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Decide between chasing new equipment sales and growing AMC revenue.

A sales strategy for an industrial manufacturer decides how much effort goes to winning new equipment orders versus growing recurring AMC and spare parts revenue from existing clients.

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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 sales strategy means

Sales strategy is deciding which customers to chase, through which channel and at what price, instead of every salesperson working their own way. GullySales sets this plan against your actual pipeline and the deals you have won and lost so far.

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Last updated 5 Oct 2026.

For industrial equipment manufacturers

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

  • “New equipment sales have a longer, costlier cycle”

    Winning a new client typically takes longer and costs more to acquire than growing an existing account.

  • “Existing clients are the fastest path to revenue”

    AMC and spare parts upsells to current clients usually close faster than a new equipment RFQ.

  • “Export markets need a distinct strategy”

    International sales require different documentation and relationship-building than domestic accounts.

What we do

What we deliver for industrial equipment manufacturers.

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

  1. Effort split between new equipment and existing accounts

    A written decision on how much sales effort goes to new equipment RFQs versus AMC and spare parts upsells to existing clients.

    Result: The team knows where their time is meant to go.

  2. Existing account upsell plan

    A plan naming which existing clients are due an AMC or spare parts conversation, based on delivery and service history.

    Result: The fastest path to revenue gets a deliberate plan, not luck.

  3. Export sales approach separate from domestic

    A distinct strategy for international accounts, covering documentation and relationship-building that differs from domestic sales.

    Result: Export sales are pursued with an approach built for how they actually close.

  4. Deal ownership assigned by contact type

    A stated owner for the technical relationship and the commercial relationship on each significant deal.

    Result: No deal stalls because it is unclear who is meant to follow up.

  5. Strategy checked against revenue mix

    A review against your baseline of how revenue actually split between new equipment, AMC and export, checked against the strategy.

    Result: The strategy adjusts to where revenue is actually coming from.

How the result is measured

  • Win rate
  • Average deal size
  • Pipeline coverage against target

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

Read the full sales strategy and consulting page

Choices a sales strategy makes

Make these calls from your installed base, RFQ register and AMC records.

Which installed machines to visit first
List every machine you have supplied, its year of installation and whether an AMC is running. Visit first the plants with older machines and lapsed AMCs, where spares, retrofits and replacement enquiries begin.
Which industries to target with new equipment
Group past orders by the buyer's industry: pharma, food processing, packaging, cement or textiles. Target the industry where your machines ran without major complaints and a reference plant will take a call.
How an RFQ reaches a purchase order
Write the path: RFQ, technical clarification, quotation, factory acceptance test, negotiation, PO, advance. Check lost RFQs to see whether you lost on specification, price or delivery date.
Who answers technical queries and who negotiates
Split the roles: an application engineer for drawings, capacity and specification questions, and a commercial person for price, payment terms and dispatch. Name both on every quotation.
Which custom builds to decline
Check job files for one-off machines that needed heavy redesign and ran over cost. Decline builds outside your standard range unless the buyer pays for design time, and say so in the quotation.

Who it is for

This is written for these industrial equipment manufacturers.

  • CNC machine and precision equipment manufacturers
  • Industrial pump and compressor manufacturers
  • Packaging machinery manufacturers
  • Conveyor and material handling equipment makers
  • Motor and drive manufacturers
  • Custom fabrication and job-work manufacturers
  • Export-oriented industrial equipment makers
  • Spare parts and after-sales service providers

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • You have no installed base list, so a plan to grow AMC revenue has no starting point.
  • You have not agreed which sectors and regions you will serve, so a strategy would be a list of everything.
  • The owner will not give up any enquiry that fits poorly, so a choice cannot be made.

How it works

How the sales strategy 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

    Agree the question

    We read your requirements brief and fix the decision the strategy has to answer, so the review does not drift.

  2. 2

    Read your records

    We go through sales data, quotations, lost deals and enquiry sources, and talk to the people who sell and the people who deliver.

  3. 3

    Test the findings in the market

    Segments, channels and competitors are checked against buyers outside your current customer list, including a few conversations with buyers and with those who did not buy.

  4. 4

    Draft the direction with you

    Choices are put to the owner and sales leaders before they are written up, because they hold the knowledge and have to carry it out.

  5. 5

    Write, present and hand over

    The strategy and roadmap are written, presented with the reasoning, and left with a named owner for each first action.

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.

All case studies

  • Burhani Hydroline

    Situation
    The website was dated. Menus were hard to follow, pages were slow, and it did not work properly on a phone, which is where a buyer looks first.
    What we did
    • Research before design
    • Wireframes and prototypes
    • The full product catalogue
    • An online checkout
    Result
    No numbers were recorded for this engagement. The work is described in full in the case study.
    Read the case study

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Where this fits

Three pieces of sales work, in this order.

This work sits inside sales process design, at stage 1, prospecting and lead generation. 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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Should a small manufacturer focus on new sales or existing accounts?
Usually both, but existing accounts often deserve more attention than they get, given the faster close.
How often should this be reviewed?
Every few months, checking which approach is actually growing revenue.
Should our dealers or our own team handle AMC renewals?
Look at who services the machine today. Where a dealer's technicians make the service visits, the dealer holds the relationship and should renew it on your price list. Where your own engineers visit, keep renewals in-house. Mixed arrangements lose renewals because each side assumes the other has called.
Our orders follow our buyers' capital spending. How do we plan for slow years?
Expect new machine orders to slow when your buyers' industries hold back on expansion. Build the installed base side before that happens: AMCs, spares, upgrades and relocation jobs. Those keep the service and sales teams working while new equipment RFQs are thin.
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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