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Our Favorite Sales Blog Posts From 2018

CloserIQ

2018 has been an amazing year for all of us at CloserIQ , and we can’t believe we’re just a few days away from welcoming another one. Here are 20+ of our favorite sales blogs from 2018. In an industry full of numbers and data, a healthy competition can be the key to get your sales team performing.

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Ten Ways to Think Differently About Small-to-Mid-Sized Pharma Launches

Eversana Intouch

By 2018, that share had fallen by about half. Meanwhile, the number of companies launching their first drug during the decade preceding 2018 more than tripled. Back in 2003, drugs from large pharma companies made up 36% of the late-stage R&D pipeline.

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470% price increases

World of DTC Marketing

Humira’s net price—which subtracts discounts and rebates—increased by 110% between 2009 and 2018, from $16,663 per year to $35,041 per year. AbbVie’s internal documents show that from 2015 to 2018, senior executive bonuses were tied directly to Humira’s net revenue, allowing them to profit from AbbVie’s price increases.

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UK authority asks for director ban for Alliance Pharma CEO

pharmaphorum

The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is seeking to disqualify Peter Butterfield, currently chief executive of Alliance Pharma, from serving as a company director. ” The action will only be heard if the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) upholds the CMA’s findings against Alliance, it added. .”

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Pharma is big business whose goal is to maximize shareholder value

World of DTC Marketing

One company, Amgen, spent nearly six times as much on buybacks, dividends, and executive compensation as it did on R&D in 2018. Many drug companies spent a significant portion of their R&D budget on finding ways to suppress generic and biosimilar competition while continuing to raise prices, rather than on innovative research.

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PBMs and insurers want your prescription money

World of DTC Marketing

Those health insurers, in turn, use the discounts to offer more competitive premiums in a bid to attract enrollees. Drug non-adherence cost the country at least $495 billion and contributed to over 275,000 premature deaths in 2016, according to a 2018 study in The Annals of Pharmacotherapy. It isn’t very likely.

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Episode 28 – A CEO Leading a MedTech Company Through Covid

Medical Device Success

Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes In January 2018 when Dominik Beck took the helm of Rudolf Riester, GmbH, he began executing a plan to put Riester in a more competitive position against its larger rivals. Then in early 2020 Covid spread across the world. But to take advantage of an opportunity, you have to execute.

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