat 1
08:00
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Skill
Profile Builder & Scorer (or Conversation)
Say to coach
Score this profile live and give me the single highest-leverage fix
Done when
One fix agreed and owned by the seat
Paste back
Seat posts the fix they will ship today
Type the name on the slide. Start timer when sharing starts. Cut at 8 even if mid-sentence — park remainder.
Hot seat 2 · 8 min
Seat 2
08:00
8 min · T start/pause
Start
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Skill
Profile Builder & Scorer (or Conversation)
Say to coach
Score this profile live and give me the single highest-leverage fix
Done when
One fix agreed and owned by the seat
Paste back
Seat posts the fix they will ship today
Same rules. Different profile. Do not repeat the same lecture — let the coach carry pattern recognition.
Hot seat 3 · 8 min
Seat 3
08:00
8 min · T start/pause
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Skill
Profile Builder & Scorer (or Conversation)
Say to coach
Score this profile live and give me the single highest-leverage fix
Done when
One fix agreed and owned by the seat
Paste back
Seat posts the fix they will ship today
Last seat. If time is short, still run a compressed 5 — do not skip the ownership paste-back.
Poll 2 · Score
Where is your score
Profile score now
Under 75 0
75–89 0
90+ 0
Not scored yet 0
Reset poll
Under 75 and Not scored are the clinic backlog. Tell them the next slide names gaps. No fake 90s.
Accountability
Gate 1 gaps
Still under 75 — rescore with coach tonight
No metric in headline
Featured missing or multi-offer clutter
Fewer than 2 posts live
RAIN block missing days
Profile not posted for review
Interactive-style: tick the gaps that show up in the room (majority signals). Blunt inventory. No rescue speech.
Commitment
Write it in chat
What you will finish before Week 2 Monday .
One sentence. One owner. One deadline.
I will ________ by ________.
Everyone writes. Call 3 aloud. Vague commitments get bounced once: make it shippable.
Poll 3 · One thing
Before Monday
One thing before Monday
Metric 0
Headline 0
Featured 0
Posts 0
RAIN streak 0
Reset poll
Forces a single priority. If RAIN streak is empty, say the block is non-negotiable even when profile edits slip.
Preview
Week 2 · Prospect
One ICP you can say in one breath
Ranked pains — red vs amber
Ask interviews: floor 5 / target 10 / stretch 15 — later focus, seeded now
P1 must be sturdy before we sharpen P2. Finish the billboard.
Tease only. Do not teach ICP tonight. Mention interview numbers as future target — not this week's homework load.
Close
Gate 1 · then Prospect
Ship the one thing you named
Keep warm-up RAIN daily
Monday Week 2 opens on Prospect
Clinic closed. Go fix the billboard.
End. No soft outro. Remind Daily RAIN Coach for the block. See them Monday.
Clinic appendix · numbers reminder
Ramp rules stay on the wall
30 min /day
5–7 /day new·dormant
20 /day established
~100 /week young cap
Pending <500
Still warm-ups this week. Volume unlocks week 4 with Prospecting.
Optional slide if someone pushes connect volume. Show once, then return to Gate 1. Do not open full RAIN teaching.
Clinic appendix · RAIN this week
Warm-up motions only
Profile views on ICP accounts
Likes that are intentional — not spray
Thoughtful comments on ICP posts
Reach → Ask → Influence → Nurture is the full loop later. Priority when short: Influence → Ask → Reach → Nurture.
Use if the room confuses warm-up with outreach. One pass. Then back to commitments.