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Keep each client's retirement date, family and next decision in one place.

A CRM for a retirement planning firm is a record of each person's retirement date, family contacts, decisions due and conversations held. GullySales sets up a simple system built around those dates, in a tool your team will really open.

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Scope, fee, reporting and term are agreed in writing after we have read your brief and spoken to you.

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What CRM means

A CRM is the record where every enquiry, call and quote is kept against a customer, replacing separate notebooks, spreadsheets and memory. GullySales sets up or cleans an existing CRM and reports from it by enquiry outcome rather than by activity logged.

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Sales and marketing for retirement planning firms, the overview.

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For retirement planning firms

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

  • “The date matters more than the deal stage”

    A standard sales pipeline tracks stages. A planner tracks a retirement date, a pension option deadline and a provident fund claim. A CRM without a date field cannot tell the planner who needs a call before the date.

  • “The family is part of the record”

    The parent is the client and the daughter abroad is the contact who has to be copied. When that name sits in a notebook and not in the system, a message goes to the wrong person or to nobody.

  • “Notes are private and need care”

    A record may hold health details, family worries and account figures. Decide who sees what, where it is stored and what is kept. Your own adviser can confirm what your registration expects, before any notes are typed into a shared sheet or a phone.

What we do

What we deliver for retirement planning firms.

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

  1. A client record with the fields that matter

    Retirement date, spouse, family contact, decisions due, health cover status and the source of the first enquiry.

    Result: Open any record and see the date and the next decision.

  2. A view of who is nearing a decision

    A list sorted by retirement date and decisions due, so the planner sees whom to call before the date arrives.

    Result: The planner starts the day with a list of people to ring.

  3. A shared contact for family members

    A way to record the adult child, how they wish to be reached and what the parent has agreed they may be told.

    Result: The right relative is copied on the right message.

  4. A simple tool choice and setup

    A comparison of a spreadsheet and the CRMs commonly used in India, with a setup matched to the size of the practice.

    Result: Your team uses one tool and knows what goes in it.

  5. Access and storage rules

    A note on who can see which fields and where the data is kept, for your adviser to review.

    Result: Everyone on the team knows what is private.

How the result is measured

  • Enquiries logged in the CRM
  • Data completeness
  • Reports generated from CRM data

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

Read the full CRM implementation and customisation page

Who it is for

This is written for these retirement planning firms.

  • Retirement planners for salaried employees in their late forties and fifties
  • Advisers working with government and public sector staff with pension schemes
  • Practices for business owners planning to step back or sell
  • Doctors and other professionals who have no employer pension
  • Advisers who work with NRIs returning to India
  • Firms working mainly with the adult children of retirees
  • Fee-only retirement income specialists
  • Firms that run pre-retirement sessions for employers

How it works

How the CRM work runs

The work itself, in order. How an engagement starts, from your brief to a written scope, is set out on our method page.

  1. 1

    Map the sales process

    We record how a deal actually moves from enquiry to close in your business today.

  2. 2

    Configure stages and fields

    The CRM's pipeline and fields are built to match that process exactly, not a generic template.

  3. 3

    Set up automations

    Reminders, assignment rules and follow-up triggers are configured so routine steps happen without manual effort.

  4. 4

    Test with real deals

    We run the configuration against actual current deals to catch gaps before the whole team relies on it.

Where this fits

Three pieces of sales work, in this order.

This work sits inside sales management. A target, a review routine and someone who owns the number.

  1. Step 1

    Sales audit

    Find where deals are being lost and what to fix first.

    Start here if you cannot say where orders are lost.

  2. Step 2

    Sales process design

    One written way to sell, from first enquiry to repeat order.

    Start here if every salesperson sells differently.

  3. Step 3 · you are here

    Sales management

    A target, a review routine and someone who owns the number.

    Start here if the team has targets and no routine.

Tell us what you need Your brief is read before we call. Scope, fee and term in writing.

FAQ

Questions owners ask before they call.

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Is a spreadsheet enough?
For a small practice, yes, if it holds the dates and is opened every day. A CRM becomes worth the cost when several people touch the same client and a date is missed because nobody saw the note.
Can the CRM send messages to clients?
It can, but the first message about a retirement decision should come from the planner. Automated reminders suit appointments and documents, and your adviser should review any wording that touches advice.
What about client privacy?
Treat the record as confidential. Limit access, avoid personal data in shared chats and check your obligations under the data protection law with your own adviser. GullySales does not store your clients' details on its own systems.
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, split into our time, your media spend and production.
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?
It depends on the trade, the channel and what is already in place. After we have read your brief and spoken to you, we say what we would expect to move first and how it will be measured against the baseline. Nothing here is guaranteed.
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?
Your brief, and a conversation. After that, access to whatever this work touches, such as your website, your accounts or your enquiry record, and time with the people who handle your enquiries.
What if we are not happy with the work?
Tell us and the plan changes. Everything is reported against the baseline, so a number that is not moving is visible to both sides. The term is in your written scope, and the refund and cancellation policy sets out the rest.

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