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Your next regular lives four floors up and passes the panel twice a day.

Apartment advertising for a salon is the lift panel, the notice board and a weekend table in the clubhouse of the buildings within walking distance. GullySales takes each association's approval in writing, times the boards to the weekday gaps and the wedding dates, and gives every building a booking number of its own.

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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 apartment advertising means

Apartment advertising is media and activity inside residential communities: the notice board, the lift panel, a Sunday stall. GullySales gets the association's written permission first, because anything put up without it comes down.

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Last updated 5 Oct 2026.

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

  • “This medium fills the Tuesday chair, not the Saturday one”

    A resident reading the panel by the lift is not chasing a Saturday slot the family already knows is full. A weekday price on the board, said plainly, moves the appointment to the afternoon your stylists are standing idle.

  • “The secretary has turned down three vendors this month”

    Associations are asked every week and say no out of habit. What gets a yes is a narrow request: one panel, one position, one month, a resident offer, and a line about who takes it down afterwards.

  • “A bride needs the clubhouse, not the board”

    Bridal work is booked months ahead after a conversation about dates and packages, so a panel is only the first sighting. The Sunday table with a portfolio open and trial dates written down is where a society campaign turns into a booking.

  • “Buildings report nothing, so number them”

    No association will tell you who read the board, and a vendor quoting residents reached is quoting flats. One WhatsApp line per building, and a billing screen that asks which society the customer came from, is your whole measurement.

What we do

What we deliver for salons and beauty studios.

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

  1. Buildings picked by walking distance

    The societies within the distance a regular will walk for an appointment, read off the addresses already in your billing records.

    Result: Panels go up where your regulars live.

  2. Permission and the society's own charge, in writing

    The association or facility manager agreeing the format, the position and the month, with the fee and who removes the board settled before printing.

    Result: The print order matches the buildings that said yes.

  3. A weekday offer written for the board

    One service, a weekday price and the walking distance to your door, sized to the lift panel or the notice board in each building.

    Result: The quiet days start filling before the weekend does.

  4. A clubhouse table at the weekend

    A Sunday desk with your stylist or artist present, trial dates written down on the spot, and a number taken for every conversation with consent to call.

    Result: You leave the building with appointments rather than impressions.

  5. Boards timed to the wedding dates

    Panels in place in the months residents are already planning weddings around, with a follow-up routine for enquiries that arrive long before the date.

    Result: The bride hears from you while the bride is still shortlisting artists.

  6. A number for each society

    One WhatsApp line used in that building alone, answered by whoever books, with the billing screen recording the society for every new customer.

    Result: Buildings that produced nothing are dropped next round.

How the result is measured

  • Communities covered
  • Permissions in writing
  • Enquiries quoting the community code

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 salon should ask the association four questions about space, charges and dates before the board is designed.

Committee, and the vendors it turned down
Ask the secretary what earlier vendors did that led to a refusal. Then say in your request how you will avoid it, whether a crowded board, a loud table or a stained wall.
Clubhouse table or a board, asked apart
A bridal trial needs privacy, so ask whether a corner of the clubhouse can be screened. A board is a simpler yes, but gives you less room to show your work.
The society's own charge, written down
Ask whether the association charges a fee for the board or the table and get the amount from them in writing before any artwork is made.
Space on a crowded board
Ask which board, how much space and when old notices are cleared. A board at the lift lobby is read more than one near the gate.
Dates that suit the wedding season
Ask for the free dates in the months before the wedding season, and book the board and table early. Then give each society a booking number, so the weekday bookings can be traced.

Who it is for

This is written for these salons and beauty studios.

  • Neighbourhood unisex salons
  • Ladies beauty parlours and threading studios
  • Premium hair studios and colour specialists
  • Bridal makeup artists and bridal studios
  • Freelance and home-visit makeup artists
  • Nail, lash and brow studios
  • Men's grooming lounges and barbershops
  • Franchise outlets of salon chains
  • Skin care and cosmetics brands selling online and through salons

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • The association has not told you the space, the charge or the dates, so a design would be made for a board you cannot confirm.
  • You have no weekday offer to put on the panel, and the board would fill a Saturday that already fills.
  • You cannot count the bookings that come from a building, so the board's worth would stay a guess.

How it works

How the apartment advertising work runs

The work itself, in order. How an engagement starts, from your brief to a written scope, is set out on our method page.

  1. 1

    Draw the ring

    We agree how far a resident will realistically come to you. For a salon that is two or three societies. For a diagnostic centre it is the whole main road.

  2. 2

    Shortlist and verify the societies

    Which are self-managed and which are under a facility company, who the gatekeeper is, which trades they allow, and what they charge on their own account.

  3. 3

    Get permission and quote properly

    Permission letters are collected first. Only then do you see a rate, and it includes the society fee rather than surprising you with it later.

  4. 4

    Print, install and audit

    Artwork goes to each format's exact size, installation is scheduled with the facility manager, and every lobby is photographed with a date.

  5. 5

    Run the activity

    The clubhouse weekend is booked inside the display month, when your name is already on the wall of the lift they came down in.

  6. 6

    Read it society by society

    Calls and walk-ins are counted per code and the list is cut. A few societies carry a campaign and the rest carry nothing, and the numbers show which.

Where this fits

Three pieces of sales work, in this order.

This work sits inside sales process design, at stage 1, prospecting and lead generation. The audit comes before it, and sales management keeps it running.

  1. Step 1

    Sales audit

    Find where deals are being lost and what to fix first.

    Start here if you cannot say where orders are lost.

  2. Step 2 · you are here

    Sales process design

    One written way to sell, from first enquiry to repeat order.

    Start here if every salesperson sells differently.

  3. Step 3

    Sales management

    A target, a review routine and someone who owns the number.

    Start here if the team has targets and no routine.

Tell us what you need Your brief is read before we call. Scope, fee and term in writing.

FAQ

Questions owners ask before they call.

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Will the association let us run a stall in the clubhouse?
Some will, on a weekend, for a fee and with rules about approaching residents. Others allow a notice board and nothing more. We ask each one in writing for a format and a date, then build the campaign from the buildings that agreed rather than from a vendor's list.
What goes on a lift panel that a resident has not already seen?
One service and one reason to come on a weekday. A first-visit price for a cut or a clean-up, the distance to your door, and a number that reaches somebody who books. Leave the heavily edited pictures out, because the customer will see the real work at your reception in ten minutes.
Can the board offer a resident-only discount?
Often yes, but ask the committee whether discount wording is allowed on the board and whether it wants offers limited to residents. If it is allowed, give the receptionist a flat number to check, so the offer goes to those it was meant for.
A resident complained about a home-visit makeup artist entering the building. What should we do?
Ask the gate for its rules on outside service staff. Give the gate the name and time of each visit in advance, and have the artist carry photo ID. Tell the secretary directly, so a complaint does not travel without your side.
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.
How soon will we see results?
It depends on the trade, the channel and what is already in place. After we have read your brief and spoken to you, we say what we would expect to move first and how it will be measured against the baseline. Nothing here is guaranteed.
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.
What do you need from us?
Your brief, and a conversation. After that, access to whatever this work touches, such as your website, your accounts or your enquiry record, and time with the people who handle your enquiries.
What if we are not happy with the work?
Tell us and the plan changes. Everything is reported against the baseline, so a number that is not moving is visible to both sides. The term is in your written scope, and the refund and cancellation policy sets out the rest.

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