Hospitals · Sales management
Manage the front desk and the TPA desk against enquiry numbers, not a feeling.
Sales management for a hospital means running the front desk and the TPA desk against a weekly record of enquiries received, answered and converted by department. GullySales sets up this record and reviews it with the administrator so decisions rest on what actually happened last week.
Scope, fee, reporting and term are agreed in writing after we have read your brief and spoken to you.
What sales management means
Sales management is the ongoing work of reviewing a sales team's pipeline, calls and targets, and stepping in on deals that are stuck. GullySales sets the review rhythm and the reports a sales manager needs to run this without relying on gut feel.
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For hospitals
Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.
“Each department needs its own weekly number”
Maternity and diagnostic enquiries behave differently, and combining them into one total hides where the real problem sits.
“Count the calls the front desk missed, by hour”
A week's count split by the hour shows whether the evening shift is short-staffed or the phone is simply being left to ring.
“The TPA desk needs its own conversion tracking”
How many cashless approvals were requested against how many admissions followed shows whether the desk is a bottleneck.
What we do
What we deliver for hospitals.
Every deliverable, what it covers for you, and the result it is there to produce. Nothing here is an extra.
A weekly enquiry record by department
A weekly record of enquiries received, answered and converted, broken out by department instead of one combined total.
Result: The real problem department is visible instead of hidden inside a total.
A tracked missed call count
A count of calls that went unanswered, turning a vague complaint into a specific, fixable number.
Result: Missed calls become a tracked problem instead of an assumption.
TPA desk conversion tracking
A record of how many cashless approvals were requested against how many admissions followed, showing whether the desk is a bottleneck.
Result: A slow TPA desk gets noticed instead of blamed on the family.
A review with the administrator
A short, recurring review of these records with the administrator, so decisions rest on the numbers, not a feeling.
Result: Decisions are made on what actually happened, not on memory.
How the result is measured
- Target achievement
- Pipeline coverage
- Stuck deals resolved
Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.
What the administrator reviews
Read these six things in the HIS and call log before the department heads meet.
- Enquiries by department
- Check the call centre or front desk log by department, such as maternity, orthopaedics, cardiology or diagnostics. A department with many enquiries and few admissions needs a look at what callers were told.
- Calls missed by hour
- Pull the missed call list from the hospital's phone system and sort it by hour. Misses clustered at night point to a staffing gap at the help desk, not a marketing problem.
- OPD patients advised admission
- Compare OPD patients advised surgery or admission with the admissions that followed. Where many did not admit, ask the department coordinator to find out whether cost, the TPA or a second opinion was the reason.
- Cashless approvals pending
- List cashless requests waiting at the TPA desk and how long each has waited. A family left without an update takes the patient elsewhere, so give each pending file a named person who calls the family.
- Referrals by doctor and lab
- Read referrals by GP, clinic and diagnostic lab. When a regular referrer's patients drop, the PRO should visit and ask whether a report or a discharge summary failed to reach them.
- Health check package enquiries
- Check enquiries for health check packages and corporate tie-ups against bookings. A package quote with no follow-up is easily lost to the diagnostic centre across the road.
Who it is for
This is written for these hospitals.
- Multi-speciality hospitals
- Single-speciality hospitals, maternity, orthopaedic or eye
- Nursing homes
- Day-care surgery centres
- Corporate hospital chains with several branches
- Diagnostic-centre-led hospitals
- Hospitals attached to medical colleges
- Government-empanelled private hospitals
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 sales management work runs
- 1
Assess current management practice
We look at what cadence, if any, currently exists and where it breaks down.
- 2
Set the rhythm
The touchpoints are agreed and scheduled in writing before the first review.
- 3
Run or coach the cadence
We either run the reviews and one-on-ones directly, or coach your manager to run them.
- 4
Address performance directly
Issues are raised as they appear, not left until a review period.
- 5
Report to the owner
A summary keeps ownership informed without needing to sit in every review.
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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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.
What does a hospital sales manager manage?
Do we need a dedicated sales manager?
Which department heads should attend the enquiry review?
How do I set targets for the PRO and the help desk without comparing us to other hospitals?
How soon would we see more admissions?
Do we need to advertise?
How much does it cost?
How long is the contract?
Who will actually do the work?
What do you need from us?
From the blog
Further reading for hospitals.
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