Dental clinics · Healthcare
Fill the chair for the treatment you actually want to do more of.
A patient with a toothache searches within a few kilometres, reads three or four reviews, and calls whichever clinic answers first. A patient considering implants or aligners takes longer. They compare treatment pages, check the dentist's qualification and weigh two or three quotes before booking a consultation.
Scope, fee, reporting and term are agreed in writing after we have read your brief and spoken to you.
In one paragraph
Dental marketing gets a clinic found and called for a specific treatment, such as a root canal in the patient's own locality. Dental sales turns that call into a booked, kept appointment. GullySales writes a page for each treatment you want more of, and gives the front desk a routine for following up every aligner or implant quote.
A page full of smiling photos does not by itself fill the chair. The patient quoted for aligners last month is still deciding, and nobody at the front desk has called her. Meanwhile the chair sits empty on Tuesday afternoon.
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How buyers decide
How dental clinics are chosen.
For a check-up or an emergency, the decision happens on a phone in under two minutes, comparing the clinics on Maps and calling whichever answers.
For implants, aligners or a full smile makeover, a patient takes longer. They read the treatment page, check the dentist's qualification and photographs of the clinic, and compare two or three quotes before committing to a consultation.
Referrals from an existing patient or a family member still bring in a steady share of appointments. They convert faster when the referred patient finds a clean profile and a quick reply waiting.
The problem
What usually goes wrong for dental clinics.
What owners tell us on the first call, in their words.
“The website lists services, not treatments”
A patient searching for root canal treatment finds a single page naming twenty procedures, none written for their actual question.
“Quotes are given and never followed up”
A patient asks the cost of aligners, is quoted a range, and hears nothing again unless they call back themselves.
“Reviews are old and unanswered”
The most recent review is a year old, and a critical one sits at the top with no reply from the clinic.
“Our Google listing shows the wrong hours”
A patient checking whether we open on Sunday gets no answer from a listing that has not been touched in two years, and calls the next clinic.
“We lose patients to the chain down the road that spends more on ads”
A bigger clinic group outbids us on the exact treatment searches we want, and shows up first on Maps for implants and aligners.
“The front desk cannot answer a clinical question with confidence”
A patient asking whether they need a crown or a filling gets a vague answer, and calls a clinic that sounds more sure of itself.
“Two dentists at the clinic share one generic bio online”
A patient cannot tell which dentist actually handles the treatment they need, so the page does not help them choose.
What we do
What we do for dental clinics.
Everything included for dental clinics, and the result each part is there to produce.
Treatment pages built for search
A dedicated page for each priority treatment, written to answer cost and procedure questions within the Dental Council's advertising limits.
Result: A patient searching for a specific treatment finds a page built for it.
Google Business Profile and Maps management
The profile completed and kept current, with hours, photographs and services checked against the website.
Result: A patient checking Maps finds accurate details before they ever call.
Reply and booking system across phone and WhatsApp
A routine and a call log so an enquiry on the phone or WhatsApp gets a fast, recorded reply.
Result: Fewer enquiries are lost to a clinic that simply answered faster.
Content and social calendar
Patient education posts and consented before-and-after content planned around your priority treatments for Instagram and the website.
Result: Followers see real proof of your work, not a stock photo.
Search advertising for treatments with spare chair time
Campaigns on Google Ads aimed at the treatment with room this period, with a landing page matching the ad.
Result: The budget goes toward the treatment the clinic can actually deliver.
CRM and enquiry record for the front desk
A record of every enquiry, quote given and appointment booked, replacing scattered notebooks and memory.
Result: The front desk can see exactly where a patient is in the process.
Report against the baseline
Enquiries, reply time, quote conversion and reviews reported against the baseline recorded before work began.
Result: You can see whether the work is actually filling the chair.
How the result is measured
- Maps position for priority treatments by locality
- Calls and WhatsApp enquiries by source
- Reply time, median and worst case
- Quotes given against quotes booked
- New reviews per month and reply rate
- Recall appointments booked
Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.
Every service, written for dental clinics
Each has its own page: what it involves for dental clinics, what you get, and what it is measured on.
- Apartment advertisingYour patients live in four buildings, and each one has a secretary.
- Branding and identityLook like the clinic a patient trusts with a drill, not just a clean logo.
- Buyer journey mappingMap what happens between a toothache and a booked appointment.
- Buyer personasWrite down who is really deciding, the patient, the parent or the partner.
- Cinema advertisingBuy the screen your patients drive past, and sell the treatment worth the drive.
