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Relationship Marketing The following Pharma Marketing News reprints feature articles and case studies relating to “Realtionship Marketing,” also called permission marketing, direct marketing, and personalized marketing. Also see the following sections for reprints on related topics:
- Brand Marketing
- Compliance Marketing & Education
- Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) Advertising & Marketing
- Physician Marketing & Promotion
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Relationship Marketing
Many experts agree that Relationship Marketing (RM) should be a natural for the pharmaceutical industry, which needs to support the long-term use of their products and help patients remain compliant with their treatment regime.
But not many pharmaceutical marketers understand what relationship marketing is and how it differs from other forms of marketing that they traditionally employ.
This collection of Pharma Marketing News articles, blog posts, and survey results provides you with an excellent introduction to the many facets and uses of pharmaceutical relationship marketing.
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Are Sales Reps Necessary?
Steve Woodruff, Founder and Principal Consultant of Impactiviti, and John Mack team up to review eyeforpharmaÂs Sales Effectiveness conference, which was co-located with the eCommunication & Online Marketing Conference.
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Balancing Idealistic vs. Realistic CRM Processes
This article is a summary of a panel chaired by Michael C. Lengel, Partner at Peppers and Rogers Group, and included Sharon Reffett, Director of Customer Systems and Administration at Allergan, John Vaeth, Director, CRM Capability Development at Biogen, and Wendy Jackson, President, Direct Marketing at Publicis.
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Download PDF fileBig Pharma Sales Analytics for the Rest of Us
OnDemandIQ Inc., a Los Angeles based company, provides OnDemandIQ Insights’ Life Sciences, which is an affordable web-hosted business intelligence solution for smaller companies.
Topics covered include:
- Small Company, Same Challenges
- Combining Software and Services
- Sales/Activity Reporting
- Performance Report Cards
- Analysis On-Demand
Building a Blockbuster
TNS Healthcare research suggests that you can enhance your chances of building a blockbuster brand by developing a customer-driven approach that focuses more on building relationships with physicians than does the traditional detailing model. In support of this, TNS surveyed primary care physicians in the US and 5 European countries. The results are summarized in this article.
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Building the “New” Pharma Physician Marketing Model
This article reviews MedTera’s HC Professional “Life Long Learning” Platform — branded integrated physician marketing solutions — and presents a summary of research on how brand teams see the mix of marketing tactics changing over the next several years.
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Closed-Loop Patient Education: MedTera and HealthPrize Team Up to Improve Medication Adherence & Health Outcomes
MedTera recently partnered with HealthPrize Technologies, a web-based software company that motivates people to fill and stay on prescription medications, to bring together MedTera’s online and offline educational resources and HealthPrize’s online, interactive platform to educate people about their chronic diseases and incentivize them for taking their medications as prescribed.
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Creating the Right Physician Experiences to Drive Business
This article presents a summary of a recent TNS Healthcare webinar and personal conversations with presenters conducted beforehand. Included are NEW research results about how US and European physicians rate pharmaceutical companies against a number of customer value points that are important in achieving success with the new sales model.
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Current Issues and Future Prospects for Sales Force Effectiveness
The industry will have to adapt its sales model to meet the new challenges ahead. This article offers insights on the new sales model and how to achieve it from pharma experts who presented at a recent eyeforpharma Sales Force Effectiveness Summit.
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The European eMarketing Scene: Desperately Seeking Strategy
The pharmaceutical industry is struggling to develop an eMarketing strategy in Europe, which is comprised of many relatively small markets (the member countries of the EU) having significant cultural and language differences.
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Evolve Your Brand into a Relationship with Consumers and Physicians
This article is a review of a presentation by Keli Bennett, Consumer Marketing Director at Abbott Laboratories, where she contrasts and compares DR marketing and traditional DTC strategies and presents a Case Study showing the ROI benefit of integrating the two approaches.
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Eyes on the Adherence Prize: How HealthPrize Uses Financial Incentives and Fun to Change Patient Behavior
This article provides details about the HealthPrize’s innovative, compelling approach to solving one of pharma’s most perplexing puzzle: how to improve medication adherence. Included is a summary of a Pharma Marketing Talk podcast interview of Tom Kottler, CEO, and Katrina S. Firlik, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, HealthPrize.
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Finding the “Right Stuff” to Revitalize Sales Productivity
Declining sales force productivity is a major issue on the minds of sales managers and corporate executives of pharmaceutical companies large and small. More and more physicians are limiting face time and closing their doors to sales reps. The solution, according to Hossam Sadek, VP of Sales Force Effectiveness, IMS Health, is for pharmaceutical sales management to focus on relationships and the metrics that drive relationships, to enable reps to deliver tailored messages that truly impact the prescribers in their territory.
