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Commercial insurance brokers · Buyer persona

Write down who actually decides a mandate and what each person needs to hear.

A buyer persona for a commercial broker describes the finance head, promoter, CA or HR head involved in placing a business's cover, along with their worries and their part in the decision. GullySales builds these from your won and lost mandates so your messages speak to the right person.

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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 buyer persona means

A buyer persona is a plain description of the kind of customer who actually buys from you. It includes what they search, what worries them and who else they ask before deciding. GullySales builds this from real enquiries and past sales rather than a generic template, then uses it to write every page and advert.

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

  • “The signer and the influencer are different people”

    The promoter signs, the finance head compares, and the CA advises on whom to trust. A pitch aimed only at one of them misses the two whose objections decide the outcome.

  • “Each role fears something different”

    A finance head worries about a rejected claim after a loss. An HR head buying group health worries about employee complaints. A promoter worries about cost and about being sold cover the business does not need.

  • “Industry changes the persona more than size does”

    A cold chain operator, a hospital and a software firm each buy different covers for different reasons. A persona built per industry gives sharper messages than one for all corporate buyers.

  • “Lost mandates describe the persona best”

    The reason a buyer gave for choosing someone else is a clearer portrait than any survey. Reading past pitches, won and lost, shows who actually objected and what they wanted answered.

What we do

What we deliver for commercial insurance brokers.

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

  1. Persona sheets per target industry

    A one-page sheet for each industry showing the roles involved, their worries and the questions they ask.

    Result: The team shares one picture of who they are talking to.

  2. Won and lost mandate review

    A structured look at your recent pitches and the reasons recorded for each outcome.

    Result: Patterns in why you win or lose become visible.

  3. Role-by-role message guide

    The points that matter to a finance head, a promoter, a CA and an HR head, written separately.

    Result: A single meeting can speak to each person present.

  4. Objection and answer notes

    The objections buyers raise, with honest answers your team agrees on.

    Result: Placement staff answer consistently.

  5. Persona-based qualification questions

    Questions to ask at first contact that reveal who decides and who influences.

    Result: You know whom to prepare for before the meeting.

How the result is measured

  • Enquiry match to persona
  • Conversion rate by persona
  • Content aligned to persona

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

Read the full B2B and B2C buyer persona development page

Who it is for

This is written for these commercial insurance brokers.

  • Small and mid-sized manufacturers with plant and machinery cover
  • Exporters and importers needing marine cargo cover
  • Real estate developers and contractors needing contractors' all-risk
  • Hospitals and clinics needing professional indemnity
  • IT and services firms needing cyber and professional liability
  • Firms buying group health and group accident for staff
  • Logistics operators and cold chains
  • Hotels, malls and large retail premises

How it works

How the buyer persona work runs

The work itself, in order. How an engagement starts, from your brief to a written scope, is set out on our method page.

  1. 1

    Understand the current view

    We start with how your team currently describes the customer, since the gap between belief and reality is often the finding itself.

  2. 2

    Audit past enquiries and sales

    We look at recent enquiries and closed deals to see who actually bought, not who was assumed to buy.

  3. 3

    Interview customers and staff

    Short, structured conversations surface the real language, worries and triggers behind a purchase.

  4. 4

    Build the personas

    Findings are written into short, usable persona documents rather than a long report.

  5. 5

    Apply to your marketing

    We show exactly where each persona should change a page, an ad or a script you already have.

Where this fits

Three pieces of sales work, in this order.

This work sits inside sales process design, at stage 0, foundation. The audit comes before it, and sales management keeps it running.

  1. Step 1

    Sales audit

    Find where deals are being lost and what to fix first.

    Start here if you cannot say where orders are lost.

  2. Step 2 · you are here

    Sales process design

    One written way to sell, from first enquiry to repeat order.

    Start here if every salesperson sells differently.

  3. Step 3

    Sales management

    A target, a review routine and someone who owns the number.

    Start here if the team has targets and no routine.

Tell us what you need Your brief is read before we call. Scope, fee and term in writing.

FAQ

Questions owners ask before they call.

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Tell us what you need
Do we need research with buyers?
Your own pitch history is the starting point. If you wish, we can prepare questions for conversations with existing clients, who must agree to take part.
How many personas should we have?
One per industry you want to win, each naming the few roles involved. More than that becomes hard to use.
Will the personas change?
Yes. Update them after each mandate won or lost, so they reflect what buyers actually said.
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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