Medical Device Success
MAY 22, 2018
Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes. As you prepare to reach out to your prospective KOLs, you need to have in mind what you want to accomplish with their help and how much you have budgeted for this effort. Keeping in mind that this blog is primarily aimed at small to medium sized companies, I suggest starting off with a small budget. Just work with one doctor for 6 months to a year.
CloserIQ
OCTOBER 30, 2018
If you consider sales training to be the first of several steps toward boosting profits, it’s easy to see why it’s such a crucial investment. Sales training lays the foundation for future revenues by increasing your team’s satisfaction, loyalty and competence, all of which improve their interaction with the customer. A satisfied customer is more likely to spend more, refer your business and generally serve as a brand ambassador for your products or services.
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The Brooks Group
SEPTEMBER 18, 2018
When your salespeople head into a new quarter or year with a solid sales business plan, they’re more likely to improve sales forecast accuracy, attain quota, and effectively support your organizational goals. Unfortunately, many sales reps fail to prioritize planning. But with these 6 simple steps, your sales reps can identify their sales strategy and create a sales business plan that they can use to stay organized and crush their sales targets.
Integrity Solutions
OCTOBER 3, 2018
For Your Salespeople, Purpose and Success Are Directly Linked. Why do you do what you do? Why do you sell what you sell? What is the why of your life? What is your purpose? Salespeople might not consciously be asking themselves these questions on a daily basis. But the fact is, their purpose —the motivating force behind what they do—is influencing their results every day.
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Teachntest
DECEMBER 29, 2018
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pharmaphorum
DECEMBER 6, 2018
Overview: Communication; we all do it, it is a critical part of effective business practice and in this pharma is no exception. It is no secret that for pharma companies, face time with healthcare professionals (HCPs) has reduced drastically over the last 10 years while the cost of in person engagements has increased significantly. Like any customer their expectations for the content they receive have changed, with a focus on useful, succinct and easy to consume materials rather than the sales m
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Revosuite
JULY 25, 2018
The sales and marketing landscape for pharmaceuticals has been changing for some time thanks to the wealth of information now available online for doctors to access at their leisure – but face to face information and education is still as important as ever when exploring new pharmaceutical products. Medical Sales Reps have been on the scene since the year dot.
Infuse Medical
JANUARY 22, 2018
Congratulations to Joe M., the winner of the Holiday Elf Operation Apple Watch Giveaway contest! Joe’s entry was chosen by random from a complete list of entries. Thank you to everyone who downloaded and entered our Holiday Elf Operation Game. The response and support was incredible! In case you missed it, you can download the Holiday Elf Operation app here (Android) , or here (iOS).
Clarivate
DECEMBER 6, 2018
Denver, CO, December 6, 2018 – CustomersFirst Now (CFN), a leading provider of Journey Mapping software and Customer Experience consulting services, has been named the winner of the 2018 Aragon Research Innovation Award for Customer Journey Mapping. This award recognizes CFN’s continued innovation of its Customer Journey Management platform, CFN Insight.
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Clinical trial data management is increasingly challenging as studies grow in complexity. Quickly accessing and analyzing study data is vital for assessing trial progress and patient safety. In this paper, we explore real-time data access and analysis for proactive study management. We investigate using adverse event (AE) data to monitor safety and discuss a clinical analytics platform that supports collaboration and data review workflows.
Medical Device Success
MARCH 23, 2018
Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes. Now let’s assume some of my ideas in the last blog post worked and you have some KOL candidates. How do you get them interested in working with you? Fortunately, you have ego, science and curiosity on your side. Medical professionals are scientists at heart. Furthermore, they have their patients’ best interest at heart.
CloserIQ
MAY 8, 2018
For modern customers, there’s almost always more than one option when it comes to making a purchase. That makes it even harder for sales teams to close deals. But when customers are inundated by countless messages everyday, personalization can help. Buyers don’t want to feel like they are part of the herd. They want to feel special and taken care of.
The Brooks Group
JANUARY 8, 2018
[Don’t miss the downloadable version of the Behavior Style Communication Guidelines at the end of this post!]. Today’s buyers are more informed and have less time to give to salespeople than ever before. Combine that with the increasingly complex decision-making process, and your salespeople are left with a very narrow opportunity to make a positive connection with a potential buyer.
Integrity Solutions
NOVEMBER 2, 2018
The three most common SaaS sales challenges can be overcome and lead to breakthrough levels of success. by Boris Zecevic. Anyone who’s been in sales will tell you: The job comes with some unique challenges. And any number of those challenges has likely contributed to the findings by The Sales Management Association that only 51% of salespeople across all industries made quota in 2017.
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Medical Device Success
MARCH 3, 2018
Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes. In the last post we talked about the importance of KOLs to the efforts of medical device companies large and small. Yet, many small companies believe KOLs are beyond their reach financially. This is not true. In every medical specialty market there are the high level KOLs that everyone knows. They can be expensive to work with.
CloserIQ
DECEMBER 10, 2018
If you lead an SDR team–or are considering building one–you’re inevitably going to hire some green salespeople. Hiring is time-consuming and expensive. Once you’ve taken the time to hire the right people, it’s in your best interest (and theirs!) to help them become as successful as possible as fast as possible. You’ll train them on your product and sales process, then put them on the phones.
CloserIQ
OCTOBER 17, 2018
Do you have a sales strategy to capture all your referral business ? With a follow up system in place, you’ll know exactly when and how to ask your clients for referrals and actually get them. Because if you’re only asking clients for a review once after your sale and never again, you’re not tapping into this massive sales and growth engine. And unfortunately, it’s costing you serious revenue.
