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Paying guest accommodations · Pay per click advertising

Bid for the room search happening this week, not the whole city all year.

PPC advertising for a PG means bidding on searches for a room near a named college or tech park. This is timed to the weeks new arrivals are actually looking, rather than a flat city-wide campaign. GullySales times the spend to admission and hiring dates and tracks which ad filled which room.

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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 pay per click advertising means

Pay per click advertising (PPC) is paying a fee each time someone clicks your advert on Google or another platform. It puts you at the top of a search page immediately, instead of waiting for ranking to build. GullySales sets the targeting, writes the ad text and checks spend against enquiries received.

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For paying guest accommodations

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

  • “Bid on the college or tech park name, not just PG”

    A search for a PG near a named institution converts far better than a generic PG in city search, and costs less because fewer PGs bid on it.

  • “Spend follows the vacancy, not a fixed monthly budget”

    A property with rooms to fill this month gets the spend; a full property is paused, so money is not spent advertising rooms that do not exist.

  • “Landing on availability, not a homepage”

    An ad click should land on the specific property's room types and current rent, not a homepage the visitor has to search through while comparing three other PGs.

What we do

What we deliver for paying guest accommodations.

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

  1. Institution-named search campaigns

    Ad campaigns bidding on the exact college, tech park or hospital name a property serves, not a generic PG search.

    Result: A search that already names the institution brings a stronger, cheaper enquiry.

  2. A vacancy-linked spend rule

    A rule pausing ad spend once a property is full and increasing it on one with empty rooms.

    Result: Money is never spent advertising a room that does not exist.

  3. Property-specific availability landing page

    A landing page showing the exact property's room types and current rent, not a general homepage.

    Result: A person who clicks the ad sees availability at once, without comparing pages.

  4. Ad click to booking tracking

    Tracking that follows an ad click through the enquiry to a signed booking, not just the click.

    Result: You see which ad spend actually produced a tenant, not just a click.

How the result is measured

  • Cost per click
  • Cost per enquiry
  • Enquiries from paid search

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

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Searches to bid on and block

The searches from a student or new joiner looking for a room, and the ones that bring only a hotel stay.

PG near a college or tech park, by name
Bid. A student types the college name and PG. Put the walking distance and the occupancy type in the advert, and write the name of the college or park exactly as people say it.
Girls PG or boys PG near me, with food
Bid, in a separate ad group for each. Parents check food and safety first. Say the meals and security arrangements in the advert, so a mismatched buyer does not click.
Hotel, lodge, rooms for a night and daily stay
Block. Add hotel, lodge, night, daily, couple, oyo and booking as negatives, since these people want a night's stay, not a month's room.
Rent a flat, 1 BHK, house for rent and roommate
Block unless you list flats. Flat hunters click PG adverts out of curiosity. Add flat, 1 bhk, house, apartment, roommate and rent as negatives.
Where the click lands
Send it to the page for that property with the vacant beds, photos of the room and kitchen, the deposit rule and a button to message you. A homepage hides the one fact a parent needs.
Counting a real enquiry
Count a call or message that asks about a vacancy or a visit date, and a visit that happened. Log which one took the bed and whether it came from an ad, a listing or a friend.

Who it is for

This is written for these paying guest accommodations.

  • Boys' and girls' PG accommodations near colleges
  • Co-living spaces for working professionals
  • PGs near tech parks and business hubs
  • PGs near hospitals for patients and attendants
  • Furnished single and shared-room PGs
  • Multi-property PG chains

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.

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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 pay per click advertising work runs

  1. 1

    Understand the total budget

    We agree the full paid advertising budget available across all platforms, rather than planning each one separately.

  2. 2

    Audit current platform performance

    We compare existing campaigns on a shared basis to see where the budget currently performs best and worst.

  3. 3

    Build the cross-platform plan

    Campaigns are structured across platforms with a shared measurement standard from the outset.

  4. 4

    Implement and monitor

    Campaigns run with budget allocated dynamically based on real-time performance.

  5. 5

    Measure and reallocate

    We report performance and shift budget toward what is working, within agreed limits.

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.

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FAQ

Questions owners ask before they call.

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Is PPC worth it for a single-property PG?
Yes around admission and hiring season spikes, when a short burst of spend can fill rooms faster than waiting for organic search or referrals.
How do we know an ad actually filled a room?
We track the enquiry from the ad click through to a signed booking, not just the click, and report which ads produced tenants.
Should we switch adverts off when every bed is taken?
Yes. Pause the campaign for a property with no vacancy and turn it on again when a notice period starts. A click on a full PG costs the same as one that fills a bed, and it leaves the visitor with a poor view of you.
Should the advert show rent and deposit?
Showing a starting rent filters out people who cannot pay and saves your phone. If the rent varies by room, state a range as it stands today, and say what the deposit covers. Keep it current, since an old price breeds argument at the door.
How is marketing for a PG different from a hotel?
A PG tenant is choosing a home for months near a specific college or office, not a night's stay. Location relative to that address and honest room photos matter more than star ratings or amenities.
Do we need to advertise or just list on platforms?
Listing platforms and local search usually bring enough enquiries if the reply is fast and the reviews are good. Ads help before admission season when demand near a college spikes.
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.

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