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Remind the office that its letterheads run out next month.

Email marketing for a printing business works where purchase departments live, carrying quotations, reorder reminders and rate revisions that need to be filed. GullySales builds the account list, writes the reorder sequence and keeps the quotation follow-up from being forgotten in a busy week.

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

  • “A purchase officer files a document, not a chat message”

    Vendor files, approvals and GST records all live in email, so a quotation sent only on WhatsApp never reaches the person who signs.

  • “Reorders run on a predictable clock”

    An office that ordered 2000 letterheads in April will need them again, and a mail arriving a fortnight before is an order rather than an interruption.

  • “Most quotations are lost to silence”

    A price sent and never followed up is the largest leak in a print shop, and two short mails recover a part of it.

What we do

What we deliver for printing businesses.

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

  1. An account list with the right contact

    Every business customer recorded with the purchase contact, their usual jobs, quantities and reorder interval.

    Result: You are writing to the person who places the order.

  2. Reorder reminders on each account's clock

    A mail timed to each customer's own reorder interval, carrying their last specification and quantity so approval takes one line.

    Result: The reorder comes to you before they look around.

  3. A two-step quotation follow-up

    Two short mails after a quotation, one asking whether the specification was right and one before the buyer's deadline.

    Result: Quotes stop dying in silence.

  4. A proper quotation document

    Quotations laid out with specification, quantity, taxes, delivery and validity, attached as a file a purchase department can keep.

    Result: Your price clears vendor approval without a rewrite.

  5. New job type announcements to existing accounts

    A short mail when you add a machine or a finish, sent to the accounts that buy the jobs it suits.

    Result: Existing customers hear about work they were sending elsewhere.

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.

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What must be in place first

What a print business needs in place before it emails business accounts.

An account list with the buyer named
List each business customer with the person who orders, the job types and the last order date. A purchase officer changes roles, so note the role as well as the name.
Consent from the quotation
India's data protection law rests on people agreeing to be contacted, so keep proof of that agreement. Add a permission line to the quotation or job order, and record the date.
A sender with samples to show
Mail from a named person at your own domain and link to photographs of real jobs, such as catalogues, labels or packaging. Print is judged by sight.
Segments by job type
Keep stationery buyers, packaging and label buyers, signage buyers and event clients apart. A label buyer has no use for a wedding card note.
Quotations apart from offers
A quotation and its follow-up are business mail. A festival offer is promotion. Keep each on a separate list with an unsubscribe on the promotion.
A reply path to the person who holds samples
Replies go to the person who can find an old sample and give a rate. A reorder enquiry that waits for the owner goes to another press.

Who it is for

This is written for these printing businesses.

  • Commercial offset printing businesses
  • Digital and quick-print shops
  • Packaging and label printing businesses
  • Large format and signage printers
  • Wedding and event stationery printers
  • Corporate stationery and print suppliers
  • Textile and garment printing businesses
  • Print-on-demand and personalised merchandise printers

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.

  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

    Enquiries by source, reply time, conversion and cost per order, 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 reply time, a follow-up sequence, the page buyers land on 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 email marketing work runs

  1. 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. 2

    Audit past sends

    We check open and click rates from past emails to see what has and has not worked.

  3. 3

    Segment and plan

    The list is split into meaningful groups and a sending calendar is agreed.

  4. 4

    Implement content and automation

    Emails are written, scheduled and, where useful, set to trigger automatically based on behaviour.

  5. 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.

  • 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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Do purchase departments actually read supplier mail?
They read the ones that carry a quotation, an invoice or a rate revision. A mail with a subject line naming their last order and quantity gets opened. A general newsletter does not.
Is email better than WhatsApp for our business customers?
For quotations and reorders, yes, because the buyer has to file and forward them. Use WhatsApp for proofs, delivery updates and anything urgent. Most accounts need both.
Should we mail files and proofs to customers?
Send proofs as a clear PDF with the size, paper, colour and quantity written in the mail, and ask for a written approval by reply. That record settles later disputes. Keep large artwork files off mail and share them by link.
Do small business owners read email?
Many check it for invoices and quotes but ignore promotions. Write to them when you have something specific, such as a reorder due or a new size, and keep a WhatsApp number for quick approvals. Ask each account which they prefer.
Do we need to advertise?
Not for urgent jobs, which are won on a fast quote and visible samples. Ads help for a specific push, such as wedding invitations from October or a new packaging line.
Should we check the label text a food brand sends us?
Yes, before the plates are made. Point out a missing FSSAI licence number, net quantity or MRP, even though the brand is responsible for them. A reprint costs both of you, and the brand remembers the printer who caught 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.

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