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Industrial suppliers and distributors · Social media

Your audience is forty maintenance managers inside a fifty mile drive.

Social media for a distributor is a small, named audience: the maintenance and reliability people at plants your trucks already reach. GullySales builds the posting around work from your own shop floor, sets your outside reps up properly, and counts the enquiries it produced rather than the followers.

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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 industrial suppliers and distributors, the overview.

Last updated 5 Oct 2026.

For industrial suppliers and distributors

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

  • “Reach is the wrong measure when the market is fifty plants”

    Ten of the right people seeing a hose crimp is a better month than four thousand views from three states away.

  • “A rep's own profile outperforms the company page”

    Plant people connect with the person who visits them, while the company account posts to an audience of manufacturers' reps.

  • “The only content that travels here is the bench”

    A gearbox stripped down, a belt drive corrected, a sixty-foot hose made up while a truck waited. Nobody scrolls past that.

What we do

What we deliver for industrial suppliers and distributors.

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

  1. Footage captured off the fabrication bench and the yard

    A routine for filming the hose, belt and repair work already happening, with a note of what failed and what went back on.

    Result: Posting stops waiting for somebody to have an idea.

  2. Outside reps set up on LinkedIn properly

    Profiles, a connection routine and a weekly post each rep can send in two minutes from a plant car park, with what not to post written down.

    Result: Your reps reach people the company page never will.

  3. A named list of local plants and their maintenance leads

    The plants inside your delivery radius, the maintenance and reliability contacts at each, and an approach that does not read as a pitch.

    Result: You are a known name before the first call.

  4. Manufacturer material reworked for your territory

    Brand campaign assets from the lines you carry rewritten around plants near you, using the co-operative funds most branches leave unclaimed.

    Result: Supplier money pays for content about your branch.

  5. A short answer series taken from the counter

    The questions your will-call desk fields all week, answered in a minute each, posted where local maintenance people already sit.

    Result: Your branch becomes the one people ask.

  6. Enquiries traced back rather than followers counted

    A note of which enquiries, quotes and orders came through a profile or a post, compared with the position before any of it started.

    Result: You can stop if it is not earning.

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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Platform for this buyer

Where maintenance buyers look for suppliers, and what to post for each.

Outside reps' own LinkedIn profiles
Post one product in use, such as a bearing on a conveyor, with the part number format and the type of plant. Do not name the plant unless it agrees.
LinkedIn company page
Post stock arrivals for common part families, the brands you carry and the branch address and counter hours. Maintenance leads search for who holds the part.
WhatsApp Business catalogue and status
Share stock by category and price list changes with regular buyers who opted in. Include the brand and the part code so they can reorder by reply.
YouTube Shorts from the fabrication bench
Film a hydraulic hose being cut and crimped, with the pressure rating label on screen. Buyers see how the assembly is made and who made it.
Google Business Profile posts
List the brands and categories you stock, and your counter timings. Someone who types a bearing dealer near them sees what you carry.
What not to post
Never post a customer's contract rate or purchase list, or a manufacturer's price sheet. Do not claim a part fits a machine unless you have checked it against the model.

Who it is for

This is written for these industrial suppliers and distributors.

  • MRO and general industrial supply houses
  • Bearing, power transmission and motion distributors
  • Hydraulic and pneumatic distributors with a fabrication shop
  • Electrical and automation distributors
  • Fastener, abrasive and cutting tool suppliers
  • Safety and PPE distributors
  • Pipe, valve and fitting suppliers
  • Process equipment and pump distributors with service work
  • Single-branch independents inside a buying group

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 social media work runs

  1. 1

    Understand your audience and platforms

    We identify which platforms your specific buyers actually use and what kind of content they respond to.

  2. 2

    Audit current presence

    We review existing pages, past content performance and any gaps in consistency.

  3. 3

    Build the content calendar

    A plan is created, balancing genuine value with occasional direct offers.

  4. 4

    Implement and post

    Content is created and published consistently on the agreed schedule.

  5. 5

    Measure and optimise

    We track enquiries alongside engagement and adjust the content mix based on what actually performs.

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.

  • Hours that fit your day, agreed up front

    Which hours we overlap with yours is settled before any work starts, so you know when a reply is coming and when it is not.

#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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Does anyone in industry actually use LinkedIn?
Maintenance managers and reliability engineers do, mostly to see what other plants are doing. They are not there to buy. The value is being a known name before your rep calls, which shortens the first meeting.
Should we be posting on Instagram?
Only if the shop work photographs well and somebody enjoys doing it, because the buying audience is not there. It does help with hiring counter and warehouse staff, which is a real problem in this trade.
Can we repost our manufacturers' videos and product photographs?
Only within what the manufacturer allows. Ask for their approved material and check any conditions on use of logos. A clip reworked for your territory, with your stock and counter details, is usually more useful than a straight repost, and it keeps you clear of their copyright.
A customer asked for the price of a hose assembly in a comment. Do we reply?
Reply in public only to say you will message them, then ask for the hose size, fitting types, length and working pressure. The price depends on those. Quote in private so contract rates stay between you and that customer.
What hours would you cover for our branch?
The hours that overlap your working day, agreed and written down before any work starts. We settle that on the first call rather than the third, because a counter runs to its own clock and a quote chased at the wrong hour is wasted. Nights, weekends and the will-call desk stay with your own people.
Can anyone actually compete with Amazon Business?
Not on a box of gloves, and pretending otherwise wastes your money. You compete on the part that is not stocked anywhere near the plant, on the assembly made while the truck waits, and on knowing what fits. The work here is making those three things findable and answerable, then defending the lines you still hold.
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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