Managed IT service providers · CRM
Keep the pipeline out of the ticket system and the renewals out of memory.
A CRM for a managed IT provider is the sales record that sits beside your ticketing tool: prospects with seat counts, the date their current arrangement ends, who signs, and each client's renewal and add-on history. GullySales decides what gets recorded and when, sets it up in the tool you have or a simple sheet, and puts renewals on dates instead of memory.
A 90-minute audit call and a written, scored report. Turnaround, reporting and term are agreed in writing after the audit.
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 managed IT service providers, the overview.
Last updated 6 Oct 2026.
For managed IT service providers
Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.
“The ticketing tool is mistaken for a CRM”
Your help desk tool knows every printer fault but not who signs the renewal, what the client was quoted or which prospect is due a call.
“Seat changes go unbilled”
A client hires a new team, the help desk sets them up, and the agreement keeps invoicing the old headcount.
“Founders sell on WhatsApp”
The best buying conversations happen in a chat between two founders, and none of it reaches a record anyone else can see.
What we do
What we deliver for managed IT service providers.
Every deliverable, what it covers for you, and the result it is there to produce. Nothing here is an extra.
Fields that match how this trade sells
Users, devices, locations, current IT arrangement, its end date, the trigger and the signer, kept on every prospect and nothing beyond that.
Result: The record tells you who to call next.
A link between the help desk and the sales record
Seat changes, onboarding requests and project tickets flagged from the ticketing tool to the account, so billing and add-on quotes follow the work.
Result: New users get invoiced and project work gets quoted.
Renewal dates with a lead time
Each agreement's end date entered with a review task set well before it and a named owner.
Result: The renewal talk starts while there is still room to change the scope.
Lost reasons from a short list
Price, chose a freelancer, kept it in-house, stayed with the current vendor, no decision and timing, with one choice required on every lost deal.
Result: You can see whether you lose on price or on trust.
A rule for WhatsApp conversations
A two-line summary of any buying chat pasted into the record the same day, with the chat itself left where it is.
Result: A salesperson who leaves does not take the pipeline along.
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.
What to record, and when
What a managed IT provider should record about each prospect and client, and when.
- Users, devices and sites at the first call
- Write down how many people need support, how many machines and servers, and which locations. Those counts set the price and decide whether the deal deserves an assessment.
- Current arrangement and its end date
- In-house person, freelancer, another provider or nobody, and when that ends. The end date is when the prospect can actually say yes, so set the follow-up from it.
- The trigger and the signer
- Note why they called now, such as a resignation, an audit or growth, and who approves the spend. A founder's interest without the finance head's agreement is not yet a pipeline deal.
- Findings from the assessment
- Record the risks found, such as untested backups or a shared admin password. Both the proposal and the next renewal conversation draw on this list.
- Seat changes after signing
- Log every user added or removed with the date, matched against the invoice. Unbilled seats quietly erode a per-user agreement.
- Do you need software yet?
- Not while one person sells to a short list; a shared sheet with these columns will do. Move to a CRM when a second person sells or renewals start slipping past unnoticed.
Who it is for
This is written for these managed IT service providers.
- Per-user support for growing offices without an IT team
- Resident engineer and IT facility management providers
- Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace managed service partners
- Co-managed IT for companies with one in-house IT person
- MSPs serving CA firms, clinics and other compliance-heavy offices
- Backup and endpoint management specialists
- IT support firms for factories and export units
- Remote-first providers serving offices in several cities
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.
First
Free audit call
90 minutes with whoever handles your enquiries: how they arrive, how fast they are answered, where they are lost.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 managed IT service providers
- 1
Assess
A free audit of where your current agreements came from, how many clients are per-user against break-fix, how renewals are handled and how fast new enquiries get a reply.
- 2
Write the scope and price model
One scope sheet, two or three per-user tiers and a proposal format the finance head can read without a call.
- 3
Be found at the moment of change
Pages, listings and referral routes aimed at resignations, audits, growth and vendor takeovers.
- 4
Follow up to signature
Assessments booked, proposals chased on dates fixed when they are sent, and prospects with a known contract end date called before it.
- 5
Renew and add seats
Renewal packs, licence reviews and new-service proposals for every client, with the outcome read against the baseline.
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.
Sentence Labs
- Situation
- Almost nothing of Sentence Labs was online, so a technically credible company was more or less invisible to the buyers who needed it.
- What we did
- Research first
- The website rebuilt
- Search work across the board
- Google Business Profile
- Result
- No numbers were recorded for this engagement. The work is described in full in the case study.
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%
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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.
FAQ
Questions owners ask before they call.
Not here? More answers, or ask on WhatsApp.
Our help desk tool has a sales module. Is that enough?
Our account managers never update the CRM. What do we change?
How do we capture deals discussed on WhatsApp?
Who owns the client contacts if our salesperson leaves?
Should we price per user, per device or as a flat retainer?
How do we justify the fee in a year when nothing broke?
How long is the contract?
How soon will we see results?
What do you need from us?
What if we are not happy with the work?
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