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Write to the prospect when their IT contract is ending, not when your quarter is.

Email marketing for a managed IT provider is the mail that keeps you known to prospects between 'not now' and the end of their current contract, and to clients between renewals. It depends on clean permission, a sender people trust and lists split by what each company runs. GullySales sets those up first, 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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Last updated 6 Oct 2026.

For managed IT service providers

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

  • “Help desk contacts are not a marketing list”

    Every client staff address in your ticketing tool was given for support. Mailing offers to it mixes the two and annoys the people who raise tickets.

  • “An IT firm's mail in spam is a self-inflicted wound”

    A prospect who finds your proposal in the junk folder starts wondering what else you have set up badly.

  • “A 'not now' has an expiry date”

    A company mid-contract is really saying ask me before it ends. A mail timed to that date reaches them when the answer can change.

What we do

What we deliver for managed IT service providers.

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

  1. Separate lists for service and marketing

    Help desk contacts kept for support notices only, and a marketing list built from people who asked to hear from you, with each address's source recorded.

    Result: Offers never land with someone who only raises tickets.

  2. Contract-end mails for prospects

    Two short mails to each prospect ahead of the date their current IT agreement ends, offering a takeover check rather than a brochure.

    Result: The conversation restarts when the prospect is free to switch.

  3. A welcome sequence for new client staff

    How to raise a ticket, the support number, what IT will never ask for by email and who their engineer is, sent to each new user at onboarding.

    Result: New staff use the help desk properly from their first week.

  4. Plain notices when something changes

    A short mail to client signers when a vendor changes licence terms or a serious scam is going round, with the one action needed and no offer attached.

    Result: Clients open your mail because it is useful.

  5. Win-back mail for former clients

    A note to companies that left in the last two years, timed to when their new provider's first term is ending, with an honest account of what has changed.

    Result: Former clients hear from you when they are free to choose again.

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 managed IT provider needs in place before the first marketing mail goes out.

Where each address came from
Record the source beside every contact: a signed client, an enquiry form, a card from an event, a partner's referral. An address with no recorded source should not receive offers.
Consent recorded for each purpose
Agreeing to support notices is not agreeing to offers. India's data protection law cares about purpose, so ask for marketing consent separately and keep the date it was given.
A named sender and an authenticated domain
Send from a person, such as the account manager, and check that SPF, DKIM and DMARC pass. Prospects who run IT will read the headers if a mail looks odd.
Segments by stack and seat band
Split companies by what they run, such as Microsoft 365, Google Workspace or a local server, and by size. A licence note meant for one stack is noise to the other.
An unsubscribe that works on the first click
Put it in every marketing mail and act on it in both the mail tool and the CRM. Keep support notices on a list of their own so an unsubscribe never blocks an outage alert.
Replies that reach a salesperson
Route replies to marketing mail to the account manager, not the help desk queue, where a buying question gets logged as a ticket and closed.

Who it is for

This is written for these managed IT service providers.

  • Per-user support for growing offices without an IT team
  • Resident engineer and IT facility management providers
  • Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace managed service partners
  • Co-managed IT for companies with one in-house IT person
  • MSPs serving CA firms, clinics and other compliance-heavy offices
  • Backup and endpoint management specialists
  • IT support firms for factories and export units
  • Remote-first providers serving offices in several cities

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 a list of companies we bought from a data vendor?
Do not. Bought lists bounce, recipients mark them as spam and your domain's reputation suffers, which then hits the service mail your clients rely on. India's data protection law also expects a lawful basis for using someone's details, so check with your adviser.
Should we send a newsletter or one-to-one emails?
One-to-one first. A short note from a named engineer or account manager about something that concerns that client gets read. Add a newsletter only when you have something worth saying every time, and keep it short enough to read on a phone.
Why do our proposals land in the prospect's spam folder?
Check your domain's SPF, DKIM and DMARC records and whether bulk mail goes out from the same domain as proposals. Heavy attachments and shortened links also trip filters. Send proposals from a person's mailbox, not a marketing tool.
Should we email staff at client companies or only the person who signs?
Both, for different things. Staff get service notices and how-to guides, while the signer gets renewal, scope and new-service mail. Mix them and the founder receives password tips while the staff receive price lists.
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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