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Spend the ad budget in the six weeks before the wedding season, not all year.

Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising for a boutique buys attention in the short weeks when a family is shopping for a wedding or a festival. GullySales runs search and Instagram ads on the garments and occasions that carry a margin, and stops them when the season passes.

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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 clothing stores and boutiques, the overview.

Last updated 5 Oct 2026.

For clothing stores and boutiques

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

  • “Everyday wear is the wrong thing to bid on”

    Marketplaces will pay more for a kurta click than the margin on one is worth, so the budget belongs on bridal, stitching and festival collections.

  • “The radius is smaller than you think”

    A shopper will drive across the city for a bridal trial and not for an alteration, so the two campaigns need different service areas.

  • “The ad should open on the collection, not the home page”

    An advertisement for lehengas that lands on a page of shop photographs loses the click, because the shopper came to see this season's pieces.

What we do

What we deliver for clothing stores and boutiques.

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

  1. Search ads for stitching and occasion wear

    Campaigns built on searches such as blouse stitching, bridal lehenga and saree shop, with the everyday-wear searches deliberately left out.

    Result: Clicks come from shoppers with an occasion and a date.

  2. Instagram and Facebook ads by collection

    Reels and carousels of one specific collection shown to women in your delivery area, with a WhatsApp click as the action rather than a form.

    Result: An interested shopper starts a conversation instead of filling a form.

  3. Season-shaped budgets

    Spend lifted in the weeks before your region's wedding dates and main festival, and cut back in the months families are not buying.

    Result: The budget goes where the buying is.

  4. Landing pages for the advertised collection

    A page showing the collection in the advertisement, with price ranges, sizes and stitching timelines visible without a phone call.

    Result: A shopper who clicks sees what the advertisement promised.

  5. Enquiry tracking from click to fitting

    Every ad enquiry logged with the occasion and the event date, then followed through to a fitting slot and an order.

    Result: You know the cost of an order, not the cost of a click.

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 clothing store, and the ones to keep out.

Occasion wear and stitching, such as bridal blouse stitching near me
Bid in the weeks before the wedding season. The searcher has a date and needs a fitting, so say how many fittings you offer and when the order must be placed.
Fabric and style names, such as Kanjivaram or Banarasi saree
Bid on the fabrics you really stock, and link to a page showing them. A buyer who types a fabric name has seen the product elsewhere and wants to see yours.
Wholesale, manufacturer, cheap, COD and marketplace names
Block. Add wholesale, manufacturer, cheap, COD, Meesho and Myntra as negatives. You want buyers who will come in for a fitting, not people price-checking online.
Tailoring course, fashion design classes and job searches
Block. Add tailoring course, classes, designing course, pattern, vacancy and franchise as negatives. Students and tailors click on the same words as a bride.
Where the click lands
Send the click to the page for that collection or garment, with photographs and a WhatsApp button that opens a message naming it, plus the map and timings for a visit.
Counting a real enquiry
Count a message or call that names an outfit and an event date. Then mark fitting booked and order placed in your order book, and read each advert against orders.

Who it is for

This is written for these clothing stores and boutiques.

  • Women's ethnic wear and saree boutiques
  • Designer and occasion wear studios
  • Multi-brand clothing and accessories stores
  • Men's wear and ethnic wear stores
  • Custom tailoring and blouse stitching studios
  • Kids' wear stores
  • School uniform retailers and suppliers
  • Corporate, hospital and hospitality uniform suppliers
  • Fashion accessories and jewellery boutiques

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • Your stock changes so often that an advertised outfit is sold out when the shopper reaches the shop.
  • No one can answer the first message from an ad, since a paid click that meets silence is money spent for nothing.
  • You have not worked out which occasions and garments give you a margin, so you could not tell which ad is worth paying for.

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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What should we spend on ads?
Less than you would spread across the year, and concentrated. We size it against your average bill and your busiest weeks, then put most of it into those weeks. Your media spend is quoted apart from our own fee.
Do ads work for a shop with one outlet?
Yes, if the area is drawn tightly. A single boutique advertising to a whole city pays for clicks from people who will never visit. Limit it to the areas your customers already come from and the same money buys far more fittings.
Should a boutique bid on its own name?
Yes, in a small campaign. A customer who saw your outfit on a friend or on Instagram will search your name, and a marketplace or rival can appear above you. Keep it cheap and apart from the occasion searches.
Should a boutique use Google Ads or Instagram ads first?
Use Google search for someone already looking, such as stitching near me, and Instagram to show new collections to people nearby. A boutique with limited staff should start with search, since those buyers have 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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