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Why hasn’t pharma embraced email marketing?

World of DTC Marketing

Pharma has an opportunity to engage customers and caregivers via email but they can’t send out product flyers. In our test a magazine type email, with general as well as product information, did best as compared to a one-page product information email. The other challenge for pharma in an email marketing campaign is privacy.

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Shorla gains FDA nod for first oral liquid version of Novartis' Gleevec

Fierce Pharma

In 2001, a Time Magazine cover story touted Novartis’ targeted leukemia treatment Gleevec (imatinib) as a new kind of “am | Shorla Oncology has scored an FDA approval for its strawberry-flavored drink version of Novartis' cancer drug Gleevec. Dubbed Imkeldi, it becomes the first oral liquid form of imatinib.

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On the pharma ecosystem

World of DTC Marketing

QUICK READ: There are a lot of patient-centered, hard-working people within the pharma industry. Trade magazine awards don’t mean anything if one company makes a bad decision that stains our industry. First, the pharma ecosystem of constant meetings and matrix organizations lead to watered-down cutting edge marketing.

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Ten pharma digital marketing facts

World of DTC Marketing

QUICK READ: A reporter for a leading business magazine recently reached out to me and asked “what are Pharma product websites so bad?” 2wo: The biggest reason for pharma product high bounce rates is bad homepage design. ” OK, maybe not all of them are that bad but I would bet that 80% are really poor.

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Germany considers banning the export of Novo Nordisk's Ozempic

Fierce Pharma

The craze is such that Germany’s drug regulator is considering banning the export of Ozempic, according to a report in Der Spiegel magazine. | How popular have Novo Nordisk’s semaglutide drugs become for weight loss in Europe?

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The “business” of the pharma media

World of DTC Marketing

Pharma trade magazines have become irrelevant, and most could care less what they print, although they try to suck up with phony awards. However, most industry trade magazines are, of course, afraid to say anything negative about a potential advertiser. I have received three trade magazine awards in my DTC career.

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Working in pharma

World of DTC Marketing

I have been and continue to be critical of the pharma industry but it’s not out of spite or hate. Today, pharma CEOs make tens of millions of dollars because of one goal: sales. Today we know that more people are turning to the internet to research medications but where is pharma on this online journey?

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