by Laurel Manke | Nov 11, 2024 | Content, Marketing, Marketing Data, Marketing Reporting, Sales, Thought Leadership, Uncategorized
How to Master Internal Marketing In-house marketing leaders expend a significant amount of energy managing internal relationships. Typically, that entails making sure other teams—like sales, human resources, and executives—get what they need from your team. While...
by Laurel Manke | Jul 17, 2024 | Marketing, Sales, Thought Leadership, Uncategorized
Hug Your Customers To Attract and Retain Business No matter what business you’re in, the way you make your customers feel can make or break your growth. This is especially pertinent in B2B healthcare, where long-term relationships are foundational. When we started...
by Laurel Manke | Jun 26, 2024 | Content, Marketing, Thought Leadership
Tips for selecting an agency that’s a seamless extension of your team. Building a successful B2B healthcare business doesn’t just hinge on hiring a strong internal team. Thriving B2B healthcare companies master strategic use of external partners to round out,...
by Laurel Manke | May 26, 2024 | Marketing, Marketing Data, Marketing Reporting
Assessing Marketing ROI: Complex and Necessary Proving marketing’s value can feel like navigating a maze blindfolded. It requires unraveling a complex web of data and real-world business impact, and it’s even harder when you’re starting from square one....
by Joanna Lamb | Apr 20, 2024 | Content, Marketing, Sales, Social Media, Thought Leadership, Uncategorized
Emotional Connection is the Key to a Healthcare Executive’s Heart “Great marketing is about how you make people feel, and research shows that 92.3% of audiences are, in fact, human!” -Kathy Klotz-Guest, Marketing Strategist and Improv Comedian In the realm of...
by slabtownm | Mar 22, 2024 | Content, Marketing, Thought Leadership, Uncategorized
Tips for Crisis Communications in Healthcare As a healthcare leader, you grasp the importance of security, compliance, and risk management in every facet of your work. You have no doubt seen an assortment of disasters impacting both healthcare facilities and...
by Laurel Manke | Feb 22, 2024 | Content, Marketing, Sales, Thought Leadership, Uncategorized
Architecting Your B2B Marketing Plan: Where to Start Every person who works in marketing has felt it: the excitement and overwhelm of translating your strategic goals into an actionable plan. You are sitting at your desk, surrounded by an assortment of caffeinated or...
by Laurel Manke | Jan 26, 2024 | Content, Marketing, Thought Leadership
Any time you recenter your growth strategy, it’s useful to reconnect with the “why” driving your mission in the first place. And, if it’s been a while since you defined your “why”—it’s also worth considering, “why now?” This foundation will help you build a more...
by Laurel Manke | Dec 2, 2022 | Marketing
This post was originally published in 2023 Healthcare marketers are being asked to create greater impact with fewer resources, thus increasing the pressure to spend only on the most effective tactics. Use this blog post as a guide for your team to explore innovative...
by Laurel Manke | Oct 24, 2022 | Marketing
As Q4 kicks off, most marketing teams are wading into annual planning waters. For healthcare marketers, long-term planning has been tricky over the past few years due to the highly unpredictable nature of the pandemic. Though COVID-19 is still present, and it’s...
by Laurel Manke | Sep 16, 2022 | Marketing
How to Leverage your Business Leaders Profiles for LinkedIn Business Growth In a recent blog post, we discussed four key strategies for using LinkedIn to drive business growth. Today, we’ll dive deeper into one of those strategies: leveraging your leaders’...
by Laurel Manke | Aug 18, 2022 | Design, Marketing, Pitch Decks, Sales
Pitch decks have a big job. They must communicate the value of your business in a concise, clear, and compelling manner. A strong pitch deck will engage the audience, spur conversation, and move the listener to the desired action. In essence, a pitch deck is just...
by Laurel Manke | Jul 11, 2022 | Marketing, Thought Leadership
Imagine for a moment, the glory days of print publishing. During this era, industry publications had large teams of writers who penned compelling pieces for their readership. This internal content engine kept publication editors busy—as one might guess—editing. The...
by Laurel Manke | Jul 6, 2022 | Marketing, Social Media
Most business leaders know it is valuable to be present on LinkedIn, but few leverage it to its full potential as a B2B marketing tool. In fact, only about 1% of LinkedIn’s user base publishes regularly on the platform. For those who take the time to use LinkedIn...
by Laurel Manke | Mar 8, 2022 | Marketing
Have you reviewed your event strategy lately? After nearly two years, attendees are returning to in-person conferences. As your team members begin attending conferences, make sure you have a strong plan in place to make the most of your investment. Conferences offer...
by Laurel Manke | Feb 10, 2022 | Marketing, Sales
You may assume marketing and sales teams naturally function in lockstep. They share the same core goal: to grow the business they serve. However, if you are a sales or marketing professional, it is likely you have felt friction between the two groups. Unfortunately,...
