social marketing

Doing Social Marketing in Pharma and other Heavily Regulated Industries

http://bit.ly/3XsK5j

Excerpt:

Conventional wisdom would probably say that social marketing is impossible in industries like financial services, pharmaceutical, and healthcare due to heavy regulations and requirements for disclosure. More specifically, in the pharmaceutical industry there exists a regulation that requires companies to report “adverse events” to the Federal Drug Administration within 72 hours of “hearing” it. At first glance, this single regulation could render most forms of online marketing — which are based on two-way communications — to be out of bounds; especially social media, where people talk online.


Thanks for all the RTs and Comments:

ZnaTrainerRT @AlexSchleber: Great, thoughtful post,applies to all SMM: How to Do Social Marketing in Heavily Regulated Industrieshttp://bit.ly/5wmOdz

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jpoloObserving: “How to Do Social Marketing in Heavily Regulated Industries – “, http://bit.ly/5W350A

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agDesignNetworkRT @HealthIntel: Pharma: Socializing in a Straightjacket-Players tiptoe into social media http://j.mp/6CVT9r #fdasm #hcsm

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blogaceuticsRT @whydotpharma: Must read! RT @HealthIntel: How to Do Social Marketing in Heavily Regulated Industries. http://j.mp/6CVT9r

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NovaChelsRT @whydotpharma: Must read! RT @HealthIntel: How to Do Social Marketing in Heavily Regulated Industries. http://j.mp/6CVT9r#hcsm #fdasm

lenstarnesRT @whydotpharma: Must read! RT @HealthIntel: How to Do Social Marketing in Heavily Regulated Industries. http://j.mp/6CVT9r#hcsm #fdas …

whydotpharmaMust read! RT @HealthIntel: How to Do Social Marketing in Heavily Regulated Industries. http://j.mp/6CVT9r #hcsm #fdasm #hcsmeu

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twittinvestorReading: How to do social media in heaviliy regulated industries http://bit.ly/7fO8ew #ir #pr #finance

EvertJanKoningvery interesting dicussion on social web for complex organisations: http://www.clickz.com/3635397

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ljlynchFinancial planners & others who think that regulations prevent their participation social media need to read this article. http://ow.ly/IKgO

JonSherman121How to do Social Media in Heavily Regulated Industries http://ow.ly/IH75 #socialmedia

TVGnetworkHow to Do Social Marketing in Heavily Regulated Industries http://bit.ly/4NkCgU

darknebrijoDo you work in a heavily regulated industry and find it hard to do social media marketing? A few tips here.http://www.clickz.com/3635397

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rpvegaRT @HSM_Mexico: How to Do Social Marketing in Heavily Regulated Industries http://bit.ly/7jtVaT // IS NOT ABOUT REACH ! =)

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jellsworthFighting resistance to SM marketing in a regulated industry like pharm or financial? Social may be your ONLY option.http://ow.ly/Ahx8

Steve_GorgesAugustine Fou’s How to Do Social Marketing in Heavily Regulated Industries http://bit.ly/1gey14

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SunSweptRT @glenngabe: How to Do Social Marketing in Heavily Regulated Industries http://bit.ly/1lmtq5 via @acfou – interesting comments Augustine

glenngabeHow to Do Social Marketing in Heavily Regulated Industries http://bit.ly/1lmtq5 via @acfou – some interesting comments taking on Augustine

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snd7RT @domain7: Good challenge – how to to use social media for heavily regulated industries: http://bit.ly/2HznSn – JE

domain7Good challenge – how to to use social media for heavily regulated industries: http://bit.ly/2HznSn – JE

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CollinsCompanySocial marketing in Heavily Regulated Industries. Good article! http://www.clickz.com/3635397

zaifmandHow to Do Social Marketing in Heavily Regulated Industries – ClickZ: http://www.clickz.com/3635397

