Banks · Outdoor advertising
A hoarding sells one branch, and compliance decides every word on it.
Outdoor advertising for a bank is bought branch by branch, on the roads inside one branch's catchment, for a product that branch can actually process. GullySales picks the sites from where the branch's own accounts come from, keeps the claim inside what your compliance team approves, and routes the calls to the loan desk.
Scope, fee, reporting and term are agreed in writing after we have read your brief and spoken to you.
What outdoor advertising means
Outdoor advertising is the hoarding, billboard, bus shelter or digital screen on a road your buyers already use. GullySales picks the sites from where your customers actually come from, coordinates the booking with the media owner, and gives the campaign a traceable route so it is not judged on guesswork.
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Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.
“The catchment belongs to a branch, not to the bank”
People open an account close to home or to work, so the site list is drawn around one branch address. A panel carrying the bank's name without the road and the branch on it advertises for whichever competitor sits nearer the reader.
“A rate on a flex is a compliance question before a design one”
Rates move, disclosures have a size, and a structure stays up for the whole cycle with no way to edit it. Your compliance team rules on the wording, and the artwork is built around the space that ruling takes.
“Seasons decide which product goes up”
A rural branch buys the mandi road before sowing, because farmers settle where to apply for credit before the season starts. An MSME facility belongs on the approach to the industrial estate in the weeks the orders land.
“No structure ever appears as a lead source”
A hoarding will not show up anywhere in your reporting. One number printed on the sites, answered at the branch, and written on the enquiry register beside the site name, is what connects a disbursal back to a road.
What we do
What we deliver for banks.
Every deliverable, what it covers for you, and the result it is there to produce. Nothing here is an extra.
Site list drawn from the branch's own account addresses
The roads and junctions this branch's new accounts and loan files came from over the last year, and only structures facing traffic moving through that catchment.
Result: Each branch advertises on the roads that feed it.
Product chosen for the road and the season
Kisan credit on the mandi road before sowing, a working capital message near the estate, a home loan on the approach to a new layout.
Result: The panel speaks to the person who actually drives past it.
Wording cleared with compliance before printing
The claim, the treatment of any rate and the disclosure placed in the layout at the size it will print, and signed off by your compliance team before the flex is ordered.
Result: Nothing has to be taken off a road in the middle of a cycle.
Facing, illumination and cycle verified
Which carriageway the site faces, whether the lighting comes on after dark, and the mounting and removal dates written into the booking with the media owner.
Result: The cycle you were invoiced for is the cycle that ran.
A branch line on the panel
A phone and WhatsApp number used on these sites alone, answered inside the branch, logged on the enquiry register against the site it came from.
Result: The loan desk can say which road the file walked in from.
Reading against the branch baseline
Enquiries, account openings and loan files from that catchment reported against the baseline recorded before the cycle began.
Result: You can separate a busy quarter from the effect of the hoarding.
How the result is measured
- Sites booked
- Proof of display received
- Enquiries quoting the campaign route
Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.
How it is bought, and approved
A bank buys outdoor branch by branch, and compliance and the civic body clear it before it is printed.
- Whose budget pays
- Panels are usually booked against one branch's marketing line. Ask the regional office who signs the order, and whether a media agency empanelled by the bank must place it.
- Structure licence and building consent
- Ask the media owner for the civic body's licence for the structure and the building owner's consent. Rules differ by city and change, so see both papers before you pay.
- Compliance sign-off on the artwork
- Product names, rate mentions and any line your regulator requires go to compliance before print. Keep the approved file with its sign-off date for audit.
- Facing and lighting by branch hours
- Pick the face that looks at traffic heading towards the branch. Visit when customers pass, and check the panel is lit for the evening drive home.
- Fascia, ATM board and lollipop signs
- Your own signs sit under the lease and the local body's signage rules. Check them before spending on a third-party site.
- Branch line and the source field
- Print a branch number or a QR to the branch page. Add 'where did you see us' to the account and loan enquiry form so the desk can count it.
Who it is for
This is written for these banks.
- Private sector bank branches
- Public sector bank branches
- Regional rural banks
- Cooperative banks
- Small finance banks
- Business correspondent networks
- NRI-focused branches
- MSME-focused branches
How it works
From your first message to the first report.
No open-ended retainer. Every step gives you something in writing.
First
Your brief
You tell us what you need in a few short steps: your business, what you want, where enquiries come from and how they are handled.
After the brief
A conversation and a written scope
We read it, then talk with whoever handles your enquiries. If you want our help, the scope, the fee and the reporting come in writing, and nothing starts before you have read them.
Before work starts
Baseline recorded
The numbers this work is meant to move, such as enquiries, quotations, orders, visits or renewals, written down so every later report has an honest comparison.
After the baseline
The first fix goes live
The fix we agreed to start with is put in place and measured against the baseline, whether that is a reply, a follow-up, a page, a listing or the handover between marketing and sales.
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 outdoor advertising work runs
- 1
Draw the catchment
We agree the roads, junctions and neighbourhoods your buyer moves through. It is almost always a smaller area than an owner first says, and a clinic in Nagarbhavi does not need the whole of west Bengaluru.
- 2
Survey what is available
We work through the sites on offer inside that catchment and go and stand in front of the ones worth looking at.
- 3
Compare and book
Sites are compared on facing, visibility, illumination and cycle length, then booked through the media owner or their agency at a negotiated rate.
- 4
Print to specification
Artwork is made to the exact panel size and delivered ahead of mounting day, with a proof you approve before printing.
- 5
Monitor the cycle
We collect mounting and mid-cycle photographs, and take up anything late, torn or unlit with the media owner while the cycle is still running.
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.
Your brief
Tell us what you need, and we will read it before we call.
Eight short steps about your business, what you want and who decides. Most questions are a tap, and you can skip any you would rather answer on the call.
FAQ
Questions owners ask before they call.
Not here? More answers, or ask on WhatsApp.
Can we put a loan rate on a hoarding?
Which sites suit a branch chasing current accounts?
Is a wall painting at the village market better than a hoarding for a rural branch?
What happens when the display cycle ends and the flex is still up?
How much does it cost?
How long is the contract?
How soon will we see results?
Who will actually do the work?
What do you need from us?
What if we are not happy with the work?
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