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One happy client refers the next three, and they all check you first.

Personal branding for a management consultant is the evidence a stranger uses to judge a practice nobody can verify: what a referred client reads before the first call, and how much of your method you are willing to show.

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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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In one paragraph

Personal branding for a management consultant is the evidence a stranger uses to judge a practice nobody can verify: what a referred client reads before the first call, and how much of your method you are willing to show. GullySales draws it out of your live work without breaking a confidentiality clause.

Also written for

Management consultant, Business consultant, Strategy consultant, Operations consultant.

Where this sits

For management and strategy consultants

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

  • “The referral is a name, checked in a car park”

    Your client tells a friend to call you. That friend searches your name on the way into a meeting, and whatever loads in the next forty seconds decides whether the call happens this week or never.

  • “Nothing you claim can be checked, so claims do nothing”

    Anybody in this trade can write that they doubled a client's revenue. Readers have learnt to skip those sentences. What they cannot skip is a description of how you actually diagnose a problem.

  • “Your best work is under a clause”

    The turnaround you are proudest of belongs to a client who will not be named, and the sanitised version reads like a brochure. Most consultants stop there and publish nothing at all.

  • “A full pipeline is the wrong moment to buy this”

    When two accounts pay for your year, visibility feels unnecessary. It feels urgent the month they end, and by then it is two quarters behind. That is the argument for starting when you do not need it.

What we do

What we deliver for management and strategy consultants.

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

  1. A profile that says what you refuse

    The problems you take, the size of company you work with, and the engagements you turn away. Refusal is the most credible thing a consultant can put in writing.

    Result: Fewer enquiries, and the ones that arrive are in your lane.

  2. The interview on live work

    An hour of your time on an engagement in progress. We keep the reasoning and the mistake, take the client out, and send the draft to you before anything moves. Without that hour there is no page worth reading, and outbound calling would be the better spend. If a client crisis eats that hour two months running, we pause rather than publish filler under your name.

    Result: Publishable material from work you are not allowed to name.

  3. Your method written down in full

    The diagnostic, how long it runs, what the client has to supply, what you do in week one, and the point at which you would walk away from the assignment.

    Result: A prospect arrives already knowing what buying you is like.

  4. Case notes with consent on file

    Where a client will agree, the account runs with their name and a written permission behind it. Where they will not, it runs disguised and the page says so.

    Result: Proof that does not cost you a client relationship.

  5. A credentials pack a client can forward

    The one-page version somebody sends internally when recommending you to a colleague who has never heard your name.

    Result: Your referrer introduces you properly instead of from memory.

  6. Associates and subcontractors named

    If a team delivers alongside you, the team is visible, so a buyer is not betting an engagement on your calendar alone.

    Result: A practice rather than a person for hire.

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, so every later report has an honest comparison.

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How it works

How the work runs for management and strategy consultants

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

    Work out whether this is even your bottleneck

    The first conversation covers how enquiries reach you today. If the company's own site is the weaker link, that comes first, and we say so.

  2. 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. 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. 4

    Rebuild the profiles

    The bio page, LinkedIn and the directories that matter in your field, done once and done properly.

  5. 5

    The routine

    Interview, drafts, your approval, publication. The interview is the only part that needs you, and it is the part that cannot be skipped.

  6. 6

    Hand it over

    The subject list, the drafting notes and the calendar are yours. If you would rather keep it running yourself, that is a fair outcome.

Before you hire anyone

The first thing to do yourself.

It costs nothing, and it shows what a buyer sees before they ever call you.

  1. Search your own name and your practice or business name in a private browser window, and list the first ten results.
  2. Open your profile on each major platform and check that the name, photo, description and contact details agree.
  3. Ask two people who recently chose you what they looked up first, and write down their answers.

Judge any provider

What to ask any agency or ghost-writer.

Useful whoever you choose, including us.

  • Who writes my words, and do I approve everything before it goes out?
  • Which of my own details and claims will you need to check with me before publishing?
  • What will you not write because of the rules my profession follows?
  • Whose account do the profiles and the content sit in, and what happens to them if we stop?
  • What do you count as a result, and what will you not promise?

Where this fits

Three pieces of sales work, in this order.

GullySales builds every engagement from three pieces of sales work. This page is not one of them, but the same three steps apply to the business behind it.

  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

    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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My contracts stop me writing about clients. What is left?
Your thinking, which no clause covers. The pattern you keep meeting across engagements, the question you ask in the first meeting, the assumption that turns out to be wrong in your sector. Read your own agreement first, and where it is unclear, ask the client rather than guess.
Will this get me empanelled with large companies?
No. Empanelment is a procurement process with forms, financial documents and a vendor code, and we do not run it. Visibility works at the step after: when your name is already in the process, the background check somebody does comes back well.
How is this different from posting frameworks every day?
Frameworks are the commodity of this trade and everyone owns the same ones. We publish what happened when you applied one and it did not work, because that is the part a buyer cannot get from a search.
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 soon will we see results?
It depends on what is being changed and how many of the people who matter see it. 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 the work touches, such as your profiles, your website or your accounts, and time with the people who can answer our questions.

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