Are Facebook Fans Really Worthless to Digital Pharma?

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That's what Augie Ray, Forrester Research's expert on social media marketing, suggested in his eponymous blog: that the value of a Facebook fan to a Brand is zero. While Ray acknowledges that he hears value estimates from reputable vendors ranging from $136.38 to $3.60 (Syncapse … [Read more...]

Astonishing Shift In Social Media Landscape In Just 3 Years

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Video is all about the power of imagery. So what happens when you apply visualization techniques to the social media landscape? In the beginning, you just have fun. That was what Randall Munroe, founder of XKCD did in 2007 when he illustrated the relative size of social media … [Read more...]

Adverse Event Reporting & Appropriate Dialogue in Social Media for Health Care

Jonathan Richman is a respected e-marketer and the author of Dose of Digital blog, in which he writes there is a Myth of Adverse Event Reporting in pharma marketing.  Drawing upon a Nielsen Study which found that only 1 in 500 postings on the Yahoo Health discussion boards met … [Read more...]

Are Branded Pharma Tweets Banal?

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John Mack of  the Pharma Marketing Blog hosted a fascinating, by invitation only conference call today to discuss the first-ever pharma branded Tweet for Novo Nordisk's Levemir™.  Never one to mince words, Mack suggested in the invitation that: Novo Nordisk's Branded … [Read more...]

Twitter Experiments With Verified Accounts: You Avoid Brand Hijacking

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We advise clients to ALWAYS "register an account on Twitter for both the brand and company well in advance of needing it for crisis communications."  You don't even have to use it, just be prepared.  It's like putting batteries in the smoke detector: it's no fun climbing the … [Read more...]