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KOL Deliverables = KOL Budget

Medical Device Success

Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes. As you prepare to reach out to your prospective KOLs, you need to have in mind what you want to accomplish with their help and how much you have budgeted for this effort. Keeping in mind that this blog is primarily aimed at small to medium sized companies, I suggest starting off with a small budget. Just work with one doctor for 6 months to a year.

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6 Ways to Make Your Sales Training Effective

CloserIQ

If you consider sales training to be the first of several steps toward boosting profits, it’s easy to see why it’s such a crucial investment. Sales training lays the foundation for future revenues by increasing your team’s satisfaction, loyalty and competence, all of which improve their interaction with the customer. A satisfied customer is more likely to spend more, refer your business and generally serve as a brand ambassador for your products or services.

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6 Steps to Create a Successful Sales Business Plan

The Brooks Group

When your salespeople head into a new quarter or year with a solid sales business plan, they’re more likely to improve sales forecast accuracy, attain quota, and effectively support your organizational goals. Unfortunately, many sales reps fail to prioritize planning. But with these 6 simple steps, your sales reps can identify their sales strategy and create a sales business plan that they can use to stay organized and crush their sales targets.

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3 Common Challenges in SaaS Sales

Integrity Solutions

The three most common SaaS sales challenges can be overcome and lead to breakthrough levels of success. by Boris Zecevic. Anyone who’s been in sales will tell you: The job comes with some unique challenges. And any number of those challenges has likely contributed to the findings by The Sales Management Association that only 51% of salespeople across all industries made quota in 2017.

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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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D Pharmacy Exit Exam Date, Syllabus and Related Important Update 2024

Teachntest

D Pharmacy Exit Exam Date, Syllabus and Related Important Update 2024 D Pharmacy Exit Exam Latest Update – Dec 2023 *Latest Update published by PCI on Dated 22/12/2023 As per the above circular, Diploma in Pharmacy Exit Exam will be held in July-September 2024 for Students who are going to passed out in 2023-2024 academic.

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The devil’s in the e-detail: what HCPs really want from you

pharmaphorum

Overview: Communication; we all do it, it is a critical part of effective business practice and in this pharma is no exception. It is no secret that for pharma companies, face time with healthcare professionals (HCPs) has reduced drastically over the last 10 years while the cost of in person engagements has increased significantly. Like any customer their expectations for the content they receive have changed, with a focus on useful, succinct and easy to consume materials rather than the sales m

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Can Medical Science Liaisons Improve Pharma Sales Effectiveness?

Revosuite

The sales and marketing landscape for pharmaceuticals has been changing for some time thanks to the wealth of information now available online for doctors to access at their leisure – but face to face information and education is still as important as ever when exploring new pharmaceutical products. Medical Sales Reps have been on the scene since the year dot.

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Winner Announced for the Holiday Elf Operation Apple Watch Giveaway

Infuse Medical

Congratulations to Joe M., the winner of the Holiday Elf Operation Apple Watch Giveaway contest! Joe’s entry was chosen by random from a complete list of entries. Thank you to everyone who downloaded and entered our Holiday Elf Operation Game. The response and support was incredible! In case you missed it, you can download the Holiday Elf Operation app here (Android) , or here (iOS).

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CustomersFirst Now Wins 2018 Innovation Award for Customer Journey Mapping from Aragon Research

Clarivate

Denver, CO, December 6, 2018 – CustomersFirst Now (CFN), a leading provider of Journey Mapping software and Customer Experience consulting services, has been named the winner of the 2018 Aragon Research Innovation Award for Customer Journey Mapping. This award recognizes CFN’s continued innovation of its Customer Journey Management platform, CFN Insight.

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CHEERS TO LIFE SCIENCE INNOVATORS

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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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How To Gain The KOL’s Interest

Medical Device Success

Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes. Now let’s assume some of my ideas in the last blog post worked and you have some KOL candidates. How do you get them interested in working with you? Fortunately, you have ego, science and curiosity on your side. Medical professionals are scientists at heart. Furthermore, they have their patients’ best interest at heart.

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How To Recruit for Your New Sales Enablement Team

CloserIQ

Sales Enablement is swiftly gaining recognition as a vital business function. But how do you hire the right people for your team? In this article you’ll learn the signs that indicate the right attitude and aptitude for sales enablement. You’ll get tips on how to evaluate candidates, and how to make sure they thrive once you hire them. If you want to bring sales enablement best practices into your organization, this is the right time to do it. 1.

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Identifying the 4 Buying Behavior Styles to Sell More Effectively

The Brooks Group

[Don’t miss the downloadable version of the Behavior Style Communication Guidelines at the end of this post!]. Today’s buyers are more informed and have less time to give to salespeople than ever before. Combine that with the increasingly complex decision-making process, and your salespeople are left with a very narrow opportunity to make a positive connection with a potential buyer.

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A Strong Why Will Fuel Your Salespeople’s How

Integrity Solutions

For Your Salespeople, Purpose and Success Are Directly Linked. Why do you do what you do? Why do you sell what you sell? What is the why of your life? What is your purpose? Salespeople might not consciously be asking themselves these questions on a daily basis. But the fact is, their purpose —the motivating force behind what they do—is influencing their results every day.

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

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How To Find Key Opinion Leaders (KOL) to Support Your Technology

Medical Device Success

Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes. In the last post we talked about the importance of KOLs to the efforts of medical device companies large and small. Yet, many small companies believe KOLs are beyond their reach financially. This is not true. In every medical specialty market there are the high level KOLs that everyone knows. They can be expensive to work with.

