performance marketing
Performance Marketing Agency in Ahmedabad That Answers to Numbers, Not Slides
Google, Meta, LinkedIn and now ChatGPT. We build paid campaigns that are judged by revenue, not reach.
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Google Partner · Meta Business Partner · Building brands since 2007 · India · Poland · Dubai
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Google Partner · Meta Business Partner · Building brands since 2007 · India · Poland · Dubai
Most ad accounts in Ahmedabad aren't broken. They're just unattended.
We’ve audited enough accounts across Gujarat to notice a pattern. The campaigns are running. The dashboard has green arrows. Somebody sends a monthly report with impressions, reach and a bar chart that goes up.
And the business owner still can’t tell you what one customer costs him.
Usually the problem isn’t strategy. It’s neglect. Search terms nobody has filtered since launch. Conversion tracking that fires on page load instead of form submit. Three ad sets fighting each other for the same audience. A landing page that takes seven seconds to load on a Jio connection in Naroda.
None of this is complicated to fix. It just requires somebody to actually open the account on a Tuesday afternoon and look.
That’s most of what we do.
You can start smaller than you think. We’ve run campaigns from ₹500 a day upward, though the honest answer is that the right budget depends entirely on your objective, your geography and how expensive your category’s clicks are. A B2B exporter targeting Germany and a salon targeting Bopal are not the same maths problem.
Performance marketing services that are measured, not admired
Performance marketing is the part of advertising where you’re allowed to ask “did it work?” and expect a straight answer.
At SmartFish, our performance marketing services cover the whole chain, not just the media buy. That means the offer, the creative, the landing page, the tracking setup and the campaign itself. Because a brilliant campaign pointed at a weak landing page is just an expensive way to lose money slightly faster.
We’ve been a branding and digital agency since 2007, which shapes how we run paid media. We’re not media buyers who learned design later. We’re designers and strategists who learned that the most beautiful campaign in the world is worthless if the cost per lead doesn’t make sense on a spreadsheet.
Where we put your money
- Google Search & Shopping — For demand that already exists. Somebody typing “CNC machining supplier Ahmedabad” is not browsing. Catch them.
- Meta Ads (Facebook & Instagram) — For demand you have to create. Best when your product is visual, impulse-friendly, or needs a story before a sale.
- ChatGPT Ads — The newest one. Details below.
- LinkedIn Ads — Expensive per click, worth it when one closed deal is worth six figures. Mostly our B2B and manufacturing clients.
- Marketplace Ads — Amazon and Flipkart sponsored listings, because for a lot of D2C brands the marketplace is the actual storefront.
- Retargeting & Audience Building — The unglamorous layer that quietly does most of the converting. Also the layer most agencies set up once and never revisit.
We don’t recommend all six to everyone. Half our audit calls end with us telling a business to drop a channel rather than add one.
ChatGPT Ads: we're onboarding pilot clients, not pretending we've mastered it
OpenAI has opened self-serve ChatGPT Ads access across India, alongside Europe and the Middle East. Ads appear clearly labelled, separated from the answer itself, and they don’t influence what ChatGPT tells the user. Both CPM and CPC buying are available.
Here’s why we think it matters. When somebody asks ChatGPT “which packaging supplier should I use for a food startup in Gujarat,” that’s not a search query. That’s a purchase conversation, halfway to a decision. Nobody in this market has figured out what that intent is worth yet.
So we’re being straight with you: we’re taking on a small number of pilot clients on ChatGPT Ads. Test budgets, clear expectations, shared learning. We’re not going to sell you a channel we’ve run for three months and call ourselves experts.
What we do already know is that paid placement inside an AI assistant works far better when the assistant already knows who you are. That’s the AEO and GEO work we’ve been doing for clients over the past year. Getting cited in the answer and appearing in the ad under it are two halves of the same play.
If you want to be early on this rather than reading about it in 2027, tell us.
