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Call back the move-in quote on the day the keys are handed over.

Follow-up for a cleaning company is what happens to the enquiry that asked a rate and went silent. Most of those enquiries have a date attached to them, a handover, a festival or a wedding, and the date is when the call should land. GullySales builds the chase list, the second message and the rule for when to stop.

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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 follow up systems means

A follow-up system is the set routine for calling, messaging or emailing an enquiry more than once, since most buyers do not decide on the first conversation. GullySales sets the number and timing of follow-ups so an undecided buyer keeps hearing from you until they decide either way.

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

  • “A move-in quote has somebody else's date written on it”

    The customer is waiting on possession, a paint job or the packers. Ring on a Tuesday for no reason and you get ignored. Ring the day before the handover and you get the booking.

  • “The second message has to carry the scope, not a reminder”

    A customer comparing three companies cannot tell them apart from a rate alone. Send how many staff come, how many hours it takes, whether you bring the machine and the chemicals, and what a 2BHK deep clean actually covers.

  • “The enquiry that came in the monsoon was a Diwali booking”

    People ask months ahead and then go quiet because the job is not due yet. Park those enquiries against the festival week and call before the diary fills, because by the time they remember you, your good crews are already committed.

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. A date written against every open quote

    The handover, the festival, the shifting date or the function the customer is cleaning for, recorded at the time of the enquiry rather than guessed at later.

    Result: Each quote has a day on which somebody should ring.

  2. A second message that states the scope

    Staff count, hours on site, what is brought and what the customer supplies, plus the rooms and surfaces included, written once and sent to every quote that goes quiet.

    Result: The customer comparing three companies can finally compare.

  3. Festival and season enquiries held in their own list

    Deep clean enquiries that are months early kept separately and worked in the weeks before Diwali, Ugadi or the wedding dates, not left in the general pile.

    Result: Early enquiries turn into bookings before the diary fills.

  4. Site visit outcomes chased the same day

    A rule that any quote given after a walk-through is put in writing before the supervisor reaches the next job, with one agreed contact after it.

    Result: The visit you paid for does not end in silence.

  5. A stop rule everyone follows

    How many contacts a quote gets, what each one carries, and the point at which it is marked dead so nobody is still messaging a customer who booked elsewhere weeks ago.

    Result: Your staff stop wasting mornings on quotes that ended.

  6. Reason lost recorded on every closed enquiry

    Rate, date not available, went with the society's own contractor, job postponed: a word or two entered by whoever spoke to them last.

    Result: You can see whether you are losing on price or on availability.

How the result is measured

  • Follow-up completion rate
  • Average number of follow-ups before close
  • Enquiries closed after repeat follow-up

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

Read the full lead response and follow-up page

Follow-up routine for this trade

Here is what the office does next for each kind of enquiry that has gone quiet.

Rate asked, no booking
Send the price with the service list for that home size and ask for the date the work is needed. Write the date next to the customer's number.
Site visit done, no order
Ring the customer after the supervisor reports the home condition. Share the scope and any extras seen, such as balcony grills or loft cleaning, and note the customer's reply.
Festival or guest-driven booking
Hold these in a separate list with the festival date and message before it with the slots left. Record whether the customer asked for a specific team.
Move-in or move-out enquiry
Ask for the handover or key date and confirm the flat size and floor. Write the date and note that the clean must fit between possession and move-in.
Housekeeping visit done
Message the next day to ask whether the customer is satisfied and if anything was missed. Fix any complaint before asking for a review.
Customer from a previous deep clean
Check the last service date on the record and message when a repeat is likely to be useful, such as before the festival season. Write whether the customer replied.

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

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • You do not record the move-in date or the quote date, so a message would arrive on a day the customer cannot recall.
  • Nobody owns the chasing while crews are out, and a reminder list would sit unread.
  • You plan to message a customer who has said no, which costs the name you want a neighbour to pass on.

How it works

How the follow up systems 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

    Measure today's reply time

    From your recent enquiries, we set the time each arrived against its first reply, using the call log, chats, form entries and portal panel. We also count the follow-ups each one got.

  2. 2

    Agree targets and the sequence

    We set reply targets and the follow-up sequence with your team, based on its real hours and workload.

  3. 3

    Write the templates and first-call questions

    The first reply, the quote follow-up and the last attempt are written in your voice and loaded as quick replies. The first-call questions are agreed with your best salesperson.

  4. 4

    Set ownership, tasks and alerts

    Named owners, cover for leave and CRM or sheet tasks go live. App alerts, such as IndiaMART's, are switched on for the right phones.

  5. 5

    Track and adjust

    Reply time and follow-up completion are reported against the baseline, and the routine is changed where it is not kept. How often you are reported to is agreed in writing.

Where this fits

Three pieces of sales work, in this order.

This work sits inside sales process design, at stage 2, qualification. The audit comes before it, and sales management keeps it running.

  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 · you are here

    Sales process design

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

    Start here if every salesperson sells differently.

  3. Step 3

    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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Our customers never reply to follow-up messages. Why keep sending them?
Because most of them are not refusing, they are waiting on a date. A message that says the flat is yours on Saturday, shall we come Sunday morning gets a reply where any update ma'am does not. Tie the contact to their date and the reply rate changes.
Who should do the chasing when everyone is out on jobs?
One person at a fixed hour, with the list in front of them. It does not need to be the supervisor. A cleaning company that leaves follow-up to whoever is free never follows up, because nobody is ever free.
Is a call better than WhatsApp for someone who asked a rate?
Start with a message because the customer asked the way the customer prefers. Call if there is no reply after two messages or if the job is large, such as a whole villa or a society contract. Write which channel got the reply.
A customer confirmed, then cancelled. What do we do?
Ask politely what changed, such as the date, the price or the crew, and record the reason. Offer another date if the work is still needed. Note the cancellation on the record so the schedule is updated and the crew is not sent to an empty house.
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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