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Electricians send owners to another counter, and showroom visitors buy lights online.

An electrical dealer really runs two businesses under one roof. The trade counter serves electricians and contractors who buy wires, conduits and switchgear every week and choose a dealer on stock and credit. The lighting side serves families and designers choosing chandeliers and profile lights, who compare showrooms and take their time.

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In one paragraph

Electrical and lighting marketing makes yours the counter an electrician trusts for wire and switchgear, and the showroom a family visits for decorative lights. Sales turns those visits into whole-house and project orders. GullySales builds a routine for the electricians who steer brands, and follow-up for each family that leaves the showroom with photos.

Both depend on people outside the shop. Electricians decide the brand of wire and switches on most house jobs, and lighting designers or interior designers steer the premium orders. A dealer who knows these people by name, and who follows up with families after a showroom visit, wins far more than one who waits at the counter.

Last updated 5 Oct 2026.

How buyers decide

How electrical and lighting dealers are chosen.

For wiring and switchgear, the electrician or electrical contractor usually decides. They buy where the brand is in stock and nobody keeps them waiting at the counter. Loyalty schemes run by wire and switch companies add a pull, and the electrician often sends the owner to a trusted dealer with a written list.

For lighting, the homeowner or their interior designer decides. Families search Maps and Instagram for a lighting showroom, visit on a weekend, and shortlist fixtures room by room. Premium orders often come through an architect or lighting designer, who wants to see the fitting lit up before specifying it.

Projects such as apartments, offices and hospitals go through the electrical consultant and the contractor. The dealer is chosen on the rate for the full bill of materials, and on carrying the brands the specification approves. Replacing faulty fittings without argument keeps the dealer on the next project.

The problem

What usually goes wrong for electrical and lighting dealers.

What owners tell us on the first call, in their words.

  • “Electricians bring owners to the other dealer”

    The electrician on a new house hands the owner a list and sends them to a shop two streets away, and we never had a chance to quote.

  • “Families love our lighting showroom and then buy online”

    They photograph a pendant light, find a similar one on Amazon, and we do not follow up because nobody took their number.

  • “Our project quotes vanish after the contractor takes them”

    We price a full bill of materials for an office fit-out, send it, and hear nothing until we learn another dealer supplied it.

  • “Nobody online knows we stock decorative and architectural lighting”

    Our Maps listing says electrical shop, so a designer looking for profile lights or track lighting never considers us.

  • “Fast-moving stock runs out while slow stock piles up”

    We cannot see which products our regular electricians buy most, so we reorder by habit and lose sales when popular MCBs or LED panels run out.

  • “Diwali brings a rush and then nothing”

    Festival lighting sells for three weeks, and we have no plan for the rest of the year's lighting sales.

What we do

What we do for electrical and lighting dealers.

Everything included for electrical and lighting dealers, and the result each part is there to produce.

  1. Electrician relationship programme

    A contact record of the electricians and contractors who buy at your counter, with a regular new-product message, quick counter service and referral tracking for owners they send.

    Result: More electricians send their house owners to you with the list.

  2. Lighting showroom visitor follow-up

    A way for showroom staff to record each family, the rooms they are lighting and the fixtures shortlisted, with a WhatsApp follow-up sending the photos and prices they asked about.

    Result: A family comparing you with an online listing hears from you before they order elsewhere.

  3. Project quote tracker

    A record of every bill of materials quoted for offices, apartments and commercial jobs, with who received it, who decides and a follow-up date.

    Result: Project quotes are chased until you know the outcome and why.

  4. Maps profile split by what you sell

    Google Business Profile categories, photos and products set up for both electrical supplies and decorative lighting, so each buyer finds the side they need.

    Result: A designer searching for a lighting showroom finds your displays, not just your trade counter.

  5. Lighting catalogue pages and Instagram

    Website pages and Instagram posts for each lighting category, using photos of fixtures installed in real homes with consent, and a quick enquiry button.

    Result: Buyers see your range before they visit, and arrive with a shortlist.

  6. Designer and architect trade pack

    A short document with brands, sample requests, trade terms and a named contact, sent to designers and architects in your area.

    Result: Premium lighting orders are specified with your showroom in mind.

  7. Report against the baseline

    Counter sales by electrician, showroom visits and conversions, project quotes won and enquiries by source, reported against the starting baseline.

    Result: You can see which side of the business is growing and which needs work.

How the result is measured

  • Active electricians buying each month
  • Showroom visits recorded against orders
  • Project quotes sent against won
  • Enquiries by source, Maps, Instagram and referral
  • Average lighting order value per home
  • Designer and consultant referrals

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

Every service, written for electrical and lighting dealers

Each has its own page: what it involves for electrical and lighting dealers, what you get, and what it is measured on.

Worth a page and a campaign of their own

House wiring packages · Modular switches and smart switches · MCBs, distribution boards and switchgear · Decorative and chandelier lighting · Profile, track and architectural lighting · Ceiling and BLDC fans · LED panels and commercial lighting · Outdoor, facade and garden lighting · Industrial cables and electrical equipment · Festival and seasonal lighting

Priority campaigns

Campaigns for what electrical and lighting dealers most want to sell.