OutOfTheBoxMXSocial Media: How to Do Social Marketing in Heavily Regulated Industries great article http://bit.ly/1gey14

emELLemjOEDoing Social Marketing in Pharma and other Heavily Regulated Industries: http://bit.ly/3XsK5j Excerpt: Conventi..http://bit.ly/Uo326

acfouSome are arguing that pharma should stay out of social marketing altogether (i.e. bury its head in the dirt?) - http://bit.ly/3XsK5j

nextdigitalInteresting discussion on the use of social media in heavily regulated industries http://bit.ly/1eMeyy ^JD
RasterMediaSocial marketing in highly regulated industries – good idea? http://bit.ly/4Bjpkw
blogaceuticsHow to Do Social Marketing in Heavily Regulated Industries [ClickZ] http://bit.ly/1lmtq5
carmenmelRT @acfou: How to Do Social Marketing in Heavily Regulated Industries (pharma, banking); shout out in comments – http://bit.ly/3XsK5j
jlucianoAWESOME article about companies in regulated industries using social media. MUST READ!!: http://su.pr/2kzcwb
travismcglassonHow to Do Social Marketing in Heavily Regulated Industries from ClickZ http://ow.ly/vV7U
digitransformerDr. Fou of HCG on “How to Do Social Marketing in Heavily Regulated Industries” http://icio.us/5vuqhq
mgarrityRT @edlee: how to apply social marketing in highly regulated industries http://tr.im/CG1e Amen, Ed.
BLRGlobalHow to Do Social Marketing in Heavily Regulated Industries: At first glance, this single regulation could rende.. http://bit.ly/Gwpa1
edleehow to apply social marketing in highly regulated industries http://tr.im/CG1e
danrevansHow to do Social Media Marketing in heavily regulated industries: http://bit.ly/CQwZv
SensataCreativeGreat article regarding heavily regulated industries and #socialmedia http://ow.ly/vXEU #marketing
NPCReviewHow to Do Social Marketing in Heavily Regulated Industries http://bit.ly/3r9UAh
KdierufRT @jjvollenweider SM is about listening, but will consumers actually talk back in heavily regulated industries? http://bit.ly/2VcRHi
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moonstep1969RT @onlinexpert How to Do Social Marketing in Heavily Regulated Industries http://www.clickz.com/3635397#
4wdnameHow to Do Social Marketing in Heavily Regulated Industries: At first glance, this single regulation could rende.. http://bit.ly/Gwpa1
jennywellsRT @acfou How to Do Social Marketing in Heavily Regulated Industries (pharma, banking); shout out in comments – http://bit.ly/3XsK5j
jonwchinHow to Do Social Marketing in Heavily Regulated Industries http://bit.ly/1lmtq5
pjmachadoSM in regulated industries – http://bit.ly/1lmtq5
kkwiatkoIt’s easy for to listen, but reg make it hard to – How to Do Social Marketing in Heavily Regulated Industries http://bit.ly/1gey14
dkasrelIt can be done: RT @Intouchsol: How to do Social Marketing in Heavily Regulated Industries;-http://bit.ly/1lmtq5
IntouchsolGreat read- “How to do Social Marketing in Heavily Regulated Industries”-http://bit.ly/1lmtq5
jjvollenweiderSocial media is about listening, but will consumers actually talk back in heavily regulated industries? http://is.gd/4vQuE
bernhardjennyHow to Do Social Marketing in Heavily Regulated Industries http://is.gd/4vnk9 #social #marketing
mikenewhousesocial network marketing for heavily regulated industries – good article here – http://www.clickz.com/3635397
EnterSuccessHow to Do Social Marketing in Heavily Regulated Industries: As additional regulations begin to force traditiona.. http://bit.ly/Gwpa1
JDennistonHow to Do Social Marketing in Heavily Regulated Industries http://bit.ly/3ylgJm
AlexNeufeldtHow to Do Social Marketing in Heavily Regulated Industries: As additional regulations begin to force traditiona.. http://bit.ly/Gwpa1
mannscRT @RichardEByrd: Social Marketing… How to Do Social Marketing in Heavily Regulated Industries: By Augustine.. http://bit.ly/2XHmGJ
acfouHow to Do Social Marketing in Heavily Regulated Industries (pharma, banking); shout out in comments – http://bit.ly/3XsK5j

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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 Uncategorized 1 Comment

Digital Orchestration

digital orchestration means helping clients orchestrate and coordinate the activities of agencies that have particular specialties — search engine optimization (SEO), search engine marketing (SEM), website design and build, analytics, social marketing, etc. Too often, clients are not comfortable asking about digital or don’t know enough to tell if the agency specialists are recommending the correct strategy or tactic.

search consultants typically help individual clients find individual agencies that are good at a particular area — e.g. TV agency, digital agency, SEO agency, etc.  Today, this is no longer as effective because the different disciplines and specialities need to work closely together and feed off of each other to work properly.

