Digital Marketing in Nepalgunj, Nepal

I'm Shashikant Shah, a digital marketing expert based in Kathmandu. I work with businesses in Nepalgunj remotely, in their own accounts, and I travel to Nepalgunj for the first meeting when it helps. I'm useful to the hospitals and colleges that serve Western Nepal and the Karnali, to the traders who deal across the Rupaidiha border, and to the housing projects and service businesses that serve people arriving from Surkhet, Dang and the hills. I'm also a software engineer, so I build the pages and the tracking myself. The wider picture is on my digital marketing expert in Nepal page.

Short answer: working with me from Nepalgunj 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. The plan usually covers the districts you serve, not only the city, and the scripts your customers search in.

How people in Nepalgunj find a business

Nepalgunj is the gateway to Western Nepal and the Karnali. Patients, students and buyers come down from Surkhet, Dang and the hills, and traders cross the Rupaidiha border from India. A hospital or a college here serves a region, so the search that matters is often typed in Surkhet, and often in Nepali or Hindi script rather than English.

Those searches happen on phones, often on a weak connection, and Google Maps comes first. Then Facebook, where a family asks which hospital to trust, then a call. A profile with the right name in the right script and a number that answers wins more enquiries here than a heavy website. The same goes for the hotels and shops that serve pilgrims to Bageshwori temple.

Hospitals and colleges drawing from Banke, Bardiya and the hills

A Nepalgunj hospital or college serves Banke, Bardiya, Surkhet, Dang and the Karnali districts, so the search that matters is typed in Surkhet, on a weak connection, often in Nepali or Hindi script, and the profile with the right name in the right script and a number that answers wins.

Dhamboji and Tribhuvan Chowk trade

Shops, showrooms and the hotels serving pilgrims to Bageshwori temple around Dhamboji and Tribhuvan Chowk are found on Maps and Facebook the same day, and a Nepalgunj profile with current hours and photos beats a heavy website.

The India border and bilingual customers

Traders cross the Rupaidiha border from India, and customers in Nepalgunj move between Nepali, Hindi, Awadhi and English, so the profile name, the ad copy and the page headings have to match what people type in each.

Lumbini west and Karnali Province: the region that buys here

Nepalgunj is the market town for the west of Lumbini Province and for Karnali Province, whose patients, students and buyers come down from Surkhet, Jumla and Dailekh. Until there is a Dhangadhi page, Sudurpashchim businesses are served from here too. A service area and pages that name those districts bring the enquiries a city radius misses.

The problems I see most often:

• A hospital or college profile in English only, so a search typed in Nepali or Hindi finds a competitor.
• A service area set to the city, when half the patients come from Banke, Bardiya, Surkhet and the Karnali districts.
• A website built for a laptop that fails on a phone in the hills, so the enquiry never arrives.
• No tracking, so nobody knows which district the enquiries come from.

What I do for businesses in Nepalgunj

• Local SEO and Google Business Profile management: profiles and pages for the districts you serve, in the scripts people search in, with a reply to every review. You get the map pack for "hospital in Nepalgunj" from Surkhet as well as from town.
• Web development: a light site that loads on a phone in the hills, with a WhatsApp button. You get a site in your name, on hosting you control.
• Google Ads on the searches patients, students and buyers type, targeted to the districts, and Meta ads for the families asking on Facebook. You get enquiries at a cost you can read.
• Technical SEO so the pages load fast on a weak connection and Google can read them. You get pages that rank for the searches typed in the hills.
• Tracking: calls, WhatsApp clicks and forms counted in your own Analytics, by district. You get a monthly report that says where the enquiries came from.

Colleges are on the education page, hospitals on the healthcare page, housing projects on the real estate page and installers on the home services page.

SEO in Nepalgunj

Nepalgunj serves a region far larger than the city. Patients from Karnali and Sudurpashchim come to Bheri Hospital, the medical college and the private clinics. Traders bring goods through Rupaidiha for the whole of the west. Travellers pass through the airport on the way to Jumla, Simikot and Rara, and to Bardiya National Park. So the people searching for a Nepalgunj hospital, hotel, college or wholesaler are often in Surkhet, Dang or Dhangadhi, or abroad, and they search by need rather than by shop name.

The work is a Business Profile with the right category and service area, pages per service, department or product written for the person searching from far away, reviews, and a fast site that opens on a weak connection. I do it in your own Search Console with a monthly plain language report. The local SEO page explains the Maps work.

Websites for Nepalgunj businesses

A hospital in Nepalgunj is chosen by a family in Jumla from a phone with two bars of signal. A hotel is chosen by a trekker in Europe planning the Rara trip. A wholesaler is chosen by a retailer in Dailekh. All three need a site that opens in seconds, says the essentials up front, and gives a call or WhatsApp button that reaches a person. Most sites I see in Nepalgunj do not open at all on that connection.

I build light, fast pages for exactly that: timings, services and doctors for a hospital, rooms and routes for a hotel, a page per product for a wholesaler, with tracking that records the enquiry and where it came from. Hosting and the domain stay in your name. The website development page has the prices.

Google Ads in Nepalgunj

Google Ads in Nepalgunj works for hospitals and colleges when the campaign targets Surkhet, Dang, Bardiya and the Karnali districts, in Nepali and Hindi as well as English, with call conversions counted, because the patient searches from home before travelling. For the shops and hotels in town it is a Banke radius. Campaigns run in your own ad account, spend is separate from my fee and goes from your own card. The published benchmark is a cost per lead that went from NPR 3,500 to NPR 2,100 at steady spend. Method on the Google Ads expert in Nepal page.

How it works from Nepalgunj

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 profile, site, 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 Nepalgunj when a project needs it.

The first 90 days for a Nepalgunj business

Each month after that, from Nepalgunj

Every month after that a Nepalgunj 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 Nepalgunj

• 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 Nepalgunj

Nepalgunj has a small local market for marketing services, so most businesses hire from Kathmandu or from a local freelancer who runs the Facebook page. Either can work. The thing to check is whether they understand that your customer is usually far away and on a weak connection, because that changes what you build first: a fast page and a working phone button before any content plan.

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

Proof from work like yours in Nepalgunj

I haven't published a result from a Nepalgunj business yet, and I won't invent one. The nearest work by region is Jay Mangalam Cements, content campaigns aimed at West Nepal, on my case studies page under the scope I delivered, without numbers.

The nearest published number by mechanism is a Kathmandu clinic whose map views went from about 2,100 to about 9,240 a month in six months, up 340%, with calls up about 85%. 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. Maps, search and ads work the same way in Nepalgunj. What changes is the district the search comes from. The baselines and dates are on the case studies page.

What it costs in Nepalgunj

My prices are published. An audit of your Google profile, your pages and your tracking in Nepalgunj 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 clinic or shop only needs the audit, I'll say so.

Questions from Nepalgunj businesses

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