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The supply chain head, the procurement manager and the CFO read your bid differently.

A buyer persona for contract logistics is a short written card on one kind of buyer: who runs the decision, what starts the search, what worries them and what makes them sign. GullySales writes the cards from your own awarded and lost bids and RFQs, then uses them to shape pages, proposals and outreach.

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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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For contract logistics providers

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

  • “One deck goes to three readers”

    The supply chain head wants the operating design, procurement wants a comparable price and the CFO wants the contract risk. A single deck answers one of them.

  • “The worry is in the RFQ's small print”

    Penalty clauses, liability caps and service level tables show what burned the buyer last time. Few providers read the RFQ as a clue to the buyer.

  • “A consultant is a buyer too”

    The consultant reads your response against their own template and recommends who to invite. They have a different checklist from the plant that pays you.

What we do

What we deliver for contract logistics providers.

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

  1. Cards for the supply chain head, procurement and the CFO

    One card each, written from your own bids and the questions each asked on the visit.

    Result: The same bid is written for the person reading it.

  2. A card for the consultant

    What a consultant checks, what gets forwarded to the client and what makes the consultant drop a response.

    Result: Your response goes to the person who shortlists with the right content.

  3. A lost-bid review that feeds the cards

    The last bids you lost, with who decided, who was on the panel and what the winner showed that you did not.

    Result: The cards are built from what happened, not from guesses.

  4. First-meeting questions for each reader

    A short list of what to ask a supply chain head, a procurement manager and a finance head, in that order.

    Result: The first call finds the real concern.

  5. Outreach and page angles for each card

    The line each reader would click on, set out for pages, mails and LinkedIn notes.

    Result: Marketing speaks to a named reader.

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 buyer

Here is a typical card for the supply chain head of a mid-sized manufacturer handing over its warehouse.

An example, not a fact about your buyers. Check each line against your awarded and lost bids, and rewrite whatever does not match.

Who they are
Typical: a supply chain or logistics head at a manufacturing company with several plants, reporting to a director or the CFO. Check against the titles on your last few RFQs.
What starts the search
Typical: an own godown that is full, a lease ending, a service failure in the festive peak or a CFO question on inventory cost. Ask each buyer what triggered the RFI.
What worries them
Typical: stock lost in the move, a peak the provider cannot handle and a contract that is hard to leave. List the worries raised at your last visits.
What they compare you with
Typical: the incumbent, two or three other 3PLs, and running it in-house under a new manager. Ask the buyer which names are on their list.
Who else decides
Typical: procurement on price, finance on risk and a plant head on service. Find out who has not seen the site and invite them.
What makes them say yes
Typical: a clear transition plan, a pricing model they could follow and a reference call that went well. Check which of these your recent wins asked for.

Who it is for

This is written for these contract logistics providers.

  • Dedicated warehousing for manufacturers
  • In-plant and line-side logistics for auto and engineering plants
  • Inbound milk-run and supplier pickup operators
  • FMCG and consumer durables distribution centres
  • Pharma and healthcare 3PLs with temperature-controlled storage
  • Retail and ecommerce replenishment operators
  • Spare parts and aftermarket logistics
  • Reverse logistics and returns processing

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 buyer persona work runs

  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.

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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How many personas does a contract logistics firm need?
One for each person who sways a decision, which usually means the supply chain head, procurement and finance, plus one for consultants. Add a card for an industry only if its buyers behave differently, as pharma quality teams do.
How do we check a persona against real buyers?
Take the last year's awarded and lost bids and note who asked what at each stage. Where the card disagrees with the record, the record wins. Ask two clients how their own search began, and add what they say.
Can the bid team use the cards?
Yes, in the order of the visit: what to ask, what to show and what to leave out for each reader. The same cards decide the wording of pages, mails and LinkedIn notes, so the team and marketing say the same thing.
Is a pharma buyer different from an auto plant buyer?
Yes. A pharma buyer's quality team reads the licences and temperature records before anyone looks at the price. A plant head wants line-side supply on time. Write one card for each and keep the shared ones separate.
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 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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