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Your patients live in four buildings, and each one has a secretary.

Apartment advertising for a dental clinic is the lift panel, the notice board and the weekend desk inside the societies your patients already walk from. GullySales collects each association's written permission first, keeps the wording inside what the dental council allows, and gives every building its own number so you know which one called.

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Scope, fee, reporting and term are agreed in writing after we have read your brief and spoken to you.

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What apartment advertising means

Apartment advertising is media and activity inside residential communities: the notice board, the lift panel, a Sunday stall. GullySales gets the association's written permission first, because anything put up without it comes down.

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Last updated 8 Nov 2026. Rules for this trade differ by state and professional body, and they change. We describe restrictions in general terms, so check the current position with your own council or adviser before you publish anything.

For dental clinics

Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.

  • “Permission comes before the printer”

    Standees printed for forty societies are forty chances to be told no. The secretary agrees to a format, a position and a period in writing, and the print order is cut to match the buildings that actually cleared.

  • “A lift panel sells a cleaning, not a full mouth rehabilitation”

    Nobody commits to implants from a poster beside the lift. The board earns its money on the scaling appointment, the child's check-up and the Sunday slot, and the bigger treatment is discussed in the chair.

  • “Council limits travel with the message, not the medium”

    Discounts, before and after photographs and claims of being the best sit under the same advertising norms inside a building as they do on a website, and the registration at risk is yours. Your council or your adviser rules on the copy, and the design follows what survives that.

  • “Fifteen buildings is fifteen places you will never visit”

    A panel reports nothing and a watchman can take one down in week two. Dated photographs from each society, plus a separate number per cluster, are what turn this into a campaign you can renew or stop.

What we do

What we deliver for dental clinics.

Every deliverable, what it covers for you, and the result it is there to produce. Nothing here is an extra.

  1. Society list drawn by walking distance

    The buildings inside the distance somebody will walk or ride for a twenty-minute appointment, read off the addresses in your own appointment book.

    Result: Boards go up where your patients already live.

  2. Written approval from each association

    The secretary or facility manager agreeing the format, the spot and the month, along with any charge the society levies, collected before anything is printed.

    Result: Nothing you paid to produce comes off the wall the next morning.

  3. Artwork measured for each board

    A panel cut to that lift's frame, a notice board sheet in the size the board takes, and the language the residents of that building actually read.

    Result: Your board is legible and nobody folds it to fit.

  4. Copy cleared against the council norms

    The offer, the qualification line and any image read against what is permitted for a practice, and sent to your adviser before the print order.

    Result: The clinic advertises without putting a registration in question.

  5. A screening desk where the association allows one

    A Sunday table in the clubhouse with a dentist present, appointments written down on the spot, and consent taken for the follow-up call.

    Result: You leave the building with names to call on Monday.

  6. Dated photographs from every building

    A picture of your panel in place, with the date, at the start of the period and again before it ends.

    Result: You know what is actually up in the societies you pay for.

  7. One number per cluster of buildings

    A WhatsApp line used on these boards only, with the front desk recording which building each new patient lives in.

    Result: Societies that never called are dropped from the next round.

How the result is measured

  • Communities covered
  • Permissions in writing
  • Enquiries quoting the community code

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

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How it is bought, and approved

A dental clinic needs the committee's yes, the council-cleared wording and a dated photograph before a panel goes up.

Committee decision and who signs
The managing committee decides and the secretary signs. Ask whether a clinic counts as a commercial advertiser in that society and whether the request needs a general body vote.
Wording cleared before the association sees it
Advertising rules for dentists differ by state and body and change, so check with your own dental council first. Then send the association the cleared wording, not a draft.
Panel or board, and what each carries
A panel suits the clinic name, the locality and the booking number. A board can take a short note on services. Ask which the society allows; a check-up desk needs separate permission.
Removal and replacement of faded panels
Ask how long the panel may stay and who takes it down. Agree a removal date in writing, because a torn panel carrying a clinic's name does the clinic no good.
A number per cluster of buildings
Give each cluster of buildings its own number and have reception write the building on the appointment card, so the next booking from that cluster can be traced.

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.

  • The clinic is more than a short drive from the buildings, so residents would see the notice and still not come.
  • No one can answer the calls and messages a notice brings within the day.
  • The housing society's rules on notices have not been checked with the secretary.

How it works

How the apartment advertising work runs

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

    Draw the ring

    We agree how far a resident will realistically come to you. For a salon that is two or three societies. For a diagnostic centre it is the whole main road.

  2. 2

    Shortlist and verify the societies

    Which are self-managed and which are under a facility company, who the gatekeeper is, which trades they allow, and what they charge on their own account.

  3. 3

    Get permission and quote properly

    Permission letters are collected first. Only then do you see a rate, and it includes the society fee rather than surprising you with it later.

  4. 4

    Print, install and audit

    Artwork goes to each format's exact size, installation is scheduled with the facility manager, and every lobby is photographed with a date.

  5. 5

    Run the activity

    The clubhouse weekend is booked inside the display month, when your name is already on the wall of the lift they came down in.

  6. 6

    Read it society by society

    Calls and walk-ins are counted per code and the list is cut. A few societies carry a campaign and the rest carry nothing, and the numbers show which.

Where this fits

Three pieces of sales work, in this order.

This work sits inside sales process design, at stage 1, prospecting and lead generation. The audit comes before it, and sales management keeps it running.

  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 · you are here

    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 owners ask before they call.

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Can a dental clinic advertise inside an apartment society?
The association decides on the media and your council decides on the words. Many buildings allow a notice board and nothing else, and some allow no commercial material at all. Put the claim you want to make in front of your own adviser first, because the registration exposed is yours and not the society's.
The society wants a fee of its own. Is that usual?
Yes, and it sits apart from whatever a vendor quotes for the panel. Ask what the charge covers, for how long, and who takes the board down at the end. Get it into the same written note as the permission, or it comes up again in month two.
What papers will a committee ask a dentist for?
Expect to be asked for your registration certificate from the state dental council, proof of the clinic address and the wording you intend to print. Keep copies ready to attach to the request, since committees ask to avoid complaints from residents.
Two dentists in the same society both want the board. Who gets it?
Some committees allow one vendor per category, others rotate boards. Ask before you pay whether the society has an exclusive arrangement and how long it runs. If another dentist already holds it, ask for the next available slot in writing.
How soon will we see results?
It depends on the trade, the channel and what is already in place. After we have read your brief and spoken to you, we say what we would expect to move first and how it will be measured against the baseline. 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?
Your brief, and a conversation. After that, access to whatever this work touches, such as your website, your accounts or your enquiry record, and time with the people who handle your enquiries.
What if we are not happy with the work?
Tell us and the plan changes. Everything is reported against the baseline, so a number that is not moving is visible to both sides. The term is in your written scope, and the refund and cancellation policy sets out the rest.

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