IVF and fertility clinics · Buyer journey
Map the long road before a couple calls, not only the week after.
Buyer journey mapping for a fertility clinic traces how a couple moves from trying without success, through the gynaecologist and the search, to a first consultation and a decision on treatment. GullySales builds the map from your own enquiry records, finds the stage where couples drop out, and fixes that step first.
A 90-minute audit call and a written, scored report. Turnaround, reporting and term are agreed in writing after the audit.

What buyer journey means
The buyer journey is the sequence of steps a customer actually takes, from first hearing about you to deciding to buy, which is rarely a single visit or call. GullySales maps this sequence for your business and checks that something useful happens at each step instead of only at the final call.
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Sales and marketing for IVF and fertility clinics, the overview.
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For IVF and fertility clinics
Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.
“The journey starts long before the clinic hears of it”
Couples try, wait, see a gynaecologist, try ovulation tracking or IUI, and only then search for IVF. A clinic that speaks only to the IVF searcher meets them late and tired.
“Two people decide, and a family weighs in”
The woman researches, the husband needs persuading to test, and parents ask about money and tradition. A map with a single buyer misses where couples actually stall.
“The estimate is where couples stop”
Between the consultation and the first injection sits the money: savings, a loan, an EMI offer. Couples who cannot see the full cost pause and do not come back.
What we do
What we deliver for IVF and fertility clinics.
Every deliverable, what it covers for you, and the result it is there to produce. Nothing here is an extra.
A journey map drawn from your records
Each stage taken from your enquiry log, consultation register and billing, not from a template.
Result: You see your clinic's real path, with the gaps marked.
Drop-out points counted by stage
How many couples reach each stage and where they leave, against the baseline taken before anything changes.
Result: Effort goes to the stage that is losing couples.
Separate maps for IVF, IUI and egg freezing
A different route for each decision, since a woman planning egg freezing decides differently from a couple after failed IUIs.
Result: Each treatment gets the content and follow-up its couples need.
Missing pieces listed by stage
The page, video, script or call that is absent at each stage, with the order to build them in.
Result: Work is planned against real gaps.
A stage for the partner and the family
The point where the husband or the parents enter the decision, with what they need to see and hear from the clinic.
Result: The people who can stop a decision get their answers too.
How the result is measured
- Drop-off rate by step
- Time from first contact to sale
- Steps with no content
Recorded as a baseline before work starts, so every later report has an honest comparison.
Stages of a couple's journey
A couple moves from trying without success to starting treatment through these stages, and each needs something ready.
- Trying, and starting to worry
- The woman reads about cycles and PCOS late at night. Have plain articles on when to seek help, with a soft way to ask a question and no hard sell.
- The gynaecologist's advice
- Tests, ovulation tracking and perhaps IUI happen here. Keep the referring gynaecologists informed about what your clinic offers and how to refer.
- Searching and shortlisting
- The couple compares two or three clinics on Google, Maps, Practo and YouTube. Have a cost page, doctor profiles and real photographs of the clinic.
- First call or WhatsApp
- They ask about cost, timings and whether the doctor sees them personally. Have the coordinator answer on the clinic number, with saved replies and a booking slot.
- Consultation, tests and the estimate
- The couple hears the plan and the cost, then goes home to decide with family. Have a clear written estimate ready, and a counsellor who will call.
- Treatment and afterwards
- During the cycle they need instructions and reassurance; afterwards, a review whatever the result. Have the nurse line and the review consultation in place.
Who it is for
This is written for these IVF and fertility clinics.
- Standalone IVF centres run by one fertility specialist
- Multi-branch fertility chains
- Fertility units inside a multi-speciality or maternity hospital
- Gynaecology practices adding IUI and fertility work
- Andrology and male infertility clinics
- Egg freezing and fertility preservation practices in the metros
- Centres running consultation days in district towns
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
Free audit call
90 minutes with whoever handles your enquiries: how they arrive, how fast they are answered, where they are lost.
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.
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
Usually the cheapest one on the report: reply time, a follow-up sequence or the marketing-to-sales handover.
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 work runs for IVF and fertility clinics
- 1
Assess
We read your enquiry channels, how long couples wait for a reply, how consultations turn into tests and tests into a cycle, and where referred couples come from.
- 2
Settle privacy and the rules
We agree with you and your adviser what an ad, a post or a message may say, and who may hold patient numbers, before anything goes out.
- 3
Fix the reply and the record
One clinic number, a coordinator's routine, and an enquiry record that follows a couple from the first message to a treatment decision.
- 4
Build the pages and the profile
Treatment and diagnosis pages reviewed by your doctor, a complete Maps listing for each centre, and content in the languages your couples speak.
- 5
Bring couples in and stay in touch
Search, referral work with gynaecologists and careful advertising for the treatments with room, with follow-up that stops when a couple asks it to.
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%
IVF Solutions
- Situation
- The clinic had next to no presence online. People making one of the most considered decisions of their lives were doing their research somewhere else, and forming a view before the clinic knew they existed.
- What we did
- Social profiles opened
- Educational content on a schedule
- Google Business Profile built out
- A working feedback loop
- 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 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.
How long do couples take to decide on IVF?
Who else is involved in the decision besides the couple?
Couples go quiet after the first consultation. Is that normal?
How can we find where couples drop out in our own records?
Can an IVF clinic advertise its success rate?
Is there a law that applies to fertility clinics specifically?
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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