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Legacy Sweets Retailer — Social Media Marketing

10x monthly users and 2x daily orders in 3 months

A legacy sweets retailer in Bangalore had plateaued at 3% month-on-month user growth two years after launching its mobile and web ordering platform. We unlocked hyperlocal social as a scalable acquisition channel.

10x

Monthly Users

In 3 months

2x

Daily Orders

Growth in daily conversions

1M+

Reach

In 3 months

Food & Beverage Retail · Bangalore, India · Social Media Marketing · Hyperlocal Growth · 3-month engagement

About the Client

A Bangalore institution — plateaued in the digital channel

A premier sweets retail brand based in Bangalore, operating for decades with a strong offline footprint, high neighborhood recall, and a loyal repeat customer base built through physical retail stores.

The brand had launched hyperlocal delivery through a mobile and web platform to expand beyond walk-in sales and capture digital demand across nearby delivery zones.

Two years after launch, the platform was seeing less than 3% month-on-month user growth with no meaningful increase in daily transactions — despite strong offline brand familiarity and existing market trust.

The objective of the engagement was to increase the total user base, improve repeat ordering behavior, and drive sustainable growth in average daily orders through digital acquisition and retention.

Category Food & Beverage Retail
Location Bangalore, India
Brand heritage Decades in operation
Platform Mobile & web ordering
Prior growth rate <3% MoM — 2 years
Engagement 3-month campaign
Channel focus Facebook — hyperlocal

The challenge

Three layers of problems to solve

01

Plateau in user growth at less than 3% month-on-month — despite two years of operating the platform

02

No meaningful increase in daily orders over the same period

03

Organic traffic remained stagnant because the platform lacked SEO structure and keyword-focused landing pages

What We Identified

The gap was in visibility and trust — not category demand

Facebook was the highest-efficiency channel for hyperlocal reach given the brand’s demographic and geography

Festivals and cultural moments were the highest-conversion occasions — and were being underleveraged

Contest-style engagement had been attempted but not structured or sustained

Remarketing and contextual targeting had not been deployed at all

Response time and customer service on the brand’s social presence was inconsistent — hurting engagement

Our Strategy

Five interconnected pillars

01

Selected Facebook as the primary channel given budget constraints and the hyperlocal nature of the market

02

Combination of contest-driven engagement posts and cultural / festival moment content to build brand reach

03

Contextual targeting and remarketing layered on top of existing follower targeting to drive online ordering

04

Fast customer response framework implemented to mitigate issues and concerns within minutes

05

Creative calendar built around Bangalore-specific moments and Indian festivals for maximum cultural resonance

Results

 

Over 1 million people reached — in 3 months

10x

Monthly Users

10x increase in average monthly users in 3 months

21.1%

Top Post Rate

Best posts hit 21.1%, 7.7%, 6.5% — well above the ~3% category benchmark

2x

Daily Orders

2x increase in daily orders & 50% rise in active users within 3 months

Who We Work With

What drove the results

Facebook’s cost-efficiency for hyperlocal targeting made a limited budget punch above its weight
Festival and cultural moment content consistently outperformed generic product posts
Contest mechanics drove outsized organic reach through sharing behaviour
Fast customer response protected engagement rates and protected reviews
Remarketing converted followers into first-time buyers — a layer the brand had not used before
Sustained weekly rhythm — not one-off campaigns — built compounding audience momentum

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