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Commercial interior designers · Lead generation

Find the owners who have just signed a lease and have no designer yet.

Lead generation for a commercial interior designer means reaching a clinic, café or showroom owner in the short stretch between signing the lease and choosing who plans the space. GullySales works on where those owners look, who they ask, and how each enquiry is recorded from the first message.

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.

Last updated 18 Oct 2026.

For commercial interior designers

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

  • “The lease is the starting gun, and you are not in the room”

    A new tenant signs, then asks the landlord's agent, an equipment dealer or a friend who has opened a shop. By the time a studio is found by search, two others have been phoned. Lead generation here is being known to the people the owner asks first.

  • “Home projects in the portfolio lose commercial enquiries”

    A restaurant owner scanning your site sees living rooms and moves on. Enquiries for commercial work come from pages that show a working kitchen, a billing counter and a waiting area, grouped by the kind of business.

  • “Referral partners send one lead and then forget you”

    A kitchen consultant or dental dealer meets new tenants every month of the year. Without a short list, a simple note on what you can take on, and a thank-you routine, the introductions arrive by accident instead of by habit.

  • “Enquiries that arrive on WhatsApp are lost between projects”

    A message comes while the team is on a site visit. It is answered two days later, by which time the owner has called another studio. Every lead needs one place where it is logged and an owner named for the reply.

What we do

What we deliver for commercial interior designers.

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

  1. Lead sources written down by business type

    A sheet listing where clinic, restaurant, salon and showroom enquiries have actually come from in your past projects.

    Result: You can see which source brings which kind of owner.

  2. Pages by business type that ask for the brief

    A page each for clinics, restaurants, salons and showrooms, ending in a short brief form instead of a generic contact box.

    Result: Each enquiry arrives with the business type and the space size stated.

  3. A referral partner list with a reason to call

    Equipment dealers, landlords' agents and consultants listed, with one line on what each can send you and one on what you send back.

    Result: The introductions come from named people you have spoken to.

  4. A single enquiry record

    Phone, WhatsApp, form and walk-in enquiries entered in one sheet or CRM with the source, the business type and the lease date.

    Result: No enquiry sits in someone's personal phone.

  5. A first reply script for the lease-clock owner

    A short answer that states what you need to know to give a layout, and what the design and approval steps involve.

    Result: The owner gets a clear next step on the first reply.

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.

Who it is for

This is written for these commercial interior designers.

  • Designers for clinics and diagnostic centres
  • Restaurant, café and cloud-kitchen designers
  • Salon, spa and fitness studio designers
  • Showroom and dealership designers
  • Bank, finance and service-counter designers
  • Co-working and coaching centre designers
  • Hotels and guest houses at small scale
  • Studios that work for franchise owners

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.

Not here? More answers, or ask on WhatsApp.

Should we advertise or rely on referrals?
Start by recording where your last signed projects came from. If referrals dominate, strengthen them first. Paid search can be added for a business type where you want more work, with spend agreed in writing.
Can we get leads from franchise brands?
You can prepare a pack for franchise teams and franchisees and keep in touch with them. Whether a brand appoints you follows its own vendor process, and we do not promise placement.
Is a lead the same as an enquiry?
No. An enquiry is any message. A lead is an owner with a space, a lease or a plan and a need for design. Recording the difference shows where your time is going.
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.

Your next practical step

Tell us what you are trying to grow, and we will read it before we call.

Eight short steps, mostly taps. Skip anything you would rather answer on the call.