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Contract logistics providers · Sales strategy

Choose the industries, sites and bids to chase, and the ones to turn down.

A sales strategy for a contract logistics provider decides which industries and corridors to sell into, which services to lead with, and which bids to refuse because the site, the term or the payment cannot carry the cost. GullySales works it out with your directors from your own contracts, site occupancy and lost bids.

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What sales strategy means

Sales strategy is deciding which customers to chase, through which channel and at what price, instead of every salesperson working their own way. GullySales sets this plan against your actual pipeline and the deals you have won and lost so far.

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Last updated 6 Oct 2026.

For contract logistics providers

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

  • “Everything gets bid, so nothing is won on strength”

    Every RFQ gets an answer, operations is stretched across ten bids and the ones that suit you get the same attention as the ones that do not.

  • “Empty racking is the real sales target”

    A site with free space and a team in place costs the same to run as a full one. Sales does not see occupancy, so it chases new places instead of filling its own.

  • “One large client carries the company”

    A single contract is most of the revenue, and its renewal date is the most important date in the diary. Nobody has a plan for what comes after.

What we do

What we deliver for contract logistics providers.

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

  1. A target list by industry and corridor

    Built from where your sites are, the industries you already run well and the plants within reach of each.

    Result: Outreach goes where you can serve, not where a list was bought.

  2. A bid and no-bid rule

    A written test on site fit, term, payment days, liability and who it would compete with, agreed by directors and applied to each RFQ.

    Result: The decision stops depending on who is in the room.

  3. A service lead for each industry

    Which service to open with for each industry, drawn from your own margins and your site's real strengths.

    Result: Each buyer hears about what you do best for his kind of goods.

  4. An occupancy-linked selling plan

    Free space and spare manning at each site, with the buyers most likely to need it.

    Result: Existing sites fill before new ones are opened.

  5. An account plan for each large client

    Contacts at each plant, contract dates, the services not yet sold and the person who owns the relationship.

    Result: Expansion is planned, not left to chance.

  6. A stop list

    The kinds of work, regions and buyers you will no longer chase, with the reason recorded.

    Result: Effort stops going to work that costs you more than it earns.

How the result is measured

  • Win rate
  • Average deal size
  • Pipeline coverage against target

Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.

Read the full sales strategy and consulting page

Choices a sales strategy makes

Settle these choices about industries, sites and bids from your own contracts and occupancy records.

Which industry to sell into first
List current clients by industry and mark which have the best renewals, the cleanest payments and the fewest disputes. Chase more of that type before a new one.
Which service to lead with
Compare dedicated warehousing, in-plant work and transport on your own contract margins. Open conversations with the service that earns, not the one with the most pallets.
How a sale moves from RFI to contract
Write the steps, the owner of each and the point where operations and finance must sign. A step with no owner is where bids stall.
Which corridors you can cover
Mark the plants within reach of each site and the supervisors available to run them. Do not bid for a plant you cannot staff on the first day.
What to say no to
Decline an RFQ when the term is too short to recover set-up costs, payment days are too long or liability is uncapped. Log each refusal and the reason.
What to stop
Drop work that ties up supervisors for little margin, unless it leads to a larger contract you are actively pursuing.

Who it is for

This is written for these contract logistics providers.

  • Dedicated warehousing for manufacturers
  • In-plant and line-side logistics for auto and engineering plants
  • Inbound milk-run and supplier pickup operators
  • FMCG and consumer durables distribution centres
  • Pharma and healthcare 3PLs with temperature-controlled storage
  • Retail and ecommerce replenishment operators
  • Spare parts and aftermarket logistics
  • Reverse logistics and returns processing

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • You want a guaranteed Google ranking or a guaranteed number of leads. Nobody honest can promise either.
  • You need enquiries by next week and have nobody to answer them.
  • You want posts and reach reported, not enquiries and orders.

How it works

From your first message to the first report.

No open-ended retainer. Every step gives you something in writing.

  1. First

    Free audit call

    90 minutes with whoever handles your enquiries: how they arrive, how fast they are answered, where they are lost.

