Questions
Ask these questions before you pay any agency, ours included.
Five longer guides on the questions that come up most, and short answers to the rest. If yours is not here, raise it when we talk after your brief and we will answer it then.
Scope, fee, reporting and term are agreed in writing after we have read your brief and spoken to you.
Guides
The five questions that come up most.
- Why is my website not getting enquiries?A website gets no enquiries because nobody visits, the wrong people visit, visitors leave, or enquiries go unseen.
- Why are my leads not converting?Leads usually stop converting because of slow replies or weak follow-up, not because the leads got worse. Five checks, in order.
- What should I ask before hiring a marketing agency?Eleven questions about the work, the money and what happens after you sign. Most unhappy clients were sold activity, not outcomes.
- Do I need SEO or Google Ads?Ads bring enquiries this quarter, SEO brings them next year, and the real question is which timeline your business is on.
- Should I hire a marketer or use an agency?Usually an agency builds the marketing system first and a hire runs it after. They are two stages of one job, not a choice between them.
Short answers
Everything else, briefly.
What does GullySales do?
We plan and run marketing that brings enquiries in, and we build the sales process, CRM and follow-up that turn them into orders. One firm, one set of numbers.
What happens when I send my brief?
We read it and talk to you about how your enquiries arrive and what happens to them. That conversation is how we decide whether we can help, and how you decide whether to hire us.
Do I pay before work starts?
Not for the first conversation. After it we send the scope, the fee and the term in writing, and you decide. If you want a paid analysis of your own records first, that is the diagnostic, and its fee is quoted in writing before it starts.
How much does it cost?
We do not publish a price. The first conversation scopes the work, and the fee goes in writing before anything starts, split into our time, your media spend and production.
Do we have to sign for twelve months?
No. The term is agreed in writing after the first conversation and is never a default twelve months, and the baseline recorded at the start is what the renewal decision is made on.
Do you guarantee rankings or leads?
No. Anyone who does is guessing at an algorithm or an auction they do not control. We record a baseline, report against it, and change the plan when the numbers say so.
Are you in our city?
One office, in Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru. We work across India by call, WhatsApp and shared documents, and travel when a session needs to be in person.
Do you know our industry?
Check by looking for your trade in the industries list: the site has pages for more than 120 industries, from dental clinics to CNC machine shops, each written around how that trade's buyers choose. If yours is not there or is unusual, say so in your brief and we will tell you honestly whether we can help.
Who will actually do the work?
The people named on the team page, from the Nagarbhavi office. There are no account managers in between, so the person you ask on WhatsApp is the person doing the job.
Can you work with our internal team?
Yes. For most services we can plan, brief and check the work of an existing marketer or sales team instead of replacing them.
How do you measure success?
By enquiries, qualified enquiries, appointments or quotes, orders, and the cost of each. Each is compared, on a schedule agreed in writing, with the baseline taken before work starts.
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.