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The sales process · After the order

Most of the damage is done in the week after the order is signed.

The handover is the point where selling stops and the people who do the work take over. It is a written note, a named contact and one conversation, and it decides whether the customer's first month matches what they were sold. GullySales puts that handover into your process.

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In one paragraph

The handover is the point where selling stops and the people who do the work take over. It is a written note, a named contact and one conversation, and it decides whether the customer's first month matches what they were sold. GullySales puts that handover into your process.

An order is signed on Friday. On Monday somebody else rings the customer, or arrives at their gate, knowing the order value and very little else. Six weeks of meetings sit in one head, and it is the wrong head.

The free audit asks what happens at the handover from marketing to sales, where enquiries go cold. This is the second handover, sales to delivery, and it does more damage, because by now the customer has paid you.

Almost every promise that turns into a dispute was made out loud and in good faith. We can start before Dasara. The old line keeps running while we install the new one. Your operator gets trained on site. None of it is in the purchase order.

The closure steps before this end in a signature and a debrief. What follows is the second order, decided in the first month rather than the eleventh. We do not install your machines or treat your patients, so the part we work on is the process: what gets written down, who rings whom, and when.

Where this sits

Stage 9 of 10, after the order. Handing the customer to whoever delivers, then earning the second order and the referral.

The stage before
Sales closure
The stage after
Running the process

If you want this done for you

Make a new customer's first ninety days feel like proof they chose right.

The work

What this step is actually like.

  • The promises nobody wrote down

    In the last meeting before an order, a salesperson gives things away to get it signed. A start date that suits the customer's shutdown week. A site engineer on day one. Payment stages nobody in accounts has seen. Ask him for everything agreed outside the quotation on the day the order lands. In three weeks he will remember only the parts that went well.

  • Twenty minutes, and who has to be in it

    Four people at most: the salesperson, whoever will run the job, the owner, and the person who raises the invoice. That last one is there because a fair share of the arguments turn out to be about payment stages accounts never agreed to. Twenty minutes in the first week is the whole thing. If those are two people in your firm, it takes ten.

  • The introduction that comes before the van

    Your customer should know who is arriving before he arrives. One message from the salesperson does it: this is Naveen, he handles the installation, he will call tomorrow to fix a time. Two lines, sent the same week. Without them your fitter is a stranger at the gate at eight in the morning, arguing about what was included.

  • Where a handover goes wrong

    The note gets written after the first complaint instead of before the first visit. Or it repeats the purchase order, which the delivery team already had. The quiet failure is both sides assuming the other one rang, so nobody did, and the customer spends a fortnight wondering whether anything is happening.

What we do

What you end up with.

The artefacts this step produces, what each one is for, and how you know it is finished.

  1. The handover note

    One page, written by the salesperson on the day the order is confirmed. What they bought and in which configuration. Dates promised out loud, including the ones missing from the quotation. Who signs off at their end and who releases payment. Site access, working hours and the name of the person who will be there. Anything agreed as a favour.

    Result: The person doing the work knows what was sold, not only what was ordered.

  2. The kick-off call

    The salesperson reads those promises back to the customer with the delivery person listening, inside the first week. Let the customer correct them out loud, then date the page.

    Result: A misunderstanding surfaces in week one instead of in month four.

  3. The named contact, both ends

    One person at your end whose number the customer has, and one at theirs who can decide. When your fitter changes, somebody tells the customer before the new one turns up.

    Result: The customer can say who to ring without searching an old message.

  4. The salesperson's last call

    A date in the note for the person who sold it to ring once after the first delivery. Not a courtesy call. Ask what is different from what he described in the meeting.

    Result: Nobody is sold to by one person and then handed to strangers.

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 90-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.

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FAQ

Questions owners ask before they call.

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Who writes the handover note, sales or delivery?
Sales writes it, because only sales knows what was said. Delivery signs that they have read it, and the signature is the part that matters. A note written by the delivery team is a summary of the order, and they already have the order.
We are four people and everybody does everything. Do we still need this?
Yes, and it takes fifteen minutes an order. In a small firm the handover happens inside one person's head, so nothing is written and nobody notices until that person is on leave. One page per order is enough.
How do we know our handover is working?
Ring a customer who bought last month and ask who their contact is now. A correct name means it held. If they name nobody, or say they have been calling the salesperson, it did not, and three calls will tell you today.
What if the salesperson promised something we cannot do?
Tell the customer yourself, early, and say what you will do instead. A promise withdrawn in week one is a negotiation. The same promise found out by the customer in week six is a grievance, and it gets repeated to everyone who asks about you.
How much does it cost?
There is no price list, because the work differs by business. The fee is scoped in the free audit and put in writing before anything starts. For sales work it is mostly our time, with production only where scripts, decks or CRM setup need it.
How long is the contract?
Three to six months at a time. There is no twelve-month lock, and renewal is decided on the numbers against the baseline recorded at the start.
How soon will we see results?
Fixes to reply time and follow-up usually show in weeks, because the enquiries already exist. Process, CRM and training changes show as the team uses them. The monthly report tracks each one against the baseline.
Who will actually do the work?
The person you meet on the audit call. We work from one office in Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru, with no account managers in between.
What do you need from us?
For the audit, last month's enquiries in any format and 90 minutes with whoever handles them. After that, access to the accounts the work touches, such as the website, Google Business Profile or CRM, and time for the monthly review.
What if we are not happy with the work?
Tell us and the plan changes. Every month is reported against the baseline, so a number that is not moving is visible to both sides. Terms run three to six months at a time, and the refund and cancellation policy sets out the rest.

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