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Bid on the route in the week the family is booking it.

Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising for a car rental business buys the high intent route and airport searches in the days before a trip. GullySales builds campaigns by route and vehicle, keeps them running into the night when enquiries arrive, and counts bookings rather than clicks.

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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 pay per click advertising means

Pay per click advertising (PPC) is paying a fee each time someone clicks your advert on Google or another platform. It puts you at the top of a search page immediately, instead of waiting for ranking to build. GullySales sets the targeting, writes the ad text and checks spend against enquiries received.

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Last updated 5 Oct 2026.

For car rental companies

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

  • “The enquiry comes at eleven at night”

    Trips are planned after dinner, so an advertisement that stops at six in the evening misses the hours when people are actually deciding.

  • “Aggregators bid on your own name”

    A traveller who heard about you from a friend and searches your name can be shown a portal's advertisement first, and that booking leaves with a commission attached.

  • “A wedding or a pilgrimage is a multi-vehicle search”

    Someone looking for four cars and a tempo traveller on one date is worth a separate campaign from a single airport drop.

What we do

What we deliver for car rental companies.

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

  1. Campaigns split by route and service

    Distinct campaigns for outstation routes, airport transfers, self-drive and group vehicles, each with its own words and budget.

    Result: Spend follows the work you want.

  2. Ads running when trips are planned

    Schedules covering evenings, nights and weekends, with call buttons and a WhatsApp click on mobile.

    Result: A late enquiry reaches you, not a competitor.

  3. A brand campaign to hold your own name

    A small campaign on your own business name, so a traveller searching for you is not handed to a portal.

    Result: Your own customers reach you directly.

  4. Negative keywords for the wrong intent

    Searches for driver jobs, taxi permits, car sales and rental agreements excluded before the campaign runs.

    Result: The budget stops paying for people who will not book.

  5. Bookings counted against spend by route

    Every ad enquiry logged with the route, the vehicle and whether it was travelled, reported against the baseline taken at the start.

    Result: You know the cost of a booking, not the cost of a click.

How the result is measured

  • Cost per click
  • Cost per enquiry
  • Enquiries from paid search

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

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Searches to bid on and block

The searches worth paying for at a car rental company, and the ones to keep out.

Route plus car type, such as Bengaluru to Coorg Innova hire
Bid on the routes you run most. The family books a route and a vehicle together, so name both in the advert and give an all-in figure by WhatsApp, not a bare rate per kilometre.
Airport transfer and local package searches
Bid for the airport and city you actually serve. Say the pickup point, the waiting time included and what the driver carries. A traveller arriving late at night wants those answers before booking.
Group hire searches, such as tempo traveller for wedding guests
Bid ahead of wedding and pilgrimage dates. A group booker needs a vehicle count and dates, so send them to a page that asks both and shows the real vehicles.
Driver jobs, attach your car, franchise and aggregator names
Block. Drivers looking for work and owners wanting to attach a car click every taxi term. Add driver job, attach, franchise, Ola and Uber as negatives so travellers get the budget.
Where the click lands
Send the click to the page for that route or service, with a form asking pickup point, date, vehicle and passengers, and a WhatsApp button. Do not send it to the home page.
Counting a real enquiry
Count a call or message that gives a route, a date and a headcount. Then mark confirmed with an advance in the booking sheet, and read each route's advert against confirmed trips.

Who it is for

This is written for these car rental companies.

  • Outstation cab and chauffeur-driven car operators
  • Airport transfer and city taxi services
  • Self-drive car rental companies
  • Tempo traveller and mini-bus rental operators
  • Luxury and wedding car rental services
  • Corporate car rental and employee transport providers
  • Long-term car leasing and subscription providers
  • Tour operators with their own fleet
  • Travel agents who arrange cabs through partner fleets

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • No one can send an all-in quote while the traveller is still comparing, so a paid click for a route would be lost to the next operator.
  • The fleet is fully booked for the dates being advertised, so the spend would buy enquiries for cars that are not free.

How it works

How the pay per click advertising 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 whole budget

    We fix the total paid budget across platforms, who owns each ad account, and how much is open to moving.

  2. 2

    Audit tracking and accounts

    We check that conversions fire once, that calls and WhatsApp chats are counted, and that your enquiry sheet matches what the platforms say.

  3. 3

    Set one definition of success

    You and we agree what a qualified enquiry is and what an order is, so every platform is judged the same way.

  4. 4

    Build and launch the plan

    Campaigns are structured across platforms with shared naming and tags from day one.

  5. 5

    Read search terms and lead quality

    We review the queries that triggered ads and the enquiries that arrived, and remove waste before moving money.

  6. 6

    Reallocate and report

    Budget moves toward what is earning, within agreed limits. Results are reported against the baseline, at the frequency 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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Do ads make sense when aggregators already bring bookings?
They do, because an aggregator booking costs you a commission on every trip and the customer stays theirs. An advertisement costs once. The comparison to run is the ad cost per booking against the commission on the same trip.
What should we budget for ads?
Enough to cover your busiest booking weeks on three or four routes, which we size after the first conversation against your average trip value. What the platform charges is billed to you and kept separate from our own fee.
Should a car rental company bid on its own name?
Yes, in a small campaign. Aggregators and rival operators often bid on a local operator's name, and repeat customers search it to book again. Keep it cheap, and keep the clicks apart from the route searches so you can see what finds new customers.
Should the adverts keep running when the fleet is fully booked?
Pause the routes and vehicle types that have no free car, since a click you cannot serve is a lost customer. Keep the brand advert on and offer the next free date. Someone has to tell whoever runs the adverts when the fleet is full.
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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