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The mother who rang twice at six and gave up was your enquiry.

Lead generation for a clinic is less about new demand than about answering what already arrives while the OPD is full. GullySales sets up the missed-call callback rule, the WhatsApp first reply and a register showing which families came from where.

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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 lead generation means

Lead generation is the combined work of every channel that brings in a new enquiry, whether from search, adverts, referrals or a stall at an exhibition. GullySales runs these channels together and reports the number of enquiries each one produced, not the activity behind it.

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Sales and marketing for doctors and general clinics, the overview.

Last updated 17 Oct 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 doctors and general clinics

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

  • “Nobody buys a clinic lead, they abandon one”

    The doctor is with a patient and the receptionist is billing, so a call at six in the evening rings out and goes to the next clinic.

  • “A home care enquiry needs a number on the first call”

    A family standing at a discharge counter asks what a nurse costs per day, and a vague answer sends them to an app that shows the price.

  • “The apartment group recommendation arrives as an unknown number”

    Somebody in a building group names your doctor, a stranger calls, and nobody at the desk records where the caller heard it.

What we do

What we deliver for doctors and general clinics.

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

  1. A missed-call callback rule with a name on it

    One person responsible for calling back every missed number within an agreed time, with the busy OPD hours planned for rather than hoped through.

    Result: Fewer families give up after two rings.

  2. A WhatsApp number with the first reply already written

    A business number for the clinic and saved replies covering timings, which doctor sits when, home visit charges and how to book.

    Result: A question at nine at night gets an answer.

  3. A charges sheet the front desk can read out

    Consultation, home visit, nursing per shift, sample collection and health check rates on one sheet at the desk, kept current.

    Result: Nobody is told that somebody will call back about price.

  4. An enquiry register with the source on every line

    Every call, message and walk-in recorded with where the family heard of you and whether they came, in one book rather than four places.

    Result: You learn which pharmacy and which building send patients.

  5. An appointment book showing each doctor's sitting times

    A shared book of who sits when, so a caller asking for the lady doctor on Thursday evening is answered without a call back.

    Result: The desk stops guessing at the schedule.

  6. Report on calls answered and appointments kept

    Calls received against calls answered, appointments booked and visits kept, read against the baseline recorded before the work started.

    Result: You see whether the front desk is losing patients.

How the result is measured

  • Enquiries generated
  • Cost per enquiry
  • Enquiries by source

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

Read the full demand and lead generation page

Where enquiries come from

The places a patient's request reaches a clinic, and what to record at each.

A call to the clinic phone
Write the patient, the complaint in a few words and whether it is for today. Offer the nearest slot, and log missed calls so someone returns them.
A WhatsApp message for an appointment or timings
Reply with the doctor's days, the slot and the fee in one message. Keep medical advice out of the chat and invite the patient to come in.
A Practo or Google listing booking
Check that the doctor's name and hours match the clinic. Mark the source in the record, and confirm the slot with a reminder.
A home visit or nursing request
Record the patient, the address, the condition and the family contact. Confirm the visit charge and who will attend before sending anyone.
A home sample collection request
Write the tests asked, the address and the time the patient is free. Confirm the partner lab, the collection time and the reporting method.
A referral from a family, a pharmacist or a lab
Note who referred and the reason. Thank the family and tell the pharmacist or lab that the patient came, with the patient's agreement.

Who it is for

This is written for these doctors and general clinics.

  • Single-doctor family and general practice clinics
  • Polyclinics with visiting consultants
  • Physicians and internal medicine consultants in private practice
  • Paediatric and child health clinics
  • Diabetes and lifestyle disease clinics
  • Home visit doctors and home nursing services
  • Home sample collection and diagnostic partner centres
  • Medical equipment rental and home care providers
  • Corporate and occupational health service providers

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • The front desk cannot return a missed call before the next patient arrives, so more enquiries would only be lost at the same point.
  • The doctor has no free sessions, and bringing in new families would mean turning most of them away.
  • You want a count of patients without a record of where each came from, and the first job is to start that record.

How it works

How the lead generation 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

    Understand your capacity

    We ask how many enquiries your team can answer well, who answers after hours, and what a good enquiry looks like. Without this, the system fills a funnel nobody is watching.

  2. 2

    Audit current sources

    We read your call log, WhatsApp chats, enquiry sheet and platform dashboards. The baseline is recorded: enquiries by source, reply time, conversion and cost per order.

  3. 3

    Strategise the channel mix

    Search and maps are chosen for people ready to buy, ads for people who are not yet looking, and content and referrals for trust.

  4. 4

    Implement capture and follow-up

    Pages, forms, tags, the lead record and the first-reply message are built and tested end to end. We submit test enquiries ourselves before any media money is spent.

  5. 5

    Measure and optimise

    Enquiries are traced to source and judged by what became orders, not by volume alone. Channels that fill the sheet with poor enquiries are cut back. How often you are reported to is agreed in writing.

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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Our receptionist is already overloaded. How does this help?
By deciding in advance what happens to a call nobody can take. A missed-call list the receptionist works at the end of the OPD, with a message sent in the meantime, recovers most of them. It is a routine rather than another salary.
Should we take appointments online?
For regular patients, health checks and home services, yes. For an acute fever a family will call whatever the website offers. Put the number and the timings first and the booking link second.
How do we know which patients came because of the listing and which came by word of mouth?
Ask one question at registration: how did you find the clinic? Tick one of four options on the card: Google, Practo, family or friend, doctor or pharmacist. After some months the count shows which listing deserves attention.
Should regular diabetic and BP patients be recorded differently?
Yes. Mark them in the register as regular patients with the date of the last visit and the next due. The next-due date gives the front desk a list of people to remind. Use only the contact details they have given, and keep the reminder to the appointment.
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?
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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