Lens On The Scientific Market
Key findings from our industry experts.
Key findings from our industry experts.
3 Key Takeaways: Digital Marketing and Advertising Strategies for Life Science Suppliers
April 9, 2024 11:16 am
8 Key Highlights: Conferences and Exhibit Strategies in the Life Sciences
March 12, 2024 12:08 pm
Choose Wisely: Should I Use Quantitative or Qualitative Market Research?
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A Few More Thoughts on Exhibiting
As we all know, exhibiting at conferences has long been a common practice among life science vendors. Yet decisions on where to exhibit are often made with little more justification than the presence of competing vendors. Furthermore the nature of the promotional activities conducted at the conference are rarely tailored to the targeted audience. Whereas […]
Exhibiting at Scientific Meetings
Conferences play an essential role in fostering communication among life scientists. The most important role of conferences is to provide a forum for presenting cutting-edge research and important scientific developments. In addition, conferences offer scientists numerous opportunities for career advancement, networking, new collaborations and education. The rapid advances in life science have led to an […]
Shameless Self Promotion
In my last few posts, I’ve been focusing on some of the challenges of advertising in the life science market and our approach to helping clients develop more effective ads. I’ll be honest here…I’m drumming up interest in our upcoming report on the subject: Advertising to Life Scientists: Resolving the Print vs. Online Dilemma. You […]
A scientific approach to scientific ads
Life science suppliers seek to minimize risk when launching a product by gathering evidence that the product is likely to succeed. However, many suppliers still take a large risk when launching advertising campaigns without evidence the campaign will succeed with their target life science customers. Ad concept testing is a cost-saving solution that uses data […]
The Challenge of Effective Advertising
Well the holidays are over and I hope everyone has come back to work rested and refreshed. Here’s hoping for a happy and healthy new year for us all! In this post, I’d like to talk some more about print advertising in the life science market. Research that we’ve conducted reveals that 62% of scientists […]
Advertising to Scientists
I’d like to kick off the next series of posts which will focus on print advertising in the scientific market… Despite the tens (hundreds?) of millions of dollars spent each year by life science vendors on print advertising, few marketing executives can point to a quantifiable return on investment. In general, print ads seem to […]
Scientists and Social Media
Last week we announced the preliminary results of our survey on how life scientists are using social media. The responses were based on a worldwide study of more than 1,500 scientists that included both registered members of The Science Advisory Board and randomly selected scientists. We sponsored this project in conjunction with our good friends […]
Do Salespeople Have a Role in Marketing?
Sales reps are an essential element of the life science marketing mix — even though scientists say they get most of their information from colleagues and catalogs. In our market we’ve been told by scientists that Fisher Scientific, Invitrogen, Bio-Rad have the best-trained, most effective sales forces. Sales reps play an important role in informing […]
Direct Mail Still an Important Part of the Mix
Sorry for the long time between posts…it’s been a busy week here at BioInformatics, LLC . Of special note, I was invited to make a presentation of another major life science supplier and discuss many of the topics presented here in this blog. I was struck yet again by how few of those present were […]
The Power of Positioning
I’m going to take a break here from what was supposed to be a sequential exploration of the media available to life science marketers and the influence of Highly Engaged scientists. I’ll get back to that in a few day but wanted to point out that my company has just released a fascinating series of […]