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A complete marketing department, run for you, reporting to you.

Gully Sales becomes your marketing department: a senior marketing lead, the specialists who do the work, one plan, one budget and one monthly report, so marketing runs as a function of your business rather than as a list of vendors.

  • One senior lead who owns the marketing plan, the budget and the results.
  • Specialists for content, campaigns, design, web and reporting, without hiring each one.
  • A weekly cadence and a monthly report that tie marketing activity to pipeline.
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Gully Sales Private Limited staffs and runs whole marketing functions for Indian SMBs, with a senior lead who answers to the owner every month.

In one paragraph

What is Outsourced Marketing Department for Indian SMBs?

An outsourced marketing department is a complete marketing function that Gully Sales staffs, leads and runs for your business: a senior marketing lead, the specialists behind them, a written plan, an agreed budget, a weekly operating cadence and a monthly report on what marketing contributed to pipeline and revenue. It suits Indian SMBs that need a working department now and cannot yet justify hiring one.

The problem

You have marketing suppliers. You do not have a marketing department.

A website vendor, an agency for ads, a freelancer for content, an executive posting on social media: each takes a brief and returns work, and the person writing all four briefs is you. Building the real alternative means hiring a lead, a writer, a designer and a campaign manager at roughly the same time, which few growing businesses can justify in one year. So marketing stays a set of purchases rather than a function with a plan, a budget, a calendar and someone answerable for what it produced.

You will recognise it as

  • Three or four vendors each report their own metrics, and none of them reports pipeline.
  • The owner or a director is the de facto marketing head, approving creatives late at night.
  • The one marketing executive you hired is a coordinator, not a leader, and knows it.
  • Spend is decided campaign by campaign; there is no annual marketing budget to review against.
  • Sales says the leads are poor, marketing says sales does not follow up, and nobody has the data to settle it.
  • A persuasive agency pitch arrives and you cannot tell whether it is what the business needs.

What it costs the business

  • Money goes into activity that cannot be traced to an enquiry, so the budget is cut when cash is tight and marketing restarts from zero each time.
  • Every vendor change loses the brand files, the accounts, the learning and the passwords, because nothing lived inside the business.
  • The owner's time goes into managing vendors rather than into the decisions only the owner can take.
  • Sales works from whatever leads arrive rather than from a planned flow, so the pipeline swings with each campaign.

Why it persists. A full in-house department, with a marketing head and four or five specialists, is expensive at this stage and hard to recruit, manage and keep. A single hire cannot cover the range of skills marketing now needs. Agencies sell a channel, not a function. So the owner keeps patching, because every alternative looks like a bigger commitment than the patch.

If it stays unresolved. The business stays dependent on referrals and the owner's network for growth, marketing remains a cost that is defended rather than an investment that is reviewed, and the day a competitor builds a proper marketing engine you find out in your enquiry numbers.

What changes

Marketing stops being a set of purchases and starts being a function.

In the first weeks

  • A named marketing lead and a written plan within the first month, so every vendor and channel has an owner.
  • One budget for the year, with what each line is expected to produce.
  • A single monthly marketing report you can read in ten minutes.

In how the work runs

  • A weekly marketing cadence that runs without the owner in the room.
  • Content, campaigns, web and design produced against a calendar rather than on request.
  • Sales and marketing working from one definition of a qualified lead and one handover.
  • Brand, accounts, assets and data held in the business's name, not a vendor's.

In sales and marketing

  • Enquiries that arrive as a planned flow the sales team can staff for.
  • Marketing spend that can be reviewed line by line against what it produced.
  • A clearer view of which markets, products and channels deserve more money.

In what management can see

  • Consistent presence across the channels your buyers use, sustained month after month.
  • Search, social and email working under one message rather than three.

Over the longer term

  • A marketing function you can hand to a full-time head when the time comes, with everything documented.
  • An owner who reviews marketing once a month instead of managing it every day.

