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Whoever helped write the specification has already half won the order.

The buyer journey for a medical device runs from a department asking for equipment to a purchase order signed by somebody who never used it. A committee decides, and a distributor is often in the middle. GullySales maps the stages and shows you where your device drops out.

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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 journey means

The buyer journey is the sequence of steps a customer actually takes, from first hearing about you to deciding to buy, which is rarely a single visit or call. GullySales maps this sequence for your business and checks that something useful happens at each step instead of only at the final call.

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Sales and marketing for medical device manufacturers, the overview.

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For medical device manufacturers

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

  • “The specification is written before the notice is published”

    Somebody drafted the technical specification in that tender document. If a competitor's feature list is sitting in it, your quotation is a formality. The work in this journey happens weeks before the enquiry you can see.

  • “The trial placement is the real demonstration”

    A committee believes a machine that ran in their own ward for a fortnight far more than any presentation. Getting a unit placed, and getting the nurse who used it to say it was easy, is a stage to plan for rather than a favour to ask.

  • “The order waits on the budget, not on your follow-up”

    A hospital that has already decided in your favour may not raise the purchase order until the capital budget opens. Chasing hard at that point irritates them. Knowing the cycle lets you have the paperwork ready on the day it does.

What we do

What we deliver for medical device manufacturers.

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

  1. The journey drawn for one device and one hospital type

    Stages from the department's requirement note through the biomedical check, the specification, the quote or tender, the demonstration and the committee, to the purchase order.

    Result: Your team can name the stage every open account is sitting in.

  2. The three roles named at each stage

    Who cares at which point, the department head, the biomedical engineer or the purchase officer, and what each one needs to see before the account moves.

    Result: The right document goes to the right person at the right time.

  3. A parallel journey for the distributor route

    The same map redrawn for a sale that runs through a distributor, where your visibility ends at a point somebody else controls.

    Result: You can see which stage your distributors actually lose you at.

  4. Regulatory documents placed at the stage they are asked for

    Registration and certification evidence prepared for the point in the journey where a biomedical engineer looks for it, rather than buried in a brochure.

    Result: You are not removed from the list before anyone opens the specification.

  5. Drop-out counted stage by stage

    How many accounts reached the demonstration, how many reached the committee and how many became an order, measured against the baseline recorded before work started.

    Result: You can tell whether the problem is reach, the demo or the price.

How the result is measured

  • Drop-off rate by step
  • Time from first contact to sale
  • Steps with no content

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

Read the full buyer journey mapping page

Stages of the hospital buyer's journey

How a department's need for equipment becomes a purchase order, and what to have ready at each stage.

Department raises a need
A clinician finds the old equipment failing or a new procedure starting. Make sure the head of department and the biomedical engineer hold your brochure and a contact name before the requirement note is written.
Biomedical and regulatory check
The biomedical engineer checks the specification, registration status and service support. Keep a document pack ready with your licence and registration details, test reports and the user manual.
Specification and quotation
The purchase section turns the requirement into a quotation request or a tender. If you can see the draft, flag any clause only one brand meets, in writing, before the bid date.
Demonstration or trial placement
The users try the device on real cases. Send an engineer who has installed it before, agree in writing how many cases and who evaluates, and ask for the evaluation note to be signed.
Committee and purchase order
A committee compares rate and compliance, and the person signing the order may never have used the device. Give the purchase officer a one-page comparison of terms, warranty and service coverage.
Installation and service
The first breakdown shapes the next order, and a complaint can reach the committee before you. Log every service call with a ticket number, and tell the biomedical engineer its status without being asked.

Who it is for

This is written for these medical device manufacturers.

  • Diagnostic equipment manufacturers
  • Surgical instrument manufacturers
  • Hospital furniture and equipment makers
  • Disposable and consumable device manufacturers
  • Implant and orthopaedic device makers
  • Home healthcare device manufacturers
  • In-vitro diagnostic kit manufacturers
  • Export-focused medical device units

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • You have not yet closed a hospital sale, so a drawn journey would be assumption and not what buyers did.
  • No one in the team has access to the hospital stages after the demonstration, so the map would end at your last contact.
  • You expect the map to shorten a hospital's budget cycle, which it cannot.

How it works

How the buyer journey 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 sales process

    We walk through how a sale happens today, from the person who first answers an enquiry to the one who closes it.

  2. 2

    Audit the data

    Website analytics, call logs and CRM records are put together to see where people drop out. Where records are thin, we say so and mark the gap rather than guess.

  3. 3

    Interview buyers and staff

    Recent customers, and some who did not buy, plus the team who speak to them, explain the reasons behind the numbers.

  4. 4

    Build the map

    Stages, touchpoints, decision-makers and drop-off points are set out in one document everyone reads the same way.

  5. 5

    Fix and measure

    Each fix is made against the stage it addresses, and the drop-off at that stage is compared with the baseline afterwards.

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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Why do we keep losing after a demonstration that went well?
Because the demonstration answers the clinician and the committee is answering three other questions: who services it in this city, what the consumable costs over five years, and whether the paperwork is in order. Win the demonstration and lose those three and the order goes elsewhere.
How is the journey different when a distributor is involved?
You lose sight of it after the enquiry. The distributor holds the hospital relationship and decides which of their lines to push. Map that route separately, and agree what the distributor reports back, or you will be guessing about your own pipeline.
Who in a hospital can stop a purchase after the doctors have chosen our device?
The biomedical engineer can reject on service or compliance grounds, the purchase officer on rate or paperwork, and accounts on budget. A committee may also prefer a brand it already holds spares for. Note each person's concern after every meeting and answer it in writing.
How do we find out where our device falls out of hospital enquiries?
Open your last season's enquiries and mark each at the stage it ended: no demonstration, demonstration but no quotation, quotation but no order. Add the hospital's stated reason where you have one. The stage with the longest pile is where to look first.
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.

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