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Put every trial, migration enquiry and renewal in one record with a name beside it.

A CRM for a cloud host is the shared record of every trial, enquiry, partner and paid account, with the next step and its owner. GullySales works on setting up the fields, stages and rules in your CRM or a simple sheet so engineers and sales read the same facts.

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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 cloud hosting providers

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

  • “The billing system is not a CRM”

    Your billing platform knows who pays. It does not know who tested last week, what they were moving or why they stopped. Without a record of that, each engineer keeps private notes and a returning prospect gets asked the same questions twice.

  • “A trial needs a stage, not just a status”

    Active, idle and expired describe the account. A useful record also says what the buyer is testing, whether a technical person has spoken to them and what the contract end date is on the old host. Those fields drive the next call.

  • “Partner credit goes missing without a field”

    When an agency refers a client and the sign-up form has no referrer field, the credit is lost. The agency stops sending clients, and nobody can say why the partner channel went quiet.

  • “Upgrade signals sit in usage data nobody reads”

    A customer close to a plan limit is a warm conversation, but only if someone sees it. Linking usage notes to the account record means the account owner raises the upgrade before the customer shops elsewhere.

What we do

What we deliver for cloud hosting providers.

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

  1. Fields and stages built for hosting

    A record layout with workload, current host, data size, contract end and referrer, plus stages from trial to migration to paid.

    Result: A new trial row holds the facts your engineer needs to open a call.

  2. An account owner rule

    A written rule naming who owns each trial and each paid account, and who covers when the owner is away.

    Result: No row on the sheet is without a named owner.

  3. Import of existing sign-ups

    Cleaning and loading your current sign-ups and customers, with duplicates merged and sources tagged where known.

    Result: Your first view of the CRM already shows the full account base.

  4. Partner tracking

    A field and a short view showing which agency referred which account and what it has become.

    Result: You can tell each agency how many of its referrals stayed.

  5. A usage-note routine for account owners

    A simple habit and field for recording plan-limit notices and upgrade conversations against the account.

    Result: Every upgrade conversation leaves a note on the account.

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

Fields worth keeping

What a hosting provider should record on each trial, account and partner.

Trial stage
Set by the system on sign-up and updated by the account owner: created, workload deployed, idle, asked a question, converted, lapsed. It shows where trials stall.
Workload and stack
Filled in by the engineer who answers the first question. It lets the next reply be specific, and it groups accounts by what they run.
Data location requirement
Entered by sales at the first call. It tells you whether the account fits and which questions will follow.
Account owner
One named person from your team. An account with no owner is the one that lapses unnoticed.
Referring partner
Entered at sign-up or the first call. It credits the agency or developer and lets you see the value of each partner.
Usage note and upgrade signal
Written by the engineer after a support contact: a spike before a sale, a storage limit near. It tells the account owner when to call.

Who it is for

This is written for these cloud hosting providers.

  • Startups running their first product on rented compute
  • SaaS companies with Indian customers who ask where data is stored
  • E-commerce brands that need capacity before festival sales
  • Web and software agencies hosting client applications
  • Schools, colleges and ERP vendors needing stable hosting for admissions season
  • Healthcare and fintech teams with data residency questions
  • Media and OTT platforms with large storage and delivery needs
  • Manufacturers and distributors moving an on-premise server to the cloud

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • You have a few hundred customers and one account manager who knows each, so a record would only repeat what is in their head.
  • Billing and sign-up data are scattered in several tools you have not yet joined, and a CRM would be a fourth place to look.

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 sit with the people who sell and write down how a deal moves from enquiry to payment, including where it stalls.

  2. 2

    Agree stages, fields and owners

    Each stage gets a name your team already uses and a proof that the deal has left it. We agree which fields are required at which stage, and who may change what.

  3. 3

    Build on a copy

    Pipeline, fields and views are built on a trial copy where the CRM offers one, or in a separate pipeline where the plan allows. Live work stays untouched.

  4. 4

    Connect channels, then switch on automations

    Channels are connected first. Each automation is then switched on separately, so a misfiring rule is easy to find.

  5. 5

    Test with real deals

    The people who will use the CRM run open deals through it. Gaps are fixed before the whole team switches over.

  6. 6

    Switch over and trim

    Once real use shows which fields stay empty and which stages nobody uses, those are cut and the handover record is updated.

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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Tell us what you need
Do we need a paid CRM tool?
Not to begin. A well-built sheet with the right fields works for a small team. Move to a CRM such as HubSpot or Zoho when the volume of trials makes the sheet slow, and carry the same fields across.
Can the CRM read data from our platform?
Your engineers can connect sign-ups and usage to the CRM. Decide first which facts the account owner needs, then ask your developers what can be sent across. Avoid copying everything.
Should trial usage data flow into the CRM?
Bring in a few signals, such as the date of the last login and whether a workload was deployed. Raw usage logs belong in your platform; the CRM needs only what tells an account owner whether to call.
Who should own an agency account?
A named person who knows hosting, not only sales. An agency chooses the host for many clients, so the owner must answer a technical question in the same call and be reachable when a client site is down.
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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