Gully Sales controls the plan, the people, the cadence, the deliverables and the reporting. Enquiry volume, cost per lead and revenue depend on your market, your offer, your sales follow-up and your budget; they may follow, but they are never promised.

Who it is for

Who this is built for, and who should look elsewhere.

The businesses it suits

  • Founder-led businesses earning enough to fund marketing but not yet enough to staff a department.
  • Mid-market companies whose marketing sits with one executive and a set of agencies nobody coordinates.
  • Businesses that have hired and lost two or three marketing people and do not want to try a fourth.
  • Companies entering a new market, product line or channel that need a marketing function from day one.
  • Owners who want marketing to report to them the way finance does: a plan, a budget and a monthly number.
  • Businesses with a sales team waiting for a planned flow of enquiries rather than an occasional campaign.

What usually prompts the call

  • Your marketing executive has resigned, or the agency contract is up, and you do not want to replace like with like.
  • The annual budget is being set and marketing is a single line with no plan behind it.
  • A new product, plant, branch or region is launching and there is nobody to market it.
  • Sales targets have been raised and the enquiry flow has not changed.
  • You have realised you are the marketing head, and it is costing you the rest of the business.

What Gully Sales does

The work, component by component.

Commercial diagnosis

A senior review of your market, offer, current marketing activity, spend, vendors, assets and data before anything new is started.

Why it matters:
A department built on a wrong reading of the business produces confident activity in the wrong direction.
You receive:
Marketing diagnosis note with a current-state map and a stop, keep and start list.
Business value:
You know what the department inherits, what it discards and where the first quarter's effort goes.

Revenue goals and marketing targets

The revenue plan translated into what marketing must produce: enquiries by product, segment and channel, agreed with sales.

Why it matters:
A department without a number to hit is a cost centre; with one, it can be reviewed like any other function.
You receive:
Marketing target sheet linked to the revenue plan, with lead definitions agreed with sales.
Business value:
Marketing and sales work to one shared number instead of two separate ones.

Organisational priorities and team design

Which functions the department needs for your business: content, performance campaigns, design, web, events, dealer marketing, email. Who does each, from your team or from Gully Sales.

Why it matters:
Most SMBs need five skills and can afford one hire; the design decides how to cover the gap.
You receive:
Department structure with named roles, responsibilities and the interface with your sales team.
Business value:
Every marketing task has an owner, and the owner has the skill for it.

Operating cadence

A weekly production meeting, a fortnightly pipeline review with sales and a monthly review with you, each with a fixed agenda and a fixed report.

Why it matters:
The cadence is what turns a group of vendors into a department.
You receive:
Cadence calendar, meeting agendas and the standard report for each meeting.
Business value:
Marketing runs on a rhythm you can join or skip without it stopping.

Budget and resource plan

An annual marketing budget by line, month and expected output, with the people and tools each line needs.

Why it matters:
Without a budget, spend is decided by whichever vendor asked last.
You receive:
Twelve-month budget and resource plan, reviewed each quarter.
Business value:
Spend is decided once, in daylight, and adjusted on evidence.

Leadership accountability

A senior Gully Sales marketing lead who owns the plan, manages the specialists and answers to you for the results in the monthly review.

Why it matters:
Somebody must be accountable for marketing as a whole, and it should not be you.
You receive:
Written mandate for the marketing lead, with decision rights and escalation points.
Business value:
You have one person to ask, and that person has the authority to act.

Quarterly roadmap

The year's plan broken into quarters: campaigns, content themes, launches, website work and channel experiments, each with an owner and an expected result.

Why it matters:
A quarter is long enough to finish something and short enough to correct course.
You receive:
Rolling quarterly roadmap, refreshed at each quarterly review.
Business value:
You can see what marketing will do next quarter, and why, before it spends the money.

What you will have at the end.

