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Reach the company in the month its IT executive resigns or its auditor arrives.

Lead generation for a managed IT provider means being in front of a company when its IT arrangement changes: a resignation, a growth spurt, an audit or a falling-out with the current vendor. GullySales sets up the channels that hear about those moments, the questions that sort an agreement from a one-off job, and a record of every enquiry with its seat count.

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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 lead generation means

Lead generation is the combined work of every channel that brings in a new enquiry, whether from search, adverts, referrals or a stall at an exhibition. GullySales runs these channels together and reports the number of enquiries each one produced, not the activity behind it.

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Last updated 6 Oct 2026.

For managed IT service providers

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

  • “Most callers want a fix, not an agreement”

    A broken printer or a laptop price is a break-fix job. Treating every call as a managed services lead fills the pipeline with people who will never sign.

  • “The best leads have a date attached”

    A company whose vendor agreement ends in March, or whose ISO surveillance audit falls in autumn, will decide on a known day, and that day is seldom written down.

  • “Introductions arrive with no record”

    A CA mentions you to a client over the phone, the founder sends a WhatsApp a week later, and nobody notes who sent the work or thanks them for it.

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. Five questions that sort an agreement from a call-out

    Number of users and devices, who looks after IT today, when that arrangement ends, what prompted the call and who signs, asked on every first call.

    Result: Break-fix requests stop crowding the pipeline.

  2. Trigger pages with their own offers

    A takeover check for companies whose IT person is leaving and an audit-readiness review for those facing a questionnaire, each with its own short form.

    Result: Enquiries arrive already carrying a reason to sign.

  3. Lead-sharing terms with vendors and distributors

    Written terms with the Microsoft, security and backup partners who pass you leads, covering how fast you reply, who owns the account and how the outcome is reported back.

    Result: Partner leads get answered, and partners keep sending them.

  4. An enquiry register counted in seats

    Every call, form, WhatsApp and introduction logged with users, devices, source and the date the current arrangement ends.

    Result: You can see the pipeline in seats, not just names.

  5. A call-back date for every 'not now'

    Prospects tied to another vendor given a follow-up date a few weeks before their term ends, with the reason to call written beside it.

    Result: Last year's polite refusals become this year's assessments.

How the result is measured

  • Enquiries generated
  • Cost per enquiry
  • Enquiries by source

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

Read the full demand and lead generation page

Where enquiries come from

Where a managed IT provider's next agreement comes from, and what to note when it arrives.

Introduction from a chartered accountant
Note the CA's name, the client company and what the CA noticed, such as a new entity or an audit gap. Call the founder that day and send the CA a short thank-you.
LinkedIn message from a founder or COO
Record the company size, the sender's role and the trigger they mention. Reply in the same thread with two questions about users and the current setup before offering a call.
Website form asking for outsourced IT
Ask for users, locations and the current IT arrangement on the form itself. Reply with an assessment slot, and record which page the form was sent from.
Lead passed on by Microsoft or a distributor
Log the partner, the product the buyer asked about and the partner contact. Reply to the buyer first, then tell the partner what happened, as their programme expects.
A former client contact at a new company
Office managers who liked working with you change jobs. Record the old and new employer, and ask whether the new company has anyone looking after its IT.
Customer security questionnaire or audit request
Note the deadline, the standard named and who in the company owns the reply. Offer a scoped review against that deadline instead of a general pitch.

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

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • You have no engineer free to run an assessment, so a new enquiry would wait and the founder would call a rival.
  • Your agreement and scope are not written down, and every enquiry would be quoted differently.
  • You already carry more clients than the support desk can handle, and more leads would lower service for existing ones.

How it works

How the lead generation 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

    Understand your capacity

    We ask how many enquiries your team can answer well, who answers after hours, and what a good enquiry looks like. Without this, the system fills a funnel nobody is watching.

  2. 2

    Audit current sources

    We read your call log, WhatsApp chats, enquiry sheet and platform dashboards. The baseline is recorded: enquiries by source, reply time, conversion and cost per order.

  3. 3

    Strategise the channel mix

    Search and maps are chosen for people ready to buy, ads for people who are not yet looking, and content and referrals for trust.

  4. 4

    Implement capture and follow-up

    Pages, forms, tags, the lead record and the first-reply message are built and tested end to end. We submit test enquiries ourselves before any media money is spent.

  5. 5

    Measure and optimise

    Enquiries are traced to source and judged by what became orders, not by volume alone. Channels that fill the sheet with poor enquiries are cut back. How often you are reported to is agreed in writing.

Where this fits

Three pieces of sales work, in this order.

This work sits inside sales process design, at stage 1, prospecting and lead generation. The audit comes before it, and sales management keeps it running.

  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 · you are here

    Sales process design

    One written way to sell, from first enquiry to repeat order.

    Start here if every salesperson sells differently.

  3. Step 3

    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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Should we buy leads from directories or data sellers?
Not lists of names. A bought list of companies with no trigger produces calls nobody wants. Paid enquiries from IndiaMART or JustDial are worth a trial only if you log them separately and check how many ever reach an assessment.
The same company reached us through a distributor and through our website. Whose lead is it?
Agree the rule in writing before it happens. A common one is that the first recorded contact owns it, with the date and time as proof. Merge the two records so the prospect has one conversation, not two salespeople.
When is a managed IT enquiry qualified?
When you know the number of users, who decides, what they run today and a date they need to change by. An enquiry without the date is interest, not a lead. Book an assessment once at least the users and the decision maker are known.
How do we count leads from events and association meetings?
Log every conversation that ends with a promised follow-up, with the event's name as the source. A visiting card in a drawer is not a lead. Count it once a second conversation is booked.
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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