Franchise systems · Digital marketing
The fund buys impressions and the franchisee sees nothing.
Digital marketing for a franchise system is two programmes funded differently and judged by different people: development spend that answers to the board, and fund spend that answers to franchisees. GullySales runs both, reports per unit against that unit's own baseline, and keeps the budgets from hiding each other.
What digital marketing means
Digital marketing is the combined work of search, social media, advertising and website channels running together rather than as separate projects with separate people. GullySales runs these as one connected system so a change in one channel, such as a new offer, is reflected everywhere at once.
For franchise systems
Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.
“Owners resent the fund because of how it is reported”
A national impression count means nothing to somebody running one territory. The same money reported as enquiries in her own area changes the conversation.
“Adoption is the constraint, not strategy”
A campaign half the network runs is a campaign that half-works. What owners will actually do shapes the plan more than what is theoretically best.
“Two funnels in one number hide each other”
A strong year for development masks units that are struggling, right up until the validation calls start going badly.
What we do
What we deliver for franchise systems.
Every deliverable, what it covers for you, and the result it is there to produce. Nothing here is an extra.
Development and fund budgets separated
Two plans, two sets of accounts and two reports, so money raised from franchisees is not funding candidate acquisition.
Result: Both sides of the business can be defended in a room.
Per-unit reporting against a unit baseline
Enquiries, calls and bookings for each location measured against what that location produced before work began, not against the network average.
Result: Owners can see what the fund bought them.
Campaigns prepared so an owner can run them
Dates, creative, offer and local variations built in advance, with instructions short enough to follow on a busy Tuesday.
Result: A campaign runs across the network on the same days.
An adoption record by unit
Which owners ran each campaign, which did not and what results followed, tracked so support goes where it is needed.
Result: You can tell a weak campaign from a weak rollout.
One plan covering the two audiences
A written split of channels and effort between candidates and customers, with the measure each part is judged on.
Result: Spending decisions stop being made in isolation.
A report for the board and one for franchisees
The same monthly data presented twice, once as cost per signed unit and once as enquiries in a territory.
Result: Both audiences get numbers that mean something to them.
How the result is measured
- Enquiries across channels
- Cost per enquiry overall
- Channel mix by contribution
Recorded as a baseline before work starts, then reported every month against it.
Who it is for
This is written for these franchise systems.
- Emerging franchisors under twenty-five units
- Established systems adding units in new states
- Food and beverage franchise systems
- Home services and residential franchise brands
- Health, fitness and wellness studio franchises
- Childcare, tutoring and education franchises
- Senior care and staffing franchise systems
- Multi-unit and area developer models
- Franchisors relying on a broker network for most deals
Not for
It is not the right fit if.
- You want a guaranteed Google ranking or a guaranteed number of leads. Nobody honest can promise either.
- You need enquiries by next week and have nobody to answer them.
- You want posts and reach reported, not enquiries and orders.
How it works
From your first message to the first monthly report.
No open-ended retainer. Each step has a point in time and something you receive.
01 · Day 1
Free audit call
45 minutes with whoever handles your enquiries: how they arrive, how fast they are answered, where they are lost.
02 · Within a few working days
Written, scored report
Six areas scored, fixes ranked by return and cost. If you want our help, the scope and fee come with it, in writing.
03 · Before work starts
Baseline recorded
Enquiries by source, reply time, conversion and cost per order, written down so every later month has an honest comparison.
04 · Month 1
The first fix goes live
Usually the cheapest one on the report: reply time, a follow-up sequence or the marketing-to-sales handover.
05 · Every month
Report against the baseline
What moved, what did not, and what changes next, in plain words.
06 · Month 3 to 6
Renew on the numbers
The term ends and you decide whether to continue from the results. No twelve-month lock.
How the work runs for franchise systems
- 1
Separate the two funnels
In the free audit we look at development and local marketing apart from each other, because they are usually reported as one number and hide each other's problems.
- 2
Fix the candidate response
Agreed overlap hours, a first call while the candidate is still reading, qualification against your own criteria, and a record your development team can see.
- 3
Set the local base
Every unit's listing, local page and review routine brought to one standard, so franchisees start from the same place rather than from whatever they set up themselves.
- 4
Open new units properly
A pre-opening routine run for each new franchisee, so the ramp does not depend on how confident that particular owner is at marketing.
- 5
Report to both audiences
Development numbers for the board and local numbers per unit for the franchisees, both against the baseline recorded before anything changed.
Proof
What happened when owners fixed this.
Real clients, the work we did, and the result as it was recorded. Where no number was recorded, none is claimed.
Agrinia
- Situation
- There was no agreed mission, vision or set of values to plan against, and no honest reading of where the business was strong or exposed.
- What we did
- Direction agreed first
- Targets that can be measured
- The buyers researched
- Lead generation built
- Result
- No numbers were recorded for this engagement. The work is described in full in the case study.
Chord Road Hospital
- Situation
- Patients who knew the hospital trusted it. Patients who searched for a department or a treatment in the area did not find it.
- What we did
- Website rebuilt around patient needs
- Search visibility
- Social media on a schedule
- Review management
- Result
- Organic traffic increased 60% within six months
- Online appointment bookings increased 40%
- Social following grew 45%, and engagement on it rose 70%
Also worked with
Curtain Label · Difesa Security Services · Felicity Inn · Hands On CSR · Implevista · Kambar Group · Kalessi · Kerur Pain Clinic · LL Trust · Lucky Deals · Natural Gases · NavaShakthi Souhardha · NewCom Logistics · Proton Technical Services · SB Engineering · Shakthi Foundation · Shakthi Group · Urbanest · Insyde Studio · Venkateshwara Laser Tech · Vivara Studios
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 monthly 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 lock-in, no guarantees we cannot keep
Three to six months at a time. We never promise a ranking or a lead count, because nobody controls those.
Hours that fit your day, agreed up front
Which hours we overlap with yours is settled before any work starts, so you know when a reply is coming and when it is not.
#257, 3rd floor, Sri Nanjundeshwara Complex, Nagarbhavi 8th Block, Outer Ring Road. How we work.
The offer
Start with a free audit of how you sell.
It is useful on its own, whether or not you hire us.
What you receive
- A 45-minute call with the person who will do the work
- A written, scored report on the six places orders leak, within a few working days
- Every fix ranked by what it returns and what it costs
- The one thing to do first, and why
- An honest line on whether you need outside help at all
- If you do, the scope and the fee in writing
No invoice. No obligation. No sales script.
FAQ
Questions owners ask before they call.
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How do we get franchisees to use what the fund produces?
Can you work alongside our existing agency?
Would your team be selling our franchises?
Can you advertise what our franchisees earn?
How much does it cost?
How long is the contract?
How soon will we see results?
Who will actually do the work?
What do you need from us?
What if we are not happy with the work?
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