21st Century Direct Sales Coaching

The 2014 UK Sales Coach of the Year and Today the UK's No1 Direct Sales Coach live daily from Bali with On Demand Paygo Video Sales Coaching to UK & US Direct Sales Business Owners & Sales Pro's. 

The Only sales coach on LinkedIn with a Proven 30 Day 10X ROI Results Guarantee. 

Master the Art & Science of 21st Century Direct Selling and start closing 1 in every 2 of your direct sales leads without any convincing or persuading. 

Book your 2025 January Sales Kick Off Coaching Call now to make 2025 your best year yet!

UK No1 Direct Sales Coach 

Everest Home Improvements

No1 Divisional Sales Manager : 

* 2000 Wales & West 

* 2002 South West 

* 2004 Kent

* 2005 London West 

No1 Regional Sales Manager 

*2006 & 2007 Western 

2009-2011 - Sales Director Kitchens | Recruited & Trained a National Sales Force & Built a £10 Million PA Direct Sell Kitchen Business from Door Canvassed & Cold Telecan Leads in a Double Glazing Business 

2012 - Eastern Sales Director - led a 250 strong sales team to close over £50 Million

2013 - Southern Sales Director - led a 500 strong sales team to close over £100 Million

Sales Director

First National Bank

1994-1999 FNB - Closed over £57Million in Personal Sales & Trained/Coached/Led sales professionals to close in excess of £1Billion over 5 years - No1 Finance Sales Trainer in the UK Direct Sales Finance Industry | No1 Salesman Avco Trust 1992-1994 | No1 Salesman HFC Bank 1990-1992

National Sales Training Manager

UK #1 Sales Coach Live from Bali🏝️ Neuroclose™ The New Psychology of B2C Persuasion | DM me for Home Improvement, Real Estate & Solar Live Video Direct Sales Training that Gets Your Buyers Closing The Sale For You👊

Award Winning B2C Sales Coach | Neuroclose™ Creator - The New Psychology of Persuasion

At 19, I broke B2C insurance sales records - by hacking buyers emotions and psychology that I didn’t yet fully understand. For 25+ years, I’ve been obsessed with one question: “Why do people REALLY say YES?”  

From building and leading 50 strong £100M+ teams at Everest to launching my own sales coaching business and winning the UK sales coach of the year award in my first year then coaching 1,500+ 21st century entrepreneurs I discovered a truth: Sales isn’t persuasion—it’s neuroscience.  

Today 21st century buyers brains scan for threats on autopilot in seconds. So, In 2021, I launched NeuroClose©—the brain-based sales system that gets today's buyers closing the sale for you as their own idea (Think "Inception" stealth persuasion) 

MY JOURNEY: From Liverpool Streets to Bali Beaches

- 1990-1999: From Master salesman - No1 Sales Trainer in the UK Consumer Finance Industry
- 1999-2013: Sold £250M+ in windows, kitchens & finance | Led 500+ Strong teams to sell £1Billion+
- 2014-2018 : Launched and built my own successful sales coaching business to over £1 Million
- 2019: Relocated to Bali (yes, I coach between dawn and sunset beach Meditation sessions! )  
- 2021: Launched NeuroClose© to help 21st century B2C sales teams dominate their industry  

Neuroclose™ gets you closing 1 in every 2 of your B2C sales leads, price right and fast - that's right a 50% conversion rate - without any old school sales tactics that just don't work anymore because today's buyers are wise to them all...

- 1:1 Video Sales Coaching - custom scripting of your own new new step by step sales conversation to 100% match your own myers briggs personality profile

- Your own personalised sales playbooks, video trainings & day to day whatsapp Q&A implementation support so that you master your new system fast and see results instantly

- Psychology, emotional intelligence & mindset training in true personal development style to unlock your best thinking and to get you into & keep you in all the right habits

Checkout my 60+ Linkedin Recommendations Now - I've repeatedly proven myself at every level over 5 decades & I'll be asking you to add yours when we work together!

DM me today, let's talk about making your highest 2025 sales goals a reality!

