Public Relations

Public relations is a constantly evolving discipline, and Health B2B PR is certainly part of today’s evolution. To provide insight into how our vertical fits into the broader changes happening in PR, I asked a good friend, Cyndee Holden, to share some of her insights. Cyndee is one of the most PR savvy professionals I [...]

I talk to a lot of health care B2B marketers, and most of them say that social media hasn’t matured enough to be a viable marketing tactic for their organizations. That may be true for their individual organization’s traditional marketing objectives. But social media still has a place in their marketing mix, and that place [...]

Four tips for writing search optimized news releases

by Don Seamons on November 27, 2010

In the field of health B2B public relations, the way I see it, there are two workhorses: news releases and case studies. Today, I’ll share some opinions about news releases; tomorrow, we’ll move to case studies. It used to be that news releases were just that: a way to release news about your organization to [...]

When I was a year or two out of college and working in public relations, I remember going to some local PRSA gatherings and listening to PR students in the room introduce themselves. Invariably, there was always one or two students who stood up and announced that they were getting into the PR field because [...]

Tips for making your sales/marketing meetings more productive

3 September 2010

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 [...]

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HIStalk talks marketing, or, Are HIMSS news releases newsworthy?

11 March 2010

I caused a minor kerfuffle last month when I expressed my opinion about HIStalk’s advertising options. Mr. HIStalk took some exception when I wrote that Inga “claims to be female and sports a sultry avatar”. Here was his response: An online article suggests that perhaps Inga is a man writing as a woman. I couldn’t [...]

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Should Coca-Cola promote heart health? YES!

23 February 2010

Lots of buzz in the health Twitter community about a blog post written last week by the New York Times writer Tara Parker Pope, asking whether Coke should talk about heart health. As of this writing, bit.ly records 98 tweets, 86 Facebook shares and 551 clicks to the story. Parker-Pope’s post reports that the Center [...]

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