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Decide where the partner's few spare hours go every month.

Digital marketing for a consulting practice is the plan that decides which channels earn the partner's limited time: the website, LinkedIn, articles, the association talk and the occasional advert. GullySales writes that plan around your engagement calendar and reports it against the enquiry baseline recorded before work starts.

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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 digital marketing means

Digital marketing is the combined work of search, social media, advertising and website channels running together rather than as separate projects with separate people. GullySales runs these as one connected system so a change in one channel, such as a new offer, is reflected everywhere at once.

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Last updated 5 Oct 2026.

For business consultants

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

  • “The delivery months are when the pipeline goes quiet”

    The partner sells in January, delivers until April and finds an empty diary in May. One article and a few posts held through the delivery months close that gap.

  • “A neglected website undoes a good referral”

    An owner told to look you up finds a 2019 copyright line and a blog that stopped after four posts. A consultant is judged hardest on their own marketing.

  • “Channels earn their place in hours, not in rupees”

    An advert costs money you can budget for. An article costs a Sunday the partner will not get back, so the plan states the hours you can honestly give.

What we do

What we deliver for business consultants.

The work available for this need. We agree the deliverables and responsibilities for your engagement in writing.

  1. A plan written in the partner's hours, not in rupees

    How many hours a month the practice can honestly give, and what fits inside them once delivery is accounted for.

    Result: The plan survives a month on a client site.

  2. Work drafted ahead of the delivery months

    Articles and posts written during the selling months and scheduled to appear while you are on site, so January's effort covers April.

    Result: May is not empty because January was busy.

  3. The website's stale corners fixed first

    The old copyright line, the blog that stopped after four posts, the team page with somebody who left, and a contact form nobody has tested.

    Result: The owner who was told to look you up sees a practice that is working.

  4. One channel dropped, with the reasoning written down

    A check of which channels any client has ever mentioned, and an honest decision about what goes and where those hours move.

    Result: You stop keeping a channel out of guilt.

  5. Reporting on the steps before a signature

    First meetings held, proposals sent and the source of each enquiry, reported against the baseline recorded before work starts, because an engagement takes months to close.

    Result: You can judge the marketing without waiting for the contract.

How the result is measured

  • Enquiries across channels
  • Cost per enquiry overall
  • Channel mix by contribution

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

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Where a consultant starts

A consultant starts by naming the one problem the practice solves and for which kind of owner.

A one-line statement of the problem
Write who you help and what you fix, then put it at the top of the site and LinkedIn. Test it on three clients.
Website corners that are stale
Update the About page, the services list and any dated pages first. Add a contact form asking the size of the business and the issue.
Readable cases without names
Describe the problem, what you did and what changed, with the client's permission and without naming them where needed.
An article or talk for one audience
Write or speak on one problem for one group, such as an association of manufacturers. Record who asked for a meeting afterwards.
Referrer list
List the CAs, bankers and lawyers who send work, and tell each what you want more of. Note each referral.
What to leave until later
Leave paid search and several social channels until the statement, cases and referrer routine exist. A partner's hours are the limit, not the budget.

Who it is for

This is written for these business consultants.

  • Independent management consultants
  • Boutique strategy and operations consulting firms
  • Family business and succession consultants
  • Business growth and turnaround consultants for SMEs
  • Lean, Six Sigma and process improvement consultants
  • ISO, ZED and quality certification consultants
  • Startup, fundraising and business plan advisers
  • HR and organisation design consultants
  • Export, import and market entry advisers

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • The partner has no spare hour in the week to review a draft, so a plan across several channels would stall at the first approval.
  • The website still lists every service for everyone, and that has to be settled before any channel is added.

Before you decide

Agree the work. Know how to judge it.

Digital marketing for business consultants: use these checks to prepare, choose the scope, and review what changes.

Bring the right evidence

Bring a recent won order and an enquiry that went nowhere. Trace how each buyer found you, what they asked, and who handled the next step. A channel list alone will not explain the difference.

Make the scope clear

Choose one offer and one buyer group first. Agree which part needs attention: being found, getting a useful enquiry, or turning an enquiry into an order. Separate recommendations from the work required to carry them out.

Check the work in use

A useful plan names the first change, its owner, the evidence behind it, and the number that will show whether it worked. Ask what has deliberately been left out and why.

Know when to change course

If your team cannot answer the enquiries it already receives, improve that handover before buying more traffic. If the offer itself is unclear, test it with buyers before adding channels.

These are discussion points, not a fixed package. GullySales confirms the deliverables, responsibilities, fee, and term in writing after reading your brief and speaking with you.

How it works

How the digital marketing 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

    Campaign decision

    You confirm the business objective and offer with GullySales. We agree which channels belong in this campaign and which requests need separate work.

  2. 2

    Readiness and ownership

    Channel owners confirm access, available material, and production responsibilities. Your sales lead confirms who receives responses, and we record the baseline before work starts.

  3. 3

    Message approval

    Your nominated approver signs off the campaign idea and message sheet. Questions about product claims or commercial terms go back to your team before production proceeds.

  4. 4

    Production handoff

    Each agency, freelancer, or in-house owner receives the approved reference and calendar. Material is checked for format suitability and agreement with the offer.

  5. 5

    Release approval

    The response route is tested and outstanding approvals are checked before release. If the offer changes, the revised message goes to every affected channel owner for replacement.

  6. 6

    Sales reconciliation

    Campaign responses are compared with the enquiry and order records your team provides. The review identifies missing source information and channel decisions for the next campaign.

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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We are two people. Which channel should we drop?
The one no client has ever mentioned. For most practices that is Instagram and the newsletter, and those hours move to posts under the partner's name.
How do we know any of this works when engagements take months to sign?
Count the steps before the signature. First meetings held, proposals sent and the source of each enquiry show movement well before any engagement signs, and we set them against the baseline recorded before work starts.
How long should we wait before writing off a channel?
Judge a channel on the steps before a signature: meetings asked for, proposals sent, referrals made. Because engagements take months, a channel with no meetings after a fair run, given your own sales cycle, is the one to drop. Write down why.
Can we use client names if the work was confidential?
Not without written permission. Describe the type of business, the problem and the outcome in general terms, or ask the client to allow a short quote. A confidentiality clause in the contract overrides marketing wishes, so check it 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.
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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