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Branding Your Company -- Right from the Start
Branding Your Company — Right from the Start Executives of emerging biotech companies face myriad challenges. While they may certainly understand the value of branding and marketing, those functions may command less of their attention during the early stages of company development than the challe...
By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008 -
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Letter from the Editor
PharmaVOICE June 2005 Letter from the Editor In 1990, some very smart women realized that to effect change in the industry, HBA was going to have to take an active role in recognizing women in leadership positions and increasing their visibility in the industry. “Since then, we have been recogniz...
By Taren Grom • Jan. 2, 2008 -
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What's on Your Mind -- Opinions
What’s on Your Mind — Opinions Opinions Blogs, which often combine a mixture of what is happening in a person’s life and what is happening on the Web into a type of hybrid diary/guide site, are quickly becoming important online resources for consumers and patients. Bloggers share personal informa...
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It's All About Changing Practice
It’s All About Changing Practice Each and every step along the drug-development path must focus on the end game — to define the place of a new drug in practice, and then to communicate the data clearly and consistently using all available channels. But can companies make themselves heard in th...
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Creating a Guidance System for Life-Science Brands
Creating a Guidance System for Life-Science Brands While meaningful biomedical research depends on proteomics, genetics, and genomics tools, their ultimate application also will depend on successful commercialization and marketing tools. Mark Stinson President ...
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Personalized Medicine: Our Industry's Next Great Leap Forward
Personalized Medicine: Our Industry’s Next Great Leap Forward Marketing Personalized medicine will drive medicine to become much more of a science than an art. And with that change, there will be many necessary fundamental changes to how our industry markets these innovations. Ri...
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Marketing Strategies for Emerging Companies: Lessons from the Maine Wilderness
Marketing Strategies for Emerging Companies: Lessons from the Maine Wilderness for Biotech and Biopharma I do not consider a sale complete until the goods are worn out and the customer (sic) is still satisfied.” When Leon Leonwood Bean posted those words in his humble Maine store in 1916 he wa...
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On the Calendar
May 16-17 Global Clinical Trials Hyatt Regency Jersey City, Jersey City, N.J. For more information, contact Caria Badenhorst, Marcus Evans, at 246-417-5321, e-mail [email protected], or visit marcusevans.com. May 16-17 5th Annual Sample Accountability Hyatt Regency Princeton, Princeton, N....
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Letter from the Editor
Taren Grom Companies are striving to improve competence in the key sales drivers — targeting, frequency, message, and coaching. May the force be with you… Anyone who has been to the doctor’s office in the past few years no doubt has noted that the waiting room, which was once occupied by...
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Simplify, Focus, and Align the Sales Process: New Performance Drivers for Success
Complexity and information overload are making it harder than ever for salespeople to execute brand strategy. The way sales reps communicate with physicians is woefully out of sync with the way physicians learn and incorporate new therapies...
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Sales Leadership Training for the Shifting Role of District Managers
George Schmidt Practice Executive Sales Practice Today’s district managers (DMs) operate in a very difficult environment. Sales reps face stiff competition in the field, physician access continues to decrease, the selling environment is more complex, and reps require more coaching and guida...
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Table of Contents
Letter from the Editor The Forum Sales Training: Strategic Initiatives to Improve Sales Effectiveness: Top-Level Commitment, Cooperation, Performance Measurement, and Front-Line Management Company Listing by Topic of Interest Compliance Training HCPro Inc. — Seven Elements of an Effective Complia...
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Seven Elements of an Effective Compliance Program: Don't Miss the Train
The federal and state governments have the pharmaceutical industry in their enforcement crosshairs. Multihundred million dollar settlements are no longer uncommon. As a result of these high-media-profile activities, large and small pharmaceutical companies are paying closer attention to the activ...
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Applying Instructional Design: Creating Training So Adults Get It, Retain It, and Use It
Applying Instructional Design: Creating Training So Adults Get It, Retain It, and Use It Debra L. Newton President Constance Billé, M.Ed. Instructional Strategist Lifelong learning has become both an absolute necessity and a fact of life. From manufacturing to service providers, work...
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E-Learning Gets Personal
David Werboff Group Director, Project Management Informa Training Partners Ron Burns President protonMEDIA There will always be a time and a place for text-based training programs as well as face-to-face, in-person workshops, but today’s e-learning programs are filling in...
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Web Conferencing: The New Sales Training
The pharmaceutical industry is increasingly using a completely new approach to train sales reps; one that’s far more convenient and cost-effective than live seminars. The new technique? Web conferences, an emerging, highly effective Internet technology that reduces training delivery costs, create...
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C + C + C + C = A+: A Blended Learning Formula for an A+ Salesforce
C + C + C + C = A+: A Blended Learning Formula for an A+ Salesforce Ruth A. Vukelich President and CEO Companies get only one shot at a successful product launch. The outcome of the launch often has long-term implications for the profitability and longevity of the brand and the organizatio...
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Separate But Equal: Why It's Important to Consider Content Separately from Presentation
Peter Sandford Executive VP Thinking of content and presentation as separate entities is critical to creating effective e-learning programs that offer positive educational experiences akin to those encountered with favorite teachers — excitement, involve...
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Accelerating Market Adoption Through Launch Training
Greg Long Chief Learning Architect Time to market is sometimes a misleading concept. Instead, think in terms of the time required to effectively penetrate a target market. A company’s salesforce is often the single-most important factor that determines the time between product launch and desi...
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Evidence-Based Training: Turning Learning Research Into Results
Kevin Kruse President It’s time for our industry to take inspiration from the EBM movement. I modestly suggest that the pharmaceutical sales-training industry start to practice “evidence-based training.” In 1996, in an editorial published by the BMJ (British Medical Jou...
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PharmaTrax
Nano-Enabled Drug Discovery Market to Reach $1.3 Billion by 2009 Nano-enabled drug-discovery solutions will generate revenue of $1.3 billion in 2009 and increase to $2.5 billion in 2012, according to a new report from NanoMarkets LC. The report, The Impact of Nanotechnology in Drug Discovery: Glo...
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E-Media
Infotrieve Introduces New Search and Discovery Tool The LSRC employs a radically different approach to discovery, evolving the traditional use of content from a “find-and-review” approach to a unique “search-discover-and-create” approach capable of delivering dramatic improvements in research pro...
By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008 -
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Innovation and Renovation Needed to Move Brands Forward
Innovation and Renovation Needed to Move Brands Forward To achieve higher levels of brand success, we should all challenge ourselves to re-examine the structure of the marketing teams at both the manufacturer and the agency, and look for ways to incorporate better insights and...
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Vioxx and the End of an Era: 7 Reasons We Can't Stuff the Genie Back in the Bottle
Vioxx and the End of an Era 7 Reasons We Can’t Stuff the Genie Back in the Bottle Donald Phillips CEO Single events don’t equate with trends. Some events serve as powerful indicators of broader forces. The withdrawal of Vioxx, and its ramifications, speaks volumes. In 2005, a new era in t...
By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008 -
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Letter from the Editor
Letter from the Editor Taren Grom Healthcare advertising is a sophisticated discipline, more so now than ever before, and it is subject to greater scrutiny and criticism. Have a life. Take back your vacation. This is the tagline for Universal Orlando’s multimillion dollar television...
By PharmaVoice Team • Jan. 2, 2008
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