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Find the buyers who are still paying at the second invoice.

Lead generation for a hosting company means reaching the people about to buy a plan: the owner told to get hosting, the designer buying for clients, the site owner leaving a slow host. GullySales works on which of these buyers you want more of, and on the pages and tracking that bring them in.

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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 18 Oct 2026.

For web hosting companies

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

  • “The cheapest-plan searcher is the loudest lead”

    A search for the lowest hosting price brings the largest number of clicks and the least loyalty. That buyer leaves when the introductory offer ends. A plan that counts every click as equal fills the sign-up sheet and empties the renewal list.

  • “A designer is one lead who brings several sites”

    A freelance designer or small agency chooses hosting for every client project. Win that person once and the next site arrives without a search. A host treats the designer like any other sign-up and never ask what they need.

  • “A slow-site complaint is a buyer already in motion”

    Someone searching why their website is slow, or how to move a WordPress site, already has a host and a reason to change. That visitor wants a plain migration answer and a name to ask, and gets a plan chart instead.

  • “The source goes missing at checkout”

    A new account appears with no record of the search, advertisement or designer behind it. Without that record nobody can say which route brings customers who renew, so the budget follows the loudest guess.

What we do

What we deliver for web hosting companies.

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

  1. Buyer-type landing pages

    One page each for the shop owner, the designer and the unhappy customer of another host, each answering the question that buyer arrived with.

    Result: Each page has one buyer, one plan suggestion and one way to ask.

  2. A migration enquiry path

    A short route for people leaving another host, asking for the site address, the current host and the trouble they face.

    Result: A switching enquiry reaches your team with the context already written.

  3. A designer sign-up route

    A separate entry for freelancers and agencies, with the reseller plan, the support contact and a note on how clients are handled.

    Result: Designers have somewhere to go that is not the shop-owner checkout.

  4. Source tagging on every sign-up

    Each new account is marked with where it came from: search, advertisement, designer, referral or direct.

    Result: You can read renewals against the source that brought the account.

  5. A cost-per-paying-customer view

    Spend is set against accounts that paid, not against clicks or form fills.

    Result: The channel list is ranked by paying customers, not traffic.

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

What to capture or send

The facts that separate a bargain hunter from a customer who will renew.

Site type and platform
Brochure site, WordPress or WooCommerce store, or custom build. It decides the plan you offer and whether a migration is involved.
Current host and reason for leaving
Slow pages, downtime, a support wall or a renewal shock. The reason is the first line of your reply and of the sign-up page.
Number of sites held
One site is a customer, six client sites is a designer account. Route the second to the reseller path and record the client count.
Domain and email already in use
Business email on the domain changes what moving costs the owner. Ask before promising a smooth switch.
Who pays and who decides
A shop owner pays and decides, an agency may pay on a client's behalf. Send the invoice details to the right person.
Source of the sign-up
Search, designer referral, comparison page or a migrated customer. Without it you cannot say which channel brought a paying customer.

Who it is for

This is written for these web hosting companies.

  • Small shops and clinics with a basic brochure website
  • WordPress and WooCommerce store owners
  • Freelance web designers hosting client sites
  • Web design and digital agencies running reseller accounts
  • Colleges, schools and trusts with a simple site and email
  • Bloggers and content publishers
  • Startups needing a first VPS before moving to the cloud
  • Businesses wanting hosted business email on their own domain

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • Your support team cannot handle a migration this season, so migration enquiries would wait with a visitor who is already unhappy elsewhere.
  • You want volume at the lowest plan and cannot serve a buyer who expects a free service, so more leads would burden support.
  • Your sign-up form drops the source on checkout, and more leads would give you no way to judge them.

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 chase every hosting search?
No. Broad terms are expensive and attract bargain hunters. Start with the searches closest to your best customers, such as migration and WordPress, and widen only when those pay for themselves.
How do designers fit into lead generation?
Treat them as a channel of their own. A designer who is looked after places client after client on your servers, so a separate page, a named contact and a way to track their accounts are worth building.
What counts as a lead for a hosting company?
A person who has asked about a plan, a migration or reseller terms, and whom your team can reach. A visitor who only compared prices and left is traffic, not a lead.
Are free trials a useful lead source for hosting?
Only if your support can handle the people who never intend to pay. A trial brings sign-ups, but the trade constraint is that a hosted site needs setup and a bad first week costs you the customer. Measure paying accounts, not trial starts.
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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