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.

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

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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.

Nobody at the branch will photograph the bench or the yard, so there would be nothing real to post.
Your buyers are a handful of named plants you already visit, and a personal call to them beats any post.
Outside reps do not want to keep a LinkedIn profile, so the company page would be speaking alone.

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
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
Review the current presence
We read the existing pages, the posts that drew replies and the gaps in posting.
3
Build the calendar
Themes, formats and dates are set out for your approval, with space for offers and news.
4
Create, approve and publish
Posts are made, approved by you and scheduled. Replies to the public are handled in your voice.
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.

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.
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.
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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Tell us what you need

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.

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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