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Cafes and coffee shops · Pay per click advertising

Pay to be seen by someone searching for brunch this Saturday.

Coffee shop PPC is paid search and social advertising set to a radius someone would actually walk, timed to a push such as weekend brunch. GullySales runs the campaign, writes the offer page behind it, and reports what the spend bought in walk-ins and bookings.

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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.

Also for cafes and coffee shops

Sales and marketing for cafes and coffee shops, the overview.

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For cafes and coffee shops

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

  • “A tight radius beats a wide one”

    Advertising to people five kilometres away wastes budget on customers unlikely to make the trip for a coffee, unlike a one to two kilometre radius set around the cafe.

  • “A new outlet's first month needs a different budget than year two”

    Awareness spend to announce a new location works differently from a smaller, ongoing budget defending Saturday brunch bookings once the cafe is established.

  • “Ads should point to a specific offer, not the homepage”

    An ad for a weekday work-from-cafe deal that sends someone to a generic homepage undersells the actual reason they clicked.

What we do

What we deliver for cafes and coffee shops.

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

  1. Radius-set local search campaign

    A paid search and social campaign limited to the one or two kilometres a customer would actually walk.

    Result: Ad spend reaches people who could realistically visit this week.

  2. Launch or opening-week campaign

    A separate campaign plan for a new outlet's first weeks, built for awareness rather than an ongoing weekly budget.

    Result: A new outlet gets noticed by the neighbourhood from its first week open.

  3. Offer-specific landing page

    A page built for the exact offer named in the ad, such as the weekday work-from-cafe deal, instead of the homepage.

    Result: A person who clicks sees exactly what the ad promised.

  4. Ad spend and enquiry report

    A report showing what the ad spend produced in bookings, calls or orders.

    Result: You see what the spend is actually buying before renewing it.

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 cafe, and the ones to keep out.

Cafe near me and brunch near me
Bid inside a short walking or driving radius, in the hours people decide where to go, such as Friday evening and weekend mornings. Show photos, timings and the area.
Work-friendly searches, such as cafe with wifi to work
Bid for the slow weekday hours, if you really have sockets and wifi. Say so in the advert. This is the searcher your afternoons are missing.
Party and booking searches, such as birthday party cafe or private dining
Bid in its own campaign if you take bookings. The buyer needs a date, a headcount and a menu, so send them to a page that asks for those and nothing else.
Recipe, coffee beans, franchise, barista course and job
Block. Add recipe, beans, powder, machine, franchise, course and vacancy as negatives. Home brewers and job seekers use the same words as someone hunting for a cafe.
Where the click lands
Send the click to a page with the Maps link, timings, a few menu photos and a WhatsApp button for tables. For an opening, use a page for the offer and nothing else.
Counting a real enquiry
Count direction requests, calls and table bookings. For walk-ins, train the counter to ask how they found you and tally the answers in a notebook beside the till.

Who it is for

This is written for these cafes and coffee shops.

  • Independent single-outlet cafes
  • Specialty coffee roasters with a cafe
  • Cafes inside co-working spaces
  • Bakery cafes
  • Cafe chains opening new outlets
  • Cloud kitchen and delivery-only cafes
  • Cafes attached to bookstores or art spaces
  • Late-night and student-area cafes

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 report.

No open-ended retainer. Every step gives you something in writing.

  1. First

    Your brief

    You tell us what you need in a few short steps: your business, what you want, where enquiries come from and how they are handled.

  2. After the brief

    A conversation and a written scope

    We read it, then talk with whoever handles your enquiries. If you want our help, the scope, the fee and the reporting come in writing, and nothing starts before you have read them.

  3. Before work starts

    Baseline recorded

    Enquiries by source, reply time, conversion and cost per order, written down so every later report has an honest comparison.

  4. After the baseline

    The first fix goes live

    The fix we agreed to start with is put in place and measured against the baseline, whether that is reply time, a follow-up sequence, the page buyers land on or the handover between marketing and sales.

  5. As agreed

    Report against the baseline

    What moved, what did not, and what changes next, in plain words. How often you get it is set in writing before work starts.

  6. At renewal

    Renew on the numbers

    The term ends and you decide whether to continue from the results. The length is agreed in writing before anything starts.

How the pay per click advertising work runs

  1. 1

    Understand the total budget

    We agree the full paid advertising budget available across all platforms, rather than planning each one separately.

  2. 2

    Audit current platform performance

    We compare existing campaigns on a shared basis to see where the budget currently performs best and worst.

  3. 3

    Build the cross-platform plan

    Campaigns are structured across platforms with a shared measurement standard from the outset.

  4. 4

    Implement and monitor

    Campaigns run with budget allocated dynamically based on real-time performance.

  5. 5

    Measure and reallocate

    We report performance and shift budget toward what is working, within agreed limits.

Why us

Why owners pick GullySales over an agency.

  • Marketing and sales, as one job

    Most agencies stop at the enquiry. We also fix what happens after it: the reply, the follow-up, the quote and the CRM.

  • 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 later 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 guarantees we cannot keep

    The term is agreed in writing and never a default twelve months. 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.

Your brief

Tell us what you need, and we will read it before we call.

Eight short steps about your business, what you want and who decides. Most questions are a tap, and you can skip any you would rather answer on the call.

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FAQ

Questions owners ask before they call.

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Tell us what you need
Is paid advertising worth it for a small cafe?
It works best for a specific goal, such as a launch or filling a slow hour, rather than as a constant spend.
What budget makes sense to start?
It depends on your radius and goal, which we set together after the first conversation rather than a fixed number.
Should a cafe bid on its own name?
Yes, in a small campaign, if a delivery app or a rival cafe shows above you when your name is searched. Someone told about you by a friend usually searches the name. Keep it cheap, and report it apart from the near me searches.
Should a cafe use Google Ads or Instagram ads?
Use Google search for people already looking, such as cafe near me. Use Instagram to show food and the room to people nearby who are not looking yet. A small cafe should start with search and count directions and bookings.
How soon would we see more customers?
Fixing reply time and the Business Profile shows within weeks. Building enough reviews and photographs to rank for coffee near a busy locality takes a few months.
Do we need to advertise?
Most cafes benefit first from the profile and a faster reply, which cost nothing in media. Ads make sense for a launch or a specific slow window you want filled.
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.
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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