Heavy equipment and forklift dealers · Email marketing
You know who owns every serial number and you write to none of them.
Email and text for an equipment dealership are worked off the install base: who owns which machine, at what hour meter, with what service history. GullySales pulls that list out of the DMS and the work orders, runs the quote chase and the parts reminders, and records consent before any text goes out.
Scope, fee, reporting and term are agreed in writing after we have read your brief and spoken to you.
What email marketing means
Email marketing is sending planned messages to a list of past and prospective customers who have agreed to hear from you. It suits offers, updates and staying in touch with someone who is not ready to buy yet. GullySales writes and schedules these emails and tracks who opens, clicks and enquires.
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Sales and marketing for heavy equipment and forklift dealers, the overview.
Last updated 5 Oct 2026.
For heavy equipment and forklift dealers
Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.
“The hour meter is the mailing list”
A 2,000 hour service, an undercarriage inspection and a set of wear parts are all predictable from the meter reading on the last work order.
“Texting a customer is a registered activity here”
A number used to text customers has to be registered, consent has to be recorded and stopping has to be honoured. Getting it wrong costs more than a missed quote.
“Quotes die in an inbox with nobody watching”
A wheel loader quote goes out with a finance option and the next contact is whenever the buyer calls back. A dated sequence with a phone call beside it changes the outcome.
What we do
What we deliver for heavy equipment and forklift dealers.
Every deliverable, what it covers for you, and the result it is there to produce. Nothing here is an extra.
The install base pulled into one usable list
Customer, machine, serial number, hour meter and last service date taken out of the DMS and the work orders into one list you can sort.
Result: You can write to the owners of one model on one afternoon.
Parts and service campaigns triggered by meter reading
Scheduled reminders for the services and wear items due at known hours, sent only to the owners we can identify.
Result: Service bays fill from your own customers rather than walk-in luck.
A dated quote chase across email and phone
Every machine quote logged with follow-up dates, prepared answers on hours, warranty, freight and finance, and a reason recorded when it ends.
Result: A quote still being weighed gets a second conversation.
Consent capture and number registration set up
Consent wording put on the forms and into the call script, records kept, and the A2P registration for your texting number completed.
Result: The texting programme can run without an argument later.
An aged inventory mailing to past enquirers
The units sitting longest offered to everybody who asked about that model in the past year, with fresh photographs and an honest condition note.
Result: Money tied up in the back row starts moving.
A season readiness mailing
Wear parts, undercarriage checks and attachment offers timed to when crews come back on in your region.
Result: Work orders are booked before the first breakdown call.
Orders traced to email and text
Parts orders, work orders and machine sales attributed to a mailing, reported against the baseline recorded at the start.
Result: The list gets treated as an asset.
How the result is measured
- Open rate
- Click rate
- Enquiries from email
Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.
What must be in place first
What an equipment dealer needs in place before it emails contractors and fleet owners.
- An install base list from the DMS
- Export each customer, machine model, serial number, hour meter and last service from the dealer system. A parts reminder that names the machine is read. Fill gaps from service job cards.
- Fleet owners and operators as different contacts
- The owner buys, the fleet manager books services and the operator reports faults. Tag each, so a quotation goes to the buyer and a service reminder to the person who runs the schedule.
- Consent for mail and text recorded
- Note on the sales or service form that the customer agrees to receive service, parts and offers. Send texts only to numbers with that consent. Check telecom rules in force for commercial messages.
- A quotation that survives a forward
- State the model, configuration, price, GST, delivery terms, warranty and finance options if any. A contractor will forward it to a partner or a bank, so the details must be complete.
- A reply route to the service desk
- Route replies to the person who can book a service or send a part. A contractor who writes about a hydraulic hose on a Sunday wants an answer from someone who knows the machine.
Who it is for
This is written for these heavy equipment and forklift dealers.
- Full-line construction equipment dealers for a single manufacturer
- Independent used equipment dealers and brokers
- Forklift and material handling dealers running a service fleet
- Compact tractor and agricultural equipment dealers
- Crane, telehandler and aerial lift specialists
- Attachment, tyre and wear parts suppliers
- Dealers running a rental fleet alongside sales
- Single-location dealers competing with a multi-state group
How it works
From your first message to the first report.
No open-ended retainer. Every step gives you something in writing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 email marketing work runs
- 1
Understand your list
We review who is on the list, how they got there, and how long it has been since they last heard from you.
- 2
Audit past sends
We check open and click rates from past emails to see what has and has not worked.
- 3
Segment and plan
The list is split into meaningful groups and a sending calendar is agreed.
- 4
Implement content and automation
Emails are written, scheduled and, where useful, set to trigger automatically based on behaviour.
- 5
Measure and optimise
We track performance and adjust subject lines, timing and content based on what the list responds to.
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.
Hours that fit your day, agreed up front
Which hours we overlap with yours is settled before any work starts, so you know when a reply is coming and when it is not.
#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.
FAQ
Questions owners ask before they call.
Not here? More answers, or ask on WhatsApp.
Our data sits in the DMS and in the technicians' heads. Can this be done at all?
How much email is too much for a contractor list?
Can we email owners of machines we did not sell?
What should a parts reminder say?
How soon will we see results?
Who will actually do the work?
What do you need from us?
What if we are not happy with the work?
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Your next practical step
Tell us what you are trying to grow, and we will read it before we call.
Eight short steps, mostly taps. Skip anything you would rather answer on the call.