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Start conversations with the promoters and CEOs your partners want to work for.

Lead generation for a consulting firm means creating conversations with company heads who hold a problem the firm solves, through referrers, tenders and the partners' own names. It is a different job from collecting downloads. GullySales works on the referrer list, the note a partner sends and the record that shows which route produced which conversation.

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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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Sales and marketing for management consulting firms, the overview.

Last updated 18 Oct 2026.

For management consulting firms

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

  • “The best lead arrives with a name attached”

    A banker or chartered accountant tells a promoter to call your partner, and the buyer walks in half persuaded. What goes wrong is silence afterwards: an introducer who is never thanked or told how it went sends the next promoter to a firm that did both.

  • “A note about the buyer's problem gets read”

    A message listing the firm's services reads like every other firm's. A short note about a problem a promoter in auto components already feels, written by a partner who has seen it, gets read because it concerns the promoter's own plant.

  • “A tender is a lead that announces itself”

    An expression of interest arrives with a deadline and a list of documents. The firm with partner CVs and past assignment details already in a folder responds. The firm without them spends the deadline hunting for papers and then declines.

  • “A conversation nobody logged gets pitched twice”

    A partner meets a managing director at a chamber event and writes nothing down. Weeks later a second partner writes to the same person with a different offer, and the buyer concludes the firm does not talk to itself.

What we do

What we deliver for management consulting firms.

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

  1. A referrer map

    The bankers, investors, accountants and former clients who have sent work or could, each with the last assignment sent and the last contact.

    Result: Each partner can see which introducers have not heard from the firm lately.

  2. Sector problem notes

    Short notes on one problem in one sector, written from partner experience and sent by the partner who knows that sector.

    Result: Every reply is logged against the note and the partner that produced it.

  3. An eligibility file for formal requests

    Firm profile, past assignment list, partner CVs and declarations kept current in one place for tenders and empanelment.

    Result: An expression of interest can be answered from documents that already exist.

  4. A lead sheet with an owner for every line

    Each conversation recorded with source, partner, date met and a dated next step.

    Result: No promoter is approached by two partners without either knowing.

  5. A thank-you and update routine for introducers

    A short message back to every introducer after the first meeting, and again once the outcome is known.

    Result: Introducers hear what happened to the person they sent.

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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Who it is for

This is written for these management consulting firms.

  • Independent practices run by one or two senior partners
  • Small firms of ten to thirty consultants serving mid-sized companies
  • Operations and performance improvement firms
  • Organisation and people transformation firms
  • Public sector and government advisory practices
  • Industry-specialist firms for pharma, auto components or textiles
  • Family business and promoter group advisory firms
  • Offshoots of chartered accountancy firms that added management consulting

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 agree how many enquiries your sales team can actually handle well, so the system is not built to overwhelm it.

  2. 2

    Audit current sources

    We check what already brings in enquiries today, even informally, before adding anything new.

  3. 3

    Strategise the channel mix

    Content, search and paid channels are chosen based on where your buyers already look.

  4. 4

    Implement capture and follow-up

    Pages, forms and a follow-up process are built and connected end to end.

  5. 5

    Measure and optimise

    We track enquiry volume and quality and adjust the channel mix to match.

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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Should a partner-led firm use paid lead sources at all?
Start with referrers, tenders and the partners' own networks, because that is where your engagements already come from. Paid channels are worth testing only for a service a buyer would search for by name, and the sheet will show whether they bring conversations.
How do we count a lead when an introduction happens over dinner?
Record it the next morning with the introducer's name, the company and the problem described. A lead that exists only in a partner's memory cannot be followed up, thanked or measured.
Can you send outreach on our behalf?
We draft notes and build the list, and the partner reads and sends. A promoter replying to a partner expects the partner on the other end, so the sender stays the partner.
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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