Paul 🙏

CREDENTIALS:
  
🏆 APCTC UK Sales Coach of the Year 2014 
🧠 Graduate of the Tony Robbins Mastery University
🧠 Certified Myers Briggs Personality Profiling Coach
👊 Master NLP Practitioner Taught by Dr Richard Bandler in 1999

Paul Atherton

KINNECT

I plan, manage and execute all internal and external communications and marketing activities for KINNECT from web content and blogs to client communications, affiliate partner communications, sales materials, conferences and social media. 

Major achievements: 
- Audit, re-configuration and copy review of the most visited pages on the website in the first twelve months in the role.
- Planned, supported and promoted KINNECTs first client webinar on Audiometric Testing Changes in Western Australia.

ABOUT KINNECT: We’re Australia’s leading privately-owned occupational health company, 
offering services that cover the entire employment lifecycle from hire to retire including Workplace Rehabilitation, Pre-Employment Medicals, Health Surveillance, Injury Management and Prevention.  Our operations combine wholly-owned metropolitan and regional offices throughout Australia, teams of passionate local staff working on-site and a network of over 700 affiliated medical and allied health clinics. KINNECT takes partnership approach to developing tailored solutions for our clients, utilising a breadth of health disciplines and our deep understanding of health risks in the workplace.

Marketing Communications Specialist

Veracity Content

At Veracity Content, I focus on helping you translate complicated ideas into usable written content for your business.

That can mean working with you to define your business mission, vision, unique selling point and key brand messages; planning an editorial calendar or content campaign; or creating engaging and informative marketing content.

With Veracity Content, you'll benefit from 15 years of marketing and public relations experience distilled into a range of services that span the whole content gamut:

Content planning & strategy
Content writing / Copywriting
Copy-editing
Proofreading
Marketing project management

Achievements:
- Researched and wrote the University of Surrey’s 50th Anniversary commemorative publication Book of Wonder in 2016, completing over 50 interviews with researchers, academics and alumni, sourcing and securing licenses for images and liaising with graphic design and film production agencies.
- Developed blog and press articles for Savile Row menswear designer Alexandra Wood to build her blog into a respected source of style inspiration for men in Britain.
- Lead the thought leadership program for The Oxford Group for 12 months, writing long-form blogs and gated articles based on direct interviews, transcribed/recorded interviews between executives and industry professionals, and desktop research.

Please visit https://www.veracitycontent.com/portfolio for examples of my work.

Freelance Copywriter, Copyeditor and Content Planner

Roubler

Roubler is an all-in-one SaaS product that combines every aspect of HR & payroll into one seamless cloud-based system for simpler shift-based workforce management

I was tasked with setting and executing the marketing strategy for the Roubler brand in Australia, Singapore and South Africa to generate high quality leads through a content-focused inbound approach. My tactics included (but certainly weren't limited to):
- Highly-focused PPC campaigns (Google Ad Words and LinkedIn Sponsored Content) that speak to customer needs in the moment.
- Automated, email lead nurture campaigns that address very specific customer challenges. 
- Sourcing, writing and publishing fresh, SEO-optimised, locally-relevant content for the Roubler website within a pillar page/topic cluster framework including landing pages, blogs and e-books (after a full re-write and re-structure on WordPress in 2018).
- Social media engagement via Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook using a combination of curated and owned content.
- Production of customer story videos to demonstrate the real value of the Roubler platform. 
- Providing sales team members with up to date collateral and marketing insight as needed.
- Monitoring and analysing data on HubSpot (our marketing and sales engine), to assess successes and gaps in our strategy.

Marketing Manager

IPWEA Queensland (IPWEAQ)

As the IPWEAQ Membership Manager, I was responsible for managing the CRM system, coordinating subscription renewals, member inquiries, email marketing, plus attraction and retention strategies for the IPWEAQ membership programme. 

*N.B. The IPWEAQ website was not within my sphere of responsibility or influence.

Membership Manager (Contract)

University of Surrey

2016 University of the Year (The Times and Sunday Times- UK). 

I managed a number of high profile student campaigns, including the National Student Survey and Welcome Week. This included preparing written content for web, digital advertising, outdoor and email.

I also project managed the 2015 Annual Review as new multi-channel, digitally focused campaign. I lead the project team, created the content plan and liaised with over 50 stakeholders to source content. 

Achievements: The new Annual Review format drew the highest levels of Facebook and Twitter interactions seen for an annual review at Surrey. Furthermore, the film component won 'Most Creative Corporate Institution Video - Gold Award' at the QS-Apple Creative Awards 2016.

