The sales process · Sales enablement
Somebody asks what you do and four people answer it four different ways.
A sales pitch is the two minutes somebody from your business speaks when a buyer asks what you do. It names who you work for, the problem they recognise, and what is different afterwards. Written down, it stops being four different answers from four people.
In one paragraph
A sales pitch is the two minutes somebody from your business speaks when a buyer asks what you do. It names who you work for, the problem they recognise, and what is different afterwards. Written down, it stops being four different answers from four people.
It gets asked at an exhibition stall, in a lift, and when a customer's friend wants to know what your company does. The owner gives a version with the founding year in it. The sales engineer answers in product codes, and the person on the phone says we do everything.
A pitch is four moves, spoken: who you work for, what usually goes wrong for them, what you do about it, and what is different afterwards. Two minutes, because that is what a stranger gives you. It is not a deck and not the paragraph from your website read aloud.
It takes what you decided in the value proposition step and puts it in a mouth. Then it becomes the first thing your team practises in meeting roleplay, which is the step after this one. If your answer to who you work for is still everyone, go back rather than forward.
Where this sits
Stage 5 of 10, sales enablement. What the person selling says, sends and answers with, written down instead of improvised.
- The stage before
- Lead generation
- The stage after
- Sales qualification
If you want this done for you
New hires learn the job by listening in on other people's calls.
The work
What this step is actually like.
“Write it for the ear”
Say every sentence out loud before it goes on the page. If you run out of breath, the sentence is too long. If you find yourself saying solutions or offerings, you have not yet said what you do.
“Open with who, not what”
A buyer's first silent question is whether you sell to people like them. Opening with your history answers a question nobody asked. For example, we work with small manufacturers around Peenya who take most of their enquiries on IndiaMART and lose half of them to slow replies.
“Two lengths, not one”
You need the two-minute version and the single sentence for a corridor. The short one is harder to write and gets used far more. Write the long one first, then cut it down to one breath.
“Three people have to be able to say it”
In most small firms the first pitch a buyer hears comes from an office assistant or a junior engineer, not from the owner. So the owner, whoever sells, and whoever answers the phone all sign it off. If they were not in the room while it was written, they will invent their own version by Friday.
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.
The one-page pitch
Four headings on one sheet: who we work for, what usually goes wrong for them, what we do, and what is different afterwards. Under 250 words, written the way it is spoken rather than the way it would be printed.
Result: Anyone in the company can give the same answer without rehearsing it first.
A single-sentence version
The line for a corridor, a WhatsApp introduction, or the bottom of an email. It has to stand on its own with no follow-up question to rescue it.
Result: The short answer stops being a shrug and a job title.
One proof line per claim
Beside each claim, write the thing you would point at if a buyer raised an eyebrow: a photograph, a customer who will take a call, a certificate. A claim with nothing beside it comes out of the pitch.
Result: Nobody has to bluff when a buyer asks how you know that.
A phone recording of it being said
Record the pitch on somebody's phone and listen to it the next morning. You will hear the sentence that sounds like a brochure before any customer does.
Result: The wording gets fixed by the ear that heard it, not by a meeting.
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.
FAQ
Questions owners ask before they call.
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Is this the same as an elevator pitch?
How long does it take to get the pitch right?
Our work is technical. Can two minutes cover it?
Do we need a deck as well?
How much does it cost?
How long is the contract?
Who will actually do the work?
What do you need from us?
What if we are not happy with the work?
Where to go next
The work that carries this step further.
The rest of sales enablement
Or read the whole sales process in order.