Posted in After Hours, Fun, Video on May 16, 2008 | No Comments »
Do not view this during lunch! How sword-swallowing looks under fluoroscopy. Ewwww!
Meet the Lingo Kid. A street-selling kid in India peddling peacock feather fans, in more languages than you can shake a stick at. Great lesson in “speaking your customer’s language!”
From my marketing blog Stickyfigure: The Little Spoilers that Kill a Sale. Two cars I [...]
Posted in Conference, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, SPBT, Sales training, Technology on May 16, 2008 | No Comments »
As always, it’s tough to decide which workshops to attend at the conference - there are so many good ones in overlapping time slots. Some that are intriguing to me right now:
Workshop Period 1: Accelerating Success through Business Simulations. I think that simulation development is a big deal, and I want to absorb more. If [...]
Posted in Pharmaceutical, Sales training, Training, tagged indegene, medsn, pharmavoice on May 16, 2008 | No Comments »
PharmaVoice has some articles you can download for free - nice stuff:
Making it Stick: How to Maximize Knowledge Retention (written by John Bye of Campbell Alliance - John’s a good guy, by the way, as are a number of the Campbell folks I’ve interacted with).
Time for a new Educational Standard (from Jim Dutton of CMR [...]
Posted in Abbott, Amgen, AstraZeneca, BMS, Bayer, Biotech, Celgene, Daiichi Sankyo, FDA, Forest Labs, GSK, Genentech, J&J, Johnson and Johnson, Lilly, Medical Devices, Medicine, Merck, Novartis, Pfizer, Pharma, Pharma News, Pharmaceutical, Red Cross, Sales training, Sanofi-Aventis, Statins, Takeda, tagged alimta, asco, Avastin, herceptin, Millennium, psoriasis, rad001, ranbaxy, s, trasylol, vaptan, vectibix, viagra, xience, zometa on May 16, 2008 | No Comments »
There’s a ton of stuff going on this week, plus we’re in pre-ASCO mode (so lots of oncology news - scroll down for those headlines). Here we go:
What’s a vaptan? Maybe something pretty exciting - A new class of drugs called vaptans may be able to treat a wide variety of conditions including painful periods, [...]
Posted in Business, Career planning, Musings on May 15, 2008 | No Comments »
Call me an idealist, but I think true professionals yearn to add value. There is no fulfillment in collecting a paycheck while being unproductive (except for the chronically pathetic “worker,” but that’s another post).
So, in your current role, what is your value-add? How are you making life better for customers? How is your company [...]
Posted in Pharmaceutical on May 12, 2008 | No Comments »
Some gorgeous photos from National Geographic. Superb.
I have always had a secret desire to be a DJ, or at least a voice-over artist. Probably will never happen. But I do find voice-over humor to be funny - like this one, just discovered on YouTube
(hat tip: Presurfer blog)
And here’s on oldie-but-goodie:
Posted in Abbott, Biotech, Cephalon, Healthcare, Medical Devices, Medicine, Merck, Novo Nordisk, Pharma, Pharma News, Pharmaceutical, tagged ADHD, Fentora, King Pharma, Medtronic, NovoSeven on May 12, 2008 | No Comments »
Merck the latest to make major cuts to its sales force - The unwinding of the Big Pharma sales armies continues apace, with Merck saying late today that it’s cutting its U.S. sales force by 1,200 positions, or about 14% from 8,500 reps at the start of 2007…more (and, in a strange twist, it appears [...]
Posted in Conference, Impactiviti, Marketing, Meetings, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, SPBT, Sales training, Video, tagged society of pharmaceutical and biotech trainers, Steve Woodruff on May 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
For those pharma sales training folks gearing up for this year’s SPBT Conference, here is a quick video with a few tips on how to maximize your time. You may wish to forward this especially to first-time attendees.
Also, click here for a free tool to help your planning. This single-sheet .pdf file can help you [...]
Posted in Pharmaceutical on May 8, 2008 | No Comments »
Perhaps you read my recent post about networking?
Well, here’s a chance for those of you in the NJ/Philly area to engage in some!
John Mack (Pharma Marketing Network) is putting on a networking dinner in Princeton on the evening of June 4th.
More info right here.
Posted in Blogs, Communications, Job Board, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, tagged job search, Networking on May 6, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Perhaps you’ve never been a Boy Scout. Whether you have or not, the Scout motto - Be Prepared - is a good one to consider right now.
You’re read about all the recent layoffs in our industry. You’ve heard about, or been part of, one or more of the many mergers in recent years. There is [...]