- Content marketingAnswer the pain and cost questions patients search before they call.
- Email marketingRemind a patient about the treatment plan they already agreed to.
- Local SEORank in the Maps result a patient checks before ever visiting your website.
- Marketing strategyDecide which treatments to grow this year before spending on any channel.
- Outdoor advertisingBuy the junction people cross to reach you, not the main road across town.
- Pay per click advertisingPut money behind the treatment with spare chair time this month.
- Referral marketingTurn a happy patient's family into your steadiest source of new patients.
- Sales coachingCoach the front desk on the cost conversation that loses the most patients.
- Sales managementManage the front desk against booking numbers, not a feeling about the week.
- Sales metricsTrack quote-to-booking conversion, not just how many people called.
- Sales processFix the steps between a quote and a confirmed treatment booking.
- Sales strategyDecide how each priority treatment is converted, before training anyone.
- Sales trainingTrain the front desk on the specific calls that lose patients.
- SEORank for the treatment and the locality, not only your clinic's name.
- Social media managementPost the real before-and-after results, not stock smile photos.
- Video marketingLet a nervous patient see the chair and hear the dentist before their visit.
- Website design and developmentBuild a site organised by treatment, not a single long services page.
- Follow-up systemsRing back the patient who never returned for the crown.
- CRMKeep a record of the patient who asked the implant price and never came.
- Review generationAsk when the mirror comes out, not when the mouth is still numb.
- Customer retentionBring the patient back for the check-up, not only when the tooth hurts.
- WhatsApp marketingAnswer the photo of a broken tooth that arrives at eleven at night.
Worth a page and a campaign of their own
Dental implants · Root canal treatment · Braces and clear aligners · Smile designing and veneers · Teeth whitening · Paediatric dentistry · Crowns and bridges · Wisdom tooth removal · Full mouth rehabilitation · Emergency dental care
Priority campaigns
Campaigns for what dental clinics most want to sell.
Each one planned around when your buyers decide, and measured against the baseline.
Dental implant consultation campaign
A dedicated implant page, a search campaign for implant cost searches, and a follow-up sequence for anyone who requests a quote.
Result: Patients considering implants get a clear path to a consultation.
Clear aligner and smile design campaign for wedding season
Content and advertising for aligners and smile design timed to the months before the local wedding season begins.
Result: The campaign reaches patients while they are already thinking about it.
Paediatric dentistry campaign for school holidays
Parent-facing content and local advertising timed to school holiday weeks, when a check-up is easier to schedule.
Result: Parents book a child's visit at the moment it is easiest for them.
Root canal and emergency pain campaign
An always-on search campaign and a fast-loading page for someone searching in pain right now.
Result: A patient in discomfort finds and reaches the clinic without delay.
Teeth whitening campaign ahead of festival season
A whitening page and short advertising push timed to the weeks before major festivals, when patients are already thinking about their smile.
Result: The offer reaches a patient at the moment it is relevant to them.
Beyond search
Where we reach buyers of dental clinics, beyond Google.
Search matters, but it is rarely the only way this industry's buyers find a supplier.
Referral network with general physicians and other specialists
We prepare referral leaflets and a thank-you note for doctors who send patients your way, so the relationship is worth maintaining.
Resident welfare associations near the clinic
We prepare a locality flyer and an introductory offer for a health camp or RWA event close to the clinic.
Corporate dental check-up tie-ups
We prepare an outreach note and a follow-up sequence for nearby offices considering an employee dental check-up day.
School dental health talks for paediatric dentistry
We prepare talk material for a school health session and a follow-up message for parents who attend.
WhatsApp community groups in the locality
We prepare shareable content and a direct booking link suited to a neighbourhood or apartment WhatsApp group.
Who it is for
This is written for these dental clinics.
- Single-dentist clinics
- Multi-chair general dental clinics
- Orthodontic and aligner-only practices
- Implant and oral surgery centres
- Cosmetic and smile-design clinics
- Paediatric dental clinics
- Dental clinics inside a multi-speciality centre
- Multi-branch dental groups
- New clinics in their first year
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
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
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
The fix we agreed to start with is put in place and measured against the baseline, whether that is reply time, a follow-up sequence, the page buyers land on 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 work runs for dental clinics
- 1
Assess
We look at your Maps position for priority treatments, your reply time on phone and WhatsApp, your reviews, and where quotes are being lost.
- 2
Fix the reply
A missed-call and WhatsApp routine the front desk can follow, and a record of every enquiry and quote given.
