Healthcare Branding Services
Imagine a candy-like dietary supplement that you could pop in your mouth and it would suppress your appetite and help you lose weight safely. Further imagine that the supplement came in scrumptious flavors like chocolate, caramel, and peanut butter. Sounds intriguing, right? The Jeffrey Martin company bought the marketing rights […] keep reading
We do not see health as it is; we see health as we are. My late mother and father divided their lives into two segments: before they had multiple sclerosis and colon cancer respectively, and after. Their well selves and their ill selves. Wellness and illness are among the primary […] keep reading
Rebranding can often take more guts than brains. The smartest, most savvy branding experts could come up with the ideal new pathway to re-launch a brand, but if the internal stakeholders don’t buy in, then failure is inevitable. Leadership with the guts to foster change is as much—or even more—important […] keep reading
Honestly, I don’t know if a majority of consumer goods companies test their choices for positioning statements, but the ones with which I have worked certainly did not. Sony never tested anything. Their practice was inspired by a belief that their marketers knew how to market, and would never trust […] keep reading
Whether we call it a “competitive simulation,” a “brand duel,” or even a “strategic chess match,” nothing sums up the no-holds barred branding exercise better than the term “War Games.” Yes, I said branding exercise. While it appears to be merely a marketing exercise aimed at developing future-proof strategies and […] keep reading
When I would travel abroad for clients in Europe as the Chief Creative Officer for Young & Rubicam’s former healthcare powerhouse agency, Sudler & Hennessey, I would pick up small presents for my twin girls. Since they were around five or six at the time, such gifts were simple and […] keep reading
There’s a natural human desire to reduce the mysteries of life down to an exact science. After all, such rigor can replace one’s natural courage and judgment with a proven methodology for sorting out uncertainties. As David Letterman’s classic comedy bit illustrates, we have an addiction to rank unrankable things […] keep reading
Perhaps the greatest transgression in deconstructing any crisis is the sin of pride. Journalists write righteous articles chronicling the devastating aftermath as if doing so somehow obscures the fact that they didn’t catch on in the first place while it was happening. Politicians legislate the tail end of the issue […] keep reading
With Trump vowing to bring down drug prices, ignoring the very reason they are so high in the first place (hint: it’s capitalism), and another rogue company trying to push opioids to doctors abusing the very legitimate tactic of speakers bureaus to influence physicians, I thought it time to provide […] keep reading
Searching the web one might think that the entire healthcare marketing and communications industry is well qualified to comprehensively brand your company, product or service. Google the terms “healthcare branding services” or “healthcare branding strategies,” and you get pages and pages of what appear to be an astonishing variety of […] keep reading