Archive for September, 2009

Dressed to the Nines for Launch

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

Like many, 09-09-09 is a special day for us. And we’ve dressed up our site for the occasion. Part of what makes the date so special is that good things come in threes. Threes are easy to remember. That’s why today, 09-09-09, you’re seeing plenty of new launches and announcements. In that respect, AIR Health Group is no different than other smart marketers launching new advances today, like Apple’s new iPod or The Beatles. But the promise the company is bringing to pharma marketing is. And here are three ways we are doing it:

  • Power – Through the strength of Accentrx TM —our powerful suite of analytics and modeling tools—you will have the ability to understand, segment and target the physicians unlike never before.
  • Preference – With the customized MyOperon physician portal you will now know how physicians prefer to be communicated with, what they want to have communicated to them and when they are seeking that information. Being able to communicate on a more personal level, based on areas of specialization, patient population and personal preferences is more engaging for the physician and more effective for you.
  • Performance – At the end of 09-09-09 or any other day, it’s all about results. AIR Health Group’s analytics-based, preference-driven marketing approach has proven itself repeatedly in other industries and today we’re ready to begin doing it for you.

So enjoy this special day as so many others are. And if the power of threes hasn’t left its mark on you yet, here’s one more set of three you should really remember:

Analytics + Imagination = Results.

Advanced Analytic Marketing Application

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

Today, we bring an exciting new marketing solution to pharmaceutical marketing through our unique experience and expertise. Over the past few weeks, we’ve been discussing the power of "customer preference" marketing, consolidating disparate data sources across the brand, improving messaging through segmentation and other related ROI-building ideas. Well, today, we bring to you not an idea or a concept, but an actual product. We introduce a solution set in answer to the challenges facing pharmaceutical marketing." We bring you a methodology and a system to help you dramatically improve ROI. We bring you AIR Health.

Who is AIR Health?

AIR Health LLC is a new division of AIR Marketing specifically targeted to pharmaceutical marketing. AIR is the nation’s leading data-driven, analytical marketing services company, built on the promise to measure and deliver ROI on each and every client program. Our philosophy is in the AIR name: Analytics, Imagination, and Results.

What is AIR Offering?

Building upon AIR Marketing’s expertise and its proprietary analytics technology called CycloneTM , AIR Health has developed two advanced marketing solutions for the pharmaceutical industry.

AccentrxTM: A powerful analytical model designed to aggregate across your brand(s), all relevant physician preferences, as well as all sales and marketing interactions at the individual physician level. The result is a "single view" of each of your physician targets. In short, Accentrx creates an EMR-Electronic Marketing Record-for each physician.

Once the physician profile is aggregated, the power of intelligence is unleashed through Accentrx.

  • Optimized Messaging - On an individual physician level, Accentrx gives you the ability to optimize and tailor messaging for each target physician based on his or her practice behavior, communications preferences and market dynamics (plan formularies, etc).
  • Preferred Marketing Channels - Analyzing individual physician interactions across your various marketing programs (internally and across all your third-party marketing vendors), Accentrx provides you with a Preferred Communication Channel profile for each of your target physicians. This profile sets up real-time benchmarking for individual marketing channel utilization and ROI metrics.
  • Individualized Target MD Communication Plan & Metrics - Accentrx provides you with an optimized message and tactical communication plan across your entire brand’s marketing programs. This preference-driven plan serves as the cornerstone when implementing most of your marketing programs across all sales and marketing channels, working from a single optimized database. Accentrx continues to capture and monitor all sales and marketing interactions across the brand, providing you with real-time longitudinal reporting and ROI analysis.

MyOperon

AIR Health further optimizes your marketing by taking all the intelligence derived from Accentrx on each of your target physicians and creating a pURL (personalized website and URL) for each of your physicians, called MyOperon. These individual pURLs provide a platform for your optimized message across all channels predicted by Accentrx and indicated as the preferred channels by the physician (medical representatives, live e-details, all Med-Ed activities, sample procurement, etc).

Each MD’s MyOperon pURL dynamically changes and adapts as the physician interacts with the site. As the physician clicks on one of your programs, other related marketing and education opportunities are presented in a prioritized fashion based on the physician’s profile and channel preferences. All of these preferences are stored and then leveraged to create an increasingly valuable experience for the physician.

These exciting offerings from AIR Health are based on over a decade of AIR experience and performance developing cutting edge analytical marketing programs for major Blue Chip Fortune 200 companies, including HealthNet, Hershey Entertainment & Resorts and others. You can find some of their stories on our website .

Taking Marketing ROI to New Levels

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

Your company has just spent millions, if not billions of dollars over the past few years to develop new and more effective drugs. Your job is to get these breakthrough drugs into the marketplace and convince physicians your product is a better clinical alternative, resulting in prescriptions. You’ve developed a strategy, written positioning statements, tested messaging with numerous focus groups - and yet when it comes time to actual market performance, the numbers are not as promising as you’d expected. Improving return on your marketing investment is your top priority!

At the end of the day, the challenge remains delivering the right information at the right time in the right format to a precise group of physicians. Physicians have already indicated that they look to the Internet to help them with sorting through information and identifying tools to help advance their practices. Your company already has disparate databases with loads of data points. The challenge of course is making sense of all these data points, developing a single view of the physician and then deploying in physician-preferred channels to deliver your message.

A business model that integrates everything in such a powerful mechanism could dramatically lift the return on marketing investment. Plus, a business model and deployment system such as this would not only lift market share, but also be powerful enough to reduce costs! Your world could very easily go from having a 2-3 times return currently seen in most pharmaceutical marketing programs to 20-30 times ROI!

Now, before you start thinking that a business model and system like this cannot exist, let me introduce you to AIR Health (link to microsite). Leveraging decades of analytics-based marketing experience from AIR Marketing, this new solution brings together information from disparate databases to form a single view of the physician. Then it delivers custom messages to these physicians in the format they want and use. It’s automated, it’s personalized, and it’s integrated so that the return on marketing investment is as high as possible.

AIR Marketing has developed a portfolio of success stories in a range of industries delivering this kind of solution. As one of AIR’s clients in the technology industry says in one of the videos, “We hit about a 38:1 return on marketing investment ratio.” Further along in the video, this same client elaborates on how this kind of return was achieved, “It was a very short time period, but the targeting and data analysis was effective in building the campaign and driving revenue”.

If this can be done in other industries, it certainly can be done in pharmaceutical marketing as well. It’s time for pharmaceutical marketers to start leveraging all the tools available to them and deliver these kinds of returns. After all, that is how the great drugs came into existence in the first place - with first-in-class technology and research. Now, extend those same beliefs into your marketing programs with AIR Health and take your ROI to new levels.