Caterers · Pay per click advertising
Advertise the menu you cook best, in the months dates get fixed.
Paid advertising for a caterer puts you in front of a family or an admin team while the shortlist is still being made. GullySales runs the search campaigns by menu and guest size, asks for the count and the food preference on the form, and keeps the spend off job seekers.
Scope, fee, reporting and term are agreed in writing after we have read your brief and spoken to you.
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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For caterers
Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.
“The guest count decides whether a click is worth anything”
A hundred-guest housewarming and an eight-hundred-guest reception cost the same click and are not the same business.
“Corporate contracts are searched in office hours”
Industrial canteen contractor and office cafeteria vendor get typed by an admin at eleven in the morning, not by a family on a Sunday.
“Cook and helper searches will drain the budget”
Catering jobs, cook vacancy, catering course and catering equipment sit right beside your keywords and turn into nothing.
What we do
What we deliver for caterers.
Every deliverable, what it covers for you, and the result it is there to produce. Nothing here is an extra.
Campaigns split by function and by guest size
Separate budgets for weddings, small home functions, corporate lunches and cafeteria contracts, each with its own wording and its own page.
Result: A wedding budget never gets spent on a birthday enquiry.
A form that asks the count, the date and the food
Guest count, date, venue, and whether the menu is vegetarian, Jain or non-vegetarian, all asked before a quote is built.
Result: You know whether your kitchen can cook it before you ring.
Landing pages showing the menu at that scale
The page behind each advert carrying the menu, the per-plate range and photographs of a function that size, rather than a mixed gallery.
Result: The click sees a function like the one being planned.
Negatives for jobs, courses and equipment
Blocks on catering jobs, cook vacancy, catering course, catering trolley, tiffin service and the searches from people who want to start a catering business.
Result: The budget stops paying for cooks looking for work.
Spend timed to the muhurtham calendar
Budget raised in the months before the main wedding dates in your region and ahead of the corporate year end, then pulled back in the gaps.
Result: You advertise while dates are still being fixed.
Cost per booked date, not cost per click
Spend read against enquiries, tastings held and dates booked, measured against the baseline from the first conversation.
Result: You stop paying for enquiries that never reach a tasting.
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.
Searches to bid on and block
The searches worth paying for as a caterer, and the ones to keep out.
- Function plus city, such as wedding catering in Mysuru
- Bid in the weeks families fix dates. Run wedding, ceremony, engagement and birthday as separate campaigns, since the headcount, menu and notice period are different.
- Cuisine searches, such as vegetarian catering or biryani catering
- Bid on the menu you cook best, using the words families use. Do not bid on a cuisine you do not cook at scale, because the first tasting will show it.
- Office lunch and corporate catering searches
- Bid in a separate campaign. The buyer is an admin or HR person asking about headcount, hygiene papers and invoicing, not a family choosing a menu.
- Cook jobs, catering course, vessels on hire and tent searches
- Block. Add cook job, course, recipe, vessels, utensils, tent and catering college as negatives. Staff, students and other vendors click on every catering term.
- Where the click lands
- Send the click to the menu page for that kind of function, with a form asking date, guest count, venue and the food type. Add a WhatsApp button for families who prefer to write.
- Counting a real enquiry
- Count an enquiry with a date and a guest count. Then mark tasting held and date booked with an advance in your function register, and read each advert against booked dates.
Who it is for
This is written for these caterers.
- Wedding and function caterers
- Traditional vegetarian and Brahmin cooks for ceremonies
- Non-vegetarian and biryani specialists
- Corporate event and party caterers
- Office cafeteria and daily meal providers
- Industrial and factory canteen contractors
- School and hostel meal providers
- Live counter and snack specialists
- Home-based caterers for small gatherings
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Understand the total budget
We agree the full paid advertising budget available across all platforms, rather than planning each one separately.
- 2
Audit current platform performance
We compare existing campaigns on a shared basis to see where the budget currently performs best and worst.
- 3
Build the cross-platform plan
Campaigns are structured across platforms with a shared measurement standard from the outset.
- 4
Implement and monitor
Campaigns run with budget allocated dynamically based on real-time performance.
- 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.
FAQ
Questions owners ask before they call.
Not here? More answers, or ask on WhatsApp.
Do families really search for caterers online?
What should we spend?
Should the advert say vegetarian or non-vegetarian?
Should a caterer bid on its own name?
Should we give a per-plate price over the phone?
Should we charge for tastings?
How long is the contract?
How soon will we see results?
Who will actually do the work?
What do you need from us?
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