Sales & Marketing

The key ingredients for biopharma startups in building their brand story.

Why Key Online Influencers are so important and how to leverage them.

By the end of 2020, it is predicted that AI will create more jobs than it is taking. Should reps be concerned, asks David Logue.

Outlining three practices that are key to navigating today’s multiplayer agency landscape - and getting more value from each external vendor.

Strategies for pharma in delivering the full picture to patients.

Companies need to find compelling ways to present facts, rather than slick but insubstantial promotions.

A checklist of best practices for mid-life products a few years after launch to help companies with growing oncology portfolios determine not only to see if there’s hidden vitality still left in their aging brands.

Greg Flynn discusses the advantages, challenges and possible future of CCOs and outlines their role in effective sales strategy development.

Shrujitha Ramanujam outlines Unmetric's analysis of pharma's social media activity on LinkedIn and Facebook.

Gary Lyon explores the role and impact of three elements of marketing planning that drive business success: Segmentation, Targeting, and Positioning.

Sharon Callahan, this year’s Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association Woman of the Year, has built a career defined by an entrepreneurial drive to advance medical communications-and a commitment to breaking down barriers in the workplace and beyond.

Despite being the fastest growing influencers in healthcare, ad campaigns targeted at payers are often an afterthought.

Jean-Francois Denault outlines a systemic approach to evaluating the commercial viability of a product.

Clinical trials for precision therapies will require a healthy dose of education, collaboration, and data-driven decision-making from everyone involved in the process―not to mention a dedication to digital technology. Justin Grossman reports.

Creating a culture of analytics will help you get the most out of your marketing efforts, writes Justin Grossman.

Wide-ranging probes to target marketing, pricing, and access.

Kilian Weiss, Veeva Oncology Link General Manager, talks about how the Oncology Link offering has evolved and how it facilitates the process of identifying and approaching key opinion leaders.

Being more human in brand engagement doesn’t mean being less transparent

Like Facebook, many healthcare companies are trying to become more "like people", despite being anything but. They should instead prioritize transparency and engaging in knowledge-sharing with the public, writes Julia Stern,

Regulators, prosecutors shifting enforcement focus from off-label promotion to messages that raise safety issues, mislead.

Global healthcare is at a crossroads when it comes to date, clinical trials, and content marketing.

Behavioral social scientists try to understand human behavior and find ways to make people accept and adapt it. Pharma sales and marketing is no different – especially with the launch of a new product, writes Charles Daramola.

Brands should look to their agencies to be a true data-driven business partner, not just a creative partner, writes Kevin Troyanos.

Thee most effective way to train sales reps and boost their success is to consider the learner/user experience in all facets, in every training encounter, and on each training platform, writes Shaun McMahon.

With specialty companies getting smarter in applying their big data insights to product marketing, the true commercial potential of machine learning and predictive modeling may soon be within reach.