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Decide between chasing government tenders and building private hospital accounts.

A sales strategy for a medical device manufacturer sets out whether to prioritise government and institutional tenders, private hospital direct sales, or distributor-led growth. The choice depends on your certifications, pricing and service capacity. GullySales builds this around where your past orders have actually come from.

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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 sales strategy means

Sales strategy is deciding which customers to chase, through which channel and at what price, instead of every salesperson working their own way. GullySales sets this plan against your actual pipeline and the deals you have won and lost so far.

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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.

  • “Tenders and private hospitals reward different strengths”

    Winning tenders usually rewards price and documentation discipline, while private hospital sales reward relationships and service, and a strategy needs to pick where to invest effort.

  • “Distributor-led growth needs enablement, not just recruitment”

    Signing more distributors without giving them the specification content and pricing tools to sell confidently rarely produces the growth expected.

  • “Export markets need their own sales strategy”

    A strategy for export distributors has to account for different regulatory approvals, currency and service expectations than the domestic market.

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. Tender versus hospital investment plan

    A clear call on how much sales effort goes toward government tenders against private hospital direct sales, based on your past order sources.

    Result: Effort goes where your actual strengths already win business.

  2. Distributor enablement plan

    A plan for equipping distributors with specification content and pricing tools alongside recruitment, not recruitment alone.

    Result: A new distributor can sell your device without constant hand-holding.

  3. Export market entry plan

    A plan accounting for the regulatory approval, currency and service expectations of each export market you target.

    Result: Export effort goes toward markets where you are actually approved to sell.

  4. Order-source review before strategy changes

    A review of where your past orders actually came from before any change to the sales strategy is made.

    Result: Strategy changes are based on your own history, not a guess.

How the result is measured

  • Win rate
  • Average deal size
  • Pipeline coverage against target

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

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Choices a sales strategy makes

Make these calls from your tender file, hospital accounts and distributor orders.

Which device to lead with
Rank your devices by registration status, service readiness and margin. Lead with one that holds its CDSCO registration and has spares stocked and engineers trained, before a newer model still awaiting paperwork.
Which hospital type to approach next
Group past orders by buyer: corporate chains, nursing homes, government hospitals, diagnostic centres. Approach the type where your installations run without service complaints and a biomedical engineer will take a reference call.
How a demo request becomes a purchase order
Write the steps: enquiry, specification sheet, demonstration, evaluation by biomedical and clinical teams, quotation, purchase committee, PO, installation. Check recent lost deals for the step where they stalled.
Who sets price across distributors and tenders
Name one person who owns the price list for every distributor and tender. Compare recent quotes from different distributors to the same hospital; any mismatch is the case for that owner.
Which tenders to skip
Read each tender's eligibility, warranty and service clauses against what you can support in that state. Skip the ones whose service terms you cannot meet; a missed service commitment follows you to the next purchase committee.

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 settled which devices are registered for which use, and a strategy would have to be redrawn once the status is clear.
  • Your distributors have no territory agreement in writing, so a plan for them would rest on an understanding that can change.
  • The founder still closes every deal and has no wish to hand over accounts, so a strategy for scaling would not be used.

How it works

How the sales strategy 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

    Agree the question

    We read your requirements brief and fix the decision the strategy has to answer, so the review does not drift.

  2. 2

    Read your records

    We go through sales data, quotations, lost deals and enquiry sources, and talk to the people who sell and the people who deliver.

  3. 3

    Test the findings in the market

    Segments, channels and competitors are checked against buyers outside your current customer list, including a few conversations with buyers and with those who did not buy.

  4. 4

    Draft the direction with you

    Choices are put to the owner and sales leaders before they are written up, because they hold the knowledge and have to carry it out.

  5. 5

    Write, present and hand over

    The strategy and roadmap are written, presented with the reasoning, and left with a named owner for each first action.

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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Tell us what you need
We already have a marketing plan. Where does this one start?
The marketing plan decides which device category and which market to promote. This one decides how your team works a tender file, a hospital account and a distributor territory week by week.
How often should this be revisited?
At least twice a year, and immediately after a significant tender result or a new distributor agreement.
Our founder is a biomedical engineer who sells every deal. How do we scale that?
Record what the founder does in demonstrations and evaluation meetings: the questions biomedical engineers ask and the answers that worked. Turn that into a demo script and an objection sheet, train an application specialist on it, and keep the founder on purchase committees and large accounts until the specialist can carry them.
When should we add a regional sales manager instead of another distributor?
When a region has enough hospitals buying direct that the distributor's margin costs more than a salary, or distributors there quote inconsistently and lose deals. Check that region's past orders and service calls. A distributor suits scattered small buyers; a regional manager suits a cluster of large hospitals wanting direct contact.
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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