Optical businesses · Lead generation
Turn the prescription photo on WhatsApp into a booked frame fitting.
Lead generation for an optical shop is what happens between somebody sending a prescription on WhatsApp and walking in to try frames. GullySales sets up the intake, a reply that offers two frames and a time, and a follow-up for everyone who was tested and left without buying.
Scope, fee, reporting and term are agreed in writing after we have read your brief and spoken to you.
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.
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For optical businesses
Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.
“The real enquiry form is a photograph of a prescription”
It arrives at night, often from a test done somewhere else, and it is the most serious enquiry an optical shop gets. Most shops answer it with a price.
“A test that ends at the door is a customer you paid for”
The prescription goes into a bag and gets typed into a website that evening. The try-on has to be offered before the chair is empty.
“A camp contact is not a lead until someone rings it”
A day at a school or an office produces a page of names. Without a caller and a date beside each one it stays a page of names.
“Contact lens customers leave without a word”
The trial pack runs out, nobody checks in, and the reorder goes to whoever appears first in a search. The reminder is the entire retention plan.
What we do
What we deliver for optical businesses.
Every deliverable, what it covers for you, and the result it is there to produce. Nothing here is an extra.
A WhatsApp intake for prescriptions
A short reply asking for the power, the wearer's age, what the glasses are mainly for and a budget band, before any price is quoted.
Result: You answer with a recommendation instead of a number.
Two frames and a time in the first reply
Photographs of two frames from current stock that suit the power and the budget, with a slot offered to try them.
Result: The conversation ends in an appointment, not a price comparison.
A try-on booked before the chair is empty
A step at the end of every eye test where the frame session is offered for the same visit and the phone number is recorded.
Result: Fewer prescriptions walk out to be filled elsewhere.
Camp contacts given an owner and a date
Every name collected at a school or office camp assigned to a staff member with a call date and a note of what was discussed.
Result: A camp turns into visits rather than a stack of forms.
A reorder prompt for lens wearers
A message timed to when a pack is due to run out, with the power on file and a way to confirm in one reply.
Result: The reorder comes back to your counter.
Test-to-purchase conversion reported
Tests done, purchases made and where each customer came from, read against the figures recorded before work started.
Result: You can see exactly where customers are being lost.
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.
Where enquiries come from
An optical shop hears from walk-ins, prescriptions and camps, and each needs one fact noted before the customer leaves.
- Walk-in eye test
- Write the name, phone number, the date of the test and what they tried on. Book the next step before they leave: frames chosen, a try-on, or a call when the lenses are ready.
- Prescription photo on WhatsApp
- Record the number, the prescription date and the kind of lens or frame asked for. Reply with two frames and a time to visit, and note if the prescription is from another clinic.
- Contact lens reorder call
- Log the brand, the power and the last purchase date. Ask whether the person has had a check-up recently, and set a reminder for the next reorder.
- School or corporate camp contact
- Record the institution, the date and the name of the person who invited you. Give every person screened a slip with the shop's number, and log who came in afterwards.
- Google profile direction request or call
- Tag it as Google and note the area. People often ask for opening hours or whether you stock a brand, so reply with the answer and the nearest landmark.
- Referral from an ophthalmologist or eye clinic
- Log the doctor and the clinic, and tell them the patient came. Make the glasses to the prescription as written and keep the optometrist's own notes separate.
Who it is for
This is written for these optical businesses.
- Independent single-location optical shops
- Multi-branch optical retail chains
- Optical shops attached to an eye hospital or clinic
- Contact lens specialist retailers
- Optical shops with an in-house optometrist
- School and corporate eye check-up service providers
- Premium and designer eyewear retailers
How it works
From your first message to the first report.
No open-ended retainer. Every step gives you something in writing.
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.
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.
Before work starts
Baseline recorded
The numbers this work is meant to move, such as enquiries, quotations, orders, visits or renewals, written down so every later report has an honest comparison.
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 a reply, a follow-up, a page, a listing or the handover between marketing and sales.
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.
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 lead generation work runs
- 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
Audit current sources
We check what already brings in enquiries today, even informally, before adding anything new.
- 3
Strategise the channel mix
Content, search and paid channels are chosen based on where your buyers already look.
- 4
Implement capture and follow-up
Pages, forms and a follow-up process are built and connected end to end.
- 5
Measure and optimise
We track enquiry volume and quality and adjust the channel mix to match.
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.
FAQ
Questions owners ask before they call.
Not here? More answers, or ask on WhatsApp.
Somebody tested elsewhere sends us their prescription. Worth chasing?
Who should be answering WhatsApp during shop hours?
A customer tried frames and left without buying. What do we write down?
Should a parent and child be recorded as one customer or two?
How much does it cost?
How long is the contract?
How soon will we see results?
Who will actually do the work?
What do you need from us?
What if we are not happy with the work?
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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.