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A family in Davangere pays a surgery bill of two lakh rupees from savings, because the employer's group policy ended with a change of job and the family had not been told. A neighbour hears about it and calls an agent the next morning. That call, made because of someone else's bill, is the agency's opening.

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In one paragraph

A health insurance agency sells and services mediclaim, family floater, senior citizen and top-up policies, and helps policyholders at the time of a claim. Its marketing earns the call before an admission, and its sales work keeps the policy in force. GullySales builds both inside the advertising rules of the regulator and your insurers.

Health insurance is bought because of something that already happened to someone close, and it is judged at the claim desk. An agency that sells well and then cannot be reached when a cashless request is rejected loses the family and the neighbour who heard about it.

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How buyers decide

How health insurance agencies are chosen.

Buyers start with fear of a specific bill: a parent's surgery, a delivery, a relative's ICU stay. They ask people they know which policy paid cleanly and which agent picked up the phone. Online they compare premiums, but they still want a person who will explain waiting periods, room rent limits and what 'pre-existing' means for their father's sugar and BP.

Renewals matter as much as new sales. Policies come due every year, premiums rise at age bands, and people move to a competing insurer when the renewal notice shows a sharper number. The agency that calls early, explains portability in plain words and compares the new insurer's terms honestly keeps the family. The one that sends a reminder link loses it to a platform.

The problem

What usually goes wrong for health insurance agencies.

What owners tell us on the first call, in their words.

  • “People ask the price and then vanish”

    A family wants a rate for a 62-year-old mother, gets a figure, and we never hear back. We have no follow-up that reaches them when the first quote has gone cold.

  • “Claim calls land on us at the worst hour”

    A cashless request is delayed at the hospital desk and the family phones us at midnight. We have no routine and no named person for that call.

  • “Renewals go to portals while we are not looking”

    A policyholder takes a cheaper plan without asking us, then finds the waiting periods start again. We could have told them, but we did not call.

  • “Parents' cover is the biggest need and the hardest sale”

    Adult children want a policy for ageing parents, but the proposal form asks health questions neither they nor their parents are ready to answer.

  • “Clients cannot tell us from the insurer's helpline”

    They think we are the company. When a claim is settled for less, they blame us for the insurer's decision.

  • “We have no proof we are good at claims”

    Our best work is a cashless approval at midnight, and nothing we are allowed to post shows it.

What we do

What we do for health insurance agencies.

Everything included for health insurance agencies.

  1. Pages for the situation, not the policy name

    Pages for parents above sixty, a first baby, a job change with lost cover, and porting at renewal. Each page lists what to check in a policy and which documents to keep.

  2. A quote follow-up routine

    A record for every quote request, with a second contact planned at a time the family chooses. A call script covers the questions that come after a rate is quoted, such as waiting periods and room rent.

  3. A claim desk card

    A one-page process: who answers a cashless request, which insurer or TPA numbers to call, which documents to send first, and what to say to the family while they wait.

  4. Renewal and porting list

    Each policy has its renewal date, the insured members' ages and the next age band recorded. One named person owns the call to each family about the new premium.

  5. Review requests after a claim is settled

    A polite message once a claim is paid, asking whether the family would like to leave a Google review. Details of the illness are left out.

  6. Short explainers in the family's language

    Plain pages and WhatsApp-ready cards on waiting periods, room rent limits, co-pay, cashless and reimbursement, checked against each insurer's own wording.

How the result is measured

  • Quote requests by source
  • Reply time to a first message
  • Quotes that turn into proposals
  • Policies renewed with you against policies lost
  • Ports saved or won
  • Reviews received from policyholders

Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.

Worth a page and a campaign of their own

Family floater policies · Senior citizen health policies · Top-up and super top-up cover · Portability and switching help · Maternity-linked cover · Critical illness cover · Small-firm group health · Claim help for existing policyholders

Priority campaigns

Campaigns for what health insurance agencies most want to sell.

Each one planned around when your buyers decide, and measured against the baseline.

  • Parents' cover for adult children

    Ads and local search pages aimed at people in their thirties and forties who live away from their parents, with a form that asks about the parents' age and city and not their illnesses.

  • Job-change gap campaign

    Ads and explainer pages for people changing jobs, reminding them to check when employer cover ends and offering a plan comparison call.

  • Renewal calling campaign

    A call script and WhatsApp message for each policyholder ahead of the renewal notice, with a short portability explainer for those who ask.

  • Maternity and new-baby plans

    A page and listing set for couples planning a delivery, explaining waiting periods in plain terms and why the right time to buy is long before the due date.

Beyond search

Where we reach buyers of health insurance agencies, beyond Google.

Search matters, but it is rarely the only way this industry's buyers find a supplier.