- 3
Build the treatment pages
A page per priority treatment, written for the patient's question, with the dentist's qualification and a clear booking step.
- 4
Bring patients in
Local search, reviews from real patients, and advertising for the treatments where the search already exists and chair time is free.
- 5
Keep them coming back
Recall reminders, quote follow-up on a fixed schedule, and a referral ask timed to a good outcome.
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%
Nanda Arthritis and Rheumatology Center
- Situation
- There was no website, so a patient looking for a rheumatologist had no way to learn about the centre. Enquiries were few, and the ones that arrived came by word of mouth.
- What we did
- A website for patients
- Search work
- Google Business and reviews
- Lead capture and advertising
- Result
- No numbers were recorded for this engagement. The work is described in full in the case study.
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United States
Working with US dental clinics.
In the US the first question on the phone is rarely the price of a crown. It is whether you take their plan. Patients want to know you are in network before they will book, and a front desk that answers in one sentence keeps the appointment. One that offers to check and call back loses it to the practice two blocks away.
The parts of this that need no clinician and no licence are ours, to hours agreed with your front desk before the first month. Your listings, your hygiene recall list, the unscheduled treatment report sitting in Dentrix, Eaglesoft or Open Dental, and the calls that should come off it. Patient charts stay where they are. We work from counts, schedules and a first name.
Insurance answered before the caller asks twice
Every plan you are in network with, written on the website, the Google Business Profile and the first line of the phone script. Patients filter by plan on Zocdoc before they ever see your name.
The recall list is the cheapest marketing you own
A hygiene list three months overdue holds more booked hours than any advertisement does. We pull the overdue list and your team calls it in an agreed order.
Treatment presented, then never scheduled
A patient told they need two crowns walks out with a printed plan and no appointment. The unscheduled treatment report names them, and a call in the first week recovers more chair time than a new campaign.
No-shows and the December deadline
Two confirmations and a reminder the patient actually reads do more for empty chairs than overbooking. Unused annual maximums expire at year end, which gives the front desk an honest reason to call in October.
Patient details do not travel to our tools
Names, numbers and clinical notes stay inside your practice software, and we work from counts and your own team's call outcomes. What an outside vendor may handle under HIPAA, and the business associate agreement behind it, is a question for your attorney before we start.
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.
Engagement options
Ways to work with us.
Pick the size of commitment that fits. Every option starts with your brief and a conversation.
Option 1
The conversation on its own
A call after you send your brief. It says honestly whether you need outside help, and many fixes are ones your own team can make.
Option 2
One fix, scoped
Start with the fix that matters most, such as reply time or follow-up. The fee is in writing before anything starts.
Option 3
An ongoing programme
We run the work, report against the baseline, and you renew on the numbers. The term and the reporting are agreed in writing first.
Option 4
Guidance for your own team or agency
We plan, brief and check the work of your in-house team or current agency, instead of replacing them.
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 dental clinics ask before they call.
Not here? More answers, or ask on WhatsApp.
How soon would we see more patients?
Do we need to advertise?
Is a dentist allowed to advertise?
Do you manage our profile on Practo?
Can we use patient before-and-after photos in our marketing?
Can a multi-dentist clinic have a separate page for each dentist?
Can an outside team handle patient information?
Do you manage our Zocdoc and Healthgrades listings?
Our schedule is full. Is there anything here for us?
How much does it cost?
Notes for owners
Read more about dental clinics.
- How clinics can improve the journey from online enquiry to appointmentMost patients who message a clinic never book. Walk the path from first message to booked slot, and fix who answers, how fast, what is asked and what happens next.
- What healthcare buyers check before they choose youA patient, a referring doctor and a hospital purchase team each check something different before choosing a provider. This post lists what each one looks at and where a clinic, lab or supplier loses them.
- How to test advertising creativeDigital creative can be tested after it runs. A hoarding, a newspaper ad and a radio spot have to be tested before they are made, and the tests cost nothing.
- How to design metro and transit advertisingA commuter stands still in front of a platform panel for four minutes and passes the same one twice a day for a month. Design for the sixth viewing.
- How to advertise to working professionalsNo platform sells you a working professional audience. You reach them by place and by hour: the commute, the lunch break, the window after nine at night, and the first ten days after salary.
- How to advertise to dentistsA dentist is chairside from ten to two and five to nine. Reach the practice in the afternoon gap, through the lab and the study group, with a case he could not do.
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Your next practical step
Tell us what you are trying to grow, and we will read it before we call.
Eight short steps, mostly taps. Skip anything you would rather answer on the call.