Lead generation

One of the goals of the HealthB2BMarketing blog is to share best practices peer to peer. Since this month’s posts are on the topic of yearly planning and budgeting, I asked Mike Schouten, a friend and one of the most talented marketing leaders I know, to share his insights on the subject. Mike is the [...]

We’ve been talking all month about the need for health care B2B sales and marketing professionals to combine their efforts for greater success. I appreciate all the people who have commented on LinkedIn and via email. I want to cap off the month by offering some tips for marketing folks as they conduct regular meetings [...]

Whether you’re in marketing or in sales, you’ve felt it: the frustration that the sales team isn’t working hard enough. The burning feeling that marketing is out of touch and would be nothing without sales. The uneasiness of handing over a lead, or accepting a lead, to or from a group you just don’t trust. [...]

So let’s say you took my advice: you gathered Twitter handle info from your trade show prospects and you grabbed a grundle of other Twitter handles from your trade show re-tweet promotion. Now what? Nurture your little birds. Chances are, most of the Twitter accounts won’t be held by people who are qualified leads. You’re [...]

What makes a health care trade show contact a qualified lead?

8 June 2010

HFMA’s Annual National Institute (ANI) is this month—June 20-23 in at the Sands Convention Center in Las Vegas. Kudos to the HFMA folks (Kurt and Carrie, I know you’ve been working hard) for quick setup of the new location after the Nashville flooding made the Gaylord Opryland a no-go for this year’s conference. I would [...]

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Five keys to successful health care trade shows

12 February 2010

I’ll be in Atlanta during the first week of March attending HIMSS10. This isn’t my first HIMSS, but it is the first one for which I have a full attendee pass. At previous shows, I’ve attended as an exhibitor and managed a fairly large booth (actually, it was average by HIMSS size standards). Notwithstanding the [...]

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Seven ingredients for health care B2B lead generation success

4 February 2010

One path to growth is a fatter sales pipeline, which calls for integrated lead generating campaigns. That got me thinking about the ingredients of a strong health care B2B lead gen campaign.

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