  • Marketing diagnosis note: current-state map, vendor and spend inventory, and a stop, keep and start list.
  • Marketing target sheet tied to the revenue plan, with a lead definition signed off by sales.
  • Department structure: roles, responsibilities, who fills each and how they interface with sales.
  • Twelve-month marketing budget and resource plan by line, month and expected output.
  • Written mandate for the marketing lead with decision rights and escalation points.
  • Cadence calendar with agendas and standard reports for the weekly, fortnightly and monthly reviews.
  • Rolling quarterly roadmap of campaigns, content, launches and web work, each with an owner.
  • Monthly marketing report: spend, activity, enquiries by source, pipeline contribution and next actions.
  • The department's working assets: content calendar, campaign briefs, brand files and account access, all in your name.
  • Quarterly review pack comparing plan to actual and setting the next quarter's roadmap.
  • An anonymised sample monthly report and roadmap page, shared at the audit so you can see the format.

How it runs

The engagement, step by step.

  1. 1

    Diagnose

    We review your market, offer, revenue plan, current marketing activity, vendors, spend, assets and data, and interview the people who touch marketing and sales.

    You provide:
    Revenue plan or targets, vendor contracts, spend records, account access, and time with the owner and the sales lead.
    We produce:
    Marketing diagnosis note and a stop, keep and start list.
    Done when:
    You agree the current-state picture and the first quarter's focus.
  2. 2

    Set targets and budget

    We translate the revenue plan into marketing targets, agree lead definitions with sales and build the twelve-month budget and resource plan.

    You provide:
    Sign-off on targets, the budget ceiling and the lead definition.
    We produce:
    Marketing target sheet, and the budget and resource plan.
    Done when:
    The budget is approved and each line has an expected output.
  3. 3

    Design the department

    We decide which functions the department needs, who fills each from Gully Sales or your team, and write the mandate for the marketing lead.

    You provide:
    Decisions on existing staff and vendors, and the authority delegated to the lead.
    We produce:
    Department structure and the marketing lead's written mandate.
    Done when:
    Every marketing function has a named owner and the lead's authority is in writing.
  4. 4

    Install the cadence

    We start the weekly production meeting, the fortnightly review with sales and the monthly owner review, set up reporting and move accounts and assets into the business's name.

    You provide:
    The sales lead's attendance, a fixed monthly slot and access to the CRM and analytics.
    We produce:
    Cadence calendar, agendas, standard reports and the asset register.
    Done when:
    Three cycles of each meeting have run with reports delivered on time.
  5. 5

    Run the first quarter

    The department executes the quarterly roadmap: content, campaigns, web work and launches, with weekly production and the reviews running as scheduled.

    You provide:
    Approvals within agreed turnaround times and sales feedback on lead quality.
    We produce:
    The quarter's marketing output and three monthly reports.
    Done when:
    The quarterly review compares plan to actual and sets the next roadmap.
  6. 6

    Review and adjust each quarter

    Each quarter we compare spend and output against the plan, move budget between lines on the evidence, refresh the roadmap and revisit the team design.

    You provide:
    Attendance at the quarterly review and decisions on budget movements.
    We produce:
    Quarterly review pack and the next quarter's roadmap.
    Done when:
    The budget and roadmap for the coming quarter are approved.
  7. 7

    Hand over when ready

    When you are ready to hire a full-time marketing head, we write the role, help you recruit and hand over a documented, running department on an agreed schedule.

    You provide:
    The decision to hire and participation in selection.
    We produce:
    Role brief, handover pack and a transition plan.
    Done when:
    The new head runs the cadence, with Gully Sales stepping back in stages.

Ways to work with us

Four ways to engage the department.

Full outsourced marketing department

Gully Sales provides the marketing lead and every specialist function, runs the cadence and reports to you monthly. Reviewed each quarter against the budget and roadmap, for as long as the business needs it.

Marketing lead plus your team

A senior Gully Sales marketing lead runs the department, managing your existing marketing staff and vendors, with Gully Sales specialists filling only the gaps.

Build, run and hand over

The full department for an agreed period, with the stated aim of recruiting a full-time marketing head and handing them a documented, working function.

Department for a launch

A department scoped to a new product, plant, branch or market entry, run through the launch and the quarters after it, then wound down or continued by agreement.

