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Plan the search, social and messaging work around two signatures, not one.

Digital marketing for a contract farming company joins search, social posts, messaging and a website into a plan for reaching growers and buyers separately. GullySales works out which channel serves which audience, so a rupee or an hour is not spent on the wrong one.

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Scope, fee, reporting and term are agreed in writing after we have read your brief and spoken to you.

An agribusiness field officer reviewing a seasonal crew roster with supervisors at a crop collection point

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.

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Sales and marketing for contract farming companies, the overview.

Last updated 18 Oct 2026.

For contract farming companies

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

  • “Ads do little for enrolment in a village”

    Paid ads aimed at farmers across a district reach people who will not sign without a visit from someone they know. Spend is better placed on buyers and on retargeting those who read your crop pages.

  • “The buyer's journey starts online”

    A processor finds a supplier by searching, then reading the site, then messaging. Each step needs something to read, or the buyer moves to a competitor with fuller pages.

  • “Channels without a record cannot be compared”

    If enquiries from search, WhatsApp, calls and meetings go into different notebooks, no one knows which channel signs growers. A source column in the register fixes this.

  • “Seasonality drives the calendar”

    Enrolment pushes belong before sowing, buyer outreach before the buyer fixes the next supply, and proof before the harvest. Plans built on the calendar year miss those windows.

What we do

What we deliver for contract farming companies.

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

  1. A channel plan for growers and for buyers

    A one-page plan stating which channel serves which audience, who runs it and what it should deliver.

    Result: Each channel has a stated job.

  2. A crop-season calendar for marketing

    Marketing tasks placed against sowing, growing, harvest and delivery for each crop.

    Result: Work is timed to the crop, not the month.

  3. Tracking of enquiry sources

    A source recorded on every grower and buyer entry.

    Result: You can name the channels that brought signatures.

  4. Retargeting for crop page visitors

    Messages to people who read a crop page and did not enquire.

    Result: Buyers who looked once are reminded with proof.

  5. A review of what was spent and learned

    A written comparison of channels at the end of the crop cycle.

    Result: The next plan drops what did not bring growers or buyers.

  6. A single dashboard of sources

    One sheet showing growers and buyers by source, drawn from the register and the buyer list.

    Result: Channels are compared on signatures, not on clicks.

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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Searches your buyers type

Plan the work for two signatures, one for the buyer and one for the grower.

[crop] supplier for processors
A crop page and a LinkedIn note for sourcing managers, both leading to the buyer enquiry page, with the source recorded.
[crop] growers in [district] for export
A page for an exporter's quality head, carrying the field records and the inspection notes a buyer reads before a meeting.
[crop] contract farming terms in Hindi or the local language
A farmer page and a short video in the home language, reached by search and WhatsApp forwards.
visited the crop page and left
A reminder shown to buyers who read the crop page without sending an enquiry, with the proof section as the answer.
season start in [district]
A calendar entry for the crop's sowing, so the posts, field meetings and buyer outreach are planned before the season starts.

Who it is for

This is written for these contract farming companies.

  • Contract growers for processing potatoes, gherkins and tomatoes
  • Seed production contract farming for seed companies
  • Contract farming for export crops such as pomegranate, banana and onion
  • Herbal and medicinal plant contract growers
  • Sugarcane, maize and oilseed contract farming for mills and processors
  • Organic produce contract farming for retail brands
  • Contract dairy and poultry farming arrangements
  • Farmer producer company-led contract farming

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • You have no record of where each grower and buyer was first found, so spend could not be compared.
  • You hope advertising will enrol growers in villages that are reached only through the field officer.
  • Your crop page has no proof, so paid visits would find only claims.

How it works

How the digital marketing 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

    Agree the one aim

    We settle what the campaign must achieve, such as enquiries for a launch or footfall for an event, and the date it must be live.

  2. 2

    Check what is ready

    We list the channels you already run, who runs them, and what each can produce in the time available. Anything that cannot be done properly is left out.

  3. 3

    Write the idea and the message sheet

    We draft the one-sentence idea, test it against each planned format, and fix the wording that all channels will copy.

  4. 4

    Brief every channel from the same sheet

    Your agency, freelancer or in-house person receives the message sheet and calendar. Their work is checked against the sheet before it goes out.

  5. 5

    Run on the shared calendar

    Channels go live together. If the offer changes, every channel is changed on the same day from the same sheet.

  6. 6

    Measure as one campaign

    Enquiries and orders are read against the baseline. The reporting schedule is agreed in writing with the scope.

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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Should we run paid ads?
For buyer outreach and retargeting, test it. For grower enrolment, village contact does more. We test small and read the results against the register.
How do we know what is working?
By recording the source of every grower and buyer and reading the register at the end of the cycle. Without the source column, no channel can be judged.
Do ads bring in farmers?
Not by themselves. A grower decides after a field officer visits and a neighbour vouches for it, so the work is in the village. Advertising reaches buyers, who research online first. Spend where the audience actually looks, and keep field effort for the growers.
Which seasons need the most marketing effort?
Plan around the crop calendar: buyer outreach before sowing, grower enrolment as the season opens and proof posts near collection. A fixed calendar fails when rains shift sowing, so tie each activity to a crop stage and not to a date.
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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