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Thursday, July 30th, 2009 SEM, SEO, digital, integrated marketing No Comments

Reaching Half a Million Customers Daily, with NO Media Cost

Updated: Aug 30, 2009 – JetBlue has 1,139,682 followers as of today.

In days of old, advertisers had to buy TV airtime, magazine placements, or radio spots to send their ads out to reach customers. Usually one of the largest chunks of cost is the media placement, followed by “creative” development and content creation.

What if there was a way to cut out most or all of the media cost?  And what if we could also substantially reduce the cost of “creative development” and “content creation?”  Look at the JetBlue example below.  On Twitter, JetBlue has nearly 600,000 followers.  Each of these followers has basically “opted in” to receive their updates, often multiple times a day (”costless media”). There is no “media cost” for getting these messages out. Compare this to what it would cost to air a TV ad that reaches 600,000 viewers (assuming all the viewers wanted to receive the ad, and were sitting there in front of the TV watching the ad when it was aired).

Also, the cost of content is nearly zero too. JetBlue has their customer service people (and fans) help create content by tweeting. These tweets range from customer service (”twitter customer service”) , to service notices (e.g. dense fog in NYC area airports causing delays, etc.), to tips from frequent travelers. This type of content is more “real,” valuable, and trusted than an advertisement. And there is no cost of “creative development” because the content does not need to be dressed up into a glossy ad for TV or print — it’s just 140 characters of text at a time. It’s more effective AND lower cost?!  Imagine that!

Finally, notice in the “bio” area on the upper right of the screen shot that it reports who is currently on duty — “Morgan and Lindsey” — this gives the normally faceless customer service system a name and a face and perhaps even a personality.  JetBlue’s twitter is a great example of social marketing done awesome!

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Thursday, May 28th, 2009 integrated marketing, marketing No Comments

The ROI of Social Media is ZERO

What is the ROI (define) for social media? It’s zero. That’s because there’s no such thing as “social media.”

People’s conversations are not media; they can’t be purchased as such by advertisers. In other words, people don’t talk whenever advertisers want them to and they won’t say whatever advertisers tell them to — so it isn’t “media” like TV, print, and radio.

If you treat people’s conversations as media, you’d be doing it wrong. Social marketing done right means asking for and respecting people’s conversations and giving them a public place to talk so others can hear. If the advertiser’s product is already great, much of the conversation will be positive. But even if it isn’t the advertiser will have the benefit of free “product research” because people will give them ideas for improvement.

twitturly1

Untargetables are hard to reach. Unreachables are not reachable by traditional advertising media or channels.

read more about the ROI of social media on ClickZ … http://www.clickz.com/3633341

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Friday, April 10th, 2009 integrated marketing No Comments

skittles.com #skittles twitter, facebook, flickr, myspace

the brilliance of its simplicity has irked social media pundits and experts – “why didn’t I think of that first?”

And if marketing campaigns are supposed to drive traffic, it drove traffic.

If viral campaigns are supposed to drive chatter and discussion, it did.

If social marketing is supposed to drive social actions (like friending or becoming a fan on Facebook) it did.

and on top of all that, they are getting free consulting from all social marketing experts, gurus, pundits, specialists, etc.

pro or con, this experiment will tell Skittles and their agency what worked and what didn’t and next-up, they’ll do more of what worked, thank you very much.

skittles-twitter1

google-trends-skittles

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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 Uncategorized No Comments

paid advertising <-- $1 --> social marketing ?

if you had a dollar to spend today, where would you spend it? on paid advertising or on social marketing? why?

Paid advertising – it’s over once it’s aired

Social Marketing

1. peers telling peers – a lot more effective and trusted by modern consumers than a paid ad

2. archived conversations – when people take social actions like rate, review, comment, recommend, and share, these actions are archived for everyone to see online (valuable to future users doing research)

3. it yields a continuously increasing stream of free traffic (enhances SEO efforts)

after-seo


So whatcha gonna do?

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Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 Uncategorized No Comments

a company that has a concerted effort in social marketing

http://www.webkitchen.be/2009/02/18/adobe-on-twitter/

Adobe on Twitter
By Serge Jespers 18 February 2009 at 11:02 am
I thought it was a good idea to compile a list of Adobeans on Twitter. It was quite surprising to see how big this list turned out and I’m pretty sure there must be even more of us on Twitter. If you know of someone not on the list, feel free to add them in the comments!

