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Spend in the three months before the rains, not in the monsoon.

Paid advertising for a landscaping contractor buys search and Meta clicks from villa owners, terrace owners and facility managers inside a short planting season. GullySales runs the campaigns in the weeks before the rains, screens out rate hunters, and counts orders 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 landscape contractors

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

  • “The season is short and the budget should be lumpy”

    Planting goes in just before the monsoon, so March to May carries the design enquiries. The same monthly budget spread through October wastes most of itself.

  • “A garden click and a lawn mowing click are different buyers”

    Somebody searching for garden maintenance near me wants a monthly visit at a low rate. Somebody searching for a terrace garden designer wants a project. One campaign cannot serve both.

  • “Ads never reach the person drawing the plant schedule”

    No amount of spend puts you in front of a garden design consultant who is already specifying. That work is won by walking them through a mature site, so it is budgeted separately.

What we do

What we deliver for landscape contractors.

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

  1. Campaigns timed to the planting calendar

    Budget raised through the pre-monsoon design months, held down in the wettest weeks and raised again before the winter planting window.

    Result: You advertise in the months work can actually start.

  2. Separate campaigns for projects and for maintenance

    One campaign for design and build enquiries, another for monthly contracts, each with its own page, form and follow-up.

    Result: A project enquiry stops being answered with a mowing rate.

  3. Three qualifying questions on every form

    Area, water source and planting month asked before the enquiry reaches your phone, with photographs invited from the owner.

    Result: Site visits go to people who can describe their site.

  4. Landing pages that answer the fear

    The terrace campaign lands on waterproofing, load and drainage, and the villa campaign lands on soil, species and the first year of care.

    Result: The click arrives at the objection instead of a brochure.

  5. Localities chosen where gardens exist

    Spend aimed at areas with independent houses, villa projects and gated communities, rather than sprayed across a whole city map.

    Result: You stop paying for clicks from flats with no balcony.

  6. Reporting to proposals and orders

    Each click followed through to the site visit, the proposal and the order, by garden type, against the baseline recorded before work starts.

    Result: You can tell which campaign paid for a project.

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 from people about to build a garden, and the ones from people who want a lawn cut cheaply.

Garden design and build, plus villa or farmhouse
Bid. A person who types design and build for a villa is planning a full job. Say which cities you work in and show one finished garden in the advert, so a small-balcony buyer filters themselves out.
Terrace garden and rooftop garden installation
Bid in its own ad group. The buyer owns the building and has a waterproofing question. Land the click on a page that asks the floor area and whether the terrace is already waterproofed.
Lawn grass, artificial grass and rate per square foot
Block unless you lay lawn as a product. These searchers want a price and compare quickly. Add rate, price, per sq ft, artificial grass and cheap as negatives, or move them to a separate page.
Garden maintenance and gardener near me
Bid only if you sell maintenance contracts. Keep it apart from build work and say it is a contract. Block gardener job, mali and daily wage, or you attract people hunting for work.
Where the click lands
Send it to a page showing two or three finished gardens with the plot size and the year they were built, plus a short form asking site area and city. Do not send it to a plant list.
Counting a real enquiry
Count a call or form that names a site, an area or a drawing, not a request for a rate. Book a site visit, and log which visits became a quotation.

Who it is for

This is written for these landscape contractors.

  • Garden design and build contractors for villas
  • Softscape and hardscape contractors for apartment projects
  • Corporate campus and institutional grounds contractors
  • Terrace, rooftop and vertical garden specialists
  • Irrigation and drip system installers
  • Garden maintenance and upkeep contract companies
  • Nursery-owned landscaping businesses
  • Hotel, resort and farmhouse garden developers

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • Your planting window is not fixed, and money spent in the wrong months would buy clicks for a season you cannot plant in.
  • You cannot tell a lawn-mowing enquiry from a garden build, and the spend would bring buyers who want a cheaper job.
  • You have no way to follow a click to a site visit and a signed order, so the advertisement would have no result to judge by.

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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Tell us what you need
Is Meta or Google better for a landscaping contractor?
Google for people who have decided they want a garden, Meta for owners who have not got there yet. A terrace garden is an idea before it is a search, so a photograph of a finished rooftop does work no keyword can. Run both before the monsoon and compare the enquiries.
How do we stop paying for people who only want a rate?
Ask three things on the form: the area, the water source and the month they want it planted. Anyone who will not answer was never going to book a site visit. Your enquiry count drops and your visits improve.
Should we advertise only before summer and the monsoon?
Plan spend around the seasons clients actually plant and build in your city. Many contractors run a standing small campaign and raise it before planting season. Check your own diary, since a busy team cannot take more site visits.
Is it worth bidding on architect and builder searches?
Seldom through search. An architect picks a contractor from past work and referrals, not from an advert. Use Google for homeowners who search a garden project, and spend your effort on a portfolio the architect can look at.
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 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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