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FMCG and beverage brands · Digital marketing

Spend online only where a shopper can find your pack on the way home.

Digital marketing for an FMCG or beverage brand is one plan for search, social, marketplaces, quick commerce and trade outreach, tied to the districts your distributors cover and the season your category sells in. GullySales sets the order of work, names who runs each channel and reads results against outlet sales.

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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 digital marketing means

Digital marketing is the combined work of search, social media, advertising and website channels running together rather than as separate projects with separate people. GullySales runs these as one connected system so a change in one channel, such as a new offer, is reflected everywhere at once.

Also for FMCG and beverage brands

Sales and marketing for FMCG and beverage brands, the overview.

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For FMCG and beverage brands

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

  • “Ads run in towns with no stock”

    A campaign set to the whole state raises demand where no retailer carries the pack, and the shopper buys the rival bottle beside the gap.

  • “The trade gets left out of digital”

    The plan covers reels and ads for shoppers, and nobody builds the distributorship page or the retailer WhatsApp list that actually move cases.

  • “The monsoon gets the summer budget”

    Spend stays flat across the year while cold drink demand falls away after June, so the slow months use money the peak needed.

What we do

What we deliver for FMCG and beverage brands.

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

  1. A channel order fixed by what moves cases

    The distributorship page and the retailer WhatsApp list first, then district-limited ads and quick commerce, then wider brand work once stock is in place.

    Result: The first rupee goes where orders start.

  2. A stocked pin code list before any campaign

    The areas where distributors have placed stock, shared with whoever runs the ads and updated as new beats open.

    Result: Shoppers who see the ad can find the pack.

  3. Spend that follows the weather

    Budget weighted towards March to June for drinks and the cleaning weeks before Diwali for home care, with a smaller plan for the rains.

    Result: Peak months get the money they need.

  4. One owner for each channel

    Listings, social, ads and the trade broadcast each given to a named person, in-house or outside, with what is due before each season.

    Result: Nothing waits on the owner's free evening.

  5. Results read against outlet sales

    Online orders, trade enquiries and the change in outlet billing in advertised districts, compared with districts left alone and with the starting baseline.

    Result: You can tell whether the ads moved bottles.

How the result is measured

  • Enquiries across channels
  • Cost per enquiry overall
  • Channel mix by contribution

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

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Where to start for FMCG brands

Fix the trade side and the stocked-district list before buying a single consumer ad.

Retailer and distributor WhatsApp list
Build it from your distributors' outlet lists and your salesmen's phones. Its first job is announcing a scheme. Record how many cases were ordered in reply.
A distributorship page
Name the districts open and what a distributor needs. Record each enquiry with its district and current brands, and how many became appointments.
Business Profile for the plant and each depot
List the plant and every depot with what can be bought there and the hours. Note calls and direction requests before and after the listing is filled in.
Quick commerce and marketplace listings
Start with your two or three biggest sellers in one city. Match the title, image and pack size to the label, and record orders and ratings by SKU.
District-limited social ads
Run ads only in pin codes where outlets hold stock. Compare outlet billing on those beats with similar beats that saw no ads over the same weeks.
What to leave until later
A state-wide brand film, a television slot or a national creator. Wait until distributors cover the area and outlets reorder without a scheme.

Who it is for

This is written for these FMCG and beverage brands.

  • Packaged drinking water and 20-litre can brands
  • Regional soft drink, soda and goli soda bottlers
  • Juice, fruit drink and nectar brands
  • Energy, sports and electrolyte drink brands
  • Packaged tea and coffee powder brands
  • Flavoured milk, buttermilk and lassi brands
  • Home care brands: detergent, dishwash, floor cleaner and phenyl
  • Personal care and pooja brands: soap, hair oil and agarbatti

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 digital marketing work runs

  1. 1

    Understand the objective

    We agree the one thing this campaign needs to achieve before choosing any channel.

  2. 2

    Audit available channels

    We assess which channels are realistic to run well within the budget and timeline.

  3. 3

    Strategise the central idea

    One message and offer is developed that will work across every planned channel.

  4. 4

    Implement across channels

    Each channel receives its own adapted version, launched on a shared timeline.

  5. 5

    Measure as one campaign

    Results from every channel are combined into a single report against the original objective.

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
Should we hire an agency or build a digital team in-house?
Keep the trade side in-house, because the retailer list and the distributorship replies need someone who knows your distributors. Ads, shoots and listings can go outside, as long as one person inside owns the plan and the stocked pin code list.
We have a small budget. Which channel should get it first?
The one closest to a case being ordered. For a regional brand that is the retailer and distributor WhatsApp list and a distributorship page, then ads limited to stocked districts. Brand awareness across a state can wait until distribution catches up.
How can I tell what worked from my own records?
Compare outlet billing in the beats where you advertised with similar beats where you did not, over the same weeks. Add quick commerce orders and trade enquiries tagged by source. A rise in primary billing alone proves only that the distributor bought.
Should ads and organic posts run together?
Yes, from one calendar. Organic posts keep the page alive when a retailer checks it, and ads carry the same message further in stocked districts. Boost only the posts where the pack and the price point are clear.
Should we give coolers to retailers?
Only to outlets that already sell enough of your brand to fill one. A cooler is an asset on loan, so sign a simple agreement on what goes inside it, and check on beat visits whether it holds your bottles or a rival's. Start with the busiest outlet on each beat.
How do we stop distributors loading up in March and returning stock later?
Pay schemes on outlets reached and on what he sells to shops, not on cases billed to him. Agree the rules for damaged and near-expiry returns before the season starts. Then compare each distributor's closing stock with his salesmen's bills.
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.

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