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Know which staff member is losing wedding enquiries to a slow follow-up.

Sales management for a flower shop means tracking every enquiry, same-day and wedding alike, to a named person and an outcome. This shows which staff member follows up well, and where enquiries are quietly being lost. GullySales builds that record around your own occasions and goes through it with you.

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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 sales management means

Sales management is the ongoing work of reviewing a sales team's pipeline, calls and targets, and stepping in on deals that are stuck. GullySales sets the review rhythm and the reports a sales manager needs to run this without relying on gut feel.

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Last updated 8 Nov 2026.

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

  • “A record separate from the order book”

    An order book shows what was sold, not what was asked for and lost, so a separate enquiry record is needed to see where wedding quotes are going cold.

  • “Staff accountability for follow-up, not just walk-in sales”

    A staff member good at serving a walk-in customer may be poor at following up a wedding quote three days later, and the record shows which is which.

  • “Seasonal staffing decisions backed by data”

    Knowing exactly how enquiry volume rises before Valentine's Day and the wedding season helps decide when to bring in extra hands, rather than guessing each year.

What we do

What we deliver for flower shops.

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

  1. Enquiry tracking record

    A record capturing every enquiry, same-day and wedding alike, separate from the order book, with an outcome noted.

    Result: A wedding quote that went cold sits in the record beside the bouquets you delivered.

  2. Staff follow-up accountability log

    A record noting which staff member handled each wedding quote and whether it was followed up.

    Result: You know exactly where a slow follow-up is costing a booking.

  3. Seasonal volume tracking

    A record of how enquiry volume rises before Valentine's Day and the wedding season each year.

    Result: Staffing decisions rest on a real pattern instead of a guess.

  4. Cold-enquiry reason tracking

    A note against each lost enquiry recording the reason, price, timing or a slow follow-up.

    Result: The most common cause of lost business becomes visible and fixable.

  5. Sales review report

    A report reviewing enquiry, conversion and follow-up numbers together.

    Result: You can see whether the shop is winning more than it is losing.

How the result is measured

  • Target achievement
  • Pipeline coverage
  • Stuck deals resolved

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

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What the shop manager reviews

Read these six things in the enquiry book before the wedding season starts.

Wedding and event quotes not confirmed
List mandap, car and stage decoration quotes with no advance paid. Call each family with photos of a similar set-up and confirm the flower choice, since rates move with the season.
Same-day orders missed
Check the WhatsApp and call log for urgent bouquet or wreath orders that came in after cut-off or went unanswered. If many arrive late in the day, change who keeps the phone in the evening.
Online orders against the dispatch book
Compare orders from the website, Instagram and delivery apps with the dispatch book. A late or wrong delivery needs a call to the sender, since the person who paid is often not the one who received the flowers.
Hotel and office standing orders
Read the list of hotels, offices and venues that take regular arrangements. When one has not reordered, call the front office or admin contact to ask whether the vendor changed.
Festival pre-orders against flower stock
Before Valentine's Day, Mother's Day and Diwali, list pre-orders against the flowers booked with your mandi supplier. Stop taking orders you cannot make up.
Reasons a wedding quote was lost
Write why each wedding or event quote was lost: price, flowers out of season, a decorator who bundled the flowers, or a slow reply. Read them before setting next season's packages.

Who it is for

This is written for these flower shops.

  • Neighbourhood flower shops
  • Wedding and event florists
  • Corporate and hotel flower suppliers
  • Online flower delivery services
  • Florists specialising in funeral and sympathy arrangements
  • Florists inside malls and commercial complexes

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • Wedding quotes are not written down anywhere, so there would be no record to review.
  • The shop is run by one person who takes every call, where a separate review adds little.
  • You have not decided who owns follow-up on a wedding quote, which has to be settled before anyone can be reviewed.

How it works

How the sales management 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

    Look at what exists

    We ask for the last few weeks of calendars, pipeline records and review notes, and find where the routine breaks.

  2. 2

    Write the routine down

    Slots, agendas, attendees and the records each meeting uses are agreed in writing before the first one.

  3. 3

    Clean the pipeline first

    Stage definitions are fixed and stale deals removed, so the first review is about real deals.

  4. 4

    Run or coach

    We lead the meetings, or sit in while your manager leads and give feedback afterwards.

  5. 5

    Deal with problems as they appear

    A slipping number is discussed at the next one-on-one with notes, not stored up for an appraisal.

  6. 6

    Hand over

    Your manager or owner takes the routine, with the templates and records, and we step back.

Where this fits

Three pieces of sales work, in this order.

This work sits inside sales management. A target, a review routine and someone who owns the number.

  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

    Sales process design

    One written way to sell, from first enquiry to repeat order.

    Start here if every salesperson sells differently.

  3. Step 3 · you are here

    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 special software for this?
A shared spreadsheet works for a single shop with modest enquiry volume; a simple CRM helps once you have more than one location or staff member handling enquiries.
How often should we review the numbers?
Monthly in general, and weekly in the run-up to Valentine's Day, Mother's Day and the wedding season when volume rises quickly.
Should the florists who make the arrangements join the review?
The head florist should join for wedding quotes and festival pre-orders. They know whether a design can be made with the flowers available and what it really costs in stems and labour. Keep the review short and hold it after the morning mandi run, when the shop is quiet.
How do I set a sales target for staff when festival days distort everything?
Set separate targets for ordinary days, festival days and wedding bookings, each based on the shop's own book from last year. A staff member's Valentine's Day sales say little about how they handle a wedding quote. Compare each person within the same kind of day.
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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