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Put the board on the road into the towers handing over this quarter.

Outdoor advertising for an interior design firm is a small, local buy: a panel on the road into a new apartment cluster, the sign outside the flat you are fitting out now, a board near the furnishing market. GullySales chooses sites from the handover calendar and traces every enquiry back to a board.

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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 outdoor advertising means

Outdoor advertising is the hoarding, billboard, bus shelter or digital screen on a road your buyers already use. GullySales picks the sites from where your customers actually come from, coordinates the booking with the media owner, and gives the campaign a traceable route so it is not judged on guesswork.

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Last updated 5 Oct 2026.

For interior design firms

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

  • “Handover decides where a board goes”

    A cluster of towers taking possession this quarter holds a few hundred families all deciding about wardrobes in the same months. A year later they are done, and the same panel is worth nothing.

  • “A hoarding cannot carry a portfolio”

    Your work sells through photographs, and a board gets three seconds and one line. Its only job is to move one person to the page that shows flats like theirs.

  • “The board outside the flat you are finishing”

    Every neighbour in that tower walks past your work in progress. A sign with the firm's name, the configuration and a code, put up with the client's written permission, is the cheapest site you will ever hold.

  • “Count site visits, not calls”

    A panel on a main road brings calls from people with no flat and no budget, and a busy phone looks like success. Judge it on how many reached a measurement visit and a costed quote.

What we do

What we deliver for interior design firms.

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

  1. Handover map for the year

    Which clusters near the studio are taking possession and when, with the configurations inside them and the roads residents use to get home.

    Result: Boards go up in the months the flats are still empty.

  2. Cluster and approach-road sites

    The road into the cluster, the junction where residents turn, and the panel positions facing the inbound side rather than the commuter flow.

    Result: The board reaches residents, not people driving through.

  3. Site signs on running projects

    One standard board outside each flat or villa being fitted out, with written permission from the client before anything goes up.

    Result: The job you are doing now advertises to the neighbours watching it.

  4. Artwork that sends a reader to one page

    The configuration, the kind of work and a QR code opening projects in that same cluster or budget band, sized to be read from the road.

    Result: The board hands over to the portfolio, which is what sells.

  5. A line the studio logs board by board

    A number used on outdoor alone, with every enquiry recorded against the board, the tower and the budget the caller has in mind.

    Result: Unqualified calls become visible instead of invisible.

  6. Reporting on visits and quotes

    Calls, measurement visits, costed quotes and signed projects by board, alongside dated photographs of each site, against the baseline.

    Result: The board that brings quotes stays and the one that brings chat comes down.

How the result is measured

  • Sites booked
  • Proof of display received
  • Enquiries quoting the campaign route

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

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How it is bought, and approved

A design studio buys boards near new apartments, and the society and the civic body clear them first.

The builder or the residents' association
Inside a gated apartment cluster, boards need the builder's or the association's written consent. Ask the management office. The road outside is the civic body's.
A sign on the flat you are fitting out
A board outside a running project needs the society's consent and sometimes a deposit. Read the society's by-laws on contractor signage before you print.
Faces near the furnishing market
Panels near the tile, furniture and lighting streets are sold per face. Ask who else hoards on that street and whether your panel will sit beside a rival's.
Site list from the handover calendar
List the towers handing over, then buy on the road into each one. The panel should face traffic heading in, not leaving.
One QR, one page
Send the reader to a single portfolio page for the budget band that suits that cluster, so the board and the page say the same thing.
A board column in the enquiry sheet
Add a source column in the enquiry sheet with each board named, so a site visit is credited to a board and not to 'word of mouth'.

Who it is for

This is written for these interior design firms.

  • Residential interior design studios
  • Turnkey design-and-build firms
  • Retail and commercial interior design firms
  • Office and workplace interior design firms
  • Boutique single-designer practices
  • Modular kitchen and furniture-focused design firms
  • Design firms working closely with architects and builders

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 outdoor advertising work runs

  1. 1

    Draw the catchment

    We agree the roads, junctions and neighbourhoods your buyer moves through. It is almost always a smaller area than an owner first says, and a clinic in Nagarbhavi does not need the whole of west Bengaluru.

  2. 2

    Survey what is available

    We work through the sites on offer inside that catchment and go and stand in front of the ones worth looking at.

  3. 3

    Compare and book

    Sites are compared on facing, visibility, illumination and cycle length, then booked through the media owner or their agency at a negotiated rate.

  4. 4

    Print to specification

    Artwork is made to the exact panel size and delivered ahead of mounting day, with a proof you approve before printing.

  5. 5

    Monitor the cycle

    We collect mounting and mid-cycle photographs, and take up anything late, torn or unlit with the media owner while the cycle is still running.

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.

All case studies

  • Houzeome Interior Design Studio

    Situation
    A client choosing an interior designer wants to see rooms the studio actually finished. The site showed stock photography, which tells a prospective client nothing about this studio.
    What we did
    • A custom site build
    • The studio's own photography
    • One brand across the site
    • Six project pages
    Result
    • Six real projects published, each with its own detailed case-study page
    Read the case study

Also worked with

Chord Road Hospital · Curtain Label · Difesa Security Services · Felicity Inn · Hands On CSR · Implevista · Kambar Group · Kalessi · Kerur Pain Clinic · LL Trust · Lucky Deals · Natural Gases · NavaShakthi Souhardha · NewCom Logistics · Proton Technical Services · SB Engineering · 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.

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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Tell us what you need
Is a hoarding worth it for a studio our size?
One board at a cluster that is handing over, yes. A landmark panel on a main road, no. What a large site takes for a month buys a season of small boards where your buyer actually lives, and those bring flat numbers rather than calls from another district.
Can we put our board outside a client's flat?
With the client's written permission and the building's, and both refuse sometimes. Ask at contract stage while goodwill is high, and offer to take it down on handover day. A photograph of the finished room needs its own permission.
How do we know a board is working?
Through the number and the QR code on it, and through the question your studio asks every caller. Nothing about a hoarding reports itself, so the only honest measure is the site visits it produced.
Should we use pole kiosks at the apartment gates instead of a hoarding?
Kiosks put your name at the entry that residents and visitors use daily, and are cheaper than a large face. They need the civic body's licence and the gate owner's consent. Check that the kiosk faces people entering, not the compound wall.
What happens when a board fades, tears or is covered by a rival's?
Ask before booking who inspects and replaces damaged flex, and whether a rival can be mounted over your face. Write the replacement and the inspection into the order, and keep dated photographs to show when the fault began.
How soon would we see more signed projects?
Fixing quote follow-up moves first, since the enquiries you already have are the easiest to recover. Ranking for a search such as 2BHK interior designer in your area, and building architect referrals, takes months.
Do we need to advertise?
Most firms gain first from a strong Instagram presence and local search. Advertising helps for a project type with spare design capacity.
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.
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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