Huh? It may sound ridiculous, but it illustrates one of the most significant marketing and PR challenges facing healthcare IT companies today. Many innovative healthcare companies are pioneering products and services that are ahead of the market—helping improve patient safety, enabling better care delivery or delivering greater efficiencies to business operations. Yet your prospect often [...]
Whether you’re selling to consumers or other businesses, there’s no better endorsement than one from a client, and this is especially true for healthcare IT vendors. Showing prospects that you have clients willing to speak on your behalf gives your product third-party credibility and often puts it ahead of competitive products. We’ve included five ways [...]
Looking to get more out of Twitter? Avid users and newcomers alike can easily expand their industry knowledge, stay on top of the latest trends and monitor best practices − all by following the right mix of associations, pundits and experts. Here’s a brief guide to get you started:
Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (@HIMSS). [...]
This Q&A is from our conversation with Jim Riley, vice president sales and marketing at Capario. We asked him to share his thoughts on the healthcare company’s recent rebranding initiative, which spanned everything from a new corporate name, logo and tagline to a new Web site, collateral materials and a comprehensive public relations campaign.
Q: Why [...]
With more than 40 million estimated users, LinkedIn is fast becoming an essential tool for professionals interested in more effectively promoting their businesses or expanding their career networks. While a growing number of professionals are ‘linking in,’ few users have truly optimized the value of this evolving social networking site. Here are some productive ways [...]
With an ever increasing quantity of healthcare blogs, Web sites and other digital venues, do you ever wonder if this media growth translates to more news or just better distribution of stories already generated by the mainstream press? Or if commenting on an article actually triggers more coverage on a topic?
If so, you’re not alone. [...]
By now, most people are aware of what Twitter is and how a “tweet” works. One unexpected aspect of this social media tool has been its positive impact on the relationship between journalists and PR professionals. We have found that an increasing amount of healthcare publications and journalists are utilizing Twitter as a vehicle for assembling [...]
Anthony Guerra, Editor-in-Chief for Healthcare Informatics, provides some solid tips on working more effectively with the media.
Selling is selling, and we’re all selling something. For me, I’m selling my audience, knowledge of the industry and professionalism when I try to get a healthcare CIO on the phone. I’m selling the fact that I know [...]
I was pleased to participate as a guest presenter in the Physicians Practice 2009 Podcast Series: Marketing to Physicians Today. Four great topics helping vendors zero in on the current state of the physician marketplace.
My podcast addressed ways to bolster advertising results through the use of PR. The basic premise is this: Even if you [...]
Feel like you’re the only one NOT using Twitter? Well, you might eventually be right! According to comScore’s recently released numbers, worldwide visitors to Twitter.com increased 95 percent in the month of March 2009 from 9.8 million to 19.1 million, making it the fastest-growing site last month. Of this, U.S. visitors represented 9.3 million alone. [...]