Website design and development companies · Reputation management
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The complaint that keeps repeating, fixed
The themes pulled out of reviews and client messages each month, 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, then reported every month against it.
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 want a guaranteed Google ranking or a guaranteed number of leads. Nobody honest can promise either.
- You need enquiries by next week and have nobody to answer them.
- You want posts and reach reported, not enquiries and orders.
How it works
From your first message to the first monthly report.
No open-ended retainer. Each step has a point in time and something you receive.
01 · Day 1
Free audit call
45 minutes with whoever handles your enquiries: how they arrive, how fast they are answered, where they are lost.
02 · Within a few working days
Written, scored report
Six areas scored, fixes ranked by return and cost. If you want our help, the scope and fee come with it, in writing.
03 · Before work starts
Baseline recorded
Enquiries by source, reply time, conversion and cost per order, written down so every later month has an honest comparison.
04 · Month 1
The first fix goes live
Usually the cheapest one on the report: reply time, a follow-up sequence or the marketing-to-sales handover.
05 · Every month
Report against the baseline
What moved, what did not, and what changes next, in plain words.
06 · Month 3 to 6
Renew on the numbers
The term ends and you decide whether to continue from the results. No twelve-month lock.
How the work runs for website design and development companies
- 1
Assess
In a free audit we look at where your projects come from, your average project value, how often scope grew, and how many clients stayed on after launch.
- 2
Choose the focus
A decision on which site types and industries to lead with, written into your website and proposals.
- 3
Fix the scoping
A scoping call, a tiered proposal, a content plan and a change request note used on every project.
- 4
Fill the pipeline
Case pages, partner referrals and campaigns aimed at the site types you chose.
- 5
Keep the client
Maintenance, hosting and upgrade offers so each site stays your account.
Proof
What happened when owners fixed this.
Real clients, the work we did, and the result as it was recorded. Where no number was recorded, none is claimed.
Sentence Labs
- Situation
- Almost nothing of Sentence Labs was online, so a technically credible company was more or less invisible to the buyers who needed it.
- What we did
- Research first
- The website rebuilt
- Search work across the board
- Google Business Profile
- Result
- No numbers were recorded for this engagement. The work is described in full in the case study.
Chord Road Hospital
- Situation
- Patients who knew the hospital trusted it. Patients who searched for a department or a treatment in the area did not find it.
- What we did
- Website rebuilt around patient needs
- Search visibility
- Social media on a schedule
- Review management
- Result
- Organic traffic increased 60% within six months
- Online appointment bookings increased 40%
- Social following grew 45%, and engagement on it rose 70%
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Why us
Why a studio brings us in for its own pipeline.
Marketing and sales, as one job
We work the part after the enquiry as well: the reply, the follow-up, the proposal and the CRM your own pipeline runs on.
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 monthly 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 lock-in, no guarantees we cannot keep
Three to six months at a time. We never promise a ranking or a lead count, because nobody controls those.
One office, and we say so
Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru. We work across India by call and WhatsApp and travel when a session needs to be in person.
#257, 3rd floor, Sri Nanjundeshwara Complex, Nagarbhavi 8th Block, Outer Ring Road. How we work.
The offer
Start with a free audit of how you sell.
It is useful on its own, whether or not you hire us.
What you receive
- A 45-minute call with the person who will do the work
- A written, scored report on the six places orders leak, within a few working days
- Every fix ranked by what it returns and what it costs
- The one thing to do first, and why
- An honest line on whether you need outside help at all
- If you do, the scope and the fee in writing
No invoice. No obligation. No sales script.
FAQ
Questions owners ask before they call.
Not here? More answers, or ask on WhatsApp.
A client is threatening a bad review. What do we say?
Do reviews matter when work comes from referrals?
How do we compete with cheap template websites?
Who should own the domain and hosting?
How much does it cost?
How long is the contract?
How soon will we see results?
Who will actually do the work?
What do you need from us?
What if we are not happy with the work?
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