Eye hospitals · WhatsApp marketing
A photograph of a red eye after surgery must reach a doctor, not an auto-reply.
WhatsApp marketing for an eye hospital is using a WhatsApp Business number for appointment reminders, aftercare messages and families' questions, with consent and with a person behind every chat. GullySales sets up the account, the message templates and the route that gets an urgent message to the duty doctor.
A 90-minute audit call and a written, scored report. Turnaround, reporting and term are agreed in writing after the audit.
What WhatsApp marketing means
WhatsApp marketing is sending updates, offers and reminders to customers on the app most Indian buyers already check daily, which gets read faster than email or SMS. GullySales sets up business WhatsApp, writes the message templates and keeps the list consented and current.
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For eye hospitals
Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.
“Post-operative messages can be urgent”
A family sends a photograph of a red, watering eye the night after surgery. If it lands in an inbox checked the next morning, the hospital has a clinical problem, not a marketing one.
“Drop schedules are why families want WhatsApp”
Several drops at different times, tapering over weeks, confuse an elderly patient and the daughter managing them. A clear schedule on the family's phone is the message they will thank you for.
“A camp sheet is not an opt-in”
A number written on a camp sheet was given for a call about that camp. Adding it to a broadcast list for every health day goes beyond what the person agreed to.
What we do
What we deliver for eye hospitals.
Every deliverable, what it covers for you, and the result it is there to produce. Nothing here is an extra.
One WhatsApp Business number for the hospital
A verified profile with the address, department timings and the emergency number, so families stop messaging optometrists on their own phones.
Result: Chats belong to the hospital, not to whoever is on shift.
Templates for reminders and aftercare
Appointment reminders, the drop schedule after surgery, the post-operative visit date and the injection due date, written once and approved by your medical director.
Result: Every family gets the same correct instruction.
An urgent route to the duty doctor
A rule everyone on the number knows: messages about pain, sudden loss of sight, flashes or a red eye after surgery go straight to the doctor on duty, and the family is told to come in.
Result: An emergency is never answered by a template.
Consent written at registration
A line on the registration form and the camp sheet asking whether the patient or a named relative may be messaged, and for what.
Result: You know who agreed to hear from you.
Chats counted by purpose
Messages sorted into appointments, aftercare, scheme and billing questions and urgent cases, with the bookings that came from chats, against the baseline taken before the number launched.
Result: You see what the number is really used for.
How the result is measured
- Messages delivered
- Reply rate
- Enquiries from WhatsApp
Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.
What must be in place first
Settle these before an eye hospital sends its first WhatsApp message to a patient.
- Opt-in on the registration form and camp sheet
- Ask in writing whether the patient or a named relative may receive messages, and for which purpose: reminders, aftercare or camp news. Keep the record with the patient file.
- A business profile with department timings
- Set up the WhatsApp Business profile with the address, OPD and emergency hours, and a note that the chat is not watched for emergencies at night, with the number to ring instead.
- Approved templates for reminders and drop schedules
- Reminders sent through the business platform need approved templates. Write them once with your medical director, and check WhatsApp's current business policy and pricing before planning how many to send.
- Who pays for the messages
- WhatsApp charges for business messages under its current pricing, and the charge depends on the kind of message. Decide whose budget carries them before the reminders start.
- An opt-out that works
- Every broadcast says how to stop messages, and a reply of stop removes the number that day. Add it back only if the patient agrees again at a later visit.
- A person behind every chat
- Name the staff who answer the number on each shift and the duty doctor for urgent messages. Keep reports off personal phones and remove access when staff leave.
Who it is for
This is written for these eye hospitals.
- Multi-speciality eye hospitals
- Eye hospitals with community outreach
- Eye hospitals attached to medical colleges
- Charitable and trust-run eye hospitals
- Corporate and chain eye hospitals
- Eye hospitals with optical and pharmacy services
Not for
It is not the right fit if.
- You want a guaranteed Google ranking or a guaranteed number of leads. Nobody honest can promise either.
- You need enquiries by next week and have nobody to answer them.