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GSK Strikes Back with a Grassroots Campaign
Mike Pucci, Vice President of External Affairs at GlaxoSmithKline, discusses his strategy to get the word out about the good that the pharmaceutical industry is doing.
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Increase Prescription Sales with Smart Tools
Realizing the limitations of the printed package insert (PI), Wellscape, a technology company that provides software solutions designed to improve patient care has developed Smart-PI, which distills complex prescribing information and packages it in portable, stand-alone real-time tools accessible from web sites and available for desktop and Tablet PCs and PDAs.
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The iPad as a Pharma Marketing PlatformThis article summarizes how the iPad is currently being used by the pharmaceutical industry, how it is being adopted by physicians, and what the roadblocks are to using it for eDetailing.
Topics include:
- iPad – What’s It Good For?
- The iPad as a Pharma Marketing Platform
- GoMeals
- More Consumer Apps
- Opening Doors to Physicians
- iPad for eDetailing
- DrChrono.com Featured on Pharma Marketing Talk Radio
- Is It Just Another Tablet Device?
- Does No Flash Mean No eDetailing?
- iAds for Pharma?
- Is Pharma Blocking or Supporting iPad Use by Sales Reps?
Many Physicians Plan to Buy It
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Mobile Medical Reference: An Effective Door Opener for Sales Reps
Pharmaceutical companies are searching for new, creative solutions to the problem of decreasing sales rep effectiveness. One such solution is to provide physicians with value-added smart tools to allow them instant access to up-to-date prescribing and treatment information.
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Personalized e-Marketing – How can you create and profit from a customer’s lifetime experience?Instead of talking about CRM (Customer Relationship Management), Philippe Barzin, former Director of Connectivity at Johnson & Johnson, focused on HRM or “Healthcare Relationship Management.” To demonstrate the effectiveness of “customer-oriented surround marketing” and personalization, Barzin used BabyCenter, a J&J consumer-focused web site, as a case study.
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A Primer on Pharma Employee BloggingThere is some movement within a few pharmaceutical companies toward implementing employee blogs. But before any pharmaceutical company dives into blogging, there are a few fundamentals that should be considered for developing a strategy for employee blogging.
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Download PDF filePutting the Customer Back in Customer Relationship Management
This article features the thoughts of Derek Evans, Vice President, Global Solutions Marketing at Dendrite International, on how to put the customer back in Customer Relationship Management. Evans emphasized the compound effect of excessive focus on high prescribers and the restrictions of formularies and government regulations.
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Download PDF fileReinventing the Sales Model
TNS Healthcare experts talk about moving beyond current approaches to a new sales model.
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Sales Reps Debate Their Value
When pharmaceutical sales reps are asked about the value of sales reps, you get some surprising comments.
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Strategies for Enhanced Physician Targeting and Segmentation
Richard B. Vanderveer, Ph.D., CEO of the global pharmaceutical marketing and research firm V2 GfK, presents strategies for enhanced physician targeting and segmentation.
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Tailoring CRM Solutions to Your Business Strategy
Real World examples of CRM assessment and initial implementation, highlighting early best practices in CRM deployment.
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Download PDF fileTo Build Patient Adherence, Pfizer Puts Technology Behind The Curtain
This article summaries a presentation made by Diane Stafford, Head of Patient Relationship Marketing for Pfizer UK at a recent eyeforpharma entitled “The E-nabled Patient: Using Technology to help build valuable patient relationships,” Ms. Stafford asserted that you “can’ t use technology as [a compliance program] delivery mechanism if it’s not right.”
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Understanding the Strategic Value of MSLs
Strategically Envisioned, Yet Tactically Measured
This article by contributing author Neil Gray, examines why the industrys current use of tactical value measures for MSLs might ultimately prove limiting by positioning MSLs inappropriately and inhibiting their broader involvement in organizational and stakeholder problem-solving.
The author examines how tomorrow’s MSL might be employed by Pharma and discusses the strategic movement of MSLs into the competitive intelligence space, teaching roles, strategic input to and evaluation of portfolio development, and investor relations.
Topics and issues covered include:
- Difficult Times Lie Ahead
- Numerous Stakeholder Challenges
- What Do KOLs Want?
- Moving From Science Discussants to Knowledge Directors
- What the Future May Hold
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Twitter has often been hyped as a great way to support customers. The customers of pharma are physicians and patients. But pharma Twitter accounts offer very little in terms of patient support. This article summarizes a survey that asked respondents to evaluate several ways in which Twitter could be used to improve patient support.
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YouPharma: New Rules for Pharma Marketing and Social Media
Highlights from a Pharma Roundtable discussion and comments from several bloggers in the Pharma Blogosphere about pharma use of social media.
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