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Serve the counter trade and the walk-in driver without mixing them up.

A parts shop runs two businesses: the garage trade on credit and the retail customer paying cash today. Each is reached differently. GullySales writes the plan that splits them, times the spend to the monsoon and the festival season, and reports on what the trade counter and the retail counter each brought 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 digital marketing means

Digital marketing is the combined work of search, social media, advertising and website channels running together rather than as separate projects with separate people. GullySales runs these as one connected system so a change in one channel, such as a new offer, is reflected everywhere at once.

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Sales and marketing for auto parts and accessories dealers, the overview.

Last updated 5 Oct 2026.

For auto parts and accessories dealers

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

  • “Two counters, two kinds of marketing”

    Garages are won by a visit and a fast phone. Drivers are won on Maps and Instagram. Spending the same way on both wastes half the money.

  • “Your year already has its dates”

    Tyres and wipers before the rains, accessories before Diwali, batteries when the cold mornings start. The calendar is written by the weather, not by you.

  • “Nobody in the shop has an hour free at four in the afternoon”

    So the posting, the replies and the review requests need a fixed slot, usually early morning, and one name against them.

What we do

What we deliver for auto parts and accessories dealers.

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

  1. A plan that separates trade from retail

    What is being done to grow garage and fleet accounts, what is being done for walk-in customers, and the budget and owner for each side.

    Result: Neither half of the business is run on leftovers.

  2. A season calendar with the work placed in it

    Pre-monsoon tyre checks, festival accessory offers, fleet outreach before their budget month and battery season, each with the week the work starts.

    Result: Campaigns begin before the demand does.

  3. One person, one hour, written into the day

    A named person for the phone, the profile and the posts, with the hour fixed at opening time before the counter fills.

    Result: The work happens on a busy day too.

  4. A report split by counter

    Enquiries and orders from garages, fleets and retail separately, with reply times and the sources that produced them, against the baseline recorded at the start.

    Result: You can see which counter is actually growing.

  5. A decision on what to stop

    A review of each channel against the orders it brought, with a written decision to continue, change or drop it.

    Result: Money moves to what is working.

How the result is measured

  • Enquiries across channels
  • Cost per enquiry overall
  • Channel mix by contribution

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

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Where a parts dealer starts

A parts and accessories dealer starts by separating the garage trade from the walk-in customer.

Business Profile with brands and tyre sizes
List the brands, vehicle makes and tyre sizes you stock, with a counter number answered in shop hours. Count calls by whether they came from garages or customers.
Stock and rate message for garages
Send a short message to your regular garages when stock arrives or rates move. Record which garage replies and orders.
Genuine part proof
Show the brand authorisation, the invoice practice and how to check a part is genuine. Put it on the profile and answer the question on WhatsApp the same way each time.
A page for tyres and accessories
Write a page for the tyre sizes and the fitment you offer, with the fitting charge stated. Note enquiries that came to it.
Credit and collection note per garage
Keep a sheet for each garage with orders, dues and last payment. Use it to decide whom to promote to before spending on new ones.
What to leave until later
Leave marketplace listings and paid ads for accessories until the profile and garage message work. Undercut prices there are rarely worth matching.

Who it is for

This is written for these auto parts and accessories dealers.

  • Multi-brand spare parts dealers serving garages
  • Authorised parts distributors for a vehicle manufacturer
  • Two-wheeler spare parts shops
  • Tyre dealers and tyre showrooms for major brands
  • Tyre, alignment and wheel care centres
  • Car accessories and fitment shops
  • Commercial vehicle parts and tyre suppliers
  • Battery, lubricant and filter dealers
  • Online-first auto parts sellers

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • The dealer has not separated garage accounts from walk-in drivers, so one plan would give the trade buyer a retail price and the driver a trade price.
  • The stock list changes without anyone updating it, so every channel would repeat parts that have already sold.

How it works

How the digital marketing 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

    Agree the one aim

    We settle what the campaign must achieve, such as enquiries for a launch or footfall for an event, and the date it must be live.

  2. 2

    Check what is ready

    We list the channels you already run, who runs them, and what each can produce in the time available. Anything that cannot be done properly is left out.

  3. 3

    Write the idea and the message sheet

    We draft the one-sentence idea, test it against each planned format, and fix the wording that all channels will copy.

  4. 4

    Brief every channel from the same sheet

    Your agency, freelancer or in-house person receives the message sheet and calendar. Their work is checked against the sheet before it goes out.

  5. 5

    Run on the shared calendar

    Channels go live together. If the offer changes, every channel is changed on the same day from the same sheet.

  6. 6

    Measure as one campaign

    Enquiries and orders are read against the baseline. The reporting schedule is agreed in writing with the scope.

Where this fits

Three pieces of sales work, in this order.

This work sits inside sales process design, at stage 0, foundation. 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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Tell us what you need
We are a small shop. Which one thing should we do first?
The Business Profile and the WhatsApp reply. Together they cost almost nothing and they fix the two places where most shops lose the customer.
Should we sell on a marketplace as well?
Only if you can hold the margin after commission and returns. For most counters the money is in garage accounts and fitting work, which no marketplace can take from you.
How do we stop garages calling three dealers and buying from the first to answer?
Answer first and answer with stock status, price and delivery time in one reply. Keep saved replies for the part queries you get most. Record which garages order after your reply and which went elsewhere, then ask the second group why.
Is it worth hiring someone just for WhatsApp?
Often the counter staff can do it if the replies are saved and one person is named for each shift. Hire only when messages wait while the counter is busy. Track unanswered messages for a few weeks first.
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.

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