Flash Platform evangelism

Duane Nickull: http://twitter.com/duanechaos
Tom Krcha: http://twitter.com/tomkrcha
Mihai Corlan: http://twitter.com/mcorlan
Greg Wilson: http://twitter.com/gregorywilson
Enrique Duvos: http://twitter.com/eduvos
Daniel Dura: http://twitter.com/ddura
Kevin Hoyt: http://twitter.com/parkerkrhoyt
Andrew Shorten: http://twitter.com/ashorten
Lee Brimelow: http://twitter.com/leebrimelow
James Ward: http://twitter.com/jlward4th
Ryan Stewart: http://twitter.com/ryanstewart
Serge Jespers: http://twitter.com/sjespers
Raghu: http://twitter.com/raghunathrao
Harish: http://twitter.com/hsivaram
Anirudh: http://twitter.com/anirudhs
Sujit: http://twitter.com/sujitg
Mihai “Miti” Pricope http://twitter.com/mpricope
Cornel Creanga http://twitter.com/cornelcreanga
Terry Ryan: http://twitter.com/tpryan
Flash Platform

Michele Turner: http://twitter.com/mturner
Robin Charney: http://twitter.com/Rcharney
Mike Chambers: http://twitter.com/mesh
AIR

Ethan Malasky: http://twitter.com/emalasky
Rob Christensen: http://twitter.com/robchristensen
Christian Cantrell: http://twitter.com/cantrell
Flex

Matt Chotin: http://twitter.com/mchotin
Cocomo

Nigel Pegg: http://twitter.com/nigelpegg
Fang Chang: http://twitter.com/fkchang
Varun Parmar: http://twitter.com/vparmar230
Pixelbender

Kevin Goldsmith: http://twitter.com/KevinGoldsmith
Samantha Bailey: http://twitter.com/upperleftcorner
Adobe Core Tech

Jim Hong: http://twitter.com/jimhong
John Metzger: http://twitter.com/metz123
Kevin Stewart: http://twitter.com/kstewart
Mike Houser: http://twitter.com/tharkad
ColdFusion

Adam Lehman: http://twitter.com/adrocknaphobia
Products

AIR: http://twitter.com/air
Pixelbender: http://twitter.com/pixelbender
Flash Platform: http://twitter.com/Flash_Platform
ColdFusion: http://twitter.com/coldfusion
Buzzword: http://twitter.com/Buzzword
Adobe Reader: http://twitter.com/Adobe_Reader
Dreamweaver: http://twitter.com/dreamweaver
Spry: http://twitter.com/AdobeSpry
Developer relations

Ed Sullivan: http://twitter.com/esulliva
Rachel Luxemburg: http://twitter.com/rlux
Ted Patrick: http://www.twitter.com/AdobeTed
John Dowdell: http://www.twitter.com/jdowdell
Stacy Sison: http://www.twitter.com/ssison
Creative Suite evangelists

Paul Burnett: http://twitter.com/pburnett
Karl Soule: http://twitter.com/KarlSoule
Greg Rewis: http://twitter.com/garazi
Jason Levine: http://twitter.com/Beatlejase
Rufus Deuchler: http://twitter.com/rufusd
Flash Catalyst

NJ: http://twitter.com/rictus
Rob Adams: http://twitter.com/robadams
Cory West: http://twitter.com/corywest
Adobe After Effects

Dan Wilk: http://twitter.com/DanielWilk
Michael Natkin: http://twitter.com/michaelnatkin
Chris Prosser: http://twitter.com/cprosser
Open source

Dave McAllister: http://twitter.com/dwmcallister
Creative Suite

Doug Winnie: http://twitter.com/sfdesigner
Scott Fegette: http://twitter.com/sfegette
Marc Kubishta: http://twitter.com/kubischta
Connect

Mark Blair: http://www.twitter.com/markblair
Randah McKinnie: http://www.twitter.com/randah
Guillaume Privat: http://www.twitter.com/gprivat
Brant Strand: http://www.twitter.com/BStrand
Adobe Nordics

