There is no plan, only activity
Things are being done — a post, an ad, a brochure — with no agreed reason and no way of knowing whether they worked. Busy is not the same as marketed.
A marketing strategy for a PG is a short document that answers four questions: who exactly the customer is, what you promise them that others do not, where they look when they decide, and what you will do in each of the next three months. Most PG accommodations skip it and buy channels instead. The strategy is what stops the spend being a guess.
Where it usually goes wrong
Things are being done — a post, an ad, a brochure — with no agreed reason and no way of knowing whether they worked. Busy is not the same as marketed.
A business that is for everyone is chosen by no one. Deciding who a PG is for, and who it is not, is the most valuable hour of the work.
“Quality, service, experience.” a tenant cannot tell you apart, so they choose on price. The strategy finds what is true of you and not of them.
What we would do
This list runs in one order only, because each answer narrows the next: who you are for decides what you can honestly promise, and the promise decides which two channels are worth paying for. Done the other way round, a strategy is only a list of things to buy.
Customer, promise, channels and a quarter-by-quarter plan — a few pages your team can actually run.
The customer who buys most easily, pays best and stays — described precisely enough to aim at.
The one sentence about a PG that is true, matters to a tenant, and a competitor cannot honestly copy.
What has been spent, what it brought in, what to keep and what to stop — before adding anything.
The first thing we usually find is a business aimed at everybody, and the fix is a decision rather than a purchase — pick the work you want more of and the work you would rather turn down. An owner can do that in an afternoon, and until it is done nothing further on this list can be judged. We do not publish a price; we scope the work in the free audit and put the fee in writing, split into our time, your media spend and production, before anything begins.
A baseline is recorded first, so a report can say what changed rather than describe activity. If something is not earning, we say so and stop it.
We are a small team in Nagarbhavi, Bengaluru. Clients include Chord Road Hospital, SB Engineering, NewCom Logistics, Kerur Pain Clinic and Natural Gases, across healthcare, manufacturing, logistics and services.
More for PG accommodations
Plain answers to the questions a tenant asks before they enquire, published where they search.
The channels that bring a tenant to a PG, run as one plan and measured as one.
Staying in front of the enquiries that were not ready yet, until they are.
The right creator, for the right reason, measured by enquiries rather than reach.
Enquiries this month, at a cost per lead you can see, switched off when it stops earning.
Who to sell to, through which route, at what price, with what team — decided before the year starts.
A short one, yes — because without it the marketing is a set of guesses, and guesses are expensive. For most PG accommodations it is a few pages: who, what promise, which channels, what this quarter. It takes a few sessions, not a few months.
Two or three working sessions with the owner, a look at your enquiries and what has been spent, and a document you can hand to whoever does the work next — including us, or an employee, or nobody yet.
It is a cost, and it is fixable. The platforms are useful for discovery; the goal is that a guest who found you there books direct next time. That needs a visible direct route, a reason to use it, and a way to stay in touch — all cheaper than the commission.
There is no price list. A single clinic and an exporter are different orders of work, and a range wide enough to cover both tells you nothing. We scope it in the free audit and put the fee in writing before anything begins.
Talk to us
A short note is enough. We will come back with a straight answer about whether we can help, usually within one working day.