Hospitals · Newspaper advertising
Book the edition your patients actually live in, and print the camp date in it.
Newspaper advertising for a hospital is paid space in one edition of one title on one morning, bought for a screening camp, an opening or a new department. GullySales picks the edition and the language against the districts your patients travel from, and prints a registration number that rings the camp desk.
What newspaper advertising means
Newspaper advertising is space in a named edition of a paper on a named day, priced by the column centimetre. GullySales picks the edition and language your buyers actually read, meets the release deadline, and gives the reader somewhere to go.
For hospitals
Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.
“The camp date, not the month”
A Sunday screening camp needs the insertion on Friday and Saturday in the edition around the hospital. A general advertisement in a quiet week leaves the front desk with nothing to answer.
“Editions decide which district you reach”
Orthopaedics and cardiology patients travel in from district towns as much as from the next street. The edition that lands there is a separate booking from the city one, at a separate deadline.
“What the advertisement may claim is settled first”
Outcome claims, comparisons with other hospitals and anything about a named patient sit with your medical director and the council code your doctors are registered under. The artwork is written to what they approve.
“The desk that answers is the whole report”
One number printed only in that insertion, picked up by a person who writes down the department being asked for. Print tells you nothing else.
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.
Edition, language and date plan
Which editions your patients come in from, in Kannada or in English, and the mornings an insertion has to land for a camp, a new machine or an opening.
Result: Space is bought where your patients live, not where the title is famous.
Camp number and registration page
A phone number and a short web address used in that advertisement and nowhere else, reaching the camp desk instead of the main board.
Result: Every call the paper produced is counted at one desk.
Artwork your medical director signs
Copy read line by line against what your doctors' council permits, then set to the column width, colour profile and file format the publication accepts.
Result: Nothing prints that a registration is at risk over.
Release schedule worked backwards
Each insertion's material cut-off fixed from the morning it has to appear, so a camp is never advertised the day after it ran.
Result: The advertisement appears on the morning it was meant for.
Source question at the registration counter
One written field at the counter, recorded against the department, so a walk-in who mentions the paper is not lost in the morning rush.
Result: Walk-ins from the camp sit in the same report as the calls.
Printed page check and monthly reporting
A copy of the page as it ran, matched against what was booked, then registrations, calls and admissions by department set against the baseline recorded before the work started.
Result: You know which insertion filled the camp and which filled nothing.
How the result is measured
- Insertions published as booked
- Enquiries traced to the print route
- Cost per traced enquiry
Recorded as a baseline before work starts, then reported every month against it.
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 monthly report.
No open-ended retainer. Each step has a point in time and something you receive.
01 · Day 1
Free audit call
45 minutes with whoever handles your enquiries: how they arrive, how fast they are answered, where they are lost.
02 · Within a few working days
Written, scored report
Six areas scored, fixes ranked by return and cost. If you want our help, the scope and fee come with it, in writing.
03 · Before work starts
Baseline recorded
Enquiries by source, reply time, conversion and cost per order, written down so every later month has an honest comparison.
04 · Month 1
The first fix goes live
Usually the cheapest one on the report: reply time, a follow-up sequence or the marketing-to-sales handover.
05 · Every month
Report against the baseline
What moved, what did not, and what changes next, in plain words.
06 · Month 3 to 6
Renew on the numbers
The term ends and you decide whether to continue from the results. No twelve-month lock.
How the work runs for hospitals
- 1
Assess
We look at your referral sources, your reply time on calls and WhatsApp, your department pages, and where last month's admissions actually came from.
- 2
Fix the response
A call centre routine with a named owner for the night line, WhatsApp for reports and appointments, and a record of every call by department.
- 3
Build the department pages
A page per speciality, with the doctor's name, qualification and the procedures patients search for, not a single combined services list.
- 4
Bring enquiries in
Local search, the Google Business Profile, a referral programme for GPs and labs, and health camps for the departments with spare capacity.
- 5
Track and retain
TPA turnaround tracking, discharge follow-up calls, and a review ask timed to a good outcome, on WhatsApp because that is where families already are.
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 monthly 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 lock-in, no guarantees we cannot keep
Three to six months at a time. 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.
The offer
Start with a free audit of how you sell.
It is useful on its own, whether or not you hire us.
What you receive
- A 45-minute call with the person who will do the work
- A written, scored report on the six places orders leak, within a few working days
- Every fix ranked by what it returns and what it costs
- The one thing to do first, and why
- An honest line on whether you need outside help at all
- If you do, the scope and the fee in writing
No invoice. No obligation. No sales script.
FAQ
Questions owners ask before they call.
Not here? More answers, or ask on WhatsApp.
Can the newspaper tell us how many patients came from the advertisement?
English daily or the Kannada one for a screening camp?
Is one insertion enough?
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?
What if we are not happy with the work?
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