Hotels · WhatsApp marketing
The banquet enquiry arrives at eleven at night with a date and a headcount.
WhatsApp at a hotel carries the banquet enquiry, the pre-arrival message and the restaurant offer that gets your number blocked when it goes to the wrong list. GullySales sets up the business number, the catalogue of rooms and packages, and the consent taken at check-in.
A 90-minute audit call and a written, scored report. Turnaround, reporting and term are agreed in writing after the audit.
What WhatsApp marketing means
WhatsApp marketing is sending updates, offers and reminders to customers on the app most Indian buyers already check daily, which gets read faster than email or SMS. GullySales sets up business WhatsApp, writes the message templates and keeps the list consented and current.
For hotels
Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.
“The first banquet message has a date and nothing else”
Guest number, date, budget unspoken. The reply that wins it asks two questions and sends photographs of the hall at that capacity, not a brochure covering everything the hotel does.
“Your restaurant list and your rooms list are different people”
A Sunday brunch offer sent to a guest who lives four hundred kilometres away is the message that gets your number blocked. Local numbers eat here. Out-of-town numbers sleep here.
“The pre-arrival message is where the extra revenue sits”
Location pin, check-in time, and the airport pickup offered before the guest books a cab. Sent late it is a courtesy. Sent early it sells something.
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.
One business number for the property
A single WhatsApp Business number on the website, the listings and the signage, with the greeting, the away message and labels for rooms, banquets and dining.
Result: A banquet enquiry stops landing on a manager's personal phone.
A catalogue of rooms and banquet packages
Room types with the rates you are willing to publish, hall capacities in each layout and the menu, set up so a guest can browse inside the chat.
Result: A price question answers itself before anyone types.
Quick replies for the late-night banquet enquiry
The two questions to ask back, the photographs to send at each capacity, and the visit offered in the same message.
Result: An enquiry sent at eleven has a proper reply by breakfast.
Pre-arrival messages with the upsell inside them
The location pin, the check-in time, the airport pickup and the early check-in, timed to reach the guest before they make their own arrangements.
Result: Arrival extras get sold instead of asked about at the desk.
Separate lists for dining and for rooms
Local numbers segmented away from travellers, so restaurant offers reach only people who can walk in for lunch.
Result: Your number stays unblocked by the guests who matter most.
Consent captured at check-in
A line on the registration card and a question at the desk asking permission to message, recorded against the folio.
Result: Your list is one you are actually allowed to use.
How the result is measured
- Messages delivered
- Reply rate
- Enquiries from WhatsApp
Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.
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. Each step has a point in time and something you receive.
01 · Day 1
Free audit call
90 minutes with whoever handles your enquiries: how they arrive, how fast they are answered, where they are lost.
02 · After the call
Written, scored report
Six areas scored, fixes ranked by return and cost. If you want our help, the scope, the fee and the reporting 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 · 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.
06 · At the end of the term
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 work runs for hotels
- 1
Assess
We look at your OTA ranking and reviews, your direct-booking website, your reply time to banquet and corporate enquiries, and where last month's bookings actually came from.
- 2
Fix the OTA presence
Photographs, descriptions and review replies brought up to date across every OTA listing you use.
- 3
Build the direct channel
A booking-ready website and a reason for a past guest to book directly next time instead of paying an OTA commission on your behalf.
- 4
Bring bookings in
Local and destination search, reviews from real guests, and quotes for banquets and corporate stays that go out the same day.
- 5
Keep guests coming back
A loyalty offer for repeat guests and corporate accounts, and a staycation push for weekends when local demand exists.
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%
SB Engineering
- Situation
- Buyers searching for laser cutting and sheet metal work in Bengaluru were finding other suppliers first, because the company did not rank for the terms its own customers type.
- What we did
- The site redesigned for mobile
- Search work on the buyer's terms
- Content that shows the work
- Social channels managed
- Result
- Website traffic rose 60% within six months, against a target of 50%.
- High-quality leads rose 45%, with a rise in conversion rates alongside them.
- Fifteen target keywords moved up the rankings, five of them into the top three positions.
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 · 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.
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 90-minute call with the person who will do the work
- A written, scored report on the six places orders leak
- 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 we broadcast an offer to every guest who has stayed?
Do we need the paid WhatsApp platform?
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?
What if we are not happy with the work?
More for hotels
Everything else we would do for you.
- Branding for hotels
- Content marketing for hotels
- CRM for hotels
- Loyalty programmes for hotels
- Newspaper advertising for hotels
- OTA marketing for hotels
- Outdoor advertising for hotels
- PPC for hotels
- SEO for hotels
- Social media for hotels
- Website design for hotels
- Sales strategy for hotels
- Marketing strategy for hotels
- Buyer journey for hotels
- Follow-up systems for hotels
- Review generation for hotels
- Customer retention for hotels
- Referral marketing for hotels
Or start from the overview: sales and marketing for hotels.
Your next practical step
Get a free audit of how you sell, and a scored report of where the work is.
90 minutes. A written, scored report. No invoice and no obligation.