Hotels · Outdoor advertising
Outdoor sells the banquet hall and the restaurant, not the rooms.
Outdoor advertising for a hotel is the board on the approach road, the site before the turning, and the property's own signage. It works for banquets, weddings and the restaurant, because a room booking starts on an OTA listing days earlier. GullySales picks the sites by direction of travel and checks the lighting, the permission and the display cycle.
Scope, fee, reporting and term are agreed in writing after we have read your brief and spoken to you.
What outdoor advertising means
Outdoor advertising is the hoarding, billboard, bus shelter or digital screen on a road your buyers already use. GullySales picks the sites from where your customers actually come from, coordinates the booking with the media owner, and gives the campaign a traceable route so it is not judged on guesswork.
Last updated 5 Oct 2026.
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Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.
“The board is for the banquet, not the room”
A family choosing a wedding venue drives past your gate most weeks. The traveller booking a room is scrolling a listing in another city, where no hoarding reaches him.
“A site past the turning is money gone”
A transit hotel is chosen from the road, at the moment a driver decides. The board has to appear while there is still distance to slow down and take the turn.
“Your own approach signage comes first”
The arrow at the junction, the gate board, the lighting after dark. Count the calls to the front desk asking how to reach you, because each one is a sign that is not working.
“Wedding dates are fixed months before the function”
The families deciding your December banquets are looking during the monsoon. A hoarding that goes up in the wedding season reaches people who paid an advance somewhere else.
What we do
What we deliver for hotels.
Every deliverable, what it covers for you, and the result it is there to produce. Nothing here is an extra.
Sites read by direction of travel
Each option judged on the carriageway it faces and the distance it sits before the turning, photographed from where a driver sits.
Result: The board can be read in time to act on.
Approach and gate signage audited
The junction arrow, the gate board and the building name checked by daylight and after dark, with a list of what to repair, relight or move.
Result: Guests stop ringing the desk for directions.
A banquet line printed on the boards alone
One number used on the outdoor sites and nowhere else, reaching the banquet desk instead of the reception switchboard.
Result: A wedding enquiry can be put down to the hoarding.
Permission and display cycle on the order
The media owner asked who holds the licence for the structure, with the mounting date and the full cycle written into the booking.
Result: The site runs for the days you paid for.
Artwork that gives the distance
The hotel name, what it is being advertised for and how far ahead the turning is, set inside the safe area of the panel.
Result: A driver knows whether to slow down now.
Dated photographs through the cycle
Pictures of the panel in place when the cycle opens and again midway, with an evening shot showing whether the lights come on.
Result: A torn or dark panel is caught while it matters.
Front desk and banquet enquiries read together
Calls on the campaign line, plus the desk asking every banquet visit where they saw the property, compared with the weeks before the cycle.
Result: The next booking keeps the sites that brought families in.
How the result is measured
- Sites booked
- Proof of display received
- Enquiries quoting the campaign route
Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.
How it is bought, and approved
A hotel buys outdoor on the approach road, and the owner, the lease and the civic body clear it first.
- The face that looks at your traffic
- Choose the face seen by traffic heading to the property. A face past the turning shows your name after the driver has missed it.
- The distance in words
- Say how far and which turn in plain words, so a wedding guest knows where to slow down.
- Your own gate and rooftop signs
- Gate boards, porch signs and rooftop letters are under your lease and the local body's licence, plus any heritage-zone rules if you sit in one. Check them first.
- Lighting after dark
- Banquet traffic arrives after dark. Visit at that hour, check the panel is lit, and ask who pays for the lighting.
- Booking against the diary
- Look at the muhurta dates already in your banquet diary, and open the display ahead of them. Good faces are held by earlier advertisers, so book early.
- Banquet line and the visit form
- Print a banquet number answered by the events desk, and add 'how did you hear about us' to the site-visit form.
Who it is for
This is written for these hotels.
- Business and transit hotels
- Boutique and heritage properties
- Resort and destination hotels
- Budget and mid-market chains
- Banquet and wedding-focused properties
- Serviced apartments and long-stay properties
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 outdoor advertising work runs
- 1
Draw the catchment
We agree the roads, junctions and neighbourhoods your buyer moves through. It is almost always a smaller area than an owner first says, and a clinic in Nagarbhavi does not need the whole of west Bengaluru.
- 2
Survey what is available
We work through the sites on offer inside that catchment and go and stand in front of the ones worth looking at.
- 3
Compare and book
Sites are compared on facing, visibility, illumination and cycle length, then booked through the media owner or their agency at a negotiated rate.
- 4
Print to specification
Artwork is made to the exact panel size and delivered ahead of mounting day, with a proof you approve before printing.
- 5
Monitor the cycle
We collect mounting and mid-cycle photographs, and take up anything late, torn or unlit with the media owner while the cycle is still running.
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.
Hotel Felicity Inn
- Situation
- A traveller compares three hotels on a phone and books one. The website was not built for that.
- What we did
- The site rebuilt around booking
- Photography and one look
- Search work for destination searches
- Content a traveller reads
- Result
- Online bookings increased 35%
- Organic traffic increased 50% within six months
- Positive reviews on Google and TripAdvisor increased 30%
Also worked with
Chord Road Hospital · Curtain Label · Difesa Security Services · Hands On CSR · Implevista · Kambar Group · Kalessi · Kerur Pain Clinic · LL Trust · Lucky Deals · Natural Gases · NavaShakthi Souhardha · NewCom Logistics · Proton Technical Services · SB Engineering · Shakthi Foundation · Shakthi Group · Urbanest · Insyde Studio · Venkateshwara Laser Tech · Vivara Studios
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.
Will a hoarding bring us room bookings?
Which is worth more, a hoarding or our own gate signage?
Can we advertise near the airport, the railway station or the highway?
Should we buy a hoarding in another city for destination weddings?
How soon would we see more direct bookings?
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?
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