- You want posts and reach reported, not enquiries and orders.
How it works
From your first message to the first report.
No open-ended retainer. Every step gives you something in writing.
First
Free audit call
90 minutes with whoever handles your enquiries: how they arrive, how fast they are answered, where they are lost.
After the call
Written, scored report
Six areas scored, fixes ranked by return and cost. If you want our help, the scope, the fee and the reporting come with it, in writing.
Before work starts
Baseline recorded
Enquiries by source, reply time, conversion and cost per order, written down so every later report has an honest comparison.
After the baseline
The first fix goes live
Usually the cheapest one on the report: reply time, a follow-up sequence or the marketing-to-sales handover.
As agreed
Report against the baseline
What moved, what did not, and what changes next, in plain words. How often you get it is set in writing before work starts.
At renewal
Renew on the numbers
The term ends and you decide whether to continue from the results. The length is agreed in writing before anything starts.
How the work runs for eye hospitals
- 1
Listen to how a patient moves through the hospital
The free audit call traces where patients come from, how they reach a second department and what is lost on the way.
- 2
Join the departments
A routine that carries a patient between them.
- 3
Make the whole hospital visible
Department pages, a Business Profile that shows the range and reviews asked for after good care.
- 4
Write back to referrers and follow up camps
A note-back routine and a camp-to-hospital route.
- 5
Report on departments, not activity
A report on enquiries, cross-department conversions and referrers against the baseline taken before anything changed.
Proof
What happened when owners fixed this.
Real clients, the work we did, and the result as it was recorded. Where no number was recorded, none is claimed.
Chord Road Hospital
- Situation
- Patients who knew the hospital trusted it. Patients who searched for a department or a treatment in the area did not find it.
- What we did
- Website rebuilt around patient needs
- Search visibility
- Social media on a schedule
- Review management
- Result
- Organic traffic increased 60% within six months
- Online appointment bookings increased 40%
- Social following grew 45%, and engagement on it rose 70%
IVF Solutions
- Situation
- The clinic had next to no presence online. People making one of the most considered decisions of their lives were doing their research somewhere else, and forming a view before the clinic knew they existed.
- What we did
- Social profiles opened
- Educational content on a schedule
- Google Business Profile built out
- A working feedback loop
- Result
- No numbers were recorded for this engagement. The work is described in full in the case study.
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Why us
Why owners pick GullySales over an agency.
Marketing and sales, as one job
Most agencies stop at the enquiry. We also fix what happens after it: the reply, the follow-up, the quote and the CRM.
The person on the first call does the work
No account managers in between. You are never handed to someone you have not met.
A baseline before anything starts
Your numbers are written down on day one, so every later report compares against something honest.
The fee in writing, split three ways
Our time, your media spend and production on separate lines. You always see what goes to us.
No guarantees we cannot keep
The term is agreed in writing and never a default twelve months. We never promise a ranking or a lead count, because nobody controls those.
One office, and we say so
Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru. We work across India by call and WhatsApp and travel when a session needs to be in person.
#257, 3rd floor, Sri Nanjundeshwara Complex, Nagarbhavi 8th Block, Outer Ring Road. How we work.
The offer
Start with a free audit of how you sell.
It is useful on its own, whether or not you hire us.
What you receive
- A 90-minute call with the person who will do the work
- A written, scored report on the six places orders leak
- Every fix ranked by what it returns and what it costs
- The one thing to do first, and why
- An honest line on whether you need outside help at all
- If you do, the scope and the fee in writing
No invoice. No obligation. No sales script.
FAQ
Questions owners ask before they call.
Not here? More answers, or ask on WhatsApp.
Should we use the WhatsApp Business app or the API?
Can we make a WhatsApp group for our glaucoma patients?
Our optometrists give patients their personal numbers. Is that a problem?
Can we put our surgery packages in the WhatsApp catalogue?
Can we publish testimonials or before-and-after results?
Can we run discounts on surgery packages?
How much does it cost?
How long is the contract?
Who will actually do the work?
What do you need from us?
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