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Consumers Prefer To Learn About Drugs Online

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As reported in MediaPost Marketing Daily,  the results are in from marketing services firm Epsilon.

Consumers would rather learn about prescription drugs via Web sites and email than through traditional offline advertising and marketing…

While an in-person conversation still topped the list of sources for new information, Epsilon reported that receiving an email from a physician was significantly less desirarble at just 14%.   Other findings include:

Consumers who opt to receive emails from pharmaceutical companies are more likely to fill prescriptions and take read more…

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How To Calculate Bang-For-The-Buck Using Mind Maps

Sometimes you need to figure out which of your projects are delivering the most “bang for the buck.” One way to do this is with weighted decision making. This screencast demos how to integrate Excel data with Mind Maps and some custom code to create a visual tool set for a metrics driven problem. [click graphic to launch screencast]

To keep it fun, we created a scenario where you are suddenly wealthy and have decided to move to New York City. read more…

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I Look Good With A Five O’Clock Shadow But I Still Use Ockham’s Razor

Why make things more complicated then they need to be? Why add features to a marketing program that at best qualify as “nice to have”? Because we are all scared of acknowledging that sometimes, Less is More.

William of Ockham was a 14th century English Franciscan friar and logician who stated “entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.” This has come to be known as Ockham’s Razor. Cut away all that is not necessary. In the ensuing seven centuries this “razor” read more…

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