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Chemical traders · Social media

Use LinkedIn and short clips to show a godown a vendor team can trust.

Social media for a chemical trader is a modest job: a business page where purchase officers and producers look, and posts about stock, arrivals and handling. GullySales plans and drafts what goes on those pages and what stays off them.

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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 social media means

Social media is the ongoing posting your business does on platforms such as Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn to stay visible to customers and prospects between purchases. GullySales plans a posting calendar, writes captions and designs the images so the page looks active and answers what a visitor would ask.

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Sales and marketing for chemical traders, the overview.

Last updated 18 Oct 2026.

For chemical traders

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

  • “Purchase officers look for suppliers on LinkedIn”

    A purchase head or plant manager checks a supplier's profile before a first order. A tidy LinkedIn page with the products, the cities served and a named owner answers the vendor-approval question, while a page of festival greetings does not.

  • “Handling clips show care that a rate cannot”

    Short clips of drums labelled, stacked and loaded show a safety officer how the goods are kept. They need the owner's consent and a check that no buyer's name, label or vehicle number appears in the frame.

  • “A post must never become safety advice”

    A post explaining how to dilute, mix or store a chemical is an instruction, and one wrong word can hurt someone. Posts point to the producer's data sheet and leave the handling steps to the producer and the buyer's safety officer.

  • “Producers and trade groups watch who posts real stock”

    A producer choosing traders for a city, and the association whose members share news, notice a page that reports actual arrivals. A page that shows what landed this week tells them the trader is active and holds what it says.

What we do

What we deliver for chemical traders.

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

  1. LinkedIn company page set-up

    A page with the business description, products, cities served, godown location and the owner's profile linked.

    Result: A vendor team that searches your name finds a complete page.

  2. Stock arrival post template

    A fixed layout for announcing a new arrival: chemical, grade, pack and city, with a route to ask for the rate.

    Result: Each arrival post carries the same four facts in the same order.

  3. Godown and dispatch clip guide

    A shot list for short clips of storage and loading, with a list of what to keep out of the frame.

    Result: Every clip is checked against the list before it is posted.

  4. Post review checklist

    A checklist run before publishing: no safety instructions, no buyer names without consent, no rates that will go stale.

    Result: The owner can show the checklist ticked for any post.

  5. Platform choice note

    A short note naming the platforms your buyers use, drawn from who actually enquires, so effort goes where they look.

    Result: The owner knows which platforms are in use and which are left alone.

How the result is measured

  • Posts published
  • Engagement rate
  • Enquiries from social profiles

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

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Posts and pieces to plan

What a chemical trader can post that a purchase officer will stay to read.

New stock arrival at the godown
A short clip of drums unloaded and labelled, with the chemical, grade and pack. Show labels clearly and leave out any rate.
Pack and drum handling
A clip of how drums are stacked, kept off the floor and marked. It shows care. It must not read as safety advice for the buyer's own plant.
A dispatch loaded on time
A photo of a loaded lorry with the paperwork folder in view, posted only with the buyer's permission to be named or shown.
A document explained
A post that shows where the batch number and expiry sit on a label and which sheet travels with the drum. Keep it factual.
A sector note for paint or textile buyers
A LinkedIn post for one buyer group saying which grades you hold for them. Link to the matching page, not the whole catalogue.

Who it is for

This is written for these chemical traders.

  • Traders in industrial solvents and thinners for paint and coating units
  • Acid and alkali traders supplying textile processors, tanneries and metal finishers
  • Dye and pigment traders serving processing houses and printing units
  • Water treatment and boiler chemical suppliers to hotels, hospitals and factories
  • Food-grade and pharma-grade chemical traders working with batch records
  • Polymer, resin and plastic raw material dealers
  • Laboratory and analytical chemical suppliers to colleges and testing labs
  • Importers who sell by the drum from port-side or bonded storage

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • Nobody at the godown can film or photograph safely, so you would be posting from the office with stock images.
  • You want to post prices, but your rates change with the producer's list and would be wrong by the time anyone read them.
  • You have no one to answer comments on the same day, so interested buyers would be left waiting in public.

How it works

How the social media 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

    Confirm audience, platforms and access

    We note which platforms your buyers use and check that the pages sit under your own business accounts, with you as owner and us as added roles.

  2. 2

    Review the current presence

    We read the existing pages, the posts that drew replies and the gaps in posting.

  3. 3

    Build the calendar

    Themes, formats and dates are set out for your approval, with space for offers and news.

  4. 4

    Create, approve and publish

    Posts are made, approved by you and scheduled. Replies to the public are handled in your voice.

  5. 5

    Record enquiries and adjust

    Enquiries are logged against the post or platform where they began, and the mix changes to follow what brings them.

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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Do chemical traders need Instagram at all?
Not as a rule. Begin where purchase officers and producers look, which is LinkedIn, and add a video channel for godown walk-throughs. Take up Instagram if your buyers include small shops or laboratories that follow it.
Can we post rates on social media?
You may, but a posted rate goes stale when the producer revises it, and a buyer will hold you to it. Posting stock and arrivals, and giving the rate on the call, keeps the quote current. Check each platform's current rules for chemical posts.
Who should be in the clips from the godown?
Show stock, labels and equipment, and keep staff out of frame unless they have agreed. A face in a handling clip invites questions about the safety of the operation. Film only where the person can stand safely, away from open containers.
How does a post become an enquiry for a chemical trader?
Every post should point to one next step, such as a call or WhatsApp message about the chemical shown. Record who replied and the chemical asked for. A comment asking the grade is an enquiry and gets a reply from the person on duty.
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.
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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