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Pick the creator by where their followers live, not the language they post in.

Influencer and creator marketing covers the whole arrangement: finding a creator, agreeing a fee, and checking what goes out. This page is the version where the audience has to be in one place.

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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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In one paragraph

Regional influencer marketing pays creators who post in Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Bengali or Hindi to feature your product for an audience in one state or city. GullySales checks where a creator's followers actually live before agreeing a fee, buys the usage rights with the post, and puts a countable response route in the caption.

Language is a poor way to find that audience. A creator posting in Kannada can have a large share of their followers outside Karnataka, and a Hindi creator in Mumbai reaches almost nobody in Patna. What matters is where the followers live, and that number sits inside the creator's own account.

So we ask to see that screen live, on a call, instead of taking a screenshot on trust. Then we talk about money.

Who it is for

This is written for you if these sound familiar.

  • Shops, clinics and restaurants whose buyers live within a few kilometres and speak one language at home
  • Consumer brands entering one new state who need voices people there already trust
  • Builders and jewellers whose buyer checks a local creator before they ever open the website
  • Owners who paid a national creator, got a pile of views and no enquiries from their own city

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • Industrial sellers whose buyer is a purchase manager, since a reel does not reach a factory's buying committee
  • Anyone who wants a creator to say something the creator does not believe, which shows in the first ten seconds
  • A business that cannot answer the messages a good post produces on the same day they arrive

The problem

Does this sound like your business?

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

  • “The views were huge and nobody walked in”

    Views count plays, not people near you. A post that travelled across the country is worth less to one shop than a post that stayed inside its own district.

  • “We saw a screenshot of the numbers, never the account”

    Follower counts and audience splits can be edited before a screenshot is sent. Asking the creator to share their screen on a call takes two minutes and settles it.

  • “The script was translated and it sounded translated”

    A line written in English and converted word for word lands flat in Kannada or Tamil. The viewer hears an advertisement in the first sentence and scrolls.

  • “We wanted to run the post as an advertisement and had to pay again”

    The fee buys the post. Running it as paid media, or using it on your own website, is a separate right that costs far more once the post has already done well.

What we do

Everything that is included.

Each deliverable, and what it gets you. Nothing here is an extra.

  1. Audience location check, on a call

    The creator shares their own account screen and we read the city and state split, the age split and the saves. Not a screenshot forwarded over WhatsApp.

  2. Shortlist by district and language

    Creators grouped by where their audience sits rather than by follower count, so a smaller account inside your catchment is compared fairly against a bigger one outside it.

  3. Fee and deliverable in writing

    What is being posted, in which format, on which date, how long it stays up, and what a reshare or a story costs, settled before the shoot.

  4. Usage rights bought with the post

    The right to run the content as paid media and to use it on your own pages, priced at the start while you still have room to negotiate.

  5. Brief of facts, not a script

    The creator gets the claims, the offer, the price and the things that must not be said, then writes it in their own words and their own dialect.

  6. Disclosure and claim check

    The paid partnership label on the post, and a read of every claim before publishing, because the advertiser carries the risk for what a creator says about a product.

  7. A response route in the caption

    A code, a WhatsApp link or a campaign number, so a viewer who wants to buy has somewhere to go and you have something to count.

How the result is measured

  • Share of a creator's audience inside your catchment
  • Messages and calls traced to each creator's code
  • Cost per enquiry by creator, not cost per view
  • Saves and shares against plain view counts
  • Content reusable as paid media, by the rights held

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

How it works

How the 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

    Fix the catchment and the language

    We agree which districts your buyer lives in and which language they use at home, because one state is rarely one market.

  2. 2

    Shortlist and verify

    Candidates are drawn up, and each one shares their audience split live before any money is discussed.

  3. 3

    Negotiate the deal

    Fee, deliverables, dates, exclusivity and usage rights are agreed in one conversation and written down in one place.

  4. 4

    Brief and review

    The creator receives the facts and the limits, writes their own script, and the draft is read before it goes out.

  5. 5

    Publish and amplify

    The post goes live, and where the rights were bought, the strongest one is put behind paid budget to reach the same district again.

  6. 6

    Count what arrived

    Messages, codes and calls are tallied against each creator, and the ones worth repeating are booked again.

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.

Not here? More answers, or ask on WhatsApp.

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Is a creator with fifty thousand followers big enough?
For one city, usually yes, and a smaller account answers its messages. What decides it is where those followers live and whether they trust the creator on your subject. A food creator selling a water purifier does nothing for you.
Should I write the script for them?
No. Give them the facts, the offer, the price and the things that must not be said, then let them write it. Their audience knows their voice, and the moment the words stop sounding like them the post stops working.
What are usage rights and why buy them at the start?
They are the right to run a creator's content as your own advertisement or on your own pages. Bought upfront, they are one more line in the deal. Bought after a post does well, they cost much more, because the creator now knows what they are holding.
Does the post have to say it is paid?
Yes. Paid promotion carries a disclosure label under India's advertising self-regulation code, and the responsibility sits with you as the advertiser as well as with the creator. Your legal adviser will confirm what your category has to carry, particularly for health, money and products for children.
Can you tell me which sale came from the post?
Only through what you put in the caption. A code, a WhatsApp link or a separate number tells you exactly who came through it. Without one, all you have is a view count and a guess.
How is this priced?
There is no rate card for creators, and two accounts of the same size quote very differently. The creator fee follows who we recommend and which rights you buy. Our fee is settled after we have read your brief and spoken to you, and sits apart from what the creators are paid.
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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