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Keep every founder conversation in one place until the engagement is signed.

A CRM for a marketing consultant is the record of each founder you have spoken to, what they asked for and what happens next. GullySales sets up the fields, stages and reminders to fit an engagement sold through conversations and introductions.

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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 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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Last updated 18 Oct 2026.

For marketing consultants

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

  • “Introductions vanish into chat history”

    A peer mentions a founder on WhatsApp, a call follows and the proposal goes by email. Later, nobody can say who introduced whom. A record holding the introducer, the founder and the stage keeps the thread together and lets you thank the person who sent the name.

  • “The stages differ from a product sale”

    A consultancy moves from conversation to paid review to plan to ongoing advice. A standard pipeline built around demos and trials does not fit. Stages named after your own steps show exactly where each founder stands.

  • “Lost proposals teach more than won ones”

    When a founder picks an agency or goes silent, the reason is worth writing down. Over time the record shows which scopes get declined and which founders go cold, and that reshapes the page and the offer.

  • “Past clients are the next lead”

    A plan delivered long ago needs a second look once real results exist. Without a record of when each engagement ended and what was left open, that follow-up never happens and the client turns to someone else.

What we do

What we deliver for marketing consultants.

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

  1. Stage design

    A set of stages named for your own process, from first conversation through paid review, plan and ongoing advice.

    Result: Each founder sits in a stage you recognise.

  2. Field list

    Fields for introducer, source, stage of business, what they asked for and what they had tried.

    Result: Every record answers who, from where and what for.

  3. Introducer record

    A short list of the people who send you founders, with what each has sent and when you last wrote to them.

    Result: You can thank and update the people who feed your practice.

  4. Lost-reason note

    A required note, when a record is closed, saying why the founder did not proceed.

    Result: Patterns in lost work become visible.

  5. Review-date field

    A date for revisiting each delivered plan, with the open questions noted.

    Result: Past clients are reached when a second look is due.

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.

Read the full CRM implementation and customisation page

Who it is for

This is written for these marketing consultants.

  • Independent marketing consultants and fractional heads of marketing
  • Brand strategy consultants
  • Digital marketing consultants for small and medium businesses
  • Performance marketing advisers who audit spend
  • B2B and industrial marketing consultants
  • Consultants for retail and consumer brands
  • Marketing advisers for professional services and clinics
  • Former agency heads who now advise a few clients at a time

How it works

How the CRM 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

    Map the sales process

    We record how a deal actually moves from enquiry to close in your business today.

  2. 2

    Configure stages and fields

    The CRM's pipeline and fields are built to match that process exactly, not a generic template.

  3. 3

    Set up automations

    Reminders, assignment rules and follow-up triggers are configured so routine steps happen without manual effort.

  4. 4

    Test with real deals

    We run the configuration against actual current deals to catch gaps before the whole team relies on it.

Where this fits

Three pieces of sales work, in this order.

This work sits inside sales management. A target, a review routine and someone who owns the number.

  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

    Sales process design

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

    Start here if every salesperson sells differently.

  3. Step 3 · you are here

    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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Do I need a paid CRM?
A solo consultant can begin with a spreadsheet or a simple tool such as Zoho CRM or HubSpot, whichever you will actually open. The test is whether every conversation gets a row. We set up the structure so it can move to another tool later.
How much client information should the CRM hold?
Only what is needed to run the relationship: names, roles, business and what was discussed. Figures a client shared in confidence belong in the engagement files, not in the sales record that others may see.
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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