The boring part that makes the difference
- Audit and fix the tracking. Before we spend a rupee, we check what’s actually being recorded. GA4, Tag Manager, Clarity, conversion events, offline imports. Roughly seven out of ten accounts we inherit have at least one broken or duplicated conversion.
- Fix the destination. Landing page speed, form length, mobile behaviour, the offer itself. Cheapest performance gain available and almost nobody does it first.
- Build creative volume. Not one hero ad. Multiple variations running against each other, because you don’t know what works and neither do we until the data says so. Our in-house design, copy and film teams make this affordable.
- Launch small, hold your nerve. The first two weeks are the algorithm learning, not the campaign failing. We’ll tell you which one you’re looking at.
- Optimise weekly with a name attached. A specific person on our team owns your account. You’ll know who they are and you’ll talk to them, not to a shared inbox.
Want the actual numbers? Ask for them.
We don’t publish client spend data on a public webpage. Some of our clients would rather their competitors not know what’s working, and we agree with them.
So we do it the other way round. Tell us what you’re working on, and someone from our team will send you the two or three case studies that are genuinely relevant to your situation. Some are named, some are anonymised, all of them are real.
A person reads every request and replies within one working day. No automated drip sequence, no newsletter, no sales cadence.
Why brands in Ahmedabad work with SmartFish
We’ve been here 19 years and the founders still show up. SmartFish started in 2007 and is still run by the two people who started it. Your account isn’t handed to whoever joined last month.
Creative, development and media sit in one office. When a landing page needs fixing, it gets fixed this week. Not after three emails to a vendor who doesn’t answer on Fridays.
We work well beyond Gujarat. Our teams and partners operate across India, Poland and Dubai, and we’ve delivered work for clients in more than twenty countries. Multiple currencies, multiple time zones, different platform rules. It teaches you things running only local campaigns doesn’t.
Certified where it counts. Google Partner and Meta Business Partner. It means direct platform support when something breaks at 9pm.
We understand the AI answer layer. AEO and GEO aren’t a service we added to a pricing page last quarter. We’ve been doing it, publishing about it, and now we’re extending it into paid.
Industries we know well
eCommerce & D2C · B2B & Manufacturing · Real Estate · Franchise & Multi-location Retail · Education & Admissions · Healthcare · Export-led businesses
FAQs
What does a performance marketing agency in Ahmedabad actually do?
A performance marketing agency plans, runs and optimises paid advertising where every rupee is tied to a measurable outcome — leads, sales, calls or enquiries. At SmartFish that includes Google Ads, Meta Ads, LinkedIn, marketplace ads and ChatGPT Ads, plus the tracking and landing page work that makes those campaigns measurable in the first place.
What's the minimum budget to start?
Campaigns can run from around ₹500 a day, but the honest answer is that it depends on your objective and your geography. Lead generation in a competitive category costs more per click than local awareness. We’ll tell you on the audit call whether your budget can realistically achieve what you want.
How soon will I see results?
Search campaigns can produce enquiries within the first week. Meta usually needs two to three weeks to exit the learning phase. Anyone promising you scale in seven days is selling you something.
Can you run ChatGPT Ads for an Indian business?
Yes. Self-serve ChatGPT Ads access is now available in India. We’re currently onboarding a limited number of pilot clients rather than running it as a standard service, because the channel is genuinely new and we’d rather learn with you than overcharge you for guesswork.
Do you work with brands outside Gujarat?
Regularly. We’re headquartered in Ahmedabad with teams and partners in Poland and Dubai, and we’ve worked with clients across more than twenty countries.
Who owns the ad account?
You do. Always. We work inside your Google Ads and Meta Business Manager accounts, and if we ever part ways, you keep the account, the data and the history.
What's your pricing?
It depends on channels, spend and scope, so we quote after the audit call rather than publishing a number that would be wrong for most people.
Why choose SmartFish Designs?
We’re more than a marketing agency—we’re your growth partner. If you want a trusted digital marketing company in Ahmedabad, let’s talk and make things happen.
