Personal branding · Technology
Your portfolio shows the screens and hides the only part worth reading.
Personal branding for a UX or product designer is mostly a writing problem: a hiring manager opens your case study wanting the constraint, the thing you tested and what you changed, and finds a wall of screens. GullySales writes and runs it from a monthly conversation with you, on a domain that stays yours.
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Personal branding for a UX or product designer is mostly a writing problem: a hiring manager opens your case study wanting the constraint, the thing you tested and what you changed, and finds a wall of screens. GullySales writes and runs it from a monthly conversation with you, on a domain that stays yours.
Also written for
UX designer, UI designer, Product designer, Design lead.
For UX and product designers
Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.
“The case study is opened for the reasoning”
Anyone can post final screens, and half of them were drawn for the portfolio rather than shipped. The reader wants the business limit you worked inside, what you tried first, and what the usability test actually told you.
“Beautiful work with no problem statement looks like coursework”
A grid of pastel dashboards reads as an exercise. One real screen from a claims process that four thousand people use daily, with the reason it looks the way it does, beats the whole grid.
“Most of what you shipped is under wraps”
The unreleased product, the client's brand, the internal tool nobody outside has seen. Permission, or an anonymous write-up, has to be arranged before anything goes up, not after somebody complains.
“Only you remember why”
Six months on, the reason you moved that button has left everyone's memory except yours. Nobody can reconstruct it from the file, which is why this cannot be handed over without the interview.
What we do
What we deliver for UX and product designers.
Every deliverable, what it covers for you, and the result it is there to produce. Nothing here is an extra.
Two case studies written properly
Context, the constraint, what you tested, what changed and what you would repeat, with the screens supporting the argument rather than standing in for it.
Result: A hiring manager reaches the end and knows how you think.
The monthly interview, while you still remember why
An hour on a decision you lost to engineering, a research session that went against your assumption, or a pattern you have stopped using.
Result: Writing in your voice from an hour of talking, which is how designers explain things anyway.
A portfolio site that belongs to you
A simple site carrying your case studies on your own domain, so the work is not sitting inside a platform's feed at the mercy of its rules.
Result: A link you can send that still works after you change jobs.
Your process, described without a diagram
What you do in the first week on a project, how you run a critique, and what you do when there is no research budget and no users to talk to.
Result: Fewer interviews spent proving you can work alongside engineers.
Credit where the work was shared
Researchers, engineers and the other designers named, with your own part in a team project stated plainly instead of left vague.
Result: Nothing in your portfolio a former colleague would dispute.
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 UX and product designers
- 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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