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Keys To A Successful Pharmaceutical Marketing Strategy

Building an effective pharma marketing strategy is essential to staying ahead in a fast-paced, competitive, and crowded marketplace. For companies, the pressure is on to succeed. For patients, the stakes are even higher.

Challenges of pharmaceutical marketing strategies

Like all marketing strategies, pharmaceutical marketing strategies aim for a basic objective: targeting the right audience at the right time with the right messaging via the right channels. Unlike other marketing, however, pharma marketing strategies must take into account the complex regulations and laws put in place to protect consumers. Additionally, marketers must contend with sometimes astronomically high costs of treatments and formulate additional marketing strategies aimed at educating patients and payers on the economic considerations of their offering. Connecting with the right audience is equally critical, and many healthcare providers and decision-making leaders can be notoriously hard to reach.

 

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Pharma marketing trends to watch

Current pharma marketing trends reflect the macro shift in how consumers receive information. Whereas pharma marketing was once directed to payers/physicians and patients separately, today’s pharma marketing trends show a blurring of that distinction. The shift to consumerism in healthcare means that pharma marketing is increasingly targeting patients directly. Along with this “direct to patient” pharma marketing trend comes opportunities to create and distribute informative content to patients across a wide array of marketing channels, including through digital and social channels. Boosting consumer engagement through these digitized channels is increasingly being augmented by the use of technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), telehealth, and an expanding use of real-world evidence in marketing. The employment of these new or evolving technologies is an important pharma marketing trend to watch.

Pharmaceutical marketing examples

Pharma marketing can take on many forms in today’s digital world. Along with traditional channels such as print advertising, television commercials, and conference marketing, the pharmaceutical marketing examples of today can include digital campaigns, pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, and social media campaigns. These pharma marketing examples touch on just a few of the broad array of outlets now available to connect pharma marketers with their target audiences, whether they be physicians, payers, or patients.     

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