Anna Bouveng: http://twitter.com/annabou
Mattias Jonsson: http://twitter.com/mjonsson
Andreas Hollstrom: http://twitter.com/hollstrom
Adobe UK

Emma Wilkinson: http://twitter.com/emmawilkinson
Adobe Netherlands/Belgium

Klaasjan Tukker: http://twitter.com/ktukker
Bert Hagendoorn: http://twitter.com/berthagendoorn
Adobe Usergroup NL: http://twitter.com/adobeusergroup
Adobe Romania

Bogdan Ripa http://twitter.com/bogdanripa
Alexandru Costin http://twitter.com/acostin
Irina Huzum http://twitter.com/irinah
Adrian Spinei http://twitter.com/aspinei
Cosmin Lehene http://twitter.com/clehene
Andrei Dragomir http://twitter.com/adragomir
Sorin Sbarnea http://twitter.com/sbarnea
Mihaela Barbu http://twitter.com/mihabarbu
Adrian Tanase http://twitter.com/atanase
Horia Galatanu http://twitter.com/horiag
Ovidiu Eftimie http://twitter.com/eovidiu
Gelu Blanariu http://twitter.com/gelu11
Gabriel Dobritescu http://twitter.com/GabiD
Catalin Anastasoaie http://twitter.com/acatalin
Dragos Georgita http://twitter.com/drageo2000
Remus Stratulat http://twitter.com/rstratulat
Cristian Ivascu http://twitter.com/ivascucristian
Adobe Germany

Sven Doelle: http://twitter.com/sdoelle

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Wednesday, February 18th, 2009 digital, marketing No Comments

trends in 2009 – open agency model, year of search and social

2009 is the year of the “open agency model.” Many of the largest brands have declared that they are going “open agency mode” in search of lower cost, greater efficiency, and possibly better work. But while this idea may be good in theory, it is very difficult in practice. Having run a “virtual company” since 1996, I know of the challenges, as well as the upside. And the conventional wisdom of “you get what you pay for” holds very true here. I’ve outsourced to China and India to varying degrees of success and usually it took more time to communicate and re-communicate, do and re-do to get things right. And it ended up costing more overall, despite lower unit costs. Furthermore, most clients are brand experts of their own brand, but may not have the depth of experience in managing complex, global deployments … or perhaps even experience in managing photo shoots. Although it may be fun to go on photo shoots, but that doesn’t mean clients can manage that themselves. And having an inexperienced, small agency do it may not be that much more efficient either.

Anheuser-Busch Whacks Retainers for Its Agencies

http://adage.com/agencynews/article?article_id=134630

2009 has also been declared the year of search and social marketing. Many of the biggest brands now realize they must do something in search in order to be found when users are out looking for something. Knowing that 80% of online journeys begin with search (Forrester April 2008), it is more important than ever to be “findable” — after all, if they can’t find you, you don’t exist. Companies are also looking for efficiencies in social marketing — literally having people carry forth their message or amplify it for free. This is a good move because most modern users trust their peers far more than they trust an advertiser’s ad message anyway, according to countless studies.

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Tuesday, February 17th, 2009 trends No Comments

social amplification

in a budget-constrained environment, the best thing an advertiser can do is shift more attention (notice, I didn’t say money) to social marketing and stimulate social actions among target users and customers. While paid media used to just get people to some place (like a website), social marketing is about stimulating social actions — so the people actually do something — share, rate, comment, recommend, etc. These actions lead to an accumulation of value over time such that future visitors will get the benefit of all of the actions that went before (e.g. I only watch the highest rated or most viewed videos on YouTube; I don’t have to wade through and find the good stuff myself). Furthermore, social actions are free to the advertiser — think “advocacy.” When real people carry the message forward to their friends, it is free amplification for the advertiser — social amplification.

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Thursday, February 5th, 2009 Uncategorized No Comments

social commerce – what do my friends buy?

examples include Amazon (reviews of reviews) and MyFaveThings Facebook app (users show what they have and what they want so their friends can simply “buy what he bought”). The concept is simply that modern consumers turn to their peers (instead of advertisers) to get ideas (awareness), advice (consideration), and recommendations (choice) during their purchase process. This can come from direct friends, from experts, or from collections of total strangers. The social actions of these groups help move the potential customer closer to the purchase expeditiously.

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Thursday, January 29th, 2009 Uncategorized No Comments