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You paid for forty lift panels and nobody counted how many went up.

Our BTL advertising page covers every kind of controlled site, from malls to IT parks. This page is about one of them, because apartment societies are bought differently from all the others and shorted more often than any of them.

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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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In one paragraph

Apartment advertising buys media inside residential societies: lift panels, notice boards, the gate arch, a lobby standee and a weekend stall in the clubhouse. It is sold by the society by the month. GullySales picks societies by who lives in them, gets the permission in writing, and counts every panel installed.

You are not buying a building. You are buying a month of panels inside it, with the association's written permission underneath, and the value depends entirely on who lives there. A society of tenants is a poor buy for a modular kitchen and a good one for a tiffin service.

Then there is the counting. Forty panels across four towers is a number on an invoice until somebody walks every lobby with a camera. This is the most quietly under-delivered format an owner can buy.

Who it is for

This is written for you if these sound familiar.

  • Clinics, salons, gyms and tuition centres within a ten minute drive of the gate
  • Interior, modular kitchen and furnishing firms working the societies around a newly handed-over project
  • Builders selling a second project to families already living in the first one
  • Home services, pest control, cleaning and appliance repair businesses that need to be the familiar name on the board
  • Food, tiffin and pet service businesses where a resident decides in thirty seconds while waiting for the lift

Not for

It is not the right fit if.

  • A business selling to other businesses, where a residential lobby reaches nobody who can sign an order
  • Anyone more than a short drive away, because a resident who has to cross the city will not
  • Owners who need the campaign live next week, since a self-managed society decides in a committee meeting that may be a month away

The problem

Does this sound like your business?

What owners tell us on the first call, in their words.

  • “The vendor said he has two hundred societies”

    He has a working relationship with a handful of facility managers and an intention to ask the rest. Ask which societies are confirmed today, with a permission letter, and the list gets short.

  • “Half the panels were never installed”

    Towers get missed, service lifts get used instead of passenger lifts, and one block is under renovation. Nobody photographs the lobbies, so the shortfall is discovered never.

  • “We advertised to the wrong residents”

    A society full of rented flats will not buy a false ceiling, and a society of retired couples is a poor place for a play school. Owner and tenant mix decides more than the number of flats does.

  • “The association asked for a fee we had not budgeted”

    Many societies charge their own amount into the association account, on top of the vendor's rate, and some refuse your category outright. Both facts arrive after the artwork is printed.

What we do

Everything that is included.

Each deliverable, and what it gets you. Nothing here is an extra.

  1. Society shortlist by who lives there

    Societies inside your catchment, sorted by whether residents are owners or tenants and by the kind of flat your buyer lives in. The gate you drive past daily is not automatically the right one.

  2. Permission in writing before printing

    A letter from the association secretary, or from the facility management company where one runs the estate, naming the format, the duration and any fee payable to the society.

  3. Format chosen per society

    A lift panel is read standing still, so it takes more words than a hoarding. A gate arch is read from a car. A notice board needs the secretary's stamp and is ignored without it.

  4. The panel count, written down

    Towers, passenger lifts and boards listed before booking, so the quantity on the invoice is a number you can check rather than a claim.

  5. Installation audit with dated photographs

    Every lobby walked in the first week and again mid-cycle. Missing panels are replaced or taken off the bill while the month is still running.

  6. A weekend in the clubhouse

    A stall, a demonstration or a health check on a Saturday, where residents actually speak to you. The panel makes your name familiar; the stall is what collects a phone number.

  7. A code for each society

    A separate number, discount code or QR per society, so the societies worth renewing are known instead of guessed.

  8. Removal and renewal

    Panels taken down when the month ends, because a faded old flex in a lobby is worse than nothing, and a renewal decision made on the society's own numbers.

How the result is measured

  • Societies live against societies booked
  • Panels installed against panels paid for, with dated photographs
  • Calls to each society's code
  • Walk-ins and appointments from each society
  • Sign-ups collected at the clubhouse activity
  • Rate per society per month against the first quote

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

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, what categories 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. Two societies usually carry a campaign and four carry nothing.

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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Who gives permission for an advertisement inside a society?
The residents' welfare association, usually through its secretary, or the facility management company where the builder or the owners have appointed one. Get it in writing, naming the format and the dates. A watchman's nod is not permission and the panel comes down the day a resident objects.
Can you get us into a society that refuses advertising?
No, and be wary of anyone who says otherwise. Some associations have decided their lobbies stay clean, and some bar particular categories. Where a society refuses media, the cultural committee may still sell a sponsorship at the Ganesha or Diwali event, which is a different conversation.
How long should a society run for?
A month is the usual unit and one month is rarely enough. A resident passes the panel twice a day and stops seeing it in week three, so two or three months in fewer societies beats one month across many.
Can we put a pamphlet under every door?
Most societies say no and the ones that allow it charge for it. Door drops are also the format residents complain about most, which is a poor start with a neighbour you want as a customer. A notice board entry does the same job without the ill will.
How do we know whether it worked?
Through the code on the panel and the walk-ins from that pin code, read before, during and after the month. Nobody can tell you how many residents saw it. Anyone quoting you a number of people reached inside a gated society has counted flats and multiplied.
Do you own or hold these societies?
No. We plan the campaign and coordinate the booking with the society, the facility company or the media vendor who works with them. There is no inventory of ours, and no society is guaranteed until its permission letter exists.
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.
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.

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