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They ask the fee in a message and vanish when you send a number.

Lead generation for a dietitian is turning a message, a doctor's referral or a website enquiry into a discovery call and an enrolled programme. GullySales writes the replies that answer the fee question with context, structures the call itself, and sets the follow-up for the person who said they would think about it.

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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 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 nutritionists and dietitians

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

  • “A fee sent on its own gets compared with an app”

    A subscription app costs a few hundred rupees a month and nobody answers the phone on it. If your reply is just a figure, that is the comparison being made in the next screen.

  • “A referred patient has to be caught the same day”

    Somebody walks out of a gynaecologist's room holding your number, and the intention fades by evening. Ring them rather than waiting, and tell the doctor you did.

  • “The person who cooks decides whether the plan survives”

    A plan for a joint family kitchen fails when the mother-in-law or the cook was never consulted. Bring them into the first call and the programme lasts past the third week.

What we do

What we deliver for nutritionists and dietitians.

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

  1. Reply templates for the fee question

    Answers for Instagram, WhatsApp and the website that say what the programme contains, who delivers it and how often you meet, before any figure.

    Result: Fewer people disappear after the first reply.

  2. A discovery call structure

    An order for the call covering the trigger, the reports, the kitchen, the travel and the schedule, ending with what the programme will and will not do.

    Result: The right people enrol, and they know what they bought.

  3. A same-day routine for doctor referrals

    A named person who rings every referred patient the day the referral is made, and a two-line update back to the referring doctor afterwards.

    Result: Referrals convert, and the doctor keeps sending them.

  4. The family cook brought into the first call

    A question in the intake form about who cooks, and an invitation for that person to join part of the first consultation.

    Result: The plan survives contact with the kitchen.

  5. A follow-up schedule for the undecided

    Three dated contacts across a fortnight, each built around the reason the person gave for waiting rather than a repeated offer.

    Result: Slow decisions are given time instead of being dropped.

  6. One record of enquiries, calls and enrolments

    Source, condition, call date, enrolment, completion and renewal recorded against each person and reported against the baseline recorded before work starts.

    Result: You can see the stage where people stop.

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.

Read the full demand and lead generation page

Where enquiries come from

A nutritionist receives enquiries by message, referral and talk, and each should be logged with the concern in the client's words.

Instagram or WhatsApp message
Record the concern in the person's own words and the first question they asked. Reply with how a first consultation works and a booking link, and keep the fee conversation for the call.
Doctor's referral
Log the doctor, the clinic and whether a diagnosis or report is being shared. Thank the doctor in writing, and send a short note after the first visit with the client's consent.
Friend or relative of a client
Write down who suggested you, and what the person has heard. Do not mention the first client's progress, since that belongs to them.
Website booking form
Note the goal, the age and any medical condition declared. Reply with the preparation for the first visit, such as recent blood reports and a day's food diary.
Corporate or gym talk attendee
Record the event, the question asked and a time to speak. Contact only those who asked, and offer a short call instead of a package.
Parent enquiring for a child
Log the parent as the contact and the child's age. Ask who prepares the child's food at home, and book a visit that includes the parent and the cook.

Who it is for

This is written for these nutritionists and dietitians.

  • Independent clinical dietitians with a private practice
  • Hospital-attached dietitians who also consult privately
  • Online nutrition consultants working across cities
  • Sports nutritionists working with gyms and athletes
  • Paediatric and maternal nutrition specialists
  • Dietitians focused on diabetes, thyroid and PCOS management
  • Corporate wellness nutrition providers
  • Nutritionists attached to fitness studios and yoga centres

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • You cannot reply to an enquiry on the day it arrives, so more messages would only meet slower answers.
  • You have not settled what the first consultation costs and covers, so every enquiry would meet an improvised reply.

How it works

How the lead generation 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 your capacity

    We ask how many enquiries your team can answer well, who answers after hours, and what a good enquiry looks like. Without this, the system fills a funnel nobody is watching.

  2. 2

    Audit current sources

    We read your call log, WhatsApp chats, enquiry sheet and platform dashboards. The baseline is recorded: enquiries by source, reply time, conversion and cost per order.

  3. 3

    Strategise the channel mix

    Search and maps are chosen for people ready to buy, ads for people who are not yet looking, and content and referrals for trust.

  4. 4

    Implement capture and follow-up

    Pages, forms, tags, the lead record and the first-reply message are built and tested end to end. We submit test enquiries ourselves before any media money is spent.

  5. 5

    Measure and optimise

    Enquiries are traced to source and judged by what became orders, not by volume alone. Channels that fill the sheet with poor enquiries are cut back. How often you are reported to is agreed in writing.

Where this fits

Three pieces of sales work, in this order.

This work sits inside sales process design, at stage 1, prospecting and lead generation. 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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Should the fee be on the website?
A starting figure, yes. It filters out people who were never going to enrol and it makes your reply to everyone else easier. The final figure still depends on the length of the programme and how often you meet.
How many follow-ups before we give up on an enquiry?
Three across a fortnight, then a line in the record saying why it stopped. People with a new diagnosis take weeks to act. A practice that writes them off after one message loses the ones who were nearly ready.
Someone asks for a diet chart on WhatsApp without a consultation. What do we do?
Say politely that a plan needs an assessment first, including health history and food habits, and offer a booking. A chart without that can be unsuitable. Record the message so you can see how many such requests arrive.
How do we tell which Instagram post actually brought a booking?
Ask at the first call how they found you and note the post or reel if they remember. Add a source line to every enquiry. Likes tell you little. A named post tells you what to make again.
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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