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8 Personalization Strategies for Boosting Sales

CloserIQ

For modern customers, there’s almost always more than one option when it comes to making a purchase. That makes it even harder for sales teams to close deals. But when customers are inundated by countless messages everyday, personalization can help. Buyers don’t want to feel like they are part of the herd. They want to feel special and taken care of.

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Improve Your SDR Team’s Performance by Fixing These Common Mistakes

CloserIQ

If you lead an SDR team–or are considering building one–you’re inevitably going to hire some green salespeople. Hiring is time-consuming and expensive. Once you’ve taken the time to hire the right people, it’s in your best interest (and theirs!) to help them become as successful as possible as fast as possible. You’ll train them on your product and sales process, then put them on the phones.

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How to Set a Compensation Plan for SDRs

CloserIQ

Formulating a compensation plan for SDRs is one of the most important tasks sales VPs perform, one which will play a major role in SDR recruitment and retention. It also impacts your SDRs’ motivation, and how they spend their time on a day-to-day basis. What behaviors do you want most to incentivize? How are you defining poor, average, and excellent performance?

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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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How to Write an SDR Job Description

CloserIQ

When it comes to hiring new SDRs for your startup, writing the job description seems like it should be one of the easiest parts of the process. But it’s not so simple, and it certainly shouldn’t be something that you attempt to start and finish in five minutes’ total. Think about it. At any given time, there are thousands of sales job descriptions on sites like Glassdoor and ZipRecruiter.

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How to Navigate a Career Change in Enterprise Sales

CloserIQ

It’s a great time to be in enterprise sales. Many industries—including SaaS products, cybersecurity, and healthcare—are poised for growth. Companies in these industries will thus need skilled salespeople to work on enterprise sales. So if you want to enter enterprise sales , there are many opportunities available to you. The same is true for professionals who are already in enterprise sales, but want to enter a new industry or role.

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8 Follow Up Sales Strategies to Boost Your Referrals

CloserIQ

Do you have a sales strategy to capture all your referral business ? With a follow up system in place, you’ll know exactly when and how to ask your clients for referrals and actually get them. Because if you’re only asking clients for a review once after your sale and never again, you’re not tapping into this massive sales and growth engine. And unfortunately, it’s costing you serious revenue.

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How to Improve Diversity and Inclusion in Your Sales Team

CloserIQ

The research is very clear: more diverse sales teams do better. According to an article written by sociologist Cedric Herring and published in The American Sociological Review , companies with the highest levels of diversity brought in 10-15 times as much revenue as compared to companies with the lowest levels of diversity. Diverse companies tend to have greater revenues, market share, and customers.

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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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8 Tips for Salespeople When Email Prospecting

CloserIQ

What’s your biggest challenge in sales? It very well could be converting, hitting quota, retention, qualifying, or any of the other 724 tasks you have to juggle each and every day. All of those are crucial, and none of them are particularly easy. That said, would it surprise you to learn that prospecting is considered the biggest challenge by 42% of salespeople , followed by closing (36%) and qualifying leads (22%)?

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Switching Verticals as an Enterprise Sales Representative

CloserIQ

As an enterprise sales representative, you may reach a point in your career when you want to switch verticals. Your interests have changed, the market has shifted, or maybe you just want to try something new and different. The good news is that it’s entirely feasible to change verticals. If you plan your transition carefully, and put work into executing your plan, many new opportunities will open to you.

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Our Favorite Sales Blog Posts From 2018

CloserIQ

2018 has been an amazing year for all of us at CloserIQ , and we can’t believe we’re just a few days away from welcoming another one. One of our goals this year was to create and curate the best sales content out there for advancing your career and building top sales teams. Every week we compiled our favorite posts on everything from sales strategies to hiring plans.

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Organizations Pay a High Price for Poor Communication Skills

Integrity Solutions

Effective communication skills isn’t a “soft” issue; it’s a real business challenge with significant consequences. Effective communication skills — it sounds like a “soft” issue, right? Hardly. In fact, the inability to communicate clearly and productively with a diverse audience is creating serious business consequences for organizations every day.

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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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Tools Every Account Executive Should Have

CloserIQ

The most successful Account Executives (AEs) aren’t just smart and driven. They also know how to make efficient use of their time, and stay on top of client relations. Of course, using the right tools makes these tasks a lot easier. Here are seven indispensable tools every AE should try out. 1) Remote presentations/video conferencing applications. The ability to communicate with prospects and clients remotely is critical for sales success.

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Ten Workplace Trends Shaping the Future

Integrity Solutions

The fight to keep top talent. Millennials in leadership roles. Addressing the skills gap. And more 2019 workplace trends we’re watching. By Mike Esterday. The notion of work is changing in America. The idea of “going to work” and being “in the office” are being redefined in the workplace for 2019. Here are some of our top choices for changes happening around us that will have long-term implications for training and development in the workforce.

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Choosing Between Multiple Job Offers

CloserIQ

So you’ve landed multiple job offers. Congrats! You are now in a great position to determine your professional future—but the choice can definitely feel overwhelming. Although you may be tempted to flip a coin on this one, we don’t recommend it. To make a decision that’s right for you and your career, evaluate each option in terms of these six key factors: 1.

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The Fastest Growing Companies in Boston Hiring For Sales

CloserIQ

Boston is emerging as one of the hottest startup cities in the country, which is great news for sales professionals. With so many companies in the neighborhood, looking for a new job can be pretty overwhelming as well as exciting. Here are the companies you should consider to jump-start your job search. These companies are all backed by venture capital and are currently hiring in sales roles.

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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