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Write down whether the patient, the surgeon or the adult child is deciding.

A buyer persona for a physiotherapy clinic describes who actually decides. A young sports injury patient decides for themselves, a post-surgical patient often follows a surgeon's suggestion, and an elderly parent's care is often arranged by an adult child. GullySales builds a persona per priority condition.

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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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Sales and marketing for physiotherapy clinics, the overview.

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For physiotherapy clinics

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

  • “The referring surgeon is a persona in their own right”

    A surgeon cares about communication back to them and patient outcomes, not the clinic's décor or general marketing.

  • “The adult child persona searches on behalf of an ageing parent”

    A son or daughter arranging home-visit physiotherapy for a parent after a fall reads reviews and calls on their own schedule.

  • “The athlete persona wants speed and a return-to-play timeline”

    A sports injury patient wants to know when they can play again, and the messaging needs to answer that directly.

What we do

What we deliver for physiotherapy clinics.

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

  1. Referring surgeon persona and update plan

    A written profile of what a referring surgeon needs back, mainly outcome updates and easy communication, not marketing material.

    Result: A surgeon's office knows exactly what to expect after sending a patient.

  2. Adult-child caregiver persona

    A profile of the son or daughter arranging home-visit or elderly care for a parent, including what they check before calling.

    Result: Content answers the caregiver's questions, not only the patient's.

  3. Athlete and sports-injury persona

    A profile built around a patient's return-to-play questions and the tone that answers them directly.

    Result: A sports injury patient finds the specific reassurance they are searching for.

  4. A persona for each priority condition

    One persona per priority condition, built from your existing enquiry and referral patterns.

    Result: Content and outreach speak to the right patient for each condition.

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

A persona card for this patient

Here is a typical card for the desk worker with back or neck pain that keeps returning.

An example, not a fact about your patients. Compare each line with your intake forms and the reasons patients give for stopping, and rewrite what does not fit.

Who they are
Typical: an office worker with back or neck pain that comes and goes, who has already seen a doctor and taken tablets. Check against your intake forms by occupation.
What starts the search
Typical: a bad week at work, pain that wakes them at night, or a scan report with a frightening word. Add a first-visit question on why they came now.
What worries them
Typical: being asked to come for many sessions with no end in sight, and a painful first visit. Read what patients say when they stop coming.
What they compare you with
Typical: a chiropractor, a massage centre, painkillers from the chemist and a gym trainer. Ask what else they tried.
Who else decides
Typical: the employer who allows time off, a spouse who drives them and the doctor who requested the scan. Ask who is paying and whether insurance covers physiotherapy.
What makes them say yes
Typical: a plain explanation of what is wrong, a plan with a visible end and slots outside office hours. Ask patients who finished a course which of these mattered.

Who it is for

This is written for these physiotherapy clinics.

  • Sports injury and orthopaedic rehab clinics
  • Post-surgical rehabilitation centres
  • Neuro-rehabilitation clinics
  • Prenatal and postnatal physiotherapy practices
  • Geriatric and home-visit physiotherapy services
  • Paediatric physiotherapy clinics
  • Chronic pain management clinics
  • Corporate ergonomics and workplace physiotherapy consultants

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • No one has asked the last few patients and referrers why they chose the clinic, so the cards would be invention.
  • The clinic treats only one condition for one kind of patient, and a single reply script already serves them.

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 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

    Structured conversations with recent buyers, held as talk about the last purchase and not a questionnaire. We ask what happened before they called, who else was involved and what they compared. Customers agree before we contact them, and their answers are reported without names.

  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 where each persona should change a page, an ad or a script you already have. The sales team reads the drafts and says which ring true. A persona they do not recognise is rewritten.

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.

All case studies

  • Kerur Pain Clinic

    Situation
    The clinic had no website setting out its services, so a patient weighing it up had nothing to read before deciding to come in.
    What we did
    • Competitors mapped
    • A website that answers the patient
    • On-page and local search work
    • Link building and technical fixes
    Result
    No numbers were recorded for this engagement. The work is described in full in the case study.
    Read the case study

Also worked with

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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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How many personas does a clinic need?
One per priority condition is enough to start, built from your existing referral and enquiry patterns.
Does this affect how we write to referring doctors?
Yes, materials for surgeons should focus on outcomes and communication, not general marketing language.
How do we check the card against patients who drop out?
Look at who stopped after a few visits and note the occupation, the condition and the slot they used. Ask a few politely why. Patterns, such as clashes with office hours, show whether the card describes the buyer or only the patient who stayed.
Can one card cover both corporate and individual patients?
No. An individual decides on pain, time and cost. A company decides on a group programme, an HR contact and a budget. Keep one card for each and let the same clinic offer both. A blended card tends to describe neither buyer.
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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