Why Gully Sales

What you are actually choosing when you choose us.

We run marketing as a department, not as a channel.

Our work covers strategy, content, campaigns, web, design and reporting under one lead, so you are not buying ads from one firm and content from another and coordinating them yourself.

The department reports on pipeline, not on activity.

Every monthly report ties spend and output to enquiries, qualified leads and pipeline, because Gully Sales also builds sales systems and knows what happens to a lead after marketing hands it over.

Sales and marketing are designed together.

The lead definition, the handover and the fortnightly review with sales are part of the department from the start, not an afterthought once the complaints begin.

Everything stays in your name.

Accounts, assets, data, brand files and documentation belong to your business from the first month, so a future hire or a change of provider loses nothing.

Senior leadership, not a junior account manager.

The marketing lead on your account is a senior consultant with a written mandate, who attends your monthly review and answers for the plan.

We tell you when you no longer need us.

The department is built to be handed over. When your scale justifies a full-time head, we say so and help you recruit one.

Where it applies

The same service, in different businesses.

Manufacturing and industrial products

The situation:
A component or equipment maker sells through the owner's relationships and a dealer network, with a website and a brochure as its only marketing.
How it applies:
A department covering technical content, search, dealer marketing material, trade show support and a lead flow into the sales team.
Likely benefit:
Enquiries from buyers the owner has never met, and dealers with material they actually use.

Healthcare and clinics

The situation:
A hospital or specialty clinic group depends on referrals and walk-ins while a corporate chain markets hard nearby.
How it applies:
A department running patient education content, local search, service-line campaigns and enquiry handling in coordination with the front desk.
Likely benefit:
A steady flow of appointment enquiries by service line that the front desk can plan for.

Consumer brands and food products

The situation:
A regional brand entering modern trade and online marketplaces has a designer and an ads agency but nobody deciding what to say and where.
How it applies:
A department owning brand messaging, content, marketplace listings, performance campaigns and distributor communication under one plan.
Likely benefit:
One consistent brand across shelf, marketplace and social media, with spend reviewed against sell-through.

Professional and B2B services

The situation:
An engineering, IT or consulting firm grows through referrals and has tried and lost two marketing hires.
How it applies:
A department producing expert content, case studies, email programmes and search presence, using the partners' time sparingly.
Likely benefit:
Inbound enquiries from companies that found the firm rather than being introduced to it.

Education and training

The situation:
A college or training institute spends heavily each admission season and forgets marketing for the rest of the year.
How it applies:
A year-round department with a season plan, content, counsellor coordination and a review of every admission source.
Likely benefit:
Admission enquiries that build through the year rather than arriving in a rush the counsellors cannot handle.

Real estate and interiors

The situation:
A developer or design studio runs project-by-project marketing through whichever agency the last project used.
How it applies:
A department that keeps the brand, the audience and the enquiry pipeline alive between projects and launches each new one on a plan.
Likely benefit:
A launch that starts with a warm audience instead of a cold one.

Proof

Work we can point to.

Chord Road Hospital

The problem:
The hospital had a strong offline reputation but needed to build awareness, improve engagement and strengthen its brand image online through one unified digital strategy.
What we did:
Gully Sales ran a 360-degree digital marketing and communication strategy: website design and development, wireframe and UX planning, content writing and brand messaging, SEO, content marketing and social media.
Over:
The result:
The case study records a 60% increase in organic traffic within six months, online bookings up 40%, social following up 45% with engagement up 70%, and positive reviews up 35%.
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Questions buyers ask

Before you enquire, the answers you will want.

What information and internal involvement does an outsourced marketing department need?

In the first month we need your revenue plan or targets, vendor contracts and spend records, access to your website, analytics, CRM and advertising accounts, and interviews with you and your sales lead. After that the department needs a decision-maker who approves within agreed turnaround times, a sales lead who attends the fortnightly review, and one monthly slot with you. Owners typically spend a few hours a month on marketing rather than a few hours a day.

How long does the engagement take?

