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Salons and beauty studios · Pay per click advertising

Buy the bridal enquiry and the weekday slot, not the walk-in.

Paid advertising for a salon earns its place on the bookings a walk-in will never bring you, mainly bridal packages and the higher-value colour and treatment services. GullySales runs the search campaigns, sends the click to a booking, and stops the money going to job seekers.

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

  • “A bridal booking pays for months of clicks”

    One wedding package is worth twenty haircuts, which is what makes the bidding war on bridal makeup worth entering.

  • “Do not advertise what fills anyway”

    Nobody needs to pay for haircut near me on a Saturday. Advertise the Tuesday and the treatments.

  • “Half your clicks are looking for a job”

    Beautician jobs, salon vacancy and hair academy searches sit right beside yours and will empty a budget in a week.

What we do

What we deliver for salons and beauty studios.

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

  1. Campaigns split between bridal and salon services

    Separate budgets and wording for bridal packages and for colour, keratin and facials, so a bridal keyword never competes with a haircut one.

    Result: Neither side of the business starves the other.

  2. The click landing on a booking, not a home page

    Each advert points at the page for that service with the price, the duration and a booking or WhatsApp button within reach of a thumb.

    Result: A click can turn into a slot without a phone call.

  3. Negatives for jobs, courses and academies

    Blocks on beautician jobs, salon vacancy, hair academy, beauty course, salon for sale and the product brand names people search when they want a bottle.

    Result: The budget stops paying for people looking for work.

  4. A form that asks the date and the functions

    For bridal, the wedding date, which functions need makeup, the venue city and whether a trial is wanted, all asked before anyone calls back.

    Result: You know from the form itself whether you are free.

  5. Spend timed to the muhurta and festival months

    Budget raised three to four months before the main wedding dates in your region and ahead of Diwali and Karva Chauth, and held back in the flat weeks.

    Result: You are advertising while brides are still shortlisting.

  6. Cost per booking reported, not cost per click

    Spend read against enquiries, trials booked and packages confirmed, measured against the baseline recorded before work starts.

    Result: You can stop a campaign that brings calls and no bookings.

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 as a salon, and the ones to keep out.

Bridal searches, such as bridal makeup artist in Jaipur
Bid. A bride choosing a makeup artist has a date and a budget. Ask for the wedding date, the venue and the number of functions on the form, so you can check the diary before replying.
Service plus locality, such as keratin treatment near Indiranagar
Bid for the higher-value services, such as colour, keratin and skin treatments. A plain haircut near me is better left to your Maps listing than paid for by the click.
Home-service searches, such as makeup artist at home
Bid only if you really send people to homes, and say your travel area on the page. If you do not, block it, because the caller will ask for a home visit and leave.
Hair colour brand and product searches
Block. Someone typing a named colour brand wants to buy a bottle, not a service. Block salon equipment, franchise and beautician course words in the same list.
Where the click lands
Send the click to the page for that service, with the price list, how long it takes and a WhatsApp button that offers slots. A bridal click goes to a bridal page with finished looks and a date form.
Counting a real enquiry
Count a booking made, a WhatsApp that names a service and a day, or a bridal form with a date. Mark the no-shows, because an advert that fills the diary with people who do not turn up is not working.

Who it is for

This is written for these salons and beauty studios.

  • Neighbourhood unisex salons
  • Ladies beauty parlours and threading studios
  • Premium hair studios and colour specialists
  • Bridal makeup artists and bridal studios
  • Freelance and home-visit makeup artists
  • Nail, lash and brow studios
  • Men's grooming lounges and barbershops
  • Franchise outlets of salon chains
  • Skin care and cosmetics brands selling online and through salons

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • Your booking page does not take a bridal enquiry, so paid clicks would arrive at a page that cannot use them.
  • You would advertise haircuts that the salon already fills on Saturdays.
  • You have not written the exclusion words, and clicks from job seekers would use the budget.

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 for a neighbourhood salon?
For haircuts, rarely. For bridal, colour and treatments where one booking is worth thousands, it pays. We work out which of your services can carry the cost.
Should we advertise on Instagram too?
For bridal, yes, because that is where brides browse. Point the advert at a WhatsApp conversation rather than a form, since that is how a bride asks about dates.
Can a salon tell which advert brought a walk-in?
Partly. Ask at the billing desk how each new client heard of you, and keep a tick sheet. Use a separate WhatsApp number or a coded offer name for the advert, so bookings can be matched to it.
Should the advert show a bridal package price?
Show what a package includes and the starting service, but be careful with a single price. Brides compare, and a bare number invites calls that end at the figure. A form asking date and functions filters better.
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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