Paul McCord

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Prospecting, Referral Selling, and Personal Marketing Trainer and Coach Expert

Paul McCord

Paul McCord Quick Facts

Main Areas
Prospecting; Referral Selling; Personal Marketing
Best Sellers
Creating a Million Dollar a Year Sales Income: Sales Success through Client Referrals
Career Focus
Author, speaker, sales trainer, sales consultant
Affiliation
Society of Industry Leaders; Top Sales Experts

Best-selling author, speaker, sales trainer, and consultant, Paul McCord is an internationally recognized authority on prospecting, referral-selling, and personal marketing.

Paul has spent 28 years in sales, sales management, training and consulting with a concentration in the financial services industry. He has sold and built top-level sales teams in both business-to-business and consumer markets, selling securities, insurance, banking, and mortgage products, as well as wholesaling securities to NASD broker/dealer firms.

As a trainer, Paul has trained thousands of salespeople and managers from virtually any industry one can think of. His clients include individual salespeople, professionals, and small business owners, as well as companies such as Microsoft, Wells Fargo, UBS, Countrywide, and others.

Paul is the author of the international best-selling book on referral selling, Creating a Million Dollar a Year Sales Income: Sales Success through Client Referrals (John Wiley and Sons, 2007), which is quickly becoming recognized as the authoritative work on referral selling. His second book, SuperStar Selling: 12 Keys to Becoming a Sales SuperStar will be released in February, 2008. In addition, his articles and interview have appeared in publications throughout the world, including Selling Power, Forbes, Business Week, Advisor Today, Hotel and Motel Management, Airport Business, Sales Magazine (UK), Senior Market Advisor, Employee Benefit Advisor, The Dallas Morning News, The Boston Globe, and many others.

As a thought leader in sales and sales training, Paul has been nominated to and accepted into the Society of Industry Leaders.

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Salespeople often overlook one of the most effective and quick ways to both establish themselves as experts in their field and generate a pipeline of quality prospects. While most salespeople who sell directly to consumers are all too familiar with cold calling, purchasing leads, sending ...

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Virtually every salesperson with any experience what so ever proclaims him or herself to be an expert in their field. Their business card, their fliers, their door hangers (if they use them), their cold calling spiel, their brochures, and everything else they have tries to communicate this ...

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If you were asked to name your biggest competitor, whom would you name? A specific company? Maybe a specific salesperson? Possibly, you view your biggest competitor as a product instead of a company or salesperson? Competition is all around. It may seem that competitors lurk around every ...

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Over the past few years, mortgage money has been cheap, mortgage companies have been willing to lend money to virtually anyone who could draw breath long enough to close on the home, and the oversight by regulatory agencies has been minimal at best. Consumers saw home values steadily ...

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I can’t help but be reminded of Edvard Munch’s painting, The Scream, every time I speak with a salesperson or professional who is complaining about the ineffectiveness of their marketing. In the painting, Munch places a man on a bridge, hands to mouth, screaming as loudly as he can. Behind ...

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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Paul McCord

Traditional prospecting and marketing methods no longer connect effectively with prospects. Prospects are inundated with marketing messages from all sides--cold calls, direct mail, billboards, email, advertising, fliers and every other method you can think of. They have learned to ignore the ever present marketing--including yours.

If you want to be a top producer, you must learn to communicate with prospects in ways they wish to be communicated with and that they respect. In other words, you have to learn new methods of getting your word out.

If you want to be a top producer in your industry, you must rethink what marketing is and totally rework your marketing strategy. Otherwise, you'll continue to be nothing more than a faceless salesperson, in a sea of faceless salespeople, all trying to sell basically the same things, to the same people, at more or less the same price, using the same words and tactics.

Contacting Paul McCord

How to get started

The best way to get to know me--or any trainer for that matter--is to visit my training website (www.powerreferralselling.com) and read a number of my articles. In addition to my articles, you might want to visit the "endorsements" page to get an idea of what others, hopefully some people you may know, have to say about my work.

Most trainers have areas they specialize in, even if they claim to train in all aspects of selling. My areas of specialization are prospecting, referral selling, and personal marketing, as well as how to prepare a solid foundation to become a top producer. Unlike many, I don't claim to be your source for anything and everything related to sales. I know my areas of expertise and that's what I work within.

I encourage you to read my articles; subscribe to my twice monthly newsletter, POWER SELLING; see what others say about my book, training, and coaching, and make an educated decision as to where, if anywhere, I can help you in your business.

Whether considering me and my training or that of any other trainer, don't go blindly. Do a little homework--it will save you a ton of money.

Other highlights

Coaching: Individual and group sales coaching with a concentration on prospecting, personal marketing, referral selling, and pipeline development. See discussion at www.powerreferralselling.com/html/coaching.html

Seminars and tele-seminars: Offer both free and fee based sales training seminars in the areas of prospecting, referral selling, and personal marketing. See www.powerreferralselling.com/html/seminars.html

Copywriting and public relations: Offer a number of copywriting and public relations products, from writing client letters, to speeches, to complete public relations packages. See www.powerreferralselling.com/html/marketing.html

Corporate training and consulting: see www.mccordandassociates.com

Speaking Engagements: see www.powerreferralselling.com/html/meeting_planners.html