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Know the founder who hires an adviser, and the one who only wants ideas.

A buyer persona for a marketing consultant describes the founder or business head who pays for advice, what they have already tried and who else sits in the decision. GullySales works on writing it from your own enquiries and past clients so that pages and messages speak to a real buyer.

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

  • “The buyer arrives after a failed attempt”

    Founders come to an adviser after an agency, a freelancer or an in-house hire has let them down. Your pages should speak to that aftermath: what the founder now distrusts and what they need to see before trusting one more outside party.

  • “The payer and the doubter are different people”

    A founder signs, but a co-founder, finance head or family member asks what the fee buys. Your persona should include the person who will question the invoice, along with the exact question that person asks.

  • “Stage of business changes the need”

    A founder with a first marketing hire needs direction for that hire. A founder at a larger business needs someone to judge a team and agencies already in place. Mixing the two in one message leaves both unaddressed, so write one persona for each stage you serve.

  • “The free-idea seeker is a persona too”

    Some enquirers want to collect ideas and hand them to an agency. Noting how they phrase a first message, what they ask for and where they drop away lets you spot them early and reply with the paid first step.

What we do

What we deliver for marketing consultants.

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

  1. Past-client reading

    A review of your last engagements: who paid, who doubted, what had been tried and what finally made the founder call.

    Result: The persona rests on your own records, not guesses.

  2. Persona sheets by stage

    One page for each stage of business you advise, covering worry, history, decision group and the proof wanted.

    Result: Each message can be written to one named reader.

  3. Decision-group map

    A diagram of who sits in the decision for each persona and the question each person asks.

    Result: You know whose doubt the proposal must answer.

  4. Words-they-use list

    The phrases founders use for their worry, collected from enquiries, calls and messages.

    Result: Page copy uses the buyer's own wording.

  5. Misfit signals

    Signs in an enquiry that the sender wants execution or free ideas, and the reply that suits each.

    Result: A misfit enquiry is recognised from the first message.

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

Who it is for

This is written for these marketing consultants.

  • Independent marketing consultants and fractional heads of marketing
  • Brand strategy consultants
  • Digital marketing consultants for small and medium businesses
  • Performance marketing advisers who audit spend
  • B2B and industrial marketing consultants
  • Consultants for retail and consumer brands
  • Marketing advisers for professional services and clinics
  • Former agency heads who now advise a few clients at a time

How it works

How the buyer persona 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 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.

Where this fits

Three pieces of sales work, in this order.

This work sits inside sales process design, at stage 0, foundation. 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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How many personas does a solo consultant need?
One for each stage or sector you actually advise. A solo adviser with two kinds of client has two. Any more than your real client list is invented detail, and invented detail misleads the copy.
Where do the facts for a persona come from?
From your own enquiries, proposals and conversations: who wrote in, what they asked, what they had tried and who joined the call. GullySales invents no buyer detail. Where there is no record, we mark the gap and fill it as enquiries arrive.
Should the persona include budget?
Include what buyers said about budget in first calls and what they accepted, taken from your own records. Do not copy a figure from elsewhere. The aim is to see how the founder thinks about the fee, not to set your price.
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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