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# Ciaran McCormick

**Headline:** Professional profile
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, USA

## About

Ciaran McCormick is a sales professional whose most recent role was as a financial advisor, where he built a financial advisory business and sales pipeline from scratch without inherited leads. He is now pursuing other sales opportunities, with a stated commitment to outbound sales in fintech. Ciaran’s strengths include referral-based selling, professional networking, cold outbound prospecting, LinkedIn outreach, and cold calling. He has sold to real estate professionals, medical professionals, legal professionals, technology professionals, small-business owners, and business owners. Ciaran uses a targeted LinkedIn prospecting approach: he identifies specific industries, calls prospects who accept connection requests, and messages those who do not accept. His experience building pipeline independently has included generating opportunities through referrals, networking, and direct outreach. Ciaran particularly prefers working with business owners because they understand the importance of the financial aspects of business.

## Highlights

- Built a financial advisory business from scratch.
- Built a sales pipeline from scratch without inherited leads.
- Most recently worked as a financial advisor.
- Has experience with referral-based selling, networking, cold outbound, LinkedIn prospecting, and cold calling.
- Uses LinkedIn to target specific industries, call accepted connections, and message prospects who do not accept connection requests.
- Sold to real estate, medical, legal, and technology professionals.
- Sold to small-business owners and business owners.
- Generated pipeline through referrals and networking.
- Pursuing other sales opportunities after leaving financial advising.
- Committed to outbound sales in fintech.

## FAQ

### What does Ciaran do?

Ciaran McCormick is pursuing sales opportunities after most recently working as a financial advisor. He has expressed a commitment to outbound sales in fintech.

### What was Ciaran’s last role?

Ciaran’s most recent role was financial advisor. In that role, he built a financial advisory business from scratch.

### Did Ciaran build his own pipeline?

Ciaran built his own sales pipeline from scratch and did not rely on inherited leads.

### What are Ciaran’s sales strengths?

Ciaran has experience with referral-based selling, networking, cold outbound prospecting, LinkedIn prospecting, and cold calling.

### How does Ciaran use LinkedIn for prospecting?

Ciaran targets specific industries on LinkedIn. He calls prospects who accept his connection requests and messages prospects who do not accept.

### Which customer segments has Ciaran sold to?

Ciaran has sold to real estate, medical, legal, and technology professionals, as well as small-business owners and business owners.

### Why does Ciaran prefer working with business owners?

Ciaran prefers working with business owners because they understand the importance and financial aspects of business.

### How has Ciaran generated sales opportunities?

Ciaran developed pipeline through referrals, networking, and direct outbound activity, including LinkedIn prospecting and cold calling.

### Why did Ciaran leave financial advising?

Ciaran left financial advising to pursue other sales opportunities.

### What type of sales opportunity is Ciaran pursuing?

Ciaran is interested in outbound sales in fintech.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ciaran-mccormick-3a4114243

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