Opportunity for pharma marketing: Social media engagement with doctors

Physicians, patients and everyone else in the world now embrace Social media engagement/ digital tools to learn and connect with one another. In response to this interest in digital engagement, the pharmaceutical industry must embrace commercial strategies that reach, appeal to and educate an ever-expanding online audience. The healthcare profession is now going digital, following […]

Why does pharma content marketing need to step on the new stage of its development path?

It is important for pharma marketers today, to have dedicated a pharma content marketing for every brand, supported by a content marketing budget that caters to today’s digital-savvy customers. Importance of content marketing We want to create content to address our target customers’ concerns, genuinely. Only when we identify with the customer’s pain points and […]

Healthcare Personas for Pharma: Defining target market of pharmaceutical companies.

Healthcare Personas help you discover and stay focused on your audience. They showcase your audience’s motivations, challenges, concerns and behaviors – the things that underpin the healthcare decisions they make – so that you can build structures, processes, designs and content that resonate with them. In the healthcare industry, your organization might have a variety […]

What works and what does not when it comes to Pharma Sales strategy

Selling in the Pharma Sales strategy is very different to other industries due to the nature of the product offering. There are a number of key factors to consider, including heavy regulation, ethical issues, key influencers (key opinion leaders) and the overall selling process. Changes in the Pharmaceutical sales model have forced Global Pharmaceutical Sales […]

Decoding Indian Pharma Sales Managers

The prescription medicines business in India is primarily driven by the field Indian Pharma Sales Managers. These Indian Pharma Sales Managers regularly visit the doctors to update them about the various medicines their pharmaceutical company makes/markets with an attempt to convince them to prescribe it for the patients. Indian Pharma Sales Managers also make sure […]

Is the Pharmaceutical Medical Sales Rep an Endangered species?

Pharmaceutical Medical Sales reps sell a company’s products, whether for pharmaceutical companies or healthcare equipment manufacturers, serving as the liaison between the customers and the manufacturer. The Pharmaceutical Medical Sales also promotes the features and benefits of the company’s products, answers questions, provides consultation on the use of the product, and introduces new products as […]

What are the challenges to Consultative Selling in Pharma?

Consultative Selling in Pharma is a philosophy rooted in building a relationship between you and your prospects. A salesperson who practices Consultative Selling in Pharma develops a holistic and nuanced understanding of the buyer’s needs, and then they try to fulfill those needs with a customized solution. Since pharmaceutical sales calls can occur in unusual […]

Will Closed-Loop Marketing Energize the Pharma Sales Process?

The social, demographic and economic context in which the Pharma Sales Process operates is changing dramatically, with huge implications for the industry as a whole. All these challenges have major ramifications for the way in which pharmaceutical companies market and sell the medicines they develop. With these challenges comes pressure to gain efficiencies in all […]

How to Measure Pharma Salesforce Effectiveness the Right Way

Everyone knows the pharmaceutical industry’s commercial model is changing; or at least it should be. The legacy approach, led by traditional Pharma Salesforce detailing of key clinical messages to individual target customers, is being replaced by more account-focused communications delivered across diverse stakeholder groups. As the communications paradigm shifts with the rapid growth of mobile […]