Digital Marketing in Birgunj, Nepal

I'm Shashikant Shah, a digital marketing expert based in Kathmandu. I work with businesses in Birgunj remotely, in their own accounts, and I travel to Birgunj for the first meeting when it helps. I'm useful to the importers, wholesalers and logistics firms that live off the Raxaul crossing, to the factories along the Bara and Parsa corridor, and to the hospitals, colleges and showrooms in town. I'm also a software engineer, so I build the catalogue pages and the tracking myself. The wider picture is on my digital marketing expert in Nepal page.

Short answer: working with me from Birgunj starts with a free thirty minute call, then a written audit and 30 day plan for USD 249 (about NPR 34,000), then monthly work in your own accounts with a plain language report. For a trader or a manufacturer the plan follows how your buyers behave: they search for a product, check that you're real, then phone or message on WhatsApp.

How people in Birgunj find a business

Birgunj is Nepal's main trade gateway with India, through Raxaul, and the corridor through Bara and Parsa sells to dealers and project buyers all over Nepal. So the buyers who matter are mostly other businesses: a wholesaler in Kathmandu, a contractor in Pokhara, a dealer in Chitwan. They search for the product and the port, compare three suppliers and message the one that looks real.

Those buyers rarely fill in a web form. They phone, or send a WhatsApp message with a photo of what they need, and expect a reply the same day. Customers also move between Nepali, Hindi, Bhojpuri and English, so the profile name and the ad copy have to match what people type. The city itself, hospitals, colleges and showrooms, is found on Google Maps first, then Facebook, then a call.

The dry port and the freight corridor

Birgunj's dry port and the corridor through Bara and Parsa sell to dealers and project buyers all over Nepal, so the buyer who matters is a wholesaler in Kathmandu or a contractor in Pokhara searching for the product and the port, comparing three suppliers and messaging the one with a page that shows what is in the warehouse.

Adarsh Nagar and Ghantaghar retail and clinics

Showrooms, clinics and restaurants around Adarsh Nagar and Ghantaghar are found on Google Maps first, then Facebook, then a call, by Birgunj residents and by customers crossing from Raxaul for the day.

Importers whose buyers phone or WhatsApp

Birgunj importers rarely get a web form filled in. Buyers phone or send a WhatsApp message with a photo of what they need, in Nepali, Hindi, Bhojpuri or English, and expect a reply the same day, so counting calls and messages matters more than counting form submissions.

Madhesh Province: the plains that buy through Birgunj

Birgunj is the commercial centre of Madhesh Province. Dealers and families from Kalaiya, Janakpur, Gaur and Malangwa search for a Birgunj importer, hospital or showroom from their own town, so the service area, pages that name those towns and ads set to the province bring enquiries the city radius misses.

The problems I see most often:

• A trading company with no website, or one page that says import and export and nothing about what is in the warehouse.
• Enquiries lost to a form nobody checks and no WhatsApp number.
• Google Ads on broad keywords that bring job seekers instead of buyers.
• No tracking, so the owner can't tell whether the order came from Google or a WhatsApp group.

What I do for businesses in Birgunj

• Web development: catalogue pages with the specification, the minimum order and the delivery area, and a WhatsApp button on every page. You get a site in your name, on hosting you control.
• Google Ads on the product and port searches wholesalers type, with call and WhatsApp tracking. You get a cost per enquiry you can read.
• Technical SEO so Google can read the catalogue and the pages rank for what you sell, not only your company name. You get buyers who would otherwise have found a directory.
• Local SEO and Google Business Profile management for the hospitals, colleges, showrooms and shops in town, in the names people actually type. You get the map pack for "hospital in Birgunj".
• Tracking: calls, WhatsApp clicks and forms counted in your own Analytics. You get a monthly report that says which product brought the enquiries.

If you run a factory along the corridor, the manufacturing page says how I work with dealers and project buyers.

SEO in Birgunj

Birgunj is the gateway of Nepal: most of the country's imports cross at Raxaul, the dry port and the customs point are here, and the Birgunj to Pathlaiya corridor holds a large share of Nepal's factories. The searches follow the trade. Importers, transporters, customs agents and industrial suppliers are found by buyers in Kathmandu who search by product or service, not by town. Locally, hospitals, colleges, showrooms and the Ghantaghar market compete on Maps, and a good share of those searches are typed in Hindi or Bhojpuri words.

