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Answer the review from the client whose site went live late.

Reputation management for a web company means handling what past clients and freelancers say in public, because an owner reads it before handing over their site and their domain. GullySales watches the mentions, drafts the replies and asks for reviews while a launch is fresh.

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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 website design and development companies

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

  • “The late launch was usually missing content”

    The client never sent the product photographs, the site went live two months behind, and the review blames the studio.

  • “A site going down is a review within the hour”

    An expired domain puts a shop offline, and the owner writes about it while the page is still broken.

  • “The review has to be asked for in launch week”

    An owner is happiest the day the site goes live. By the last invoice, that has worn off.

What we do

What we deliver for website design and development 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 timed to the launch

    A short request sent in the week the site goes live, to the person who signed it off, with the link and a line about what is worth mentioning.

    Result: Reviews arrive while the owner is still pleased.

  2. Replies drafted for delay and scope complaints

    A factual response to the review that blames you for a late launch, setting out the dates and what was waiting, agreed with you before it goes up.

    Result: The thread ends instead of growing.

  3. Alerts on the studio name and the founder's name

    Watches on search, review sites and social, so a post from a client or an unpaid freelancer reaches you before it reaches a prospect.

    Result: Nothing about you is discovered by a buyer first.

  4. A file of what was agreed and when

    Sign-offs, content deadlines and change requests kept per project, so a public claim about a delay can be answered with dates rather than feeling.

    Result: An argument about who held the project up ends in one reply.

  5. Profiles on the listings your buyers check

    Clutch, GoodFirms and your Google profile kept current, with reviews requested from the projects you are proudest of.

    Result: A shortlist of three studios reads real work on yours.

  6. The complaint that keeps repeating, fixed

    The themes pulled out of reviews and client messages, with the change to make inside the studio so the same review is not written again.

    Result: You stop answering the same criticism every quarter.

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 web design company gets.

Praise at launch
Thank the owner and name the kind of site, such as a clinic site or a store on Shopify. Ask whether you may link to it, and keep your reply free of buzzwords.
Delay because the client's content was late
Do not blame the client in public. Say what the agreed schedule was and offer to talk it through. Check that the agreement sets dates for content and that you sent reminders in writing.
Site down or hacked after launch
Apologise, say what you did, and say what the support terms cover. Check that backups exist, that the hosting is monitored, and that the client knows who to call.
Domain and hosting ownership
Say whose name the domain and hosting stand in, and what the handover includes. Check that the owner has the login details at handover, so they never need to ask.
Design not what they expected
Reply with the approved design and the date it was approved. Check that each design stage had a written sign-off, and that revision rounds were stated in the quote.
Review from a freelancer or former employee
Reply briefly. Do not describe the person. Say there is a route for such concerns and check it works. If the claim is about unpaid dues, check your payment record before you reply.

Who it is for

This is written for these website design and development companies.

  • Small web design studios for local businesses
  • WordPress and WooCommerce developers
  • Shopify and e-commerce website builders
  • Custom web application developers
  • UI and UX design firms
  • Web companies focused on one industry, such as healthcare or real estate
  • Hosting and website maintenance providers
  • Freelance web developers building a team

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • You have no record of what was agreed with a client, so a reply to a late-launch complaint would be one person's word against another's.
  • You have not finished the projects you are asking clients to review, and a review request before handover would invite a bad one.
  • You plan to answer every complaint with the same text, which a prospect reading reviews would see through at once.

How it works

How the reputation management 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

    Search your name as a stranger would

    We search the business, its main product names and the owner's name, on a phone and a laptop, and record what appears.

  2. 2

    Catalogue every mention

    Reviews, news, listings, social posts and forum threads are sorted into accurate and positive, accurate and negative, and wrong. Each group gets a different action.

  3. 3

    Agree the replies and the owner of each

    Replies are drafted and approved by you. Anything involving a refund, a clinical matter, a legal claim or a named employee goes to the right person in your business before anything is posted.

  4. 4

    Fix what you control

    Listings, profile details and your own pages are corrected, and pages worth ranking for your name are strengthened with accurate information.

  5. 5

    Monitor and report

    The agreed places are checked on the agreed schedule. The name search is repeated and compared with the first record.

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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A client is threatening a bad review. What do we say?
Reply once with the dates and what was pending on their side, then give a date you can hold. Arguing in public is what people read.
Do reviews matter when work comes from referrals?
Yes. A referred owner searches your name before ringing, and one unanswered complaint outweighs the recommendation that sent them.
A client says the site we built is slow. What do we reply?
Offer to look at it with them, and say you will share what you find. Slowness can come from hosting, images or plugins added later. Check what the agreement said about speed and who changed the site since launch.
Can we put the review link in the final payment email?
Send it separately, after the launch has settled. Never tie payment, handover or support to a review, and do not ask only the happy clients. A link sent to every client in the same words is fair.
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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