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Send the prospect homework before the meeting and note who did it.

An assignment selling pack is a small set of material a booked prospect reads or watches before the first meeting. It holds a short video, a buyer's guide, a price page and two case studies. This page covers building the pack, asking for the reading, and keeping a read log.

Scope, fee, reporting and term are agreed in writing after we have read your brief and spoken to you.

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In one paragraph

An assignment selling pack is a small set of material a booked prospect reads or watches before the first meeting. It holds a short video, a buyer's guide, a price page and two case studies. This page covers building the pack, asking for the reading, and keeping a read log.

A modular kitchen showroom in Jayanagar books six site visits a week. The designer drives forty minutes to each one and spends the first hour explaining materials, hinges and the difference between laminate and acrylic. Two of the six families were never going to spend that kind of money, and the designer finds out only after the hour is gone.

A pack changes the order of things. The family gets a WhatsApp message with a PDF, a three-minute video from the designer and a line that says: please look at these before Thursday. The meeting then starts at the second hour, with people who already know the price range.

The sales head or the owner builds the pack once, and marketing or whoever does your design work puts it into shape. Each rep sends it and writes down in the read log who looked at what. It replaces the habit of re-explaining the same ten facts at every first meeting.

This sits after the person has said yes to a meeting. The educational content page covers material that attracts strangers, and the sales presentation page covers what you say once everyone is in the room. The pack is the bridge between the two.

Where this sits

Topic 11 of 13 in crm, lead flow and sales techniques: content as a sales tool. Content that reps use in live conversations.

The topic before
Frictionless selling
The topic after
Selling after the sale

If you want this done for you

Every rep builds their own version of the pitch because there is no approved one.

The work

What this is actually like.

  • “The ask matters more than the material”

    A pack sent with no request gets forwarded to nobody and read by nobody. The booking call needs one sentence: we will spend the meeting on your plot, so please see these first. Prospects who agree to that sentence have told you something about how serious they are.

  • “Keep it to four items”

    A folder of fourteen files is a brochure dump. One short video, one buyer's guide that answers the questions reps hear first, one page that shows a real price range, and two case studies. If your rep would not mention an item unprompted, it does not belong.

  • “Read and unread prospects are a free comparison”

    After a few months your log splits into prospects who opened everything and those who opened nothing. Compare their close rates on your own figures. If the readers buy at a higher rate, the pack earns a place in the booking script. If they do not, the pack is the wrong pack.

  • “Do not message people who did not agree”

    Sending a PDF on WhatsApp to a number that only enquired once on a portal is a consent problem as well as a poor first impression. Ask whether WhatsApp is fine on the booking call, note the answer, and check the current rules for business messaging with your own adviser.

What we do

What you end up with.

The documents this topic produces, what each one is for, and how you know it is finished.

  1. The pack itself

    One PDF of no more than ten pages, one video of two or three minutes in the buyer's language, and a price page. Name the files so the prospect knows the order: 1 watch first, 2 read, 3 price.

    Result: Finished when a prospect can open all of it on a phone with one thumb and no login.

  2. The ask line in the booking script

    One sentence added to the call or WhatsApp message that fixes the meeting, and asks for the pack to be reviewed before it. Include a fallback line for the prospect who says no time.

    Result: Finished when every rep says the same sentence and you can hear it on a call recording.

  3. The send message

    A saved WhatsApp quick reply: greeting, meeting date and time, the three links, and a closing question that invites a reply. Keep it under six lines.

    Result: Finished when a rep can send it in under a minute without editing.

  4. The read log

    A sheet with columns for prospect, date sent, agreed to review (yes or no), pieces opened, meeting date and outcome. The rep fills it the evening before the meeting by checking the link views or simply asking.

    Result: Finished when you can sort the sheet and see readers against non-readers.

  5. The comparison note

    After you have enough rows, one paragraph: how many readers closed, how many non-readers closed, how long the first meeting ran in each group.

    Result: Finished when the owner can say keep the pack, change it, or stop using it.

Why us

Why owners pick GullySales over an agency.

  • Marketing and sales, as one job

    Most agencies stop at the enquiry. We also fix what happens after it: the reply, the follow-up, the quote and the CRM.

  • The person on the first call does the work

    No account managers in between. You are never handed to someone you have not met.

  • A baseline before anything starts

    Your numbers are written down on day one, so every later report compares against something honest.

  • The fee in writing, split three ways

    Our time, your media spend and production on separate lines. You always see what goes to us.

  • No guarantees we cannot keep

    The term is agreed in writing and never a default twelve months. We never promise a ranking or a lead count, because nobody controls those.

  • One office, and we say so

    Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru. We work across India by call and WhatsApp and travel when a session needs to be in person.

#257, 3rd floor, Sri Nanjundeshwara Complex, Nagarbhavi 8th Block, Outer Ring Road. How we work.

Your brief

Tell us what you need, and we will read it before we call.

Eight short steps about your business, what you want and who decides. Most questions are a tap, and you can skip any you would rather answer on the call.

FAQ

Questions owners ask before they call.

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Do prospects actually read this?
Some do and some do not, which is why the log exists. The prospects who agree to review it on the booking call read it far more reliably than those who just receive it. Record both groups separately and compare.
Should the pack include a price?
Yes, a real range with what moves it up or down. A prospect who sees the range and still books is a better first meeting than one who finds out in the room. If you cannot show a range, say what the lowest job costs.
Is video necessary?
No. A clear PDF works on its own. A short video from the person they will meet makes the first minute of the meeting warmer, but a bad video does more harm than none.
Can we track who opened the PDF?
Through a short link you can see clicks. If you do not use link tools, ask the prospect on the pre-meeting reminder call whether they had a chance to look. A hand-kept tick is enough for this purpose.
What if the meeting is the first contact?
Then there is no booking call to attach the pack to, so build the ask into the confirmation message. Your first meeting still gets shorter if the prospect arrives having seen your price page.
How long is the contract?
The term is agreed in writing after we have spoken, along with the fee and the reporting. It is never a default twelve months, and renewal is decided on the numbers against the baseline recorded at the start.
How soon will we see results?
Fixes to reply time and follow-up are the quickest to show, because the enquiries already exist. Process, CRM and training changes show as the team uses them. Each one is tracked against the baseline.
Who will actually do the work?
The person you speak to before anything starts. We work from one office in Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru, with no account managers in between.
What do you need from us?
To start, last month's enquiries in any format and time with whoever handles them. After that, access to the accounts the work touches, such as the website, Google Business Profile or CRM.
What if we are not happy with the work?
Tell us and the plan changes. Everything is reported against the baseline, so a number that is not moving is visible to both sides. The term is in your written scope, and the refund and cancellation policy sets out the rest.

Your next practical step

Tell us what you are trying to grow, and we will read it before we call.

Eight short steps, mostly taps. Skip anything you would rather answer on the call.