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Lead generation for a landscaping contractor means bringing in enquiries from owners, architects and facility managers, then finding out which of them has a site, a budget and a month. GullySales writes the questions asked before a visit, and follows every proposal to a yes or a no.

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

  • “Your best source is a renewal date nobody wrote down”

    Every apartment and campus maintenance contract in your city comes up on a known date. A contractor holding that calendar is quoting before the committee starts asking around.

  • “The builder decides, and the architect can hand you the job”

    Owners rarely pick the clubhouse contractor. Quoting against a plant schedule you helped shape is a different conversation from arriving at the tender stage with everybody else.

  • “Two photographs save a wasted trip across the city”

    Ask for pictures and the water source on WhatsApp before booking a visit. Trips end at sites with no borewell and no access, and an owner's photograph would have said so.

What we do

What we deliver for landscape contractors.

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

  1. Enquiry questions asked before a site visit

    Area, sunlight, water source, photographs and a budget range, asked on WhatsApp and the website form and recorded against the enquiry.

    Result: Your travel goes to sites worth quoting.

  2. A proposal with a plant list and a care plan

    Species and sizes, soil preparation, irrigation, hardscape items and what the first year of care involves, laid out so a buyer can compare line by line.

    Result: A cheaper quote has to explain what it left out.

  3. A renewal calendar for maintenance contracts

    Every apartment, campus, school and hotel contract in your area with its renewal month and the person who actually signs it.

    Result: You are in the room before the committee asks around.

  4. A specifier list of architects and consultants

    The practices designing villas, apartments and campuses in your city, with the kit to send and a mature site to walk them through.

    Result: Your name is on the schedule before the tender.

  5. Follow-up on every proposal sent

    A dated call and message against each quote, and a recorded reason when the job goes somewhere else.

    Result: You learn whether you lost on rate or on silence.

  6. One enquiry record with source and garden type

    Every enquiry, site visit, proposal and order logged by source and project type, reported against the baseline recorded before work starts.

    Result: You can see which source brings projects and which brings rate calls.

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

Garden enquiries start from a few different places, and the right questions depend on which one rang.

Villa owner from Instagram or Google
Record the plot size, whether the house is built or still under construction, and the water source. Send two finished gardens of a similar size, then book the site visit.
Architect or garden consultant
Note the project name, the stage of the drawings and whether the plant schedule is already fixed. Ask who signs the contractor appointment, because it is often the client and not the architect.
Builder's site team for an apartment project
Log the tower or block, the handover date and whether maintenance is tendered separately. Ask for the clubhouse and podium drawings before quoting any softscape rate.
Housing society committee, for maintenance
Record the current contractor, the contract end date and the date the committee opens proposals. A committee usually changes in the annual meeting, so note the names.
Nursery customer with a bare terrace
A person buying pots and soil may need design. Record what they bought, the terrace size and a phone number, and offer a site visit before they plant it themselves.
Past client at the start of summer
Log dry patches, plant loss or a new extension against the original job and garden type. Reply with a visit slot, since a client who sees a dying lawn calls someone this week.

Who it is for

This is written for these landscape contractors.

  • Garden design and build contractors for villas
  • Softscape and hardscape contractors for apartment projects
  • Corporate campus and institutional grounds contractors
  • Terrace, rooftop and vertical garden specialists
  • Irrigation and drip system installers
  • Garden maintenance and upkeep contract companies
  • Nursery-owned landscaping businesses
  • Hotel, resort and farmhouse garden developers

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • You have no one to make site visits, and more enquiries would sit waiting while the planting season passes.
  • You do not record the dates of maintenance contracts, so the best source of new work is invisible to a lead plan.
  • Your rates differ for every plot and you cannot explain them, so leads who ask for a per square foot figure would go away.

How it works

How the lead generation 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 your capacity

    We ask how many enquiries your team can answer well, who answers after hours, and what a good enquiry looks like. Without this, the system fills a funnel nobody is watching.

  2. 2

    Audit current sources

    We read your call log, WhatsApp chats, enquiry sheet and platform dashboards. The baseline is recorded: enquiries by source, reply time, conversion and cost per order.

  3. 3

    Strategise the channel mix

    Search and maps are chosen for people ready to buy, ads for people who are not yet looking, and content and referrals for trust.

  4. 4

    Implement capture and follow-up

    Pages, forms, tags, the lead record and the first-reply message are built and tested end to end. We submit test enquiries ourselves before any media money is spent.

  5. 5

    Measure and optimise

    Enquiries are traced to source and judged by what became orders, not by volume alone. Channels that fill the sheet with poor enquiries are cut back. How often you are reported to is agreed in writing.

Where this fits

Three pieces of sales work, in this order.

This work sits inside sales process design, at stage 1, prospecting and lead generation. 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 do we get in front of architects and garden design consultants?
By visiting them with something they can keep. A specifier kit covering your sourcing, your substitution policy and your irrigation capability, plus an invitation to walk a garden you planted four years ago. That walk does what no advertisement can.
Should we quote on a per square foot basis?
Not as the whole quote. Give the plant list, the sizes, the soil work, the hardscape and the first year of care, then a total. A single rate makes you look identical to the contractor who will substitute the trees.
A villa owner sends a photo of a garden from Instagram and wants the same. Do we log it?
Yes, and save the photo to the record. Ask for the plot size, sun and water. A photographed garden may need a different soil, shade and care level, so book the visit before agreeing to match it.
Should maintenance enquiries and new design enquiries be counted together?
No. Tag each enquiry as design, build or maintenance. They have different buyers, different decision dates and different follow-up. Counted together, a large number of small upkeep calls can hide the fact that few design enquiries are arriving.
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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