Personal branding · Consultants, coaches and advisers
Your buyer has sat through a free seminar before and knows the shape.
Personal branding for a business coach is the evidence that separates a practice from a confident profile: what an owner reads after the free session, and what makes him believe you have seen a business like his. GullySales builds it from a monthly conversation about the clients you are coaching now.
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Personal branding for a business coach is the evidence that separates a practice from a confident profile: what an owner reads after the free session, and what makes him believe you have seen a business like his. GullySales builds it from a monthly conversation about the clients you are coaching now.
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Business coach, SME coach, Growth coach.
Where this sits
For business coaches
Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.
“The category taught your buyer to be suspicious”
He went to the free session, took the worksheets home, paid a fee once and got a WhatsApp group out of it. He reads your page with that memory, not with an open mind.
“Certification settles nothing”
Every accreditation in this trade can be bought in a fortnight, and owners have worked that out. What cannot be bought is a piece of writing showing you understand where his money actually goes.
“Owners hire somebody who knows their trade”
A jeweller in Chickpet does not want coaching. He wants somebody who has watched what happens to a jewellery business when the son joins and the karigars will not report to him.
“If the room is your funnel, this is a second channel at best”
Plenty of coaches fill a practice from one business network and nothing else. Where that is working, this is slow money, and the audit report will put it in that order.
What we do
What we deliver for business coaches.
Every deliverable, what it covers for you, and the result it is there to produce. Nothing here is an extra.
A profile that names the business you coach
Turnover band, family-run or professional, the trades you know and the ones you send away. Specific enough that half the readers leave.
Result: The owner who stays recognises himself and picks up the phone.
Writing about what owners do not say out loud
The brother who will not take a salary cut, the cash gap every August, the sales manager everyone suspects. Drawn from the coaching you are doing, with the names gone.
Result: A reader who thinks you have already met him.
The programme described like a purchase
How many months, how often you meet, what happens between sessions, what the owner is expected to bring, and what you do when he brings nothing.
Result: Fewer enquiries that go quiet after the fee is mentioned.
The monthly conversation about your caseload
An hour, usually about one client whose business moved and one whose did not. You approve every draft before it goes anywhere.
Result: Material in your words rather than a copywriter's idea of coaching.
Client accounts with written consent
Where an owner agrees to be named, the account is real and the permission is on file. Where he will not, it runs without him and the page says as much.
Result: Proof that survives a sceptical reader.
A talk for the associations your buyers belong to
The trade body, the manufacturers' association, the district chamber, with a subject their committee will actually schedule.
Result: A room full of owners instead of a room full of coaches.
How the result is measured
- Enquiries that name you or came through your profile
- Searches for your name, from Search Console
- Profile views and connection requests from your industry
- Speaking invitations, press enquiries and podcast requests
- Posts published against posts planned, and what held up the rest
Recorded as a baseline before work starts, then reported every month against it.
How it works
From your first message to the first monthly report.
No open-ended retainer. Each step has a point in time and something you receive.
01 · Day 1
Free audit call
45 minutes with whoever handles your enquiries: how they arrive, how fast they are answered, where they are lost.
02 · Within a few working days
Written, scored report
Six areas scored, fixes ranked by return and cost. If you want our help, the scope and fee come with it, in writing.
03 · Before work starts
Baseline recorded
Enquiries by source, reply time, conversion and cost per order, written down so every later month has an honest comparison.
04 · Month 1
The first fix goes live
Usually the cheapest one on the report: reply time, a follow-up sequence or the marketing-to-sales handover.
05 · Every month
Report against the baseline
What moved, what did not, and what changes next, in plain words.
06 · Month 3 to 6
Renew on the numbers
The term ends and you decide whether to continue from the results. No twelve-month lock.
How the work runs for business coaches
- 1
Work out whether this is even your bottleneck
The audit call covers how enquiries reach you today. Plenty of owners come asking for this and leave with a report saying the company's own site is the weaker link, and that comes first.
- 2
Search your own name with you
We look at what a buyer sees today: every profile, old listing and photograph. Some of it you will want taken down, and some of it only you can take down.
- 3
Agree what you will and will not say
The subjects you know cold, the ones that belong to your clients, and the lines your regulator or association draws. Written down before anything is published.
- 4
Rebuild the profiles
The bio page, LinkedIn and the directories that matter in your field, done once and done properly.
- 5
The monthly rhythm
Interview, drafts, your approval, publication. The interview is the only part that needs you, and it is the part that cannot be skipped.
- 6
Hand it over
The subject list, the drafting notes and the calendar are yours. Plenty of owners keep it running themselves after a few months, and that is a fair outcome.
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 monthly 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 lock-in, no guarantees we cannot keep
Three to six months at a time. 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.
The offer
Start with a free audit of how you sell.
It is useful on its own, whether or not you hire us.
What you receive
- A 45-minute call with the person who will do the work
- A written, scored report on the six places orders leak, within a few working days
- Every fix ranked by what it returns and what it costs
- The one thing to do first, and why
- An honest line on whether you need outside help at all
- If you do, the scope and the fee in writing
No invoice. No obligation. No sales script.
FAQ
Questions owners ask before they call.
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Everyone in coaching says the same things. How does writing help?
Do I need testimonials for this to work?
What if I cannot spare an hour a month?
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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Or start from personal branding.