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Modular and prefabricated building manufacturers · Referral marketing

The consultant who writes the specification decides who may quote.

Referral marketing for a prefab manufacturer runs through the people around a project: the consultant who writes the specification, the project management firm, the industrial architect, and the contractor who used you on the last site. GullySales builds that list and prepares the material they need to pass you on.

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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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Last updated 5 Oct 2026.

For modular and prefabricated building manufacturers

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

  • “A specification you helped write is the strongest referral there is”

    A consultant designing a cold room or a labour camp writes panel thickness, frame section and finishes into the tender. Get in front of that consultant early and the document describes your product, honestly.

  • “Contractors recommend suppliers to other contractors”

    Site people move between companies and they talk. A project manager who had a clean erection names you at his next employer, and nobody on your sales team engineered that.

  • “Your erection crew meets the next buyer”

    The team putting up a cabin is standing next to three other contractors' engineers all week. Give them cards, a number and one sentence, because they are on more sites than your salesman.

What we do

What we deliver for modular and prefabricated building manufacturers.

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

  1. A list of consultants, PMC firms and industrial architects

    The firms writing specifications for the buildings you make, with a named person and the date of last contact against each.

    Result: You know who to see before the tender is written.

  2. A specification sheet a consultant can lift

    Panel, frame, flooring, fixings and load figures written the way a consultant puts them into a tender document, stated honestly rather than drafted to exclude rivals.

    Result: Your product is described accurately where it counts.

  3. An introduction the contractor can forward

    One link and a short message showing the building types, the sites supplied and a number, ready to send from a site.

    Result: A recommendation arrives as something the buyer can open.

  4. The ask at handover

    What the erection supervisor says to the project manager when the unit is standing, and who else on that site is worth a card.

    Result: Referral happens on site rather than in a meeting.

  5. A record of who sent what

    Every enquiry marked with the consultant, contractor or crew member behind it, reviewed so a quiet source gets a call.

    Result: You see which relationship is carrying the order book.

  6. Dealer terms in writing

    Where you work through dealers, the territory, the terms and what each is entitled to on a referred enquiry, agreed on paper.

    Result: Nobody argues about who owns an enquiry.

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 prefab maker

A referral here is a name written into a specification or passed from one site to the next.

The consultant or PMC firm that writes the specification
Send a one-page sheet with panel thickness, steel gauge, load details and fire rating exactly as you quote them. A consultant lifts what he can paste into a tender, and cannot lift a brochure.
The industrial architect
Offer a working visit to a finished unit and a drawing set he can reuse in his own layout. He remembers the supplier who made his drawing easier, and names it at the next project.
The contractor who used you on the last site
At handover, ask the site engineer which contractors are on the next project and whether he will say so to them. Do it while your crew and the finished cabin are still in front of him.
Your erection supervisor
He meets the client's procurement officer and the neighbouring contractor on site. Give him a card and a short list of what you build, and ask him to write down who showed interest.
The dealer or rental fleet owner in another city
Agree the margin and the territory in writing before passing an enquiry across. Record whose enquiry it was, so a forwarded lead is not quoted twice at two different rates.
What never to do
Never offer a payment or gift to an engineer on a government or public sector project for specifying you, or promise a client's employee a cut. Purchase rules differ, so ask your adviser first.

Who it is for

This is written for these modular and prefabricated building manufacturers.

  • Portacabin and site office manufacturers
  • Labour accommodation and bunkhouse makers
  • PUF panel cold room and ripening chamber builders
  • Pre-engineered steel building fabricators
  • Container conversion units
  • Modular toilet and sanitation block makers
  • Security cabin and kiosk makers
  • Prefab school, health centre and site canteen builders
  • Portacabin rental fleets
  • Clean room and modular partition contractors

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.

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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Should we pay a commission to a consultant who specifies us?
Handle that carefully. A consultant is paid by the client for independent advice, and a payment from a supplier creates a conflict they may be contractually barred from accepting. Ask your own legal adviser. In most cases the relationship is better built on accurate specifications and a plant they can walk through.
How do we reach consultants before a tender is written?
Go between projects, not during one. A visit with a product file, insulation and load figures, and an invitation to the plant is normal practice here. Track which consultants' documents your specification turns up in, so you know the visits are working.
A contractor wants to quote our cabins to his client. How do we protect our rate?
Give the contractor a written rate for the specification he is quoting, with a validity date and the delivery location stated. If the end client asks you directly, tell the contractor and quote the same figure.
Can we use photographs of a client's site in our referral material?
Ask first, in writing. Industrial and government sites often restrict photographs, and the client may not want its name or layout shown. Offer to blur signage and the location, and keep the permission with the project file.
Everyone asks for a rate per square foot on the phone. What do we tell them?
Give a band against a stated specification, and say what moves it: panel thickness, flooring, wiring, toilets, and whether transport and erection sit inside the number. A caller who hears a single figure will put it beside a 50mm shell from someone else. Naming what changes the rate is what keeps you in that comparison.
Buyers say prefab gets hot and leaks in the monsoon. How do we answer that?
With a number and an address, not an adjective. State the panel core and thickness, the roof detail and how the joints are sealed, then offer a site with a unit that has stood five years. One visit settles what no brochure will.
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 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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