For trade and industry the work is service and product pages written for what a buyer in Kathmandu types, with clear scope and a phone number that answers. For local businesses it is the Business Profile with the right category, service pages and speed, with the languages your customers search in reflected on the page. I run it in your own Search Console. The local SEO page covers the Maps work.

Websites for Birgunj businesses

Many Birgunj trading and transport companies run entirely on phone calls and have a site that was built as a formality. That costs them the Kathmandu buyer who searches first and calls second. A customs clearing agent with a page that explains the process, the documents and the turnaround wins that call. A hospital with timings, departments and a booking button wins the patient who would otherwise cross the border.

I build sites that do that work: a page per service or product, a WhatsApp and call button that reaches a person, forms that are tested, and tracking that records the enquiry. Fast on mobile data, hosted in your name. The website development page has the prices.

Google Ads in Birgunj

Google Ads in Birgunj is built around call and WhatsApp conversions, because that is how buyers here close. I run product and port searches for importers and traders, targeted at the Kathmandu, Pokhara and Chitwan buyers who order from Birgunj, and a Parsa radius for clinics and showrooms in town, in Nepali, Hindi and English copy. Cross-border campaigns aimed at Raxaul and Bihar buyers are possible from your own ad account with Indian targeting, and I will say honestly when the margin does not justify them. Spend is separate from my fee and goes from your own card. The published benchmark is a home services firm whose cost per acquisition went from NPR 4,722 to NPR 2,571 in 90 days. Method on the Google Ads expert in Nepal page.

How it works from Birgunj

First call. Thirty minutes, free, on the phone or a video call. You tell me the business and what's not working. I tell you whether I'm the right person.

Audit and plan. I go through your site, profile, ads and tracking, and you get a written plan with the order of work and what's not included. You keep it whether or not you hire me.

Monthly work and report. The work happens in your accounts, with you as the owner, and every month you get a plain language report from them. I travel to Birgunj when a project needs it.

The first 90 days for a Birgunj business

Each month after that, from Birgunj

Every month after that a Birgunj client gets the work done in your own accounts and a plain report from Search Console, Analytics and the ad account, remotely from Kathmandu with a visit when a project needs it.

What you get when you work with me from Birgunj

• Diagnosis first, and you keep the findings whether or not you hire me.
• Everything stays in your name: the website, the ad accounts, Search Console, Analytics and your Google Business Profile.
• Published prices and a plain language report every month, from your own accounts.
• No guaranteed rankings, no bought links, no fake reviews. The first thirty minute call is free, and I answer my own phone: +977 9845451010.

Choosing someone for digital marketing in Birgunj

Birgunj has a few local agencies and a lot of freelancers who manage Facebook pages. For a showroom or a restaurant that may be all you need. For a trading house, a factory or a hospital the problem is usually that the business is invisible on Google to the buyer who matters, and that is search and website work, not posts.

Ask whoever you shortlist, including me, what they would fix first, and ask for a dated result, proof that the accounts stay in your name and a written price. I work from Kathmandu, travel to Birgunj for the first meeting when it helps, and publish case studies and Google reviews you can check.

Proof from work like yours in Birgunj

I haven't published a result from a Birgunj business yet, and I won't invent one. The nearest work by industry is Jay Mangalam Cements and Famous Steel and Home Appliances, both on my case studies page under the scope I delivered, without numbers.

The nearest published number by mechanism is a home services business whose Google Ads cost per acquisition went from NPR 4,722 to NPR 2,571 in 90 days, down 46%. Some of these came from engagements I worked on as part of an agency team, so read them as account totals rather than mine alone. Search, Maps and ads work the same way in Birgunj. The enquiry just arrives on WhatsApp rather than in a form. The baselines and dates are on the case studies page.

What it costs in Birgunj

My prices are published. An audit of your Google profile, your pages and your tracking in Birgunj with a 30 day action plan is USD 249, about NPR 34,000. A four week sprint is USD 899, about NPR 122,000. Ongoing work is USD 1,800 a month, about NPR 245,000. What each one leaves out is on the pricing page. The first thirty minute call is free, and if a single shop or showroom only needs the audit, I'll say so.

Questions from Birgunj businesses

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