Pharmacies · Pay per click advertising
Find out what the platform allows before you spend a rupee.
Advertising platforms treat pharmacies as a restricted category and ask for proof before an ad runs, and the drug rules decide what that ad may say. GullySales establishes what is permitted for your licence, then runs a small radius campaign about hours, delivery and the categories you may promote.
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 daily against enquiries received.
For pharmacies
Where it usually goes wrong, and what we would do.
“The platform asks before the regulator does”
Advertising systems restrict this category and want documents first. An account set up without that step gets stopped, usually after the money has gone.
“Your market is two or three kilometres wide”
A chemist five kilometres away is somebody else's chemist. Budget spent outside walking and delivery distance is spent on nothing at all.
“The hours nobody schedules are the ones worth buying”
Between nine at night and midnight the competition thins and the intent is at its highest. Most accounts are switched off by then.
“The keywords you would want are the ones to exclude”
Medicine names and condition searches are the obvious targets. They are also the shortest route into an advertising restriction your licence carries.
What we do
What we deliver for pharmacies.
Every deliverable, what it covers for you, and the result it is there to produce. Nothing here is an extra.
A check of what the platform permits
Which documents and certifications your licence category needs before an ad can run, established and kept on file before any budget is agreed.
Result: The account does not get stopped a week in.
A small radius campaign about the service
Hours, home delivery and ordering on WhatsApp, targeted to the roads and apartment blocks around the shop rather than to the city.
Result: The ad reaches people who can reach you.
Campaigns for the categories you may promote
Home health devices, baby care and surgical supplies advertised as products, kept completely apart from anything prescription.
Result: The non-prescription counter gets demand of its own.
Call ads scheduled for the late evening
Ads running when your shop is open and others are not, pointing at a phone that is answered rather than a page nobody reads at midnight.
Result: The late-night caller reaches you first.
A negative list covering medicines and conditions
Medicine names, disease terms, treatment queries and job searches excluded, and added to weekly from the search report.
Result: The account stays on the right side of the line.
A monthly count of orders per rupee spent
Calls, chat orders and deliveries traced back to the ads, set against the order figures recorded before the work started.
Result: You can stop the spend that brought nothing.
How the result is measured
- Cost per click
- Cost per enquiry
- Enquiries from paid search
Recorded as a baseline before work starts, then reported every month against it.
Who it is for
This is written for these pharmacies.
- Independent neighbourhood chemists
- Pharmacies attached to a clinic or nursing home
- Hospital pharmacies serving outpatients
- Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Kendras and generic medicine stores
- Multi-outlet local pharmacy chains
- Franchise outlets of national pharmacy brands
- Surgical and medical equipment stores
- Pharmacies stocking Ayurvedic and homoeopathic medicines
- Twenty-four hour and late-night pharmacies
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 monthly report.
No open-ended retainer. Each step has a point in time and something you receive.
01 · Day 1
Free audit call
45 minutes with whoever handles your enquiries: how they arrive, how fast they are answered, where they are lost.
02 · Within a few working days
Written, scored report
Six areas scored, fixes ranked by return and cost. If you want our help, the scope and fee 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 · Every month
Report against the baseline
What moved, what did not, and what changes next, in plain words.
06 · Month 3 to 6
Renew on the numbers
The term ends and you decide whether to continue from the results. No twelve-month lock.
How the work runs for pharmacies
- 1
Assess
We check your listing hours and reviews, how quickly WhatsApp orders are answered, how many regular customers bought last quarter but not this one, and what your current promotions say.
- 2
Fix the counter and the phone
A WhatsApp prescription routine with a reply time the staff can keep, a delivery slot promise, and a stock check before confirming.
- 3
Know the regulars
A register of monthly customers from the billing data, with their refill dates and consent to be reminded, kept private and separate from marketing lists.
- 4
Promote what the law allows
Local search, the pharmacist's service, delivery and devices, wellness and baby care, with prescription medicines kept out of any advertising.
- 5
Keep them from switching
Refill reminders before the month's stock runs out, a check-in when a regular stops buying, and a reason to stay that is service, not only price.
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%
Nanda Arthritis and Rheumatology Center
- Situation
- There was no website, so a patient looking for a rheumatologist had no way to learn about the centre. Enquiries were few, and the ones that arrived came by word of mouth.
- What we did
- A website for patients
- Search work
- Google Business and reviews
- Lead capture and advertising
- 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 monthly 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 lock-in, no guarantees we cannot keep
Three to six months at a time. 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 45-minute call with the person who will do the work
- A written, scored report on the six places orders leak, within a few working days
- 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 a chemist run search ads at all?
Is advertising worth it when our customers live on the same road?
Can a pharmacy advertise medicines?
Can we offer discounts to match online pharmacies?
How much does it cost?
How long is the contract?
How soon will we see results?
Who will actually do the work?
What do you need from us?
What if we are not happy with the work?
More for pharmacies
Everything else we would do for you.
Or start from the overview: sales and marketing for pharmacies.