About us

The agency that answers to your P&L

Scaling Socials is an omni-channel ecommerce growth agency in Bangalore. We run Meta and Google Ads, build and optimise Shopify stores, and handle SEO, social and CRO for D2C brands across India and the UAE, measured by the revenue we drive rather than the impressions we buy.

Our story

How we started

Scaling Socials started as a partnership in 2021 and became Scaling Socials Media LLP in 2022. There were four of us, two engineers and two MBAs, and one of us had already built and run online stores of his own. We went looking for an agency to market a brand we owned, and kept hitting the same wall.

Everyone pitched 5x to 10x returns on timelines nobody could actually hit. The person who closed us was never the person who ran the account, and the real work slid down to juniors who couldn’t tell us why a campaign was losing money. Half of what we paid for was quietly outsourced, so nobody could stand behind the quality, and nobody would give us a straight answer on what the work actually involved.

So we built the agency we wished we had hired. The four standards below each come straight from something that annoyed us back then. We start from your margins, we tell you honestly when not to hire us, and we hand over an audit you could take to a competitor tomorrow. It is a slower way to grow an agency and a sturdier one, because the brands who choose us for those reasons tend to stay.

Today we work with D2C brands in fashion, beauty, home, wellness and jewellery across India and the UAE, running the whole funnel from the first ad impression to the checkout.

How we run accounts

Four standards we set after being the client

  • Realistic growth, month on month

    We plan to a number the account can actually hit, and say what it will take to get there. Nobody here will promise you 5x in thirty days — that pitch is how brands end up overspent and disappointed.

  • Experienced managers, not juniors

    Every account is run by an ad manager with at least a year handling large budgets. The person who understands your account is the person actually working on it.

  • Everything stays in-house

    Media, creative, store and CRO all sit under one roof. We do not outsource the work and put our name on it, because quality control ends the moment it leaves the building.

  • Scope matched to the work

    The engagement flexes with the real workload and the stage you are at, rather than a rigid package that ignores whether you are launching or scaling.

Being honest about fit

We turn down work, and we say why. It saves both sides a quarter of finding out the expensive way.

Who we’re not for

  • Brands without a working marketing budget. Below a real spend level we cannot get you the result you are expecting, and we would rather tell you now.
  • Brands treating marketing as a get-rich-quick scheme — expecting viral content or a high return inside the first month.
  • Brands with no long-term view. Growth compounds over quarters; it does not arrive in week three.
  • Brands unwilling to act on what we find. If the product, the pricing or the website is what is holding sales back, we will say so, and this only works if that gets fixed.
  • Anyone who wants budget deployed without a plan — a big launch spend or an expensive lifestyle shoot before there is any evidence it will return.
  • Anyone who treats our team badly. Our people do their sharpest work for brands that treat them as partners, so we protect that relationship, we have ended retainers over it and would do it again.
What we believe

Four things we won’t compromise on

  • We work to your P&L

    Not to platform-reported ROAS. If the maths doesn’t work for your brand, we’ll tell you.

  • We hand you the audit

    A written audit in three working days that is yours to keep and act on, whether or not you ever hire us.

  • We say when not to hire us

    Every service page has a real disqualifier list. Saying no is a trust signal, and it saves everyone time.

  • One team, one number

    Media, creative, store and CRO under one roof, so nobody points fingers when a number moves.

The team

Four founders, four disciplines

Meet the team
  • Tayeb Khan, Co-founder at Scaling Socials
    Tayeb Khan
    Web development and finance
  • Jamal Khan, Co-founder at Scaling Socials
    Jamal Khan
    Paid media
  • Maaz Khan, Co-founder at Scaling Socials
    Maaz Khan
    Ecommerce growth
  • Khushal Sharma, Co-founder at Scaling Socials
    Khushal Sharma
    Brand and creator growth

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