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Fabric shops and retailers · Social media ads

Put money behind the video of the thaan being opened, in the weeks the buying happens.

Paid social for a cloth shop is money put behind video of stock you are holding, aimed at the few streets buyers travel from and timed to the occasion they are buying for. GullySales builds the creative off your own shelf and counts the walk-in rather than the view.

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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 ads means

Social media ads are paid posts on platforms such as Instagram and Facebook shown to people chosen by location, age or interest rather than to your existing followers. GullySales sets the targeting, writes the ad copy and checks spend against the enquiries it brings so it produces enquiries instead of likes.

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Last updated 5 Oct 2026.

For fabric shops and retailers

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

  • “Boosting a post is not advertising”

    The boost button spends your money on people who already follow you and on the cheapest views the platform can find. A proper campaign picks the age, the distance and the language, and can be switched off the day a shade sells out.

  • “The buyer is not searching, they are being reminded”

    A woman buying for a sister's wedding in three weeks types nothing into a search box. Paid social reaches the buyer while they are scrolling towards the date, which is the one thing search cannot do.

  • “A cloth advert has the shelf life of one lot”

    The moment the shade is finished the advert becomes a liability, because the buyer travels in for it and leaves without it. Adverts here have to be retired the way stock is.

What we do

What we deliver for fabric shops and retailers.

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

  1. Creative cut from stock you are holding today

    Short video of the lot being opened and the length shaken out in daylight, three or four versions for each fabric so the platform has something to choose between.

    Result: The advert shows what is actually on the shelf this week.

  2. Separate campaigns for the trade buyer and the household buyer

    One set of adverts aimed at tailors, boutiques and curtain stitchers carrying thaan language, another aimed at households with metre rates, never sharing a budget.

    Result: A tailor is not shown a two-metre offer.

  3. A rule for retiring an advert when the lot finishes

    Each campaign tied to the stock it shows, with whoever runs the counter telling you the day the shade is gone so the advert comes down.

    Result: Nobody travels in for cloth you no longer have.

  4. A second advert only for people who watched to the end

    Viewers who sat through a length being shaken out, or who opened the catalogue, shown the rate band and the way to the shop a few days later.

    Result: The interested viewer is reminded and the rest are not paid for twice.

  5. A word in the advert the counter can count

    One phrase per campaign for a buyer to repeat at the till, written into the advert and on a slip beside the billing machine.

    Result: You can tell a walk-in from a coincidence.

  6. Creative refreshed against what actually sold

    The designs that brought messages kept and the rest dropped, so each new set of adverts is built from what the shelf has already proved.

    Result: The money follows the shades that move.

How the result is measured

  • Cost per enquiry
  • Click-through rate
  • Enquiries from paid social

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

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Platform for this buyer

Where a cloth shop should run ads for each kind of buyer.

Instagram Reels for dress material and blouse pieces
Show the length being shaken out in daylight, with the shade and the metre rate band in the caption. Aim at women within travel distance of the shop. The click should open a WhatsApp chat that already names the fabric.
Facebook feed for suiting and shirting
Men and the family member who buys for the household still scroll Facebook. Show a thaan being opened and the weave in close view. Aim it at the streets around the shop with the ad ending on the shop's Maps pin.
WhatsApp click ad for the trade buyer
Tailors, boutiques and curtain stitchers want the rate for a thaan, not a picture of a bride. Run an ad that opens a chat and replies with the trade rate card and minimum order, once you have confirmed they are a trade account.
Wedding and muhurat season audience
Buyers shop ahead of a date, so run ads in the weeks before the muhurat dates, aimed by age and distance. Take them down the day the lot is finished, or people will travel for cloth you no longer have.
Remarketing to video viewers and catalogue openers
Show a second ad only to people who watched a length to the end or opened your catalogue. Offer them a visit or a swatch courier. Do not keep showing it after the lot has sold out.
What happens after the click
Have someone reply with the correct photograph, shade name and rate, and ask when they will visit. A messy reply that sends forty photographs loses the buyer the ad paid to find.

Who it is for

This is written for these fabric shops and retailers.

  • Retail cloth shops selling suiting and shirting
  • Saree and blouse-piece shops
  • Dress material and unstitched wear shops
  • Curtain, sofa and upholstery fabric houses
  • Wholesale cloth merchants supplying tailors and boutiques
  • Uniform cloth suppliers for schools, hotels and factories
  • Handloom, khadi and silk outlets
  • Online fabric sellers cutting to the metre and couriering
  • Brand franchise counters for suiting and shirting

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • The lot you want to advertise is not yet on the shelf or is nearly sold, since the advert would outlive the cloth.
  • No video of the thaan being opened exists and the shop cannot film one, so the advert would be a boosted still photograph.
  • Nobody answers the chat that the advert opens, so interested buyers would write to a silent number.

How it works

How the social media ads 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 objective and who answers

    We settle whether the campaign should build awareness, bring enquiries or sell products, and who in your team answers each enquiry.

  2. 2

    Set up the account in your name

    Business Manager, ad account, payment method, GSTIN, pixel and Conversions API are checked or created under your ownership.

  3. 3

    Check the creative you hold

    We review the photos and video you have, and list the new creative needed for each placement.

  4. 4

    Build and launch

    Audiences and campaigns go live after a test enquiry or test purchase has been traced through to your records.

  5. 5

    Read the results and refresh

    Results are matched to real enquiries or orders. Creative and audiences change when the numbers, not the likes, say so.

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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How do we know an advert brought anyone in, when the sale happens at the counter?
Ask. One line at the till, or a word in the advert that the buyer repeats, is enough for a shop your size. We set a word per campaign and count who says it, against the walk-ins recorded before we started. Clicks are the wrong number here.
Which is better for us, Instagram or Facebook?
It depends on the fabric rather than the platform. Dress material, blouse pieces and curtain cloth move where a younger buyer chooses for themselves. Suiting and uniform cloth still come through an older buyer or a tailor. Both sit in the same advert account, so you can run them apart and compare.
Should the ad send people to a lead form or to WhatsApp?
WhatsApp, for a cloth shop. Buyers want to see the shade, ask the rate and say which length. A form adds a step. Use a form only for a large booking, such as a school's uniform order, where you need quantity and delivery date written down.
Can we show our customer list to Instagram to find similar buyers?
You can, if the people on the list agreed to be contacted and you follow the platform's current rules. A small shop's list is small, so the result is often weak. Start by aiming at distance, age and language, and add the list when you have many entries.
Why do some of our ads get rejected?
Usual causes are text covering much of the image, a before and after style claim, or an offer that the page does not match. Read the platform's current rules, put the text in the caption, and show the cloth clearly. Resubmit a changed version, not the same one.
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.

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