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Marketing to Stressed Out Healthcare Consumers
Are you more stressed out today than you were a year ago? Unfortunately, so are your healthcare consumers. For marketers, stressed consumers mean scattered journeys and meeting them where they are. But how? For our June Campfire webinar, we invited Hinge Health and...
How Healthcare Marketers Can Help Healthcare Recruitment
Now that 3 in 10 healthcare workers are considering leaving the profession, and many health systems are reporting a 20% loss in the current workforce, recruitment is an all-hands mission. Not so fast, say many healthcare marketers. We already have full plates. We...
The State of Healthcare B2B Marketing: What Buyers Want
On February 24, 2022, we hosted a campfire dedicated to B2B healthcare marketing: the trends, best practices, what buyers want, changes in buying journeys, and predictions about the future of in-person conferences and presentations. Special thanks to our rockstar...
Facing Health System Capacity Challenges? Leverage Rapid-Response Marketing.
Watch our complete 2022 Healthcare Marketing Trends Campfire Webinar Supply chain and labor shortages. Higher acuity patients. The unpredictability of what’s next for COVID-19 and hospitalization rates. Geez. And we thought healthcare marketing was challenging before...
3 Healthcare Marketing Predictions for 2022 That Should Be In Your Next Strategy Brief
I recently hosted a live discussion with four of my favorite minds and voices in the healthcare marketing community: Chris Boyer, Colin Hung, Rob Klein, and Curtis Munlin. I posed a simple question to the panel: What are your 2022 predictions for healthcare marketers?...
Is Recruitment the Next Health Care Marketing Crisis?
According to recent studies, between 20% and 30% of front-line U.S. health care workers say they are now considering leaving their profession—for good. Traditionally, health care HR and marketing departments have worked independently. But given the staffing crisis,...
The Road to Digital Health Transformation: Are We There Yet?
Digital front doors … Data visualization … Patient pathways … and Chimeras. These were just a few of the topics we discussed during our 8/13/21 Campfire Chat with Christina Campo from Scripps Health, Therese Lockemy from Johns Hopkins Medicine, and our very own...
Health Care Marketing’s Role in the Post-Pandemic Cleanup
Dear Health Care Marketer: we have our work cut out for us. As we’ve been documenting, our health care consumers have changed since the pandemic. Some of that change is good: 36% of baby boomers report they feel confident using new technology—a 10% increase since...
COVID Brain: What to Know When Marketing to Patient Consumers
“COVID Brain.” Do the recent digital privacy updates mean the end of digital marketing as we know it? Should hospitals see Walmart as their next—and perhaps greatest—fiscal threat? These were just a few topics I asked our panel of health care marketing industry...
COVID-19: The 5 Connection Points Health Care Must Nurture
One year ago (give or take a few weeks), our focus as health care communicators and leaders shifted from brand-driven communication to purpose-driven communication—and making connections with our audiences in order to provide vital health information. On this...
The Health Care Marketer’s Post-Pandemic World
Who remembers Stretch Armstrong? He was the muscular, gel-filled action figure toy who could stretch from his original size of 15 inches to 4 or 5 feet and then bounce back again. That’s how one of our three guest panelists, Kelly Meigs from Tanner Health in Georgia,...
Engagement is the New Branding: 2021 Health Care Marketing Trends Report
As we face another year of planning inside a global pandemic there is one (and only one) trend that we believe needs to be front and center for health care marketers—patient-consumer engagement. Join us as we back up the bold statement that engagement is the new...
2021 Health Care Marketing Predictions
One of Hailey Sault’s core values is to be fearless. That’s why in a year that is starting out to be anything but predictable, we’re kicking off this whole first month of 2021 with health care marketing predictions and trends. This Campfire Session lays the groundwork...
What Your Patients Want Right Now
This just in from Hailey Sault’s latest national research study, released December 10, on what consumers are thinking about and wanting from health systems and providers: The number of patients actively contemplating new providers is staggering. The good news: there...
Vaccines, “COVID Brain,” and the Path Back to Care
The new COVID vaccines are medical miracles. But are your patients ready to take them? Overcoming fears and building engagement will be key in convincing the diverse populations you serve to roll up their sleeves for the good of their own health, as well as the health...
Why Your Patients May Be Leaving Your Brand. (And What To Do About It)
Since 2014, Hailey Sault has conducted several research projects surrounding patient choice. With each study, our results indicate that patients are more willing to switch providers based on a set of defined characteristics. This year, if trends hold, around 28...
Engagement Reboot: Addressing Our Health Audiences’ Challenges
Between now and the time when mass vaccination becomes a reality, the idea of keeping our audiences engaged, active and healthy has to become our purpose. So, as many of us find ourselves in the midst of another surge in COVID-19 numbers—and stress begins to build...
Diversity, Inclusion and Health Equity: 15 minutes about how to take action
At Hailey Sault, we believe in better. It is our purpose. Part of believing in better is an absolute belief that health care is a right—that no matter who you are, where you live, or how much money you make, you have the right to care that will allow you to live your...
The Next New Normal in Health Care Marketing
Thanks to this pandemic, the next new normal in health care marketing is a constantly evolving, constantly moving target. But that’s not all bad. We (meaning all of us in the health care marketing business) have been forced to continually pivot, to think in new ways,...
Health Care Marketing Right Now: Good for Patients, Communities and Hospitals
“COVID’s impact has been devastating in many ways—and it's been incredibly inspiring,” said our October 9th Campfire guest John Looney, MSM, Vice President of Marketing, Communications and Public Affairs at Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Mass General Brigham. “On the...