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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.

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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.

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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 them.

  • “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.

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

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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.

  • Your own gate signage is faded or not lit after dark, and a hoarding would bring guests to a gate they cannot see
  • You hope a board will fill weekday rooms, which a roadside face does little to sell
  • There is no banquet line answered with a clear reply, so a passer-by who notes the number would reach no one

How it works

How the outdoor 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 catchment

    We agree the roads, junctions and neighbourhoods your buyer moves through. Owners first name a wider area than their buyers travel, and a clinic in Nagarbhavi does not need the whole of west Bengaluru.

  2. 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, at the hour your buyer passes. A site that reads well at noon can be dark and hidden by a tree at seven.

  3. 3

    Compare and book

    Sites are compared on facing, visibility, illumination, paperwork and cycle length, then booked through the media owner or their agency at a negotiated rate. The booking is written down: site address, size, lit or unlit, start date and cycle.

  4. 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. 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.

All case studies

  • 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%
    Read the case study

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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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Will a hoarding bring us room bookings?
Rarely, and never in a way you can count. Rooms are shortlisted on an OTA listing days before the trip, by someone who is nowhere near that road. Outdoor earns its place on banquets, the restaurant and what the town knows about the property.
Which is worth more, a hoarding or our own gate signage?
The gate signage, and it is the cheaper of the two. A guest who cannot find the turning at night arrives irritated and writes about it in the review that decides the next booking. Fix the approach first, then buy the road.
Can we advertise near the airport, the railway station or the highway?
Sites near airports, stations and highways are often controlled by separate bodies, each with its own rules and rates. Ask the media owner which body licenses the face and for the papers. The paperwork is longer, so start early.
Should we buy a hoarding in another city for destination weddings?
Only where the wedding family lives and plans. Outdoor reaches people passing a site, so a panel in the home city of your wedding clients on the roads they drive suits you better than one at the destination. Check that city's rules.
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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