Category Archives: Sales

Sales Rep vs. eDetail: Consider the Practice Area

By Ben Comer | Published: January 18, 2012
Forget illegal immigrants, it is machines that are stealing American jobs. For some medical practice areas, however, digital details haven’t sufficiently stepped in where their human sales rep predecessors have stepped (or have been pushed) out, according to a survey of U.S. physicians.
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GSK Reps Trade Sales Targets for Sales Competencies

By Ben Comer | Published: July 5, 2011
Last summer, GlaxoSmithKline announced plans to upend the pay structure for its US-based sales reps by removing incentives based on hard sales figures, or how many pills are sold. Instead of rewarding reps for the amount of product sold, GSK would begin rewarding reps for the quality of relationship they engender, the company said.
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Shrinks Like Latuda Over the Competition, Survey Finds

By Ben Comer | Published: May 11, 2011
Psychiatrists are more likely to recommend Sunovion Pharmaceuticals’ Latuda to colleagues than Merck’s Saphris or Novartis’ Fenapt, according to a DTW Marketing Research survey. All three drugs are atypical antipsychotics indicated for schizophrenia, and had US launches in late 2009 (Saphris), early 2010 (Fenapt) and February of this year (Latuda). Latuda, however, appears to be gaining [...]
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Will the iPad Replace the Rep?

By Guest Blogger | Published: May 11, 2011
By Beth Kennedy. With Big Pharma sales teams awash with iPads and 72% of US doctors now armed with smartphones for professional use, are we finally approaching the day when the rep is replaced by digital technology?  And if so, is it a good idea? The number of pharma sales reps industry has fallen by more than [...]
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Lives of Patients Keep Sales Reps off Life Support

By William Looney | Published: April 19, 2011
Pharm Exec’s sister conferencing unit explores the future of the US sales rep, including the implications of GSK’s new value-based compensation model Last week brought a small but dedicated group of sales professionals to a CBI conference in San Diego with a clear mandate: to rate the future of the “detail man” — dead or [...]
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