Category Archives: Sales

ePharma Summit: Turning Big Data into Better Content

Physicians and patients are more intimately engaged with their digital devices than ever before, but the content pharma delivers is either rigidly scientific or numbingly bland. Can stronger analytical processes and more data produce a scalable human voice for individual customers?
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Why Don't Those Damn Marketers 'Do' Digital?

By Sven Awege. Over the last few years I’ve worked with pharma marketers trying to preach and teach the virtues of digital channels. It has been a thankless task, with bucket loads of blood, sweat, and tears of frustration. I have used a number of different techniques, from talking about the revolution in big forums to [...]
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Pharma's Promotional Spend: What's the Right Target?

Global consultancy Cegedim has released its latest survey on how and where big Pharma puts its promotional dollar. Pharmaceutical Promotional Spend: Global Trends reports that spending in emerging markets significantly increased last year, while Europe and US declined slightly.  Although overall promotion spending remained flat worldwide at $90 billion, the US still accounts for the [...]
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Oncologists, in Detail

On average, cancer docs in the US would much rather deal with pharma sales reps in person as opposed to online, and drug companies are hiring more reps to support a slew of newly approved oncologic drugs, even as reps in other therapeutic areas get pink slips. But external pressures are likely to further limit [...]
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Pharma 2012 Layoffs

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