Today’s healthcare environment – with access to therapy and pricing top of mind, new “right to try” laws, possible legislative changes, and big shifts in the ways that consumers get health information – requires more innovative and thoughtful approaches on how to communicate than ever before. For many pharmaceutical companies, advocacy is a highly promising and rewarding way […]
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Check the Pulse of Your Heart Health Marketing
Sponsored Content Every 42 seconds, someone in the US has a heart attack. Each minute, someone dies from a heart disease-related event.1 Even though heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the US, many adults are uninformed of the causes, symptoms and proper treatment of heart-related conditions. In fact, according to PatientPoint research, […]
Voice Search and the Health Information Impact
If you haven’t been living under a rock (or aren’t my parents), you are probably aware of the rise in popularity of voice search and voice enabled devices. Thanks to technology like Google Assistant, iOS Siri, and Amazon Echo, voice search is exploding in terms of both adoption and technology integration. A comScore study in […]
A Matter of Trust: Men, Women, and Pharma
You know that men and women are so different that we have to look to the planets to sort out the contrast. But when it comes to trusting the biopharmaceutical industry, we’ve found that the genders are at the same time similar and different. For the last two years, we have conducted a revealing survey […]
Making Sense of Social Media Conversations
The relevance of social media monitoring and engagement in the healthcare industry Billions of conversations take place every month on social media platforms including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, as well as blogs and forums. These conversations are not only taking place in social settings, but are influencing companies as well. Social media use continues to rise […]
The Next Generation of Multi-Channel Marketing
Healthcare is the most personal of categories, and the micro-/macro-economic benefits of addressing individual patient needs and barriers at population-level scale are huge. Digital marketers from the early 2000s will remember the earliest pushes into personalization – most efforts were not successful. But a lot has changed, especially in the past year. A new generation […]
It Takes a Village: Inciting Call to Action with Disease Prevention Outreach Programs Through Theoretical Foundation
In her 1996 book It Takes a Village, current presidential candidate and former United States Senator, First Lady, and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton detailed her view that multiple determinants, such as community involvement, cultural/environmental influences and social interactions, contribute to how a child is raised. Similarly, inciting a consumer call to action with […]
What’s the Role of Disease Awareness in Search?
Most pharmaceutical marketers understand the importance of including search marketing in their media plans. Often the champion of the final click, a good paid search campaign contributes to the overall success of any advertising effort and connects your brand to active seekers within the marketplace. Unfortunately, advertisers often focus the majority of their attention on […]
Driving Disease Awareness, 1 Month at a Time
It’s pretty much impossible to count how many people in the world are afflicted with disease; there are simply too many diseases and too many people to count. And if you count the loved ones of those with diseases, then it’s safe to say that virtually everyone is affected by disease. Our global population of […]
Our Mission: Breaking the Cycle
Diabetes. Heart Disease. Obesity. These are three preventable conditions that millions of Americans are living with today. Is misinformation or lack of information the cause? Are they educated but lack motivation to take necessary precautions? Each day people make numerous decisions that have a tremendous impact on their overall health. As health industry marketers, our […]