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Turn the one-off deep clean into the weekly slot before the crew leaves.

Retention in home cleaning is one move: the customer who booked a single deep clean becoming a household on a recurring visit. That is where the margin is, because you stop paying to find her every time. GullySales builds the offer made at the end of the deep clean and the routine that stops a contract dying quietly.

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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 customer retention means

Customer retention is keeping an existing customer buying again rather than losing them to a competitor after the first purchase, usually cheaper than winning a new customer. GullySales sets a routine of check-ins and renewal reminders aimed at customers before they show signs of leaving.

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For home cleaning companies

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

  • “The deep clean is an audition, and the result is on the floor”

    At the walk-through the flat looks better than it has in years and the customer knows she cannot hold it. That is the only moment a weekly or fortnightly visit sells itself. A phone call a week later is selling from memory.

  • “Contracts are lost on the cleaner changing, not on the rate”

    The household got used to one person who knew where things go. Send somebody new without a word and the next message is a cancellation, whatever the rate is. Tell them in advance and send the new girl with the old one once.

  • “One missed visit ends a contract that took a year to build”

    Nobody complains. The customer simply books somebody else next week and stops answering. The visit that did not happen has to be visible to you on the day, not at the end of the cycle.

What we do

What we deliver for home cleaning companies.

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

  1. The recurring offer scripted for the walk-through

    What the supervisor says while the customer is looking at the finished bathroom, with two visit patterns and a rate she can say yes to on the spot.

    Result: Deep cleans convert into contracts at the door.

  2. A same-staff rule recorded against each household

    The cleaners assigned to a contract written into the record, with a handover visit whenever somebody has to change.

    Result: The family sees a face they know instead of a stranger.

  3. A missed-visit alert the same day

    Any scheduled clean with no completion logged raised to the supervisor before the day ends, with a call to the household built into the response.

    Result: You apologise and rebook before she starts searching.

  4. Win-back calls timed to the season

    Households who took one deep clean and never returned, worked through in the weeks before Diwali and before the school year ends, when the job is on their mind anyway.

    Result: Old customers come back without you paying to find them.

  5. An honest view on whether a loyalty scheme earns its keep

    Whether a prepaid block of visits or a small discount for a longer commitment suits your costs, or whether the same money is better spent on keeping the same crew on the house.

    Result: You spend on the thing that actually holds the customer.

  6. Contract retention measured against the baseline

    How many recurring households you had when the work started, how many you have now, and how many deep cleans became contracts.

    Result: Retention is a count on a page, not an impression.

How the result is measured

  • Retention rate
  • Repeat purchase rate
  • Customers won back

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

Read the full customer retention strategy page

Work it out from your records

Your booking sheet shows which one-time customers became households and which contracts are slipping.

One-time customers who booked again
List customers whose first job was a deep clean and mark who booked a second visit or a contract. Count them against all one-time customers in the same period.
Visits scheduled against visits done
For each recurring household compare the visits scheduled with those completed. One missed visit with no same-day call is the likeliest start of a cancellation.
Cleaner changes per household
Count how often each household's cleaner changed. Compare the households that cancelled with those that stayed. If cancellations follow changes, the same-cleaner rule needs to be firm.
Last visit and the reason given
For each cancelled contract note the date of the last visit and what the customer said. Sort the reasons into price, a missed visit, a cleaner issue, a move or a pause.
Re-clean requests and complaints per job
Count jobs where the customer asked for a re-clean or a correction and who did them. Households with a complaint left open are at risk, even if they say nothing.
Seasonal customers who have not returned
List customers who booked before Diwali or after the monsoon last year and have not booked this year. They are your most predictable calls, since the occasion is already known.

Who it is for

This is written for these home cleaning companies.

  • Deep cleaning and one-time service providers
  • Recurring home maintenance cleaning companies
  • Sofa, carpet and upholstery cleaning specialists
  • Move-in and move-out cleaning services
  • Office and commercial cleaning contractors
  • Society and apartment complex cleaning contracts
  • Franchise-model cleaning companies

How it works

From your first message to the first report.

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

  1. First

    Your brief

    You tell us what you need in a few short steps: your business, what you want, where enquiries come from and how they are handled.

  2. After the brief

    A conversation and a written scope

    We read it, then talk with whoever handles your enquiries. If you want our help, the scope, the fee and the reporting come in writing, and nothing starts before you have read them.

  3. Before work starts

    Baseline recorded

    The numbers this work is meant to move, such as enquiries, quotations, orders, visits or renewals, written down so every later report has an honest comparison.

  4. After the baseline

    The first fix goes live

    The fix we agreed to start with is put in place and measured against the baseline, whether that is a reply, a follow-up, a page, a listing or the handover between marketing and sales.

  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 customer retention work runs

  1. 1

    Assess current retention

    A first read of current retention rate, existing tactics and where they are or are not coordinated.

  2. 2

    Build the strategy

    A written plan developed covering priority segments, touchpoints and a measurable target.

  3. 3

    Align existing tactics

    Current retention activities mapped against the strategy and adjusted to work together rather than independently.

  4. 4

    Track toward the target

    Retention tracked against the goal, with the strategy adjusted as results come in.

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.

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FAQ

Questions owners ask before they call.

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Customers say a weekly clean is too expensive after the deep clean. What then?
Offer fortnightly, and offer it before she raises the price. A fortnightly household at a lower rate is worth far more over a year than a deep clean you have to win again. Write the smaller pattern into the offer so the supervisor is not negotiating on the spot.
How do we stop customers hiring our cleaner directly?
Pay and treat the cleaner well enough that she does not want to, keep the verification, replacement and insurance visible to the customer, and put the terms in the contract. You will still lose some. The ones you keep are kept by the things a private arrangement cannot provide.
A customer paused the service for travel. Do we count her as lapsed?
No. Record a pause with the return date she gave you and keep her on a separate list. Call a little before that date to restart the slot. If she does not restart, treat her as lapsed from that day and ask for the reason.
How do we win back a household that cancelled after a bad visit?
Call yourself, not the booking desk. Say what went wrong, as you understand it, and what has changed. Offer to send the same cleaner or a supervisor for the first visit. Do not argue the point. If she declines, record the reason and leave it.
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.

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