Project Officer - Marketing (Project-Based Contract)

In this role I contributed to the student recruitment strategy via the coordination of live ‘Chat Shows’ at student open days, email campaigns, digital and print advertising campaigns and content production (print and video). 

This encompassed writing detailed briefs for the in-house film, design and web teams and liaised across stakeholders from multiple faculties and international offices on marketing requirements.

Campaigns Officer (3 Month Contract)

The Oxford Group

The Oxford Group provides management and leadership training for the world's leading organisations, designing learning experiences to support the achievement of personal and business goals.

My role was focused on leading a team in the deployment of The Oxford Group's strategy for client engagement, for Europe, the USA and Hong Kong with the aim of developing new and existing client relationships and stimulating sales growth.

I undertook all copywriting, content planning, social media management and campaign planning.

Key achievements: 
- Revitalised the organisation’s content marketing strategy to place lead capture and nurture at its heart. Following a comprehensive content audit, I updated and repurposed existing assets (whitepapers, blogs, SlideShare presentations, guides, FAQs, webinars); created new content; launched a blog; and instigated an automated email nurture programme with email templates, data capture forms and campaigns featuring dynamic content.
- Led the redevelopment of the businesses website from start to finish in seven months. This covered project management; designing the site architecture; re-writing of content to improve SEO; and collaborating on user experience and visual design.
- Developed and executed the launch strategy for the book: 5 Conversations: How to transform trust, engagement and performance at work. This encompassed production of landing pages, social media posts, promotional tools and feature pieces for the media. As a result, the book reached Amazon bestseller status in three categories.
- Partnered with the Global Marketing Director to manage the migration to and adoption of MS Dynamics CRM and the subsequent integration with our email marketing platform.

XpertHR - Reed Business Information Ltd

XpertHR is a comprehensive online resource providing HR professionals with guidance on employment law, HR strategy and HR compliance.

My role was focussed on:

- Lead generation: reaching HR professionals through timely and targeted online campaigns and webinars integrating social media, email marketing and advertising.

- Working with internal editors and authors to write and produce assets for content marketing, social media and stakeholder relations projects.

- Leveraging opportunities to reach our market via partner sites by optimising our presence on the sites and developing channels to reach new prospects through content marketing, membership programmes, and email-based lead nurture programmes.

- Writing and producing effective marketing tools to support tele-sales and field sales teams.

- Coordinating attendance at relevant events to build brand awareness for the XpertHR Professional product.

Major achievement:
- Planned and wrote content for an online support center for XpertHR US’s law firm partners that provided them with resources to leverage their partnership.
- Was seconded to New Jersey to coordinate the successful launch of the XpertHR US brand at the USA’s largest HR conference, SHRM 2012. This included procuring all exhibition marketing materials including the booth, staff rostering, setting up a competition for delegates, arranging data capture facilities and developing a social media strategy and suite of sales collateral to leverage participation at the event.

Marketing Executive (Rolling Maternity Contract)

Science Museum

This was a project-based role focussed on executing off-line marketing campaigns to drive visitation to the Museum and enhancing the customer experience while on-site.

Digital Signage Project: I worked with the Museum's curatorial and new media departments, revenue-share partners (including IMAX and Metropolis Entertainment) and external production companies to determine the requirements for, develop and execute promotional video content for the Science Museum's new digital signage system to enhance up-sell of paid attractions and visitation to free galleries.

Offline campaigns: I planned and executed marketing activities to promote the Museum's 3D and 4D cinema attractions and several events during Summer 2011. 

Tourism development:  I planned and executed and number of initiatives to grow the Museum's organised group tour market including print advertising, events, printed collateral and increasing the online presence with relevant trade authorities.

Acting Senior Marketing Executive (Project-Based Contract)

The Workshops Rail Museum

A role requiring proficiency in many disciplines to plan and implement a range of event and tourism based integrated marketing strategies to raise the profile of and drive attendance to The Workshops Rail Museum (TWRM). 

ONLINE 
- Writing content and managing website updates using Content Management System Sitecore.
- Developing and managing TWRM’s email marketing program.
- Managing updates for social media and contributing to TWRM’s social media strategy.
- Developing and implementing customer research projects using online research tools.
- Monitoring and analysing web metrics using Google Analytics to guide changes to the TWRM site and inform future developments to both online and offline strategies.