Each one planned around when your buyers decide, and measured against the baseline.

  • New home lighting campaign

    A room-by-room lighting guide on the website and Instagram, with ads to families in areas where many new homes are being finished.

    Result: Families planning lighting for a new home visit with a room list already in mind.

  • Fan replacement before summer

    Maps posts, WhatsApp messages and a page on energy-saving BLDC fans, timed to the weeks before the hot months.

    Result: Owners replacing old fans buy from your counter, often with the electrician's help.

  • Diwali and festival lighting campaign

    A festival lighting catalogue, Instagram posts and WhatsApp offers to past customers, with outdoor and facade lighting offered alongside.

    Result: Festival buyers see your permanent lighting range too, not just string lights.

  • Office and shop LED retrofit campaign

    LinkedIn and direct outreach to small offices, clinics and shops with old tube lights, offering a site visit and a written quote for an LED upgrade.

    Result: Commercial buyers hear a specific offer instead of a general catalogue.

  • Smart switch and home automation campaign

    Short videos showing smart switches working, sent to recent lighting buyers and electricians who wire new homes.

    Result: Families finishing a new home consider upgrading while the walls are still open.

Beyond search

Where we reach buyers of electrical and lighting dealers, beyond Google.

Search matters, but it is rarely the only way this industry's buyers find a supplier.

  • Electricians and electrical contractors

    We prepare a regular counter programme and message routine for the electricians who decide brands and dealers on house jobs.

  • Interior designers and lighting designers

    We build a list of designers active in your city and prepare a trade pack and a showroom visit invitation for each.

  • Electrical consultants and MEP firms

    We prepare an introduction to consultants who write the specifications for commercial projects, so your brands and your name are on their list.

  • Builders and interior fit-out firms

    We track builders and fit-out companies with upcoming projects and prepare a project supply offer timed to when electrical materials are ordered.

  • Apartment associations and facility managers

    We prepare offers for common-area LED upgrades, lift lobby lighting and outdoor fixtures for associations and building managers.

Who it is for

This is written for these electrical and lighting dealers.

  • Electrical trade counters serving electricians and contractors
  • Decorative and architectural lighting showrooms
  • Switchgear, cable and wire distributors
  • Fan, light and home electrical retail stores
  • Electrical equipment suppliers for industrial and project buyers
  • Solar and LED lighting dealers
  • Smart home switches and automation dealers
  • Multi-brand electrical dealers with a project sales team

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

How the work runs for electrical and lighting dealers

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

    Assess

    We look at who buys at your counter, how showroom visits are recorded, how project quotes are followed up and how you appear on Maps.

  2. 2

    Record the buyers

    A record of electricians, showroom visitors and project quotes, with follow-up rules for each.

  3. 3

    Show both sides of the shop

    Maps, website pages and Instagram set up so the trade counter and the lighting showroom are each found by their own buyers.

  4. 4

    Reach the influencers

    Programmes for electricians, designers and consultants, with referrals recorded against each.

  5. 5

    Grow each order

    Whole-house lighting packages and smart switch upgrades, reviewed against actual sales.

Proof

What happened when owners fixed this.

Real clients, the work we did, and the result as it was recorded. Where no number was recorded, none is claimed.

All case studies

  • Kalessi

    Situation
    Tiles are chosen by eye. There was no store suitable for a buyer who wants to scroll through finishes on a phone, compare two of them and then order.
    What we did
    • A store built for browsing
    • Search work from the ground up
    • Social accounts opened and kept up
    • Articles that answer the real questions
    Result
    No numbers were recorded for this engagement. The work is described in full in the case study.
    Read the case study

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Where this fits

Three pieces of sales work, in this order.

GullySales builds every engagement from three pieces of sales work. This page is not one of them, but the same three steps apply to the business behind it.

  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

    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 electrical and lighting dealers ask before they call.

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Tell us what you need
How do we compete with Amazon for lighting?
By being the place a family sees the light switched on and gets advice on how many fixtures a room needs. Record the visit, follow up with photos and a clear price, and offer installation through an electrician you trust.
How can we get electricians to send owners to us?
Give them a reason every week, not once a year. Keep the brands they prefer in stock and serve them fast at the counter. Then record each owner they send, so you can thank them for it.
Should our trade counter and lighting showroom be marketed separately?
Yes. An electrician searching for MCBs and a family searching for a chandelier are different buyers. Each side gets its own Maps categories and follow-up, even under one shop name.
Can you help us get project orders from builders and consultants?
Yes. We prepare introductions to electrical consultants and builders and track every bill of materials you quote. Each quote is followed up until you know whether you won and why.
Is it worth advertising a lighting showroom?
For a clear offer to a specific group, such as families finishing new homes nearby, yes. General brand ads rarely bring visits. Following up with families who already came in usually returns more.
Can we promote our smart home products without confusing people?
Yes, by showing one thing working. A short video of a smart switch on a phone and a clear price for one room does more than a page listing every feature.
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?
Fixes to reply time, follow-up and your Google Business Profile are the quickest to show, because the enquiries already exist. Ads can follow soon after follow-up is in place. SEO and content take longer. How long each takes depends on your business, and we tell you which applies to you after we have spoken. 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.

Notes for owners

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