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Send the CTO the note about their problem, from an engineer they could call.

Email marketing for a cloud and DevOps firm is the short, useful mail that keeps you known to a CTO who is not ready yet, and to a client between projects. It rests on clear permission, a sender who can answer technical replies and lists split by cloud and trigger. GullySales builds that foundation first and then writes the few mails worth sending.

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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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Sales and marketing for cloud and DevOps service companies, the overview.

Last updated 6 Oct 2026.

For cloud and DevOps service companies

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

  • “Project mails and marketing mails get mixed”

    Maintenance notices and incident updates go to the same list as offers, so one unsubscribe can silence an outage alert.

  • “A newsletter of vendor news adds nothing”

    Everyone on the list already gets the vendor's own announcements, and a roundup of them is the first mail a CTO deletes.

  • “The reply goes nowhere”

    A prospect answers with a technical question and the reply lands in a shared inbox that nobody on the engineering team ever opens.

What we do

What we deliver for cloud and DevOps service companies.

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

  1. A list with a recorded source for every address

    Meet-up sign-up sheets, assessment forms, webinar registrations and client contacts kept as separate lists, each address tagged with where and when it was collected.

    Result: Every mail has a reason to be in that inbox.

  2. A separate sending domain for marketing

    A sub-domain with SPF, DKIM and DMARC set up so a spam complaint on a marketing mail never reaches the address that sends incident notices and invoices.

    Result: Client-critical mail keeps landing in the inbox.

  3. A follow-up sequence after an assessment

    Short notes from the engineer who ran it, covering what was found, one thing to fix this week, and an offer to walk through the report, written for people who have not yet signed.

    Result: Prospects hear from you while the report is fresh.

  4. Vendor change alerts for clients

    When a cloud vendor announces a price change or retires a service that a client uses, a short mail to that client naming the impact and the choices, with no offer attached.

    Result: Clients see you as the team that watches the platform for them.

  5. A credits-ending note for start-ups

    A two-line mail to start-ups on your list, with a link to a cost review, sent while their vendor credits are close to the end.

    Result: The note arrives when the cost question is real.

  6. Replies routed to a named engineer

    Every marketing mail has a reply path to a person who can answer a technical question and book the call, with the answer logged in the CRM.

    Result: A reply gets answered by someone who can actually answer it.

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 cloud and DevOps firm needs in place before a marketing mail goes out.

Where each address came from
Record the meet-up, form or webinar beside each contact. An address with no source, or one copied from a conference attendee list, should not receive offers.
Marketing permission, separate from project notices
Agreeing to maintenance and incident mail is not agreeing to offers. Keep the two lists apart and record the date marketing consent was given. Data protection law cares about purpose.
A marketing sub-domain, authenticated
Send marketing from its own sub-domain with SPF, DKIM and DMARC passing. A CTO will check the headers on a mail from an infrastructure firm.
Segments by cloud and trigger
Split by AWS, Azure or Google Cloud and by stage: evaluating, in migration, or client. A mail about commitment plans means nothing to a team that has not started.
A sender who can answer
Send from a named engineer or account lead whose address reaches a real person. Plain text, short, no banner image.
An unsubscribe that works in both systems
Honour it in the mail tool and the CRM on the same day. Keep outage and maintenance notices on a list of their own so an unsubscribe never blocks them.

Who it is for

This is written for these cloud and DevOps service companies.

  • Migration specialists moving data-centre workloads to AWS, Azure or Google Cloud
  • DevOps and CI/CD consultancies working with product start-ups
  • Managed cloud and site reliability retainer providers
  • Kubernetes and platform engineering teams
  • FinOps and cloud cost optimisation specialists
  • DevSecOps practices preparing clients for SOC 2 and ISO 27001
  • Resellers and managed service partners for one cloud vendor
  • Data engineering and database migration firms
  • Hosting providers moving up to managed cloud

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

    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.

  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 a reply, a follow-up, a page, a listing 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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Can we mail the attendees of a meet-up we sponsored?
Not unless they agreed to hear from sponsors, which the organiser has to confirm in writing. A badge scan where the person knew what it was for is better. If in doubt, send one personal mail to people you actually spoke to.
Should we run a newsletter or send one-to-one mails?
One-to-one first. A short note from an engineer about a problem that prospect has is read. Start a newsletter only if you can say something useful every time, such as what a vendor change means for a typical Indian start-up, and keep it brief.
Why do our proposal mails land in spam?
Check SPF, DKIM and DMARC on the domain that sends them, and whether bulk mail uses the same domain. Large attachments and shortened links also trip filters. Send proposals from a person's own mailbox, and put the document behind a link you control.
Is it fine to send security advisories to clients as marketing?
Send them as service notices, plainly, with no offer in the same mail. If a client later wants help with the fix, they will reply. Mixing the two teaches clients to ignore the next advisory.
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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