social media lunch june 2011
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Social Media Part I for Healthcare MarketersTRANSCRIPT
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Social Media for Healthcare:
“Be the Voice for Your Brand”
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Traditional vs. Digital Marketing
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Why is marketing hard?
Perceptions:• Too expensive• Not targeted enough• Difficult to measure• Budget expense • Not revenue generating
…you’ve been looking for a needle in a haystack
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What if it was measurably easier?
• Patients stumble upon you while researching symptoms and conditions?
• Healthcare professionals make on-line referrals during appointments?
• Hospital customers obtain valuable content for their social media channels?
• Potential physician customers request training?
…instead, you find a haystack of needles!
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Things have already changed
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Got cancer…now what?
Source: http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/extract/362/9/846
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What does this mean for you?
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Reality Bytes
• What’s the second word in the title of this presentation?
• There is nothing different about “what” to do or say, it’s the “how” and “where” that’s changed.
It’s important for you to be the voice of your brand
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It’s Just A Media Channel
Next determine message tones and brand characteristics you want to highlight
Lastly, pull together assets that work for each channel and write authorization docs
Start by understanding audience needs
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Websites corporate and product patient and HCP facing
ShareThis + Social objects
Facebook Twitter YouTube
LinkedIn Slideshare Flckr
Leverage your assets
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THE Simplest Place to Start
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Creating Social Objects
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• What is it? Shared social objects (lots of stuff)
• How to use it? Carefully construct reason to join/like (think about embarrassment factor)
• Where’s the ROI? Friends of members and “likers”
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Twitter• What is it?
Posts of 140 character (text message length)
• How to use it? Use for news syndication
– Post relevant clinical articles
– Post all company news
– Repost highlighted news coverage
• Where’s the ROI? Re-tweets (RT) from followers + lists following you
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• What is it? Videos of <10 minutes
• How to use it? Post all released video content to be “found” and embed in website
• Where’s the ROI? Long tail: views of videos over time
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• What is it? Professional social network
• How to use it? Join and create groups
• Where’s the ROI? All participation displayed on update feed; weekly email of activity in your network triggers visits
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Others to consider
ROI: Easy to fulfill requests for
slides/images
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Hospitals Must Market With Doctors
http://hschange.org/CONTENT/1028/
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Hospital social media channels
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Hospital Social Network List Wiki
What if your sales team provided social objects to your hospital customers for the channels they already use?
• Develop “social objects” from your existing marketing tool kit content
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Regulatory & Legal
Mindset: Yes We Can!
• Write a general (or channel specific) quality system work instruction to authorize posts and engagement
• Refer to your existing adverse event and complaint reporting workflow processes
• D2’s flexibility phrases:
– All approved released documents (labeling) may be used in whole or part as content for posting and engagement
– Including but not limited to…
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You can change successfully
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Thank you!
Debbie Donovan
Digital Media Strategist
Molly Crawley
Principal
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Contact
Molly CrawleyMed Ad Agency
2843 Hopyard Rd. #180
Pleasanton, CA 94588
(925) 462-2900
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