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Advertise inside the radius your lorry can reach by afternoon.

Pay per click advertising for a building material dealer works on urgent, local searches, such as a load of M-sand wanted this week or waterproofing before the rains. GullySales runs call-led campaigns inside your delivery radius, blocks the wholesale and job searches, and counts orders delivered rather than clicks.

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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 pay per click advertising means

Pay per click advertising (PPC) is paying a fee each time someone clicks your advert on Google or another platform. It puts you at the top of a search page immediately, instead of waiting for ranking to build. GullySales sets the targeting, writes the ad text and checks spend against enquiries received.

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Sales and marketing for building material dealers, the overview.

Last updated 5 Oct 2026.

For building material dealers

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

  • “The radius is the campaign”

    An enquiry from forty kilometres away costs the same click and cannot be delivered at a rate worth taking.

  • “Rate searches are not buyers”

    Somebody typing today's cement rate wants a number, not a lorry. Bid on the material and the area instead.

  • “The rains set the calendar”

    Waterproofing and roofing sheets sell in the weeks before the monsoon breaks, and that window closes with the first heavy rain.

What we do

What we deliver for building material dealers.

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

  1. Call-led campaigns drawn to your delivery radius

    Adverts shown only in the localities your lorry serves, with the call button first, since a contractor will ring and never fill a form.

    Result: The phone rings from sites you can supply the same day.

  2. Separate campaigns for the owner and the trade

    One set of adverts written for a house owner buying paint or tiles, another for a contractor after a load of blocks or sand, each landing on its own page.

    Result: Neither buyer reads copy written for the other.

  3. A negative list for wholesale and job searches

    Blocks on manufacturer, distributorship, dealership enquiry, job vacancy and the bulk export searches that have nothing to do with your yard.

    Result: The budget stops paying for people who want to sell to you.

  4. Seasonal pushes before the rains and the festivals

    Waterproofing and roofing adverts in the weeks before the monsoon, and paint adverts before the main festival in your region, with the rest of the year held steady.

    Result: Spend rises when the buyer already has the problem.

  5. Calls matched against loads despatched

    Each advert call logged and checked against what was delivered that week, so cost is read per order rather than per enquiry.

    Result: You can say what an advert order costs to win.

How the result is measured

  • Cost per click
  • Cost per enquiry
  • Enquiries from paid search

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

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Searches to bid on and block

The searches worth paying for at a building material yard, and the ones to keep out.

Material plus area, such as TMT steel dealer near me
Bid inside the radius your lorry can reach. Run cement, steel, blocks and paint as separate campaigns, since the buyers, the loads and the rates are different.
Rate searches, such as cement price today or steel rate
Bid only if you publish a rate. A page with the current rate and a call button turns a rate check into a call. If you will not show a rate, leave these searches out.
Brand plus product, such as UltraTech cement or Asian Paints
Bid only on brands you are authorised to sell, and write dealer in the advert. Do not imply you are the maker, and check the platform's current rules on brand names.
Stage searches, such as M-sand or AAC blocks near me
Bid when a site reaches that stage. A contractor typing M-sand or AAC blocks needs a delivery soon, so say what you stock and the area you deliver to.
Where the click lands
Send the click to a call button or a page listing the materials in stock and the delivery area. Most searchers are on a site, on a phone, so keep the first screen to the call.
Counting a real enquiry
Count a call from the advert that names a material and a site area. Then match the calls against loads despatched in your dispatch book, so adverts are read against billing.

Who it is for

This is written for these building material dealers.

  • Cement and TMT steel dealers
  • Sand, aggregate and M-sand suppliers
  • Brick, block and AAC block dealers
  • Ready-mix concrete suppliers and agents
  • Paint retailers with tinting counters
  • Hardware and construction products retail stores
  • Plumbing, waterproofing and roofing material dealers
  • Multi-category building material yards

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • Nobody can answer the phone through the working day, so paid calls would go to voicemail and the money would buy missed enquiries.
  • You cannot deliver beyond a short radius and have not set it, so clicks from far away would cost money and end in a refusal.
  • You have no stock of what you would advertise, and a buyer who calls for blocks you do not hold goes to the next yard.

How it works

How the pay per click advertising 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 whole budget

    We fix the total paid budget across platforms, who owns each ad account, and how much is open to moving.

  2. 2

    Audit tracking and accounts

    We check that conversions fire once, that calls and WhatsApp chats are counted, and that your enquiry sheet matches what the platforms say.

  3. 3

    Set one definition of success

    You and we agree what a qualified enquiry is and what an order is, so every platform is judged the same way.

  4. 4

    Build and launch the plan

    Campaigns are structured across platforms with shared naming and tags from day one.

  5. 5

    Read search terms and lead quality

    We review the queries that triggered ads and the enquiries that arrived, and remove waste before moving money.

  6. 6

    Reallocate and report

    Budget moves toward what is earning, within agreed limits. Results are reported against the baseline, at the frequency agreed in writing.

Where this fits

Three pieces of sales work, in this order.

This work sits inside sales process design, at stage 1, prospecting and lead generation. 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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Is advertising worth it when contractors buy on rate?
For a new site that has not chosen a yard, yes. For a contractor already buying from you, the morning rate message does more than any advert.
We get calls asking for one bag of cement. How do we stop that?
State the minimum load in the advert and on the landing page. It costs a few clicks and saves the counter an hour every day.
Should a building material dealer bid on its own name?
Yes, in a small campaign. Contractors told about your yard by another mestri often search the name, and a rival or directory can sit on top. Keep it cheap, and do not bid on other dealers' names.
Is Google Ads or a WhatsApp broadcast better for contractors?
They do different jobs. A broadcast keeps rates in front of contractors who already know you. Google Ads finds the site owner or new contractor who does not. Run ads for new buyers and use the broadcast for the ones you already have.
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 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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