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Water treatment solutions providers · Referral marketing

Get specified by the consulting engineer before the tender is even drafted.

Referral for a water treatment company runs through consulting engineers, builders, plumbing contractors, facility managers and the apartment secretary who tells the next one. Each needs a different ask. GullySales builds the list, gives each group something useful, and records where every enquiry actually came 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 referral marketing means

Referral marketing is asking an existing customer to recommend you to someone they know, usually with a reward for both sides. It differs from a loyalty scheme because it brings in a new customer rather than a repeat purchase. GullySales builds the ask and the reward into a point where a customer is already satisfied.

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For water treatment solutions providers

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

  • “The consulting engineer writes the specification you will be bidding against”

    For an industrial or a large residential project, the consultant decides the technology and often the make before anybody is invited to quote. Being useful to him at the drawing stage is worth more than any enquiry that arrives afterwards.

  • “Facility managers move, and they take vendors with them”

    A facility manager who trusted your service at one apartment complex is running a hotel two years later. That single relationship is the most reliable referral route in this trade, and almost nobody keeps track of where their old contacts went.

  • “One apartment secretary talks to the next one”

    Managing committees in the same area know each other, and water is the complaint they all have. A committee that got a straight answer from you will say so when a neighbouring association asks, provided somebody has given them your name to pass on.

What we do

What we deliver for water treatment solutions providers.

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

  1. A worked list of consultants, builders and contractors

    Consulting engineers, developers, plumbing contractors and facility management firms in your region, with who has specified you and who has never been approached.

    Result: You know where the next specification is being written.

  2. A technical pack a consultant can use in his drawing

    Capacities, footprints, power and running cost data in a form an engineer can lift straight into a specification without redrawing it.

    Result: Your equipment ends up in the document you will bid against.

  3. A compliance pack ready for a builder

    Certificates, test data and documentation a developer needs for approvals, kept current so it goes out the day it is asked for.

    Result: A slow document request stops costing you the project.

  4. Reference sites named, with permission

    Installations a prospective buyer may visit or ring, with the contact agreed in advance and the site's water problem described.

    Result: A facility manager can check you without taking your word.

  5. Old contacts tracked to their new sites

    A record of where satisfied facility managers and engineers have moved, so the relationship is used rather than lost.

    Result: One good service year keeps paying for several more.

  6. Referral source captured on every enquiry

    The consultant, builder, committee or customer behind each enquiry recorded when it arrives, and reported back to your team.

    Result: You can see which relationships are worth the visits.

How the result is measured

  • Referrals received
  • Referral conversion rate
  • Cost per referred customer

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

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How referrals reach a water firm

The people who name you are the ones who see the borewell report before the buyer does.

The consulting engineer
Give him a technical pack with the flow range, the water quality it handles and the drawing details he will paste into his specification. A consultant names a supplier whose data he can lift.
The builder's MEP team
A builder needs a plant that passes at handover. Send a compliance pack with test parameters and a named contact, and tell the MEP engineer what your site survey needs.
The plumbing contractor and the borewell driller
They are called first when water goes bad. Give them a short sheet on when to call a treatment company and what to test, and record who sent each enquiry.
The apartment secretary and the facility manager
A secretary talks to the next secretary. Offer to show a running plant, with the committee's permission, and note the facility manager's name in case he moves to another site.
What never to do
Never reuse one site's water report or plant photographs for another buyer without the first site's say-so. Water differs between borewells, so a referred buyer needs a fresh test.

Who it is for

This is written for these water treatment solutions providers.

  • Residential water purifier and softener dealers
  • Apartment and gated community water treatment providers
  • Industrial effluent treatment plant providers
  • Commercial RO plant suppliers
  • Borewell water treatment specialists
  • Hotel and hospitality water treatment providers
  • Swimming pool water treatment companies
  • Packaged drinking water plant manufacturers

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • You want a guaranteed Google ranking or a guaranteed number of leads. Nobody honest can promise either.
  • You need enquiries by next week and have nobody to answer them.
  • You want posts and reach reported, not enquiries and orders.

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

    Enquiries by source, reply time, conversion and cost per order, 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 reply time, a follow-up sequence, the page buyers land on 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 referral marketing work runs

  1. 1

    Understand your margin and customer relationship

    We agree what reward is genuinely sustainable and appropriate for your business and customer type.

  2. 2

    Audit existing informal referrals

    We check how much word of mouth already happens, to size expectations for the formal programme realistically.

  3. 3

    Design the offer and mechanism

    A specific reward and an easy sharing method are built and tested.

  4. 4

    Implement and promote

    The programme is surfaced at the right moments in your customer journey.

  5. 5

    Measure and adjust

    We track referrals and conversions, adjusting the reward or promotion if uptake is low.

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

  • Premier Marketing

    Situation
    The old site could not keep up with the business. There was no way to update content or add products as the range grew.
    What we did
    • Brand identity settled
    • Core pages designed
    • Product pages that scale
    • Blog pages
    Result
    No numbers were recorded for this engagement. The work is described in full in the case study.
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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 do we get in front of consulting engineers we do not know?
With data, not a brochure. Take him the water analysis for an area he is designing for, or the running cost comparison between two technologies at that hardness. A consultant is protecting his own reputation with his client, so he specifies people who make him look thorough.
Should we pay a commission for a referred project?
Many in this trade do, and if you choose to, put it in writing and keep it consistent. The risk is not the payment, it is a buyer discovering an arrangement nobody mentioned. Decide your position and make sure everyone on your team describes it the same way.
Can we name a past client in our proposals?
Only with the client's written permission, and tell her exactly where the name will appear. Some firms and housing societies do not allow vendors to use their name. Keep the permission on file, and offer a site visit as the other reference.
A referred apartment wants the same plant as its neighbour. What do we tell them?
Explain that water differs from one borewell to the next, so the plant is chosen after a test at the new site. Offer to show the neighbour's plant if its committee agrees, and quote only after the new report is in.
How do we compete against unbranded local installers on price?
Show the running cost over five years, not just the plant price. Membrane life, salt use, power and reject water add up, and a facility manager can compare those. A cheaper plant with no service record loses once the committee sees the whole picture.
Should we publish the water test reports from our installations?
Yes, with the customer's permission. A before-and-after report showing TDS and hardness against the IS 10500 drinking water limits is the proof a committee trusts. We remove the address unless the customer agrees to be named.
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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