  2. After the call

    Written, scored report

    Six areas scored, fixes ranked by return and cost. If you want our help, the scope, the fee and the reporting come with it, in writing.

  3. Before work starts

    Baseline recorded

    Enquiries by source, reply time, conversion and cost per order, written down so every later report has an honest comparison.

  4. After the baseline

    The first fix goes live

    Usually the cheapest one on the report: reply time, a follow-up sequence or the marketing-to-sales handover.

  5. As agreed

    Report against the baseline

    What moved, what did not, and what changes next, in plain words. How often you get it is set in writing before work starts.

  6. At renewal

    Renew on the numbers

    The term ends and you decide whether to continue from the results. The length is agreed in writing before anything starts.

How the work runs for contract logistics providers

  1. 1

    Listen to how bids are won and lost

    The free audit call traces the last year's RFIs, who sent them, how each was answered and where the proposals stalled.

  2. 2

    Write the answers once

    An RFI library, a pricing explainer and a site visit pack that operations and sales both use.

  3. 3

    Be on the shortlist

    Capability pages, corridor outreach and a consultant briefing aimed at the people who draw the list.

  4. 4

    Run the visit and the proposal

    A bid tracker, a data request, a clarification log and a follow-up routine through the decision.

  5. 5

    Report on contracts, not activity

    RFIs, visits, proposals and contracts against the baseline taken before anything changed.

Proof

What happened when owners fixed this.

Real clients, the work we did, and the result as it was recorded. Where no number was recorded, none is claimed.

All case studies

  • Chord Road Hospital

    Situation
    Patients who knew the hospital trusted it. Patients who searched for a department or a treatment in the area did not find it.
    What we did
    • Website rebuilt around patient needs
    • Search visibility
    • Social media on a schedule
    • Review management
    Result
    • Organic traffic increased 60% within six months
    • Online appointment bookings increased 40%
    • Social following grew 45%, and engagement on it rose 70%
    Read the case study

  • Hotel Felicity Inn

    Situation
    A traveller compares three hotels on a phone and books one. The website was not built for that.
    What we did
    • The site rebuilt around booking
    • Photography and one look
    • Search work for destination searches
    • Content a traveller reads
    Result
    • Online bookings increased 35%
    • Organic traffic increased 50% within six months
    • Positive reviews on Google and TripAdvisor increased 30%
    Read the case study

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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.

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
  • 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.

How the audit scores you: the Order Leak Framework

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FAQ

Questions owners ask before they call.

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Our MD wins every contract. When should that change?
When bids wait because he is travelling, or when no one else can hold a client relationship. Hand renewals and day-to-day account contact to account managers first, and keep the MD on new senior-level introductions where his seniority counts.
Should we open a site before we have a client for it?
That is a decision for your directors and your finance people. From the sales side, a site opened with no anchor client turns into a hunt for any client. Many providers wait for a signed anchor, or open with a client already in the pipeline.
When should we revisit the plan?
After each major award or loss, and before you commit to new space. Read what the last few bids say about where you win and where you do not. A plan that only gets looked at at year-end has usually been overtaken.
When do we hire a business development person?
When you can name the industries, the corridors and the list he will work, and operations can serve what he wins. Without that list, he chases every consultant's invitation and the team stops trusting the pipeline.
Should we publish how we price?
Publish the structure, not the rates. Explain what is fixed and what varies with volume, how storage, handling and transport are charged, and what happens to the price if volumes swing. Procurement can then compare you with confidence, and the real rates stay for the bid.
Our contracts stop us naming clients. What proof can we show?
Describe the site and the work without the name: the industry, the kind of goods, the size of the operation in words and the systems used. Then ask clients at signing, in writing, whether they will take a reference call. Buyers ask for exactly that call.
How soon will we see results?
Fixes to reply time, follow-up and your Google Business Profile are the quickest to show, because the enquiries already exist. Ads can follow soon after follow-up is in place. SEO and content take longer. How long each takes depends on your business, and the audit tells you which applies to you. Nothing here is guaranteed.
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 review meetings.

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