CloserIQ
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
The research is very clear: more diverse sales teams do better. According to an article written by sociologist Cedric Herring and published in The American Sociological Review , companies with the highest levels of diversity brought in 10-15 times as much revenue as compared to companies with the lowest levels of diversity. Diverse companies tend to have greater revenues, market share, and customers.
Speaker: Dr. Ben Locwin - Biopharmaceutical Executive & Healthcare Futurist
What will the future hold for clinical research? A recent draft from the FDA provides valuable insight. In "Optimizing the Dosage of Human Prescription Drugs and Biological Products for the Treatment of Oncologic Diseases," the FDA notes that "targeted therapies demonstrate different dose-response relationships compared to cytotoxic chemotherapy, such that doses below the Maximum Tolerated Dose (MTD) may have similar efficacy to the MTD but with fewer toxicities.
CloserIQ
JUNE 19, 2018
What’s your biggest challenge in sales? It very well could be converting, hitting quota, retention, qualifying, or any of the other 724 tasks you have to juggle each and every day. All of those are crucial, and none of them are particularly easy. That said, would it surprise you to learn that prospecting is considered the biggest challenge by 42% of salespeople , followed by closing (36%) and qualifying leads (22%)?
CloserIQ
DECEMBER 19, 2018
As an enterprise sales representative, you may reach a point in your career when you want to switch verticals. Your interests have changed, the market has shifted, or maybe you just want to try something new and different. The good news is that it’s entirely feasible to change verticals. If you plan your transition carefully, and put work into executing your plan, many new opportunities will open to you.
CloserIQ
DECEMBER 26, 2018
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. One of our goals this year was to create and curate the best sales content out there for advancing your career and building top sales teams. Every week we compiled our favorite posts on everything from sales strategies to hiring plans.
Integrity Solutions
OCTOBER 12, 2018
Effective communication skills isn’t a “soft” issue; it’s a real business challenge with significant consequences. Effective communication skills — it sounds like a “soft” issue, right? Hardly. In fact, the inability to communicate clearly and productively with a diverse audience is creating serious business consequences for organizations every day.
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When selecting a clinical supply provider, consideration often focuses upon the manufacturing, packaging, storage and distribution capabilities available that will, at face-value, be sufficient to meet the needs of the sponsor and their trial. However, there are human-based and knowledge-driven factors that are often overlooked that go beyond these basic physical capabilities and are integral to the development and delivery of high performing clinical supply chains.
Integrity Solutions
NOVEMBER 19, 2018
Many companies have aspects that appeal to this generation, and there are three critical factors you can focus on to attract and grow millennial salespeople. By Boris Zecevic. Now totaling roughly two billion people, the millennial generation plays a dominant role in how organizations operate today and what they will need to do to remain successful going forward.
CloserIQ
NOVEMBER 27, 2018
The most successful Account Executives (AEs) aren’t just smart and driven. They also know how to make efficient use of their time, and stay on top of client relations. Of course, using the right tools makes these tasks a lot easier. Here are seven indispensable tools every AE should try out. 1) Remote presentations/video conferencing applications. The ability to communicate with prospects and clients remotely is critical for sales success.
CloserIQ
OCTOBER 23, 2018
So you’ve landed multiple job offers. Congrats! You are now in a great position to determine your professional future—but the choice can definitely feel overwhelming. Although you may be tempted to flip a coin on this one, we don’t recommend it. To make a decision that’s right for you and your career, evaluate each option in terms of these six key factors: 1.
CloserIQ
OCTOBER 10, 2018
Boston is emerging as one of the hottest startup cities in the country, which is great news for sales professionals. With so many companies in the neighborhood, looking for a new job can be pretty overwhelming as well as exciting. Here are the companies you should consider to jump-start your job search. These companies are all backed by venture capital and are currently hiring in sales roles.
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As the development pipeline for new drugs continues to grow, biopharmaceutical companies are re-evaluating how to best manage and balance resources across an increasing number of development projects and complex clinical trials. There are two approaches that can be used to speed a drug from development to clinic faster: timeline compression and parallel processing, but only one that considers the benefits of integrating clinical supply into the overall drug development process.
CloserIQ
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
So, you’ve landed a sales job. Mazel tov! Now, it’s time to start working. If you want to succeed in your new position, you’ll need to do some early legwork so you get off to a strong start. Here are nine items for your to-do list: 1. Find a mentor and take advantage of their knowledge. An internal mentor is critical for helping you to get accustomed to company culture.
CloserIQ
JULY 27, 2018
A large part of being a great sales professional is having a strong network. The network can be used to not only make more sales, but it can help you grow in your field by connecting you to mentors or other business opportunities. These connections don’t happen overnight. It takes time to build an authentic relationship that is beneficial to both parties.
The Brooks Group
APRIL 24, 2018
Love it or hate it, voicemails are a standard feature of a salesperson’s day. Whether your sales reps are cold calling or following up with warm prospects, they’re likely encountering voicemail boxes and answering machines many times each day. Unfortunately, many of these voicemails are never responded to. In fact, the problem is so bad that some professionals advocate not bothering to leave voicemails at all.
The Brooks Group
JANUARY 3, 2018
. Asking effective probing questions is critical to high sales performance. With the right questions, your salespeople can uncover the buyer’s needs and wants, as well as their budget and decision-making process. Here’s what you need to know to help your reps develop and master critical questioning skills. 1. Listen Actively and Deeply. Good questioning does not mean firing off a rapid series of questions to pry as much information out of the prospect as possible.
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The global landscape of clinical trials is rapidly changing as studies become more complex. An increasing number of sponsors are seeking enhanced flexibility in their supply chains to address a variety of clinical supply challenges, including patient demand and reducing delays. Demand-led supply and direct-to-patient distribution are next-generation solutions that are helping to meet these growing needs, allowing for more streamlined processes and patient-centric studies.
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