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Life Science Startups: How Much Branding Do You Need?

Life science startups need great branding even more than the big boys do. Branding isn’t typically the first thing life science startups think about when launching a company. You may just be starting your research. In many cases you don’t even have a product yet, or are just trying to get to trials. So why is…

Marketing Conflicts in Bioresearch, and How to Resolve Them

What do you do when your internal team gets stalled by marketing conflicts? Marketing conflicts are an everyday reality when promoting any brand, not just in bioresearch. Team members who disagree on the right approach can bring an entire campaign to a screeching halt and prevent new ones from ever getting off the ground successfully. How can you resolve conflicts…

Bioresearch Content Marketing Survey Results Announced

BioResearch industry marketers feel the need for stronger brand strategy and messaging. This December we polled 4,500 marketing professionals from leading life science companies, biopharmas and non-profit biomedical research organizations throughout the United States, in addition to major global players. Trends were notably similar suggesting common goals and challenges, including the need to create stronger…

Establishing a Strong Life Science Brand

What life science start-up brands need to establish their business Recently I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Chris Conner on the Life Science Marketing Radio podcast. We covered the basics of getting a life science brand up and running, even if you don’t have a product or customers yet. While we focused primarily on startups, we…

Powerful Messaging = Campaign Success

3 Insights That Can Help Streamline Your Bioresearch Brand’s Pitch. Recently, two of Maine’s leading Biomedical