Software development companies · Email marketing
Propose phase two before the client goes shopping.
Email for a software firm is how a finished project turns into support, a next phase or a referral, and how a lost proposal comes back a year later. GullySales builds the list from your delivery records and times each send.
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 software development companies, the overview.
For software development companies
Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.
“A launched project ends the conversation”
Nobody proposes what comes next, so the client finds another vendor for support six months later.
“Lost proposals were usually lost to timing”
The budget moved to the next year, and nobody wrote again when that year arrived.
“IT heads keep mail, founders keep WhatsApp”
An established company wants the document in email for its approval file, and a startup founder answers on the phone.
What we do
What we deliver for software development companies.
Every deliverable, what it covers for you, and the result it is there to produce. Nothing here is an extra.
A list built from delivery records
Every client, their systems, the launch date, the support status and the person who signed, cleaned of people who have left.
Result: Each send reaches somebody who used the work.
A next-phase note after every launch
A short mail a month after go-live with what the data shows, what is worth adding next and what it would cost.
Result: Phase two is proposed before a competitor appears.
A support offer in writing before warranty ends
What is covered, the response times and the annual price, sent before the warranty period closes rather than after a breakage.
Result: Support becomes an agreement, not a favour.
A note on ageing systems and versions
A mail to clients running a framework, library or platform going out of support, with the risk and the work involved.
Result: Upgrade work is sold before a security problem.
A revival sequence for lost proposals
Two mails to buyers who went quiet, the first with something useful in their domain, the second timed to their budget month.
Result: Last year's no becomes this year's discovery.
Replies and opportunities counted by list
What each send produced, measured as replies and opportunities rather than opens, against the baseline from the audit.
Result: The list that never answers gets rested.
How the result is measured
- Open rate
- Click rate
- Enquiries from email
Recorded as a baseline before work starts, then reported every month against it.
Who it is for
This is written for these software development companies.
- Custom software development companies
- Mobile app developers for Android and iOS
- Product engineering firms working with startups
- IT consultants and technology advisers
- SaaS product companies selling to Indian businesses
- Offshore development centres serving overseas clients
- Firms specialising in one domain, such as healthcare, logistics or fintech
- Low-code and automation developers
- Software firms bidding for government work on GeM
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 monthly report.
No open-ended retainer. Each step has a point in time and something you receive.
01 · Day 1
Free audit call
45 minutes with whoever handles your enquiries: how they arrive, how fast they are answered, where they are lost.
02 · Within a few working days
Written, scored report
Six areas scored, fixes ranked by return and cost. If you want our help, the scope and fee come with it, in writing.
03 · Before work starts
Baseline recorded
Enquiries by source, reply time, conversion and cost per order, written down so every later month has an honest comparison.
04 · Month 1
The first fix goes live
Usually the cheapest one on the report: reply time, a follow-up sequence or the marketing-to-sales handover.
05 · Every month
Report against the baseline
What moved, what did not, and what changes next, in plain words.
06 · Month 3 to 6
Renew on the numbers
The term ends and you decide whether to continue from the results. No twelve-month lock.
How the work runs for software development companies
- 1
Assess
The free audit looks at revenue by client, where each project came from, how proposals are priced, and how much founder time goes into selling.
- 2
Choose the specialism
A written decision on domains, project types and markets to lead with.
- 3
Build the proof
NDA-safe case studies, a discovery offer and a proposal that answers the buyer's risk questions.
- 4
Run the pipeline
Research-led outreach, partner referrals and a CRM that shows every opportunity.
- 5
Grow the accounts
Account plans, next-phase proposals and support contracts for every client you have delivered for.
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.
Hotel Felicity Inn
- Situation
- A traveller compares three hotels on a phone and books one. The website was not built for that.
- What we did
- The site rebuilt around booking
- Photography and one look
- Search work for destination searches
- Content a traveller reads
- Result
- Online bookings increased 35%
- Organic traffic increased 50% within six months
- Positive reviews on Google and TripAdvisor increased 30%
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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 monthly 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 lock-in, no guarantees we cannot keep
Three to six months at a time. 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 45-minute call with the person who will do the work
- A written, scored report on the six places orders leak, within a few working days
- 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.
What do we send a client whose project is finished?
How often should we write to past clients?
How do we show our work when everything is under NDA?
Should we quote fixed price or time and material?
How long is the contract?
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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