FDA Owes Health Care Marketers Better Guidelines for Online Media

The Wall Street Journal Health Blog

It's not easy for a health care marketer making the leap from broadcast to broadband.  As reported by Jacob Goldstein in the Wall Street Journal's Health Blog,  Johnson & Johnson received an FDA warning letter which prompted the removal of an online video for Ultram ER … [Read more...]

CDC Uses Social Media for Peanut Recall

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The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is making excellent use of social media tools in service to public health with a page devoted to the peanut and peanut-containing product recall.  The tools and resources for consumers include: Blogs eMail Subscriptions Health-e-Cards Mobile … [Read more...]

How to Sell I.T. Projects Using Emotions

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To many business people information technology is neither "sexy" nor very interesting. To persuade this type of audience you need to appeal to both mind and heart. In working with time-starved pharmaceutical and medical device marketers, we've met with great success using a one-two … [Read more...]

80/20 Thinking at NASA

Apollo 13 The Movie by Ron Howard

How The 80/20 Rule and Quick Thinking Saved Apollo 13 From Burning Up in the Atmosphere Apollo 13 was supposed to be NASA's third manned-lunar-landing mission but things didn't turn out well.  Two days into the mission the spacecraft was crippled by an explosion in oxygen tank … [Read more...]

When more is less: Overburdened by options

Paradox of Choices

It turns out that what you instinctively knew all along is in fact true: "more is less." Psychologist Barry Schwartz, PhD in "The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less" makes the case: "The presumption is, self-determination is a good thing and choice … [Read more...]