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Know which enquiry source fills a batch and which only fills the register.

Lead generation for a certification institute is getting the right candidates to ask about your batches, from search, webinars, employers, colleges and referrals, and recording each enquiry with its source. GullySales sets up the sources, the form and the record, and counts paid enrolments against each.

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

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What lead generation means

Lead generation is the combined work of every channel that brings in a new enquiry, whether from search, adverts, referrals or a stall at an exhibition. GullySales runs these channels together and reports the number of enquiries each one produced, not the activity behind it.

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For professional certification institutes

Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.

  • “Webinar registrations are not buyers”

    A free webinar collects names from people who want knowledge for nothing and people comparing three institutes. Counted together, they make a weak source look healthy.

  • “Employer enquiries sit in a personal inbox”

    An HR head asks about a batch for her team, and the email waits in one counsellor's inbox. When he is on leave, the batch goes to another institute.

  • “Portal leads go to several institutes at once”

    An aggregator sells the same candidate to everyone who pays, so the candidate is rung by all of them. Buying more of these buys more calls to a person already tired of picking up.

What we do

What we deliver for professional certification institutes.

Every deliverable, what it covers for you, and the result it is there to produce. Nothing here is an extra.

  1. One enquiry form for every source

    Credential, degree or years of experience, city, preferred mode and how they heard of you: the same fields on the website, the webinar page and the ads, and filled by the desk for calls and walk-ins.

    Result: Every enquiry arrives with what the counsellor needs.

  2. Source codes on every link and number

    Separate links or numbers for search, each ad set, each college talk, each employer and each webinar.

    Result: Enrolments trace back to the place that produced them.

  3. Rules for repeat enquiries

    How the desk merges a candidate who enquired by call, then by form, then on WhatsApp, so one person has one record.

    Result: A candidate is not rung three times by three counsellors.

  4. A qualifying call guide

    The questions a counsellor asks in the first call: the credential, eligibility, the exam window the candidate has in mind and who is paying, with each answer recorded in its own field.

    Result: Counsellor time goes to candidates who can enrol.

  5. A route for employer and college enquiries

    A separate path for HR heads and college coordinators: who replies, what outline goes out and where the conversation is tracked.

    Result: Batch enquiries are not buried among individual ones.

  6. Source reports against the baseline

    Enquiries, demo attendance and paid enrolments by source, compared with the baseline recorded before work starts.

    Result: You can move spend from sources that fill the inbox to sources that fill seats.

How the result is measured

  • Enquiries generated
  • Cost per enquiry
  • Enquiries by source

Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.

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Where enquiries come from

The places a certification institute's candidates come from, and what to record and say at each.

Google search and the Business Profile
Record the credential searched and the page landed on. Reply with the next batch date and ask for the candidate's degree or experience before quoting a fee.
Webinar and demo-class registrations
Record who registered, who attended and who stayed to the end. Call the last group first and ask what they still need in order to decide.
Employer HR and L&D heads
Record the company, the credential, the number of staff and who approves the spend. Send an outline and a sample invoice, and name one person who follows up.
College placement cells and final-year talks
Record the college, the department and each name on the sign-in sheet, with the talk as the source. Follow up with a pathway sheet for the course the students asked about.
Past students and their colleagues
Ask for the referrer's name at the first call and record it. Thank the referrer yourself, and check the certifying body's partner rules before offering any fee concession.
Aggregator and directory enquiries
Record the portal and the date. Call while the candidate is still comparing, and ask which other institutes they have spoken to. Close the lead when they say they enrolled elsewhere.

Who it is for

This is written for these professional certification institutes.

  • ACCA, CIMA and CPA (US) institutes for commerce graduates
  • US CMA, CFA and FRM institutes for finance careers
  • PMP, PRINCE2 and Agile project management trainers
  • Six Sigma and Lean quality certification institutes
  • Cloud and IT vendor certification centres for AWS, Azure and Salesforce
  • Cybersecurity and audit certification trainers for CISA, CISM and CISSP
  • HR, supply chain and logistics certification trainers
  • Corporate training providers running in-house batches for employers

How it works

From your first message to the first report.

No open-ended retainer. Every step gives you something in writing.

  1. First

    Your brief

    You tell us what you need in a few short steps: your business, what you want, where enquiries come from and how they are handled.

  2. After the brief

    A conversation and a written scope

    We read it, then talk with whoever handles your enquiries. If you want our help, the scope, the fee and the reporting come in writing, and nothing starts before you have read them.

  3. Before work starts

    Baseline recorded

    The numbers this work is meant to move, such as enquiries, quotations, orders, visits or renewals, written down so every later report has an honest comparison.

  4. After the baseline

    The first fix goes live

    The fix we agreed to start with is put in place and measured against the baseline, whether that is a reply, a follow-up, a page, a listing or the handover between marketing and sales.

  5. As agreed

    Report against the baseline

    What moved, what did not, and what changes next, in plain words. How often you get it is set in writing before work starts.

  6. At renewal

    Renew on the numbers

    The term ends and you decide whether to continue from the results. The length is agreed in writing before anything starts.

How the lead generation work runs

  1. 1

    Understand your capacity

    We agree how many enquiries your sales team can actually handle well, so the system is not built to overwhelm it.

  2. 2

    Audit current sources

    We check what already brings in enquiries today, even informally, before adding anything new.

  3. 3

    Strategise the channel mix

    Content, search and paid channels are chosen based on where your buyers already look.

  4. 4

    Implement capture and follow-up

    Pages, forms and a follow-up process are built and connected end to end.

  5. 5

    Measure and optimise

    We track enquiry volume and quality and adjust the channel mix to match.

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.

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FAQ

Questions owners ask before they call.

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Should we buy leads from an aggregator?
Try one for a short period and judge it by paid enrolments, not by lead count. Those leads go to several institutes, so the candidate may be called by all of them. Call first and ask what else they are comparing.
What counts as a qualified candidate?
A person who is eligible for the credential, has an exam window in mind and knows who pays. Eligibility is the body's rule, not yours, so ask and record the answer. A curious student with no exam date is a later lead, not a lost one.
A candidate enquired on three channels. Is that three leads?
No. It is one candidate and one record. Match on the phone number first and the email second, merge them and keep the earliest source as the first touch. Counting three inflates your enquiry numbers and gets the candidate rung repeatedly.
How do we count enquiries from a college talk or an employer visit?
Type the sign-in sheet into the record before you plan the next batch, with the event as the source, and call those who ticked interest. Without the sheet, enrolments from the talk are credited to whatever source the candidate happens to mention.
How much does it cost?
There is no price list, because the work differs by business. The fee is scoped after we have read your brief and spoken to you, and put in writing before anything starts, split into our time, your media spend and production.
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?
It depends on the trade, the channel and what is already in place. After we have read your brief and spoken to you, we say what we would expect to move first and how it will be measured against the baseline. Nothing here is guaranteed.
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?
Your brief, and a conversation. After that, access to whatever this work touches, such as your website, your accounts or your enquiry record, and time with the people who handle your enquiries.
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.

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