An outsourced marketing department is an ongoing function, not a project, so there is no fixed end date. The set-up phase, from diagnosis to a running cadence, is agreed in the scope. We ask for a commitment of at least a year so that the budget, the roadmap and the measurement can run through a full cycle, and we review the engagement each quarter. Many owners keep the department until the business is ready to hire a full-time head, at which point we hand over.

How is this different from a fractional chief marketing officer?

A fractional CMO is one senior leader who directs your existing team and agencies part-time. An outsourced marketing department includes that leadership and the hands that do the work: content, campaigns, design, web and reporting. Choose the fractional CMO if you have people and need direction; choose the department if you need both the direction and the people. Gully Sales offers both, and the free audit will say which fits your situation.

How is this different from hiring a digital marketing agency?

An agency is usually engaged for a channel: advertising, social media, search or a website. It reports on that channel and is paid for that channel. The department owns the whole marketing function against your revenue plan, decides which channels deserve budget, coordinates any specialist agencies that remain and reports on pipeline. Where an existing agency does good work, the department keeps it and manages it rather than replacing it.

What inputs are required from my sales team?

The sales lead agrees the definition of a qualified lead, attends the fortnightly pipeline review, gives feedback on lead quality and keeps the CRM current enough for the department to see what happened to each enquiry. Without this the monthly report can show activity but not contribution. Where the CRM or the handover process is weak, we say so at the diagnosis and can fix it through our revenue operations services.

How is success measured?

Against a baseline recorded before the department starts and a target sheet tied to your revenue plan. The monthly report covers spend against budget, enquiries and qualified leads by source, pipeline created, revenue attributed to marketing where records allow, and roadmap items delivered. The quarterly review compares plan to actual and moves budget on the evidence. We report what the department produced and what followed; we do not promise a volume of leads or revenue in advance.

What is excluded from scope?

Media spend is paid by you, in your own accounts, and is not part of our fee. Large one-off builds, such as a new e-commerce site or a rebrand, are scoped separately even when the department manages them. Sales execution, from following up leads to closing, belongs to your sales team or to our outsourced sales services. Public relations, event logistics and print production are included only where the scope says so. The written scope lists inclusions and exclusions before work begins.

Do I keep my existing marketing staff and agencies?

Usually yes, where they do good work. The diagnosis lists every person and vendor, what they produce and what they cost, and the department design decides who continues, who is redirected and where a gap is filled by Gully Sales. Your marketing executive often becomes more effective under a senior lead than they could be on their own. Any change is your decision, made with the evidence in front of you.

4 more questions

Who actually does the work, and who do I deal with?

A senior Gully Sales marketing lead owns your department under a written mandate, attends your monthly review and answers for the plan. Behind them are specialists for content, campaigns, design, web and reporting, drawn from Gully Sales or, where agreed, from your team and retained vendors. You deal with one person, and that person has the authority to act on the plan and the budget you approved.

What happens if I want to bring marketing in-house later?

That is the intended end of the engagement for many clients. Because the accounts, assets, data, plan, budget and cadence are held in your name and documented from month one, a full-time marketing head inherits a working function rather than starting from scratch. We write the role, help you recruit and hand over on an agreed schedule, with Gully Sales stepping back in stages so nothing drops between the two.

Is this suitable for a business that has never done structured marketing?

Yes, provided you are ready to agree a plan and a budget and to give the department a year. Businesses that have grown on referrals and the owner's network are a common starting point. The diagnosis establishes what exists, the first quarter concentrates on foundations, and the report from month one shows what is being built. What a department cannot do is substitute for an offer the market has not yet accepted; we will say so if that is what we find.

Can the department work alongside our dealers, distributors or franchisees?

Yes. For businesses that sell through channels, dealer and partner marketing is a function of the department: material partners can use, co-branded campaigns, local promotion and a way to track enquiries that arrive through the channel. The department coordinates with whoever manages the channel relationship so that marketing supports the partners rather than competing with them. Channel structure itself is addressed by our channel and partner growth services.

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