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Why Twitter Isn’t Facebook

There has been a lot of speculation since it was announced this summer as to why Twitter was embedded so deeply into the new iOS5. Actually, the speculation…

There’s No Such Thing As A Product

When I went to pharmaceutical marketing blogging school, they taught us to always lead with a killer headline, something that demands people’s attention. I always try to pick…

CRM? I Know What You’re Waiting For.

Let me take you back a long, long time ago to the day I joined Diaryland. You don’t remember DL? I’m not surprised, because three months later I…

Is Pharma Addicted to E-mail?

How often is too often to send an e-mail to someone? What’s the magic number of e-mails per day/week/month that defines the border between Helpful Communication and everyone’s…

Take This App and Call Me in the Morning

I wonder if it’s too early to say if there’s a movement happening here. I see signs that remind me of the big shifts that have happened online…

Does Pharma Really Need To Be In the Mobile Sector?

Yes. You need to be in the mobile game. Why mobile? Well, that’s easy. 40% (and rising) of Americans have a smart phone. 20% have a tablet. These…

Does Facebook Know It Just Entered the Medical/Wellness Market?

Even if you’ve heard the news from Facebook, you might not have seen the implications from a medical/pharma standpoint. Facebook announced a new tool called Facebook Timeline. Scrape…

Pharma CRM and Social: Um, No. But…

It is tempting to look at CRM and say “we now have collected a lot of structured data about many/most HCPs… So I wonder what other interesting data…

What Do HCPs Want? Tick, Tock,Tick, Tock…

So Frank Dolan (you might know him as @pharma411 and despite the fact that we’ve never met I will refer to in an informal manner) posted a study…

Take a Poll: Your Marketing Strategy Process

Do you have a process or method for creating a new marketing strategy? I’d like to see what others are doing. I’m not asking anyone to reveal anything…

Social Isn’t the Answer! What’s the Question?

RichardM over at World of DTC Marketing posted STOP! Social media is not the answer as argument as to why pharma should stay out of the social game….

How To Get Anyone To Get Involved In Your Website

If you haven’t read Pixels and Pill’s post on the Challenges of Getting People Involved on Your Website, you should go get acclimated (and really, why aren’t you…

Can Tech Replace the Rep?

The good folks over at Pixels and Pills have been having a debate as to whether technology can replace the rep (catch up with part one and part…

Does Anyone Really Use QR Codes? (Answer:Yes)

Without sounding glib or without revealing too much info, we had a conference call last month about a proposal. In it, we mentioned that we would suggest attaching…

Our Tech Outlook

While doing some work for a client, I ended up putting together a rough outline of what kinds of technological platform shifts we can expect to see in…

Panic at Twitter Point

So Twitter finally turned on promoted tweets within your feed (It took them long enough). But that hasn’t stopped everyone from freaking out about it. I’ll just spoil…

Social and Mobile: The Beast With Two Heads

So I’m putting some research together for a project and something hit me. Something I probably saw, read, or even thought before but I felt the need to…

Should We Bother?

Over at pharmastrategyblog.com, the question was raised: Should Pharma/Biotech even bother with social media? “…social media is about engagement and sharing; dealing with the challenges of unhappy patients…

Old School v New School is Dead

So how do HCPs get new info on pharma? Almost half go to standard sources like books and sales reps or go to conferences and symposia (based on…

What you missed at the Life Science CRM Forum

To best explain what kind of conference this was, I saw a lot of corporate Dell laptops and pretty much Apple products (except ipads and iphones). No geeks, not…

Is your system a strategy? Or vice versa?

So I’ve been reading a slew of books about strategy. Why? well, mostly because I feel like there’s this gap between academic strategy (Porter, Mintzberg, et al) and…

Is There A Wall Between HCPs and The Internet?

Over on KevinMD.com, Dr. Eytan put together a quick survey of doctors on Sermo about HCP attitudes about social media. It would seem that HCPs are not interested…

The Full Truth About Social Media

I’m gonna stop the song and dance about social media and how pharma can use it, because we’re all struggling with a mostly unspoken issue. As marketers, we…

The “2 P”s of Strategy (Part 1)

When the gods of marketing sent down their stone tablets (since they were marketing gods, they expensed the marble and had a lavish party; Kanye showed up) to…

What’s The Difference Between A Doctor and a Politician?

It’s not the setup to an off-color joke (though, to be frank, it certainly could be at this point), its a way of thinking about how different types…

Sermo, Meet Mark Zuckerberg

So, if you’re paying attention, it looks like our friend Sermo is having a bad couple of weeks. Sermo is a “publisher” or purveyor of a web site, somewhat like…

Small, local and completely measurable

Last week, some of our staff did a download from their trip to SXSW. We sent four people, looking at four different areas of tech and marketing, both…

I Thought People Were Only Interested In Themselves…

I’ll just let you in on a little secret. I’m not the best when it comes to managing my finances. It seems like a lot of work for…

Social Media Is All About “Finding The Voice.” Are You Listening, Pharma?

Today in MarketingProfs, an article about how the “human voice” in social media builds customer relationships. I’ll just file that under “DUH” again (this folder is getting kinda…

Who’s on first? Probably Facebook.

This week has been crazy, so a link I wanted to post last week has been delayed until this week.  Sigh.  Anyway, according to the Social Doctor, Doctor’s…

The Real First Rule of Marketing Is…

If you don’t follow @jowyang, you probably should. He’s not pharma, but he’s been a guy I’ve followed in the web strategy world for years now. He’s got…

I Was Wrong: Facebook Doesn’t Hate Pharma, Facebook Hates the FDA

Everyone’s got their lab coats in a twist because Facebook has finally stopped flirting with the idea of enabling comments and likes for all Pages and just kisses…

Giants Roam These Grounds

Something occurred to me on the train this morning (yes, I spend my morning commute thinking about what to post here. If it helps, I spend my evening…

mmmmmmHealth (yummy)

So, I’ve been spending a little time thinking about mobile lately for a client, and I keep coming back to a bias I have, one that someone refuted…

Yes, a Post About Pharma Social Media

Some of you are waiting for the feds to issue guidelines on what pharma can do in the social media (in my mind, you’re building forts make of…