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Write down who asks, who pays and who will open the dashboard in month two.

A buyer persona for an analytics firm describes the sponsor, the daily user and the person who approves the spend, because they are different people. GullySales helps you write each one from your past projects, and use them to shape pages and calls.

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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 sponsor wants a decision”

    A managing director or sales head asks for a dashboard because a number surprised them. They care about the answer and the cost, and they ask for the tool only when someone makes them.

  • “The user wants less manual work”

    An operations manager or accounts lead spends hours stitching sheets together. They judge a project by whether the Monday report stops taking two people. They need to be in the room early, or adoption stalls.

  • “The in-house expert is a blocker or a champion”

    A capable accountant who builds reports in Excel may feel replaced. Treated as a partner who owns the data, they can become the loudest supporter. Treated as a rival, they will find the flaw in the pilot.

  • “The approver looks at risk”

    A finance head or owner's family member asks about data safety, who maintains the file and what happens if you leave. Their concerns are different from the sponsor's and need their own answer on paper.

What we do

What we deliver for data analytics 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 role

    A one-page profile of the sponsor, user, in-house expert and approver, built from real past projects.

    Result: Everyone who writes or sells for you uses the same picture of the buyer.

  2. Question list for the first call

    A set of questions that finds out who will use the output, who pays and who worries about risk.

    Result: The first conversation produces a map of the people involved.

  3. Page and message mapping

    A table showing which page, sample or message speaks to which role.

    Result: Each role is shown the material written for them.

  4. Second-sponsor plan

    A note on whom to introduce to the project beyond the first sponsor, and when.

    Result: A change of manager does not end the engagement.

  5. Objection notes by role

    The doubts each role raises, such as data safety or Excel being enough, with a plain response ready.

    Result: Your team answers in the same way each time.

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

Name the person on the call, because the sponsor, the user and the approver each ask something different.

The owner or sponsor
Wants to know which decision the work informs, what it costs the business and what is asked of their own time.
The finance head who approves
Wants to know where the data is held, who can see it and what happens to the records after the contract ends.
The sales or operations manager who will use it
Wants to know whether the dashboard saves a morning of manual reports and whether it opens on a phone.
The in-house Excel expert
Wants to know that their work is respected and that the dashboard will not make their reports redundant.
The IT contact
Wants to know how data moves, who holds the access keys and whether the firm needs a server on site.
The second sponsor
Wants a handover they can read in a short time, because the first sponsor may leave before the work is used.

Who it is for

This is written for these data analytics companies.

  • Business intelligence and dashboard consultancies
  • Sales and marketing analytics specialists
  • Retail and distribution analytics firms
  • Manufacturing and operations analytics providers
  • Finance and collections analytics specialists
  • Customer churn and segmentation analysts
  • Data engineering and warehouse build firms
  • Forecasting and demand planning specialists

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • You have had no conversations with prospects yet, and a persona written without one would only reflect how you describe your service.
  • Your clients are always a single owner who is the sponsor, user and approver, so four roles would invent distinctions that do not exist.

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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Tell us what you need
How many personas do we need?
Four roles cover the projects: sponsor, user, in-house expert and approver. Write fewer if your projects involve fewer people, and add a role only when you have met it.
Can we build a persona without past clients?
Start from the conversations you have had with prospects and from your own experience in the function. Refine the sheets as projects begin.
Does the persona change by function?
Yes. A collections project meets a finance head, while a dealer-sales project meets a sales head. Keep a short version for each function you sell into.
Do we need a persona for the in-house expert?
Yes, if the client has one. They can champion the work or quietly block it, and the call goes differently depending on which. Write down what they want protected, such as their reports and their standing, and plan to include them early.
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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