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A rival's rep is reading your reviews out loud inside your deal.

Reputation management for a software company covers the review sites, the forum threads and the search result a buyer reads while a security review is running. GullySales builds the review ask into the moments customers are happiest and prepares what gets said when something breaks publicly.

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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 reputation management means

Reputation management is watching what is said about your business across Google, social media and review sites, and responding to it before it changes a buyer's mind. GullySales monitors mentions, drafts responses to negative reviews and flags recurring complaints back to your team.

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Last updated 5 Oct 2026.

For SaaS and software companies

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

  • “Reviews are ammunition in somebody else's sales call”

    A rival quotes your two-year-old one star in a live deal, and the only answer is a page of recent reviews saying something different.

  • “A forum thread is no place for a brand account”

    A support engineer posting under their own name repairs a thread that a company account joining it would have made considerably worse.

  • “A buyer checks whether you will still exist”

    Funding news, layoffs and employer reviews all get read during procurement, because renewing onto a company that folds is the risk they are paid to avoid.

What we do

What we deliver for SaaS and software companies.

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

  1. A review ask built into the good moments

    The ask made after a successful onboarding, a support save or a renewal, following each site's own rules about what may be offered in return.

    Result: Reviews arrive steadily instead of in one campaign.

  2. Monitoring on the product name, not just the company

    Alerts across review sites, the forums your users read, social and search for the product, the company and the common misspellings of both.

    Result: A thread gets seen while it is still worth answering.

  3. A written rule for who speaks in public

    Who answers a review, who replies in a forum, what needs the founder, and which posts get no reply at all.

    Result: Nobody improvises a response at eleven at night.

  4. Templates for an outage and a pricing change

    Wording prepared in advance for downtime, a deprecation and a price rise, so the first post is not written by somebody in a panic.

    Result: A bad week does not become the search result.

  5. Category listings kept current

    Screenshots, feature lists, pricing and comparison entries checked across the sites where your shortlist gets made.

    Result: Your listing stops describing last year's product.

  6. Review recency and themes in the report

    New reviews, the rating, what sits inside them and what your rivals gained, read against the baseline taken before the work started.

    Result: A pattern in the complaints reaches the product team.

How the result is measured

  • Average rating
  • Response time to reviews
  • Negative mentions resolved

Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.

Read the full online reputation management page

What to do with each review

How to answer each kind of review a software company gets.

Praise on a review site
Thank the reviewer and name the feature they mentioned. Do not repeat marketing lines. Ask separately whether you may quote the review in a sales deck.
A bug complaint
Reply with the ticket status and the support route. Inside, check that the bug is logged, has an owner, and that the customer is told when it is closed.
Anger at a pricing change
Explain once why the plan changed and link the plan page. Check that existing customers were told by email before the change went live, not after.
Security or data worry
Do not discuss details in public. Point to the security contact and the page that describes your practices. Check that the page exists and is current.
Feature that was never built
Say whether it is on the roadmap in plain words without a date. Check that sales has not promised it in a demo, which is where this review usually starts.
Review that looks fake or from a competitor
Ask privately for the account email. If no account exists, or the review breaks the site's rules, report it through the site's own process and keep your reply short.

Who it is for

This is written for these SaaS and software companies.

  • Seed and Series A B2B SaaS still selling founder-led
  • Bootstrapped vertical SaaS with a small team
  • Product-led companies adding a sales motion
  • Developer tools moving upmarket into team plans
  • Healthcare, fintech and other compliance-heavy software
  • Agencies and services firms productising a platform
  • Marketplaces with a supply side to recruit
  • Companies with a full AE bench and no pipeline to feed it
  • Software companies entering the US from another market

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 reputation management work runs

  1. 1

    Understand current perception

    We start by actually searching your business name and reviewing what a stranger would currently see.

  2. 2

    Audit existing mentions

    We catalogue reviews, mentions and search results, flagging anything negative or inaccurate.

  3. 3

    Plan responses

    A calm, factual response is prepared for anything that needs one, agreed with you before posting.

  4. 4

    Implement monitoring

    Ongoing checks are set up so new mentions are caught promptly rather than discovered by accident.

  5. 5

    Measure and report

    Sentiment and response times are reported, with your business name searched again to see what has moved.

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.

  • Hours that fit your day, agreed up front

    Which hours we overlap with yours is settled before any work starts, so you know when a reply is coming and when it is not.

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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 offer something in return for a review?
Only what the site itself permits, and each one writes its own rules. Incentives arranged outside those rules get reviews pulled and the profile flagged. Ask at the moment a customer is already pleased and most of the problem goes away.
Should we answer an angry post on a forum?
Yes, from a named person who can fix the thing, and never from a company account defending the company. Answer the technical point and offer a direct channel. Readers judge the reply, not the complaint.
Can we quote our review-site ratings in our sales deck?
Quote only what is on the page today, with the site name and the reviewer's role, and only if the site's rules allow reuse. Do not round up a rating or pick one review as if it were typical. Update the slide when the page changes.
A customer's review mentions a bug we have since fixed. Can we ask them to update it?
You can tell them privately that it is fixed and ask them to try again. Do not ask them to change or remove the review, and do not offer anything for it. Reply publicly that the fix is released.
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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