Health Care Marketing & Research Blog
Mind Your Own Bobber: 1 Confession and 5 Tips for Staying True to Your Brand
The first thing you need to know is that I love to fish. I hardly ever get out on the lake these days, but when I do, I'm in my happy place. I even have a picture of a bobber floating on the water taped to the monitor on my desk. You would think that bobber is on my...
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Caspar Szulc: Believe in Better Project Speaker Series
What would happen if health care innovators and leaders from across the country got together for two days to share solutions to fixing our broken health care system? It happened at The Believe in Better Project 2018 and it is going to happen again in 2019. This year,...
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Sarah Bamford Seidelmann: Believe in Better Project Speaker Series
In October of 2018, we hosted The Believe in Better Project—an inaugural two-day event focused on fixing what we believe is our broken health care system. We gathered change agents and experts from around the country together to share their insight, their solutions...
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Gray Miller: Believe in Better Project Speaker Series
The Believe in Better Project debuted on two days last October and it’s happening again this year. The purpose of The Believe in Better Project is to begin transforming what we believe is our broken health care system. You’re invited to view videos of the inspiring...
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Philip Kurtz: Believe in Better Project Speaker Series
For two days last October we hosted The Believe in Better Project. Our purpose was to start fixing what we believe is our broken health care system. Our goal was to gather together a handful of experts in their field from around the country to share their work and...
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What keeps health care marketers up at night?
We recently fielded a survey of health care marketers to ask three open-ended questions. What is the most stubborn challenge you face right now? When you think about the future of health care and your role, what’s one thing that concerns you? What do you want to be...
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The Believe in Better Project Speaker Series
At the inaugural Believe in Better Project conference in 2018, we brought together people from around the country who are working on issues surrounding health care—specifically issues that addressed how health care is broken in many ways for so many people. We invite...
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Marketers: How to Get Patients to Take Action
If you’re in health care marketing, you know your job is challenging. When I made the shift in my advertising career from packaged goods and retail brands to health care, I realized I was no longer in the business of peddling want: I was now in the business of...
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How to Conduct Onscreen Patient Interviews (That Don’t Suck)
In health care marketing, nothing beats a good story with a happy ending. And video is often the most effective way to capture these stories. But how do you get patients and caregivers to talk to you on camera in a way that doesn’t feel stilted or forced or awkward...
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The best health care advertising headlines we’ve ever read (or written)
Have you ever read a headline that just blew you away? The kind that sticks in your head. The kind you compare all headlines to. Throughout the over 40 years we’ve focused on health care advertising and marketing, we’ve run across several that have stood above the...
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Fake news challenges everyone’s health—especially marketers
Bad news alert: there’s a shocking amount of health information floating around online that’s dubious or downright dangerous. From fad diets to cures for cancer, baldness and beyond, articles with biased or unbalanced advice are nothing new. But this might be:...
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The #1 Skill of the Best Health Care Chief Marketing Officers
Of all the amazing traits and skills of the leading CMOs we’ve had the privilege of working with for 40+ years, what is the number one skill that sets the most effective CMOs apart from all the others? I believe the answer is simple: the ability to build consensus for...
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The art and science of health care marketing persona development
Wouldn’t it be amazing if you understood your patients so well that creating content for them was like sitting down and having a discussion? Wouldn’t it be even better if you knew where to find them and how to get their attention? That’s the magic of...
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The importance of words in cancer care marketing
I’ve lost several close friends to cancer, my dad has had recurrences of the disease over the past decade, and just recently my beloved sister-in-law was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. At this writing, thank goodness, we know that her tumor has not...
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The Emotion/Engagement Health Care Marketing Matrix
As a writer, I am all about emotion. I have always believed that there’s an emotional core to every decision we make. I also believe that’s a good thing. Our emotions are what make us human. Backing me up is some strong science called neuromarketing. According to...
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5 Ways Marketers Should Think Like A Patient
Health care marketers have a tremendous responsibility to be advocates for the patients and prospective patients that their organizations serve. After all, modern marketing is ultimately the practice of adding value. Without advocating what today’s...
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This holiday season take 15 minutes to reflect on what matters
Yes, this time of year is busy. And as I get older, it seems to get even busier. Work, family, friends—all good things, but having the time to do everything, see everyone and be everywhere you need to be can put a serious dent in your holiday spirit....
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Health Care Marketers! Why Aren’t You On Instagram Yet?
It’s only eight years old, but the explosive growth of Instagram in that time—and even in the last 18 months—is astonishing. Claiming now more than 1 billion monthly active users, and with a growth of 20% from 2017 to 2018, it’s a platform that brands can...
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Content Marketing To Nurture The Health Care B2B Sale
Content marketing for B2B has one core purpose: to encourage a sale. In health care B2B, where sales cycles can be 18–24 months or longer, with multiple decision-makers, content marketing is a powerful—but an often underutilized—strategy for creating new...
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This Thanksgiving take time to listen.
The world is a wee bit crazy right now. Twenty-four-hour news about completely insane things. Communities split down the middle with differing beliefs and opinions. Families struggling to “leave politics at the door” when they gather for this holiday born...
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