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Pick three sales fixes, give each an owner and a number, and check on day ninety.

A ninety day sales improvement plan is a one-page commitment to fix a few named things in your sales team, each with an owner, a starting number and a target. This page covers the purpose statement, how to choose the fixes, and the signed sheet you review at the end of each month.

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

A ninety day sales improvement plan is a one-page commitment to fix a few named things in your sales team, each with an owner, a starting number and a target. This page covers the purpose statement, how to choose the fixes, and the signed sheet you review at the end of each month.

The Diwali rush is over, the godown in Peenya is full of unsold stock, and the owner tells the Monday meeting that sales must improve. Nobody asks by how much, by when, or whose job it is. Three months later the team feels busy and the ledger looks the same.

The plan replaces that announcement. It is one sheet: a purpose in three or four sentences, then three to five improvements, each with one owner, one number today, one number you want on day ninety and a date. The owner signs it and it is pinned where the team sits.

In a family firm the real sign-off may sit with an elder brother, a father or a spouse who never comes to the sales meeting. Ask who that is before you write a word, and show them the draft early. A target the owner agreed and the elder brother overruled over dinner is a dead plan.

Pick the improvements from your own scorecard or a skills baseline, not from an article you read last week. The weekly coaching and review routines elsewhere in this section are how the plan gets worked day to day; this sheet only says what you are working on and how you will know.

Where this sits

Topic 8 of 8 in sales training and coaching: training programme design. Designing training that changes behaviour. Distinct from the sales-management training pages: these are team-level designs.

If you want this done for you

Sales blames the leads, marketing blames the reps, and nobody has the data to settle it.

The work

What this is actually like.

  • “Count the days from the financial year”

    If day ninety lands in the last week of March, the numbers belong to year-end pushes, stock clearance and collection drives, and any improvement hides behind them. Start the clock so the review falls in a plain month, or write the distortion next to the target.

  • “Three fixes is a limit”

    Five rows with one owner each is a plan. Fifteen rows is a wish list, and the team quietly does the three that were already easy. Put the rest on a second sheet headed later and open it on day ninety.

  • “A goal without a baseline cannot be missed”

    Sell more is not a goal. Calls per rep per day, quotations sent per week, share of quotations followed up inside two days: write today's figure from your own register, then the target. If today's figure does not exist, month one's job is to start counting.

  • “The owner needs a row too”

    Plans fail when every row belongs to a rep and none to the person who controls stock, credit limits and discounts. If the fix needs a faster credit approval or a fast-moving item kept in stock, that is the owner's row, with a date.

What we do

What you end up with.

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

  1. Purpose statement

    Three or four sentences written by the owner on why the team is working on sales now and what changes in the business if it works. State the reason in rupees or customers, not in words like growth.

    Result: Finished when a rep can repeat the reason to a colleague without reading it.

  2. Goal table

    One row per improvement. Columns: improvement, owner, today's figure, day ninety target, how it is counted, date. Each rep adds up to three personal goals to the same sheet.

    Result: Finished when every row has a number in both figure columns and a name in owner.

  3. Signed sheet

    The purpose and the table on one page, signed by the owner and by any family member who decides on stock or credit, then shared with the whole team.

    Result: Finished when it is pinned in the office and sitting in the team WhatsApp group.

  4. Month-end check

    A thirty minute meeting at the end of each month in the ninety days. The row owner enters the current figure, writes a one-line reason for any miss, and the group decides to keep, change or drop the row.

    Result: Finished when every row shows a current figure entered by its own owner.

  5. Day ninety review

    The same table with actual figures, what you learned, and the next three rows drawn from the later sheet.

    Result: Finished when the first draft of the next plan exists before the meeting ends.

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 later 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 guarantees we cannot keep

    The term is agreed in writing and never a default twelve months. 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.

Your brief

Tell us what you need, and we will read it before we call.

Eight short steps about your business, what you want and who decides. Most questions are a tap, and you can skip any you would rather answer on the call.

FAQ

Questions owners ask before they call.

Not here? More answers, or ask on WhatsApp.

How many goals should the plan have?
Three to five for the business and up to three for each rep. More than that and nothing gets enough attention. Whatever does not fit goes on a later sheet that you open on day ninety.
Do we need a consultant to run it?
No. The sheet is one page and the owner can run it with the sales head. Bring in an outside person when the owner cannot state the starting figures, or when the team will not give straight answers to the owner.
What if we miss the targets on day ninety?
Read the row, not the person. Either the target was set without a baseline, the owner's own part did not happen, or the fix was the wrong one. Decide which, and change the row for the next ninety days.
Should pay and incentives go into the plan?
Keep them out. Changing incentives mid-plan mixes two experiments, and rules on pay and statutory dues differ by state and change, so take that to your own CA or adviser separately.
We are five people. Is this too heavy?
Five people need it more, since one rep on leave moves the whole number. Keep it to one page, three rows and a thirty minute meeting each month.
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. For sales work it is mostly our time, with production only where scripts, decks or CRM setup need it.
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?
Fixes to reply time and follow-up are the quickest to show, because the enquiries already exist. Process, CRM and training changes show as the team uses them. Each one is tracked against the baseline.
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?
To start, last month's enquiries in any format and time with whoever handles them. After that, access to the accounts the work touches, such as the website, Google Business Profile or CRM.

Your next practical step

Tell us what you are trying to grow, and we will read it before we call.

Eight short steps, mostly taps. Skip anything you would rather answer on the call.