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Know whether you are selling to the homeowner, the committee or the accountant.

A buyer persona for a solar installer is a written picture of the person who signs the order and the people who can stop it: what they fear, what they ask and what makes them say yes. GullySales works on building those pictures from your own enquiries and past orders, not from guesses.

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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 homeowner is not the only decider”

    A retired owner reads the bill, while the son or daughter researches panels and the family compares installers on WhatsApp. If your pitch reaches only the person who rang, the person who researched may never hear why you are the safer choice.

  • “A society has a treasurer, a secretary and a sceptic”

    Each committee member worries about something different: cost to residents, an approval that never comes, a leak after installation. Treating the committee as one buyer means the pitch answers a single worry and loses the other two.

  • “The factory owner buys a number, the accountant checks it”

    The owner wants a payback figure, then hands the proposal to a finance person who looks at depreciation, tariff assumptions and the structure of payment. A proposal built for a homeowner satisfies neither of them.

  • “The farmer weighs a pump against the next harvest”

    A buyer considering a solar pump thinks in seasons and loans, not in kilowatts. The questions are about subsidy timing, who services a pump in a village, and what happens if the sun is weak in the sowing month.

What we do

What we deliver for solar installation companies.

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

  1. Persona sheets for each type of buyer

    A one-page sheet each for the homeowner, the society committee, the factory owner and the farmer, covering their worries, questions and what they compare you on.

    Result: Your team shares one picture of each buyer.

  2. Decision map for each deal

    A simple chart of who influences the order in each kind of deal, such as the family researcher, the treasurer or the plant accountant, and what each of them needs to see.

    Result: You know who else must be convinced before the call ends.

  3. Worry and answer pairs

    The objections each buyer raises, paired with the answer, the proof and the person on your team best placed to give it.

    Result: A salesperson has an answer ready for each worry.

  4. Segment tags on enquiries

    Each enquiry recorded with the buyer type, the roof type and the source, so later reports show which kind of buyer actually signs.

    Result: Your records show who buys and who only enquires.

  5. Message tests across buyer types

    Different headlines and opening lines for each persona, tried on the pages and in the replies you already send, and read against what came back.

    Result: You can see which wording each buyer responds to.

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 is asking

Find out who is actually deciding before the quote goes out.

Homeowner holding a high electricity bill
Wants to know how much roof, what it will cost and what the subsidy process involves. Ask for the bill photo before anything else.
Society treasurer or secretary
Wants the common-area approvals, the cost split and the committee paperwork. A homeowner's reply leaves their questions open.
Factory owner and the accountant behind them
One wants a number, the other checks how it was reached. The proposal has to carry the method as well as the figure.
Farmer comparing a pump with the next crop
Wants a set that runs the pump and an installer who will come back. A plain reply with a local contact matters more than specifications.
Tenant or flat owner with no roof access
Asks about solar but cannot install. Tell them early what is possible, so your surveyors do not travel for a closed door.

Who it is for

This is written for these solar installation companies.

  • Residential rooftop installers working with the PM Surya Ghar scheme
  • Housing society and apartment rooftop specialists
  • Commercial and industrial (C&I) rooftop EPC companies
  • Ground-mounted and open access solar developers
  • Solar water heater and solar pump dealers
  • Off-grid and hybrid systems with battery storage
  • Brand-authorised solar dealers and franchisees
  • Operations and maintenance and panel cleaning services

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • You sell only to buyers you already know well, where a call tells you more than a persona sheet
  • You have not recorded what past buyers asked before ordering, so a persona would be built from guesses
  • You have one product for one buyer type, and the sales conversation already covers what a persona would

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 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

    Structured conversations with recent buyers, held as talk about the last purchase and not a questionnaire. We ask what happened before they called, who else was involved and what they compared. Customers agree before we contact them, and their answers are reported without names.

  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 where each persona should change a page, an ad or a script you already have. The sales team reads the drafts and says which ring true. A persona they do not recognise is rewritten.

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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Do we need personas if we know our market?
You know it from memory, but your staff may each remember a different buyer. Writing it down makes the team consistent and shows gaps, such as a buyer type who enquires but does not sign.
How do you build them without inventing buyers?
From your own records: past enquiries, quotes won and lost, and call notes. We talk with the people who sold the jobs. Nothing is added that your own data and your team cannot support.
How many personas should an installer have?
As many as you have distinct buyers who decide differently. For a solar company that is home, society, commercial and sometimes agriculture. A longer list means the same buyer was split without a reason.
Our surveyors meet the buyer, not the sales team. Who should build the persona?
The surveyors, with someone to write it down. They hear the questions at the gate, which is where buyers say what they worry about. A short note after each visit on who decided and what stopped them gives more than a workshop, and keeps the persona tied to real roofs.
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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