  • Hospital billing and patient-relations desks

    Staff at the billing counter see uninsured families at their worst moment. A short introduction letter asks to be known as a resource, with no request for patient names. No payment or gift goes to the desk.

  • Doctors and diagnostic centres

    Clinics where patients say they have no insurance, approached with a short explainer card the front desk can hand out. No payment or gift goes to a doctor or clinic for a referral.

  • Employers without group cover

    Small firms, shops and private schools whose staff rely on ESI or nothing at all, reached with a talk on what a group policy covers.

  • Parents' associations and senior citizens' clubs

    Morning walkers' groups and senior clubs, where the person who decides may be a son or daughter reached through the parent.

  • Your own policyholders' relatives

    Parents, in-laws and siblings of clients who already trust you, approached through the client and with the client's knowledge.

Who it is for

This is written for these health insurance agencies.

  • Family floater buyers with young children
  • Adult children buying cover for parents
  • Senior citizens looking for their first policy after sixty
  • People who lost group cover when they changed jobs
  • Self-employed shop owners and professionals with no employer cover
  • Policyholders thinking of porting to another insurer
  • Pregnant women and couples planning maternity
  • Small firms buying group health for staff

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

How the work runs for health insurance agencies

The work itself, in order. How an engagement starts, from your brief to a written scope, is set out on our method page.

  1. 1

    Map the book by renewal month

    Your brief and the book become one list of policies by renewal date, age band and insurer, with the ones whose premium rose at the last renewal marked.

  2. 2

    Agree what you may publish

    A short note on what each insurer allows in an advertisement, what needs approval, and what stays out of any line about a claim or a disease.

  3. 3

    Set up the answer path

    A Google Business Profile, a WhatsApp first reply and a quote-request form that all land in one list.

  4. 4

    Set up calls for quiet quotes and renewals

    A routine with a named owner for quotes that got no reply and for policies close to renewal.

  5. 5

    Report on policies kept and policies added

    Your current renewal and quote numbers are written down before work starts, so later figures have something to be set against.

Where this fits

Three pieces of sales work, in this order.

GullySales builds every engagement from three pieces of sales work. This page is not one of them, but the same three steps apply to the business behind it.

  1. Step 1

    Sales audit

    Find where deals are being lost and what to fix first.

    Start here if you cannot say where orders are lost.

  2. Step 2

    Sales process design

    One written way to sell, from first enquiry to repeat order.

    Start here if every salesperson sells differently.

  3. Step 3

    Sales management

    A target, a review routine and someone who owns the number.

    Start here if the team has targets and no routine.

Tell us what you need Your brief is read before we call. Scope, fee and term in writing.

FAQ

Questions health insurance agencies ask before they call.

Not here? More answers, or ask on WhatsApp.

Can you show claim success stories in our ads?
No. A claim story involves a patient's health and an insurer's decision, and the rules on both are strict and change. We use general explainers and reviews that policyholders choose to write.
Will you help with claims themselves?
Claim handling is your job and the insurer's. We build the routine around it: who answers, what is sent first, and how the family is told. Your insurer's TPA rules still apply.
Can you get us more senior citizen customers?
We can make you easy to find for the people who buy on a senior's behalf, the adult child who is paying. Whether a particular insurer accepts a particular senior depends on the insurer, and we say that on the page.
A family member has diabetes. Can that person still be covered?
Whether a policy covers a pre-existing condition, and after what waiting period, is set by each insurer's own wording. The page tells the family what to ask and which documents to keep. Rules differ by insurer, so read the policy wording and the proposal form's questions together before signing.
What happens when a cashless request is rejected and the family calls at night?
That is why the claim desk card names an owner. The owner says what has been sent, calls the insurer or TPA, and tells the family plainly what the next step is. The insurer decides whether the request is approved, so the card tells the team not to promise it.
How much does it cost?
There is no price list, because the work differs by business. The fee is scoped after we have read your brief and spoken to you, and put in writing before anything starts, split into our time, your media spend and production.
How long is the contract?
The term is agreed in writing after we have spoken, along with the fee and the reporting. It is never a default twelve months, and renewal is decided on the numbers against the baseline recorded at the start.
How soon will we see results?
Fixes to reply time, follow-up and your Google Business Profile are the quickest to show, because the enquiries already exist. Ads can follow soon after follow-up is in place. SEO and content take longer. How long each takes depends on your business, and we tell you which applies to you after we have spoken. Nothing here is guaranteed.
Who will actually do the work?
The person you speak to before anything starts. We work from one office in Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru, with no account managers in between.
What do you need from us?
To start, last month's enquiries in any format and time with whoever handles them. After that, access to the accounts the work touches, such as the website, Google Business Profile or CRM.

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