Banks · Radio advertising
A spot sells the branch on the road, not the bank on the logo.
Radio advertising for a bank buys spots on a station in a short flight, usually behind one product: a deposit rate, an education loan season or an MSME camp at a market. GullySales plans the station, language and band, writes to what your compliance team will clear, and points the listener at the branch rather than the head office.
Scope, fee, reporting and term are agreed in writing after we have read your brief and spoken to you.
What radio advertising means
Radio advertising is a spot, a mention or a sponsorship on a station your buyers listen to on the way to work. GullySales plans the station, band and frequency, and runs search on your own name during the flight so the listener who looks you up afterwards finds you.
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For banks
Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.
“Every rate on air drags its qualification with it”
A deposit or loan rate read out has to carry the conditions attached to it, and reading them eats a third of a thirty-second spot. Plan the script around what compliance will pass, not around what sounds good.
“The listener who searches lands on your head office”
She hears the bank's name and types it that evening, reaching a national site with no idea which branch to walk into. The spot has to name the road, and the branch listing has to be right that week.
“The flight follows the product's season”
Kisan credit is decided before sowing, an education loan in the weeks after admission letters arrive, and a deposit push near the quarter close. A flight in the wrong month is a break bought for nobody.
“The market has its own station and its own language”
An MSME loan aimed at traders in one market belongs on the station the shops play, in the language they trade in. An English breakfast show reaches a salaried listener you already have.
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.
Flight planned against one product
A short schedule behind a single scheme, with the dates set by when that customer decides rather than by when the budget has to be used.
Result: One offer gets heard properly instead of four half-heard.
Script cleared before the studio is booked
The wording on rates, eligibility and conditions written to what your compliance and marketing teams will approve, and sent for sign-off before recording.
Result: The audio is not re-recorded two days before the flight.
Station, language and band for the customer
The station and the band your borrower is listening in, and the language that market speaks, agreed before a package comes from the station.
Result: The spend reaches the customer the scheme was written for.
Branch listing checked before the flight opens
Timings, phone number, address and photographs on the branch's Google Business Profile corrected, because the spot is about to send people to look it up.
Result: The listener who searches finds the right branch, open.
A campaign number that reaches the loan desk
One number used on air and nowhere else, ringing the officer who can take the application, with every call logged by scheme and source.
Result: Radio enquiries stop disappearing into the branch landline.
Search cover on the bank and the locality
Search ads on your name with the branch locality through the flight weeks, so a listener's evening search lands on your branch page.
Result: You collect the searches your own spot created.
Transmission log read against the schedule
The station's proof of broadcast checked spot by spot, with bonus spots parked outside the booked band called out while the flight is running.
Result: You pay for what aired in the band you bought.
How the result is measured
- Spots aired against spots booked
- Branded search volume during the flight
- Calls quoting the on-air number
Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.
Who decides what, per spot
A branch spot is planned jointly, and every decision in it should have a named owner.
- Rates, eligibility and wording
- Decided by head office and compliance. The branch asks for the approved script and does not change a word of the conditions to make it fit.
- Which approved product to push
- The branch, with its regional head, chooses the scheme that fits its market and season, such as Kisan credit before sowing or education loans after admissions.
- Station, band and language
- Proposed from the branch's own market. Budget and booking usually sit with regional or central marketing, so bring a short case for one station before asking.
- Branch line and landmark
- The branch supplies its road, landmark and timings, and checks they match the Google Business Profile before the first spot airs.
- Campaign number and officer
- Name the loan officer who answers it and brief them on the scheme. The line should reach someone who can explain documents and book a visit.
- Walk-in register
- The branch records where each enquiry heard of the scheme. It is the only local count of what the spot did.
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 radio advertising work runs
- 1
Fix the window
We agree what has to happen in these weeks, an admission deadline, a launch or a sale, because radio works in short flights.
- 2
Choose the station and the language
We match station, language and band to who you sell to, and cut the stations that only add a stray sighting.
- 3
Write and produce the spot
The script is written here and produced to the station's delivery format before the deadline, rather than on the station's template.
- 4
Book and hold the schedule
We coordinate the booking with the station or its agency and treat the written spot plan as the thing being bought.
- 5
Track and reconcile
Calls to the on-air number and brand search volume are watched through the flight, and the transmission proof is checked against the booking.
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 quote our interest rate on air?
How do we know the spot brought us any business?
Can a branch book radio on its own?
What should the officer say on the campaign number?
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?
From the blog
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