Major Achievements: 
- Developed TWRM’s ENews program from inception, increasing subscription by 200% over 18 months.
- Developed and delivered web-based audience research project for TWRM’s Annual Pass Membership program (existing members). 

OFFLINE
- Copywriting, production and distribution of all printed and online communication materials including a quarterly membership magazine.
- Planning and implementing targeted media and publicity activities including filming for local television programs.
- Managing TWRM’s direct marketing (mail) program.
- Working with media planning and creative agencies to develop advertising campaigns. 
- Evaluating TWRM’s public programs and marketing strategies via analysis of financial and attendance data, visitor research and media coverage.
- Representing TWRM within the tourism industry.

Major Achievements:
- Delivered communication strategies for 4 major school holiday events per year, member events, temporary and enthusiast exhibitions on time and to budget, contributing to attracting over 100,000 visitors per year and securing a minimum $60,000 per event in publicity.
- Established a solid promotional relationship with a major national monthly pre-teen publication and regular promotional support from local newspapers.

Marketing Officer

During this period I successfully delivered the marketing strategy for the annual Day out with Thomas 2009 event which attracted over 32,000. I managed all communication activities including assuring adherence to Friends of Thomas licensing requirements, advertising production and placement, distribution of marketing materials, managing media opportunities and requests and overseeing complaint resolution through liaison with Museum staff and TransLink.

In addition I worked with the local tourism bodies and design agencies to plan and implement generic and tourism focused advertising activities for 2009, managed day to day financial and budgeting requirements and prepared responses to ministerial enquiries.

Acting Marketing Manager

P4 Group

This varied role within a full-service marketing communications consultancy, encompassed reception and secretarial duties, office administration and support to the P4 team. Specifically:

- Financial administration: managing accounts payable, preparation and issuing of client invoices.
- Preparing, proof-reading and editing sponsorship proposals, presentations and communication strategies for clients such as Warner Brothers, the Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF 2006) and Warner Village Theme Parks.
- Managing the sponsor benefits database for the BIFF 2006.
- Conducting web-based research to develop sponsorship bench-marking and target databases.
- Preparing Government tender documents.
- Event management of staff conferences and smaller events within BIFF 2006.

Major Achievement:
- Working with Brisbane City Council and BIFF to successfully develop and deliver the first BIFF in the Burbs outdoor cinema program of 5 events in July 2006, attracting over 1500 people. The success of the 2006 event has led to it being included as a permanent fixture of the BIFF program.

Marketing Administration Coordinator

Freelance content writer offering a fresh perspective to businesses in the e-learning, training and personal & professional development spaces

I believe that consumers want content that is easy to read, answers their burning questions, offers a fresh perspective and makes them feel connected - to a brand, to their place in the world and to the people around them. 

That's why I help busy businesses to create effective, beautifully written content and well-thought-out content strategies.

Areas of expertise:
- Content strategy
- Content management (including CMS)
- Content writing 
- Integrated marketing strategy  
- Project management & leadership
- Events marketing
- Customer engagement campaigns 
 
Achievements:
- Led a team in the deployment of the client engagement and acquisition strategy for The Oxford Group (a global management training company) across Europe, the USA and Hong Kong.
- Revitalised The Oxford Group’s content marketing strategy to drive lead capture and sales.
- Developed and executed the launch strategy for the Amazon best-selling book: 5 Conversations: How to transform trust, engagement and performance at work.
- Managed the XpertHR USA team to successfully launch the brand at the USA's largest HR conference.
- Designed, produced and launched an online support center for XpertHR US’s law firm partners. 
- Managed the London Science Museum’s internal and external stakeholders (including IMAX) to produce eight short promotional videos for their new digital signage system on time and to budget.
- Have written articles that have appeared in UK lifestyle and bridal magazines, Human Resources publications and The Courier Mail.
- Transformed the University of Surrey’s 2015 Annual Review from a traditional printed publication into a multi-channel, digitally focused campaign that exceeded all social media interaction targets.
- Wrote and published the University of Surrey’s 50th anniversary publication Book of Wonder. 

N.B. I undertook multiple contract roles in the UK to be flexible to accommodate military postings for my spouse.

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