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A promoter is deciding whether to let you into a business their father built.

Personal branding for a private equity investor is the visibility that reaches a promoter before a banker does: the kind of business you buy into, what you change after the deal, and whether the last promoter still takes your call.

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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 private equity investor is the visibility that reaches a promoter before a banker does: the kind of business you buy into, what you change after the deal, and whether the last promoter still takes your call. GullySales builds it from an hour of yours.

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Private equity professional, PE partner, Growth investor.

For private equity professionals

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

  • “Proprietary deals begin with a promoter who already knows your name”

    An auction run by a banker is the expensive way to buy. The deal you want comes from a family in Coimbatore or Rajkot who thought of you when they finally decided to sell a stake.

  • “The fear is not the valuation, it is the second year”

    A second-generation promoter has heard about the fund that replaced the chief financial officer and rebuilt the reporting. Nobody raises this in a meeting. They decide on it anyway.

  • “Intermediaries carry you, so give them something to carry”

    Bankers, chartered accountants and family office advisers pass names along. They need a page stating your cheque size, your sectors and your control preference without a phone call first.

  • “Institutional caution makes every firm identical”

    Every site says the same thing about partnership and operating expertise. What separates you is what you personally did inside a company that struggled, and that never gets written.

What we do

What we deliver for private equity professionals.

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

  1. An investor profile written for a promoter

    Cheque size, minority or control, the sectors and revenue ranges you invest in, how long you hold, and the governance you ask for.

    Result: A family business can tell in one read whether you are the right conversation.

  2. The hour on one portfolio situation

    A succession that was settled before it went to court, a plant expansion that ran over, a management change you handled badly and learned from. The writing comes from that hour, and an associate cannot sit it for you.

    Result: A view from you rather than another firm statement.

  3. What happens in the first hundred days

    The reporting you install, the hires you usually make, what you leave alone, and how a promoter's family stays involved afterwards.

    Result: Fewer deals that die on trust after the term sheet.

  4. Something an intermediary can forward

    A one-page note on your mandate, a current photograph, a short biography, and the two questions you want asked before any introduction.

    Result: Better-matched deals from the people who see them first.

  5. Approved before it is published

    Every draft through your firm's communications and compliance, with no performance figures, no unannounced transactions and nothing about a fundraise.

    Result: A public presence that survives an internal review.

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 private equity professionals

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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Our policy is that partners do not speak publicly.
Then this may not be buyable, and you should check before spending anything. Funds registered as alternative investment vehicles sit under restrictions on what may be said about performance and about raising money, and most firms add rules of their own. Ask compliance for the boundary in writing and we will work inside it.
Would our time not be better spent with bankers?
Keep doing that. This is aimed at the deal that never reaches a banker, where a promoter rings somebody they have been reading for two years. It is slow, and we will tell you plainly in the first conversation if your pipeline makes this a strange quarter to start.
Who actually writes it?
We draft from your interview and you approve every line before it goes anywhere. We will not manufacture an opinion for you. If a draft says something you do not believe, it gets cut.
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 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.
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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