April, 2021

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COVID-19: Some ignored facts

World of DTC Marketing

QUICK THOUGHT: People believe the COVID-19 vaccine was developed in less than a year but that’s not true. Coronaviruses were first encountered in April 1930, when a strange respiratory disease ravaged poultry farms across North Dakota and Minnesota, killing tens of thousands of baby birds. Further scientific research into the virus and recognition that it was not like influenza A, a flu virus known to cause bronchitis, would transpire over the next 30 years. .

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Episode 33: GSK’s Philip Cruz on COVID-19 and vaccine development

Dominic Tyer

The latest episode of the pharmaphorum podcast takes a post-COVID look at the discovery and commercialisation of new vaccines with GlaxoSmithKline’s Philip Cruz.

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Medical sales: using case studies to build relationships

Medical Sales Guru

Medical sales representatives have been at a loss as how to engage and influence accounts and customers since COVID-19. Yet, there are more opportunities to sell products and services, not less. It all comes down to developing the type of relationships with your accounts that drive business. That’s what this episode is all about, and specifically, how to create and use case studies to help foster these relationships.

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Episode 46 – In the C-Suite with Will Gray, VP of Marketing and Commercial Operations, Corporate Accounts, Boston Scientific

Medical Device Success

Reading time: 4 – 7 minutes Improvise, Adapt and Overcome. He started out as a Marine officer. This included time on the streets of Mogadishu , Somalia. He carried these Marine leadership values into Frito Lay and then Boston Scientific. Now, Will shares his thoughts on being proactive and excelling in his book “PROACTIVE: Achieving Excellence in Sales and Customer Relations”.

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AI Strategies for Sales Managers: How to Cut Down on Tedious Admin Work

What if you could help your sellers stop wasting 72% of their day on non-selling activities and focus on bringing in revenue? Incorporating AI in your enablement workflows can help you cut down on busy work, get projects done faster, and let your team (and you!) focus on making a bigger impact. We put together this guide to show you how to use AI to cut time and costs for projects, including collateral creation, development of training videos, and automating tedious processes.

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Creating a Customer-Centric Culture That Aligns Employees With Customers

Integrity Solutions

Building a customer-centric culture is more challenging than you might initially think. But every organization has the ability to build a strong customer-centric culture- and it doesn’t have to be complex. The business environment is never static. The economy inevitably goes through boom and bust cycles. Disruptors, emerging trends and unexpected events — like a pandemic, for example — can throw a wrench in your carefully thought-out strategy.

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Moving Customer Engagement Forward in a New Era

Clarity Engagement Solutions

Long before the COVID-19 outbreak, pharmaceutical companies knew that the customer engagement game had changed. New types of stakeholders, little swayed by the strength of a product sales pitch, have been looking to pharmaceutical companies to sit more consistently at the patient population management table. Only a few were in the process of pivoting in response, but everyone knew that their way of engaging with their customers needed to change.

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NHS health tech and digital transformation lessons

Dominic Tyer

In the year since the UK went into its first COVID-19 lockdown the country’s health service has transformed its approach to digital health.

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Why you should fear the customer, not the competition

Medical Sales Guru

Medical sales representatives are often advised to target the competition. As a result they fear competitors might have better products and closer relationships with accounts. If you’re in medical sales, the competition isn’t your problem…It’s the customer! I tell you why in this short video and what you should do to address it.

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Episode 45 – CRM2 – Going From CRM to Sales Force Automation

Medical Device Success

Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes In Episode 35 we laid the CRM foundation. Today we build on that foundation and begin to move into Sales Force Automation and Marketing Automation. This is where SFA and MA can start working hard for your company to increase revenues. Eliza Hammer-Gage, Senior Consultant, Red Argyle joins me again to show another way we can move MedTech into the realm of modern B2B demand generation tactics.

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Introducing the 2020-21 HBA Honorable Mentor and STAR Awardees

Pharma Marketing Network

Introducing the recipient of the 2020-21 HBA Honorable Mentor Award, Dr. Rod MacKenzie , Chief Development Officer and EVP, Pfizer and the recipient of the 2020-21 HBA STAR Award, Susan Torroella , Chief Operating Officer, ArmadaHealth. What is the Honorable Mentor Award? The Honorable Mentor award recognizes a man who demonstrates a long-term commitment to advancing women in the workforce, is dedicated to developing, mentoring and promoting women in the industry, and is supportive of the overal

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From Diagnosis to Delivery: How AI is Revolutionizing the Patient Experience

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.

The healthcare landscape is being revolutionized by AI and cutting-edge digital technologies, reshaping how patients receive care and interact with providers. In this webinar led by Simran Kaur, we will explore how AI-driven solutions are enhancing patient communication, improving care quality, and empowering preventive and predictive medicine. You'll also learn how AI is streamlining healthcare processes, helping providers offer more efficient, personalized care and enabling faster, data-driven

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Moving Customer Engagement Forward in a New Era

Clarity Engagement Solutions

Long before the COVID-19 outbreak, pharmaceutical companies knew that the customer engagement game had changed. New types of stakeholders, little swayed by the strength of a product sales pitch, have been looking to big pharmaceutical companies to sit more consistently at the patient population management table. Only a few were in the process of pivoting in response, but everyone knew that their way of engaging with their customers needed to change.

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Reaching HCPs online

World of DTC Marketing

QUICK READ: Recent research from Zoom Rx saying that digital interactions with HCPs are myopic and don’t apply to the heavily segmented HCP audience. The future of reaching HCPS is both on and off-line depending on the product, health condition, and specialty. Zoom Rx recently polled HCPs and found 78% of physicians want to maintain some contact with pharma reps.

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5 Steps to a Customer Retention Strategy

Integrity Solutions

What actions can you take to both increase employee engagement and create a customer retention strategy that moves more of your customers from “satisfied” to “loyal”? A 5-step roadmap to get you started. One of the key tenets of a customer retention strategy is that it relentlessly focuses on value creation. This emphasis on value and delivering exceptional service is what gives truly customer-centric companies the edge: It increases customer loyalty and that loyalty drives growth.

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Using AI to make a big impact for emerging and mid-sized biopharma companies

pharmaphorum

With recent market changes catalysing a rapid shift to an omnichannel approach, life science organisations of every size are racing to adapt their commercial approach to be more relevant, coordinated and personalised to the needs of each HCP. Focus This pharmaphorum webinar, held in association with Aktana, will take place on 29th April 2021 at 15:00 BST / 10:00 EDT.

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Optimizing Clinical Supply Strategy: Navigating Challenges & Finding Your Ideal Model

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Episode 44 – In the C-Suite with Arnoud Snepvangers, CEO, Eaglet Eye

Medical Device Success

Reading time: 3 – 5 minutes Covid may have caused some sleepless nights for Arnoud in 2020. But his response with the use of Demand Generation Tactics and Learning Management Systems set Eaglet Eye up for a strong second half of the year and a strong start to 2021. Arnoud proves it can be done very economically. The result is that it creates a very positive high technology impression despite the size of the company.

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6 Digital Tools at the Center of Healthcare Digitalization [INFOGRAPHIC]

Pharma Marketing Network

Over the last year, we witnessed a massive shift to digital technologies in the health industry – trends that were gradually making their ways suddenly moved into prompt adoption due to the immense limitations brought by the COVID-19 pandemic. Download this infographic and learn which 6 digital tools are at the center of digitalization and how the will influence the future of Pharma marketing in 2021 and beyond.

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Moving Customer Engagement Forward in a New Era

Clarity Engagement Solutions

Long before the COVID-19 outbreak, pharmaceutical companies knew that customer engagement game had changed. New types of stakeholders, little swayed by the strength of a product sales pitch, have been looking to big Pharma to sit more consistently at the patient population management table. Only a few were in the process of pivoting in response, but everyone knew it.

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The clock is ticking on healthcare’s excessive profiteering

World of DTC Marketing

QUICK READ: There is so much money in healthcare that every company wants their share even if patients get hurt. The amount of money Pfizer is going to make from their vaccine borders on obscene while PBMs quietly take a cut of every Rx transaction without really adding any value. It’s going to continue until we put politics aside and say “enough.” J&J has had problems in the past, but they’re trying to be an ethical and responsible pharma company.

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How Machine Learning Drives Clinical Trial Efficiency

Clinical trial data management is increasingly challenging as studies grow in complexity. Quickly accessing and analyzing study data is vital for assessing trial progress and patient safety. In this paper, we explore real-time data access and analysis for proactive study management. We investigate using adverse event (AE) data to monitor safety and discuss a clinical analytics platform that supports collaboration and data review workflows.

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Building Team Confidence In Complex Sales Skills

Integrity Solutions

As the economy picks up steam, organizations are seeing the next 12 to 24 months as a unique opportunity to capture increased market share and margin growth. This begs the question: Does your team have the confidence and skill to take advantage of these complex sales opportunities? By Bruce Wedderburn. You don’t have to tell your salespeople that selling in the current business environment has become increasingly challenging.

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Recruiting, Eliminating the kNot in Not Again | Round 2

Storyvine

Melodie Regan, CEO, i2i Workforce. How often have you found yourself with candidates Not applying? Not showing up for interviews? Hires Not showing up for work? And you yourself saying, “Not Again.”. Let’s talk about some common recruiting mistakes and ways to improve your recruiting results to get more candidates and more hires. Here’s a Round 2 list.

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Omnichannel Customer Experience — Are you ready?

Actando

Customers have myriad ways to interact with your company and/or your products and services. Synchronising the touchpoints ensures the customer can move from one to the other seamlessly. The difference between creating a multichannel experience and an omnichannel experience is that multichannel is based on using disconnected channels, whereas omnichannel connects all the available channels: using links from one to another, embedded video from other sources, live chat agents on-demand, all with si

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Protected: Health Psychology – the Solution to First Fill Abandonment?

Pharma Marketing Network

This content is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password: The post Protected: Health Psychology – the Solution to First Fill Abandonment? appeared first on Pharma Marketing Network.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Moving Customer Engagement Forward in a post-Covid-19 age

Clarity Engagement Solutions

Long before the COVID-19 outbreak, pharmaceutical companies knew that the customer engagement game had changed. New types of stakeholders, little swayed by the strength of a product sales pitch, have been looking to big pharma to sit more consistently at the patient population management table. Only a few were in the process of pivoting in response, but everyone knew it.

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DTC marketing is an oxymoron

World of DTC Marketing

QUICK READ: More TV DTC spots are airing, but DTC marketers are losing the battle between awareness and conversion because of all the noise online. Product websites are stagnant, and online health seekers are going elsewhere to learn about your medication’s side effects and cost. I’ve spent the last six months analyzing clients’ DTC marketing campaigns and they are, for most ineffective.

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How Sales Process Automation Can Make or Break Your Strategy

Optymyze

Most everyone can agree that increased sales productivity is linked to process automation. Not only does automation give salespeople more time to sell, but employees at all levels and across.

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Top 6 Reasons To Be A Medical Sales Representative

Medical Sales News

At Medical Sales College, we believe in the power of the medical sales industry. We’ve seen first-hand, thousands of students go through our program and benefit from medical sales. If you have B2B sales experience, a medical background, are a recent graduate, or just looking for a career change, medical sales is an incredible industry to be a part of.

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What the FDA's New Dosage Guidance Means for the Future of Clinical Research

Speaker: Dr. Ben Locwin - Biopharmaceutical Executive & Healthcare Futurist

What will the future hold for clinical research? A recent draft from the FDA provides valuable insight. In "Optimizing the Dosage of Human Prescription Drugs and Biological Products for the Treatment of Oncologic Diseases," the FDA notes that "targeted therapies demonstrate different dose-response relationships compared to cytotoxic chemotherapy, such that doses below the Maximum Tolerated Dose (MTD) may have similar efficacy to the MTD but with fewer toxicities.

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AI, big data and deep real-world evidence – the challenges and opportunities

pharmaphorum

Real-world evidence (RWE) is emerging as an important area of research to reveal, in real time, new insights and innovations and is accelerating the development of new and innovative therapies and treatments to improve patient outcomes. This pharmaphorum webinar, held in association with Savana, will take place on Thursday 22 April from 16:00-17:00 BST / 17:00-18:00 CET / 10:00-11:00 EST and hear from presenters at BREATHE - the Health Data Research Hub for Respiratory Health, Salford Royal NHS

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DarshanTalks: Sales & Marketing Oversight – April 21, 2021

Pharma Marketing Network

[link]. The Pharma Marketing Podcast is pleased to present this special guest episode from our friend and Editorial Advisory Board member Darshan Kulkarni, Sales and Marketing Oversight – April 21, 2021. Darshan Kulkarni and Marc Banjak, General Counsel at Dova Pharmaceuticals, discuss sales compliance in the life sciences. Sales and marketing representatives in the life science industry must comply with state and federal regulations.

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Recruiting, Eliminating the kNot in Not Again | Round 1

Storyvine

Melodie Regan, CEO, i2i Workforce. How often have you found yourself with candidates Not applying? Not showing up for interviews? Hires Not showing up for work? And you yourself saying, “Not Again.” Let’s talk about some common recruiting mistakes and ways to improve your recruiting results to get more candidates and more hires. Here’s a Round 1 list.

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Pharma Tuesday Stuff

World of DTC Marketing

QUICK READ: Here are some recent stories that you should all be aware of. Last month I hit 80,000 readers when accounting for email, social media, and direct traffic. I love the industry, and although I want to see some changes, I know there are many good people trying every day to make it happen. After a year of pandemic-delayed medical tr eatments, doctors are seeing more cases of advanced illnesses.

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How to Prove Marketing Value: Demonstrate Content ROI and Contribution to Sales

Every marketer knows how important it is to prove their efforts drive sales opportunities, but that’s easier said than done. When problems like sales and marketing misalignment, lack of data, and wasted efforts persist, marketers can’t measure, prove, or increase their impact on revenue at a time when demonstrating marketing value is critical. Using analyst and expert data, this guide to marketing impact and content attribution explains: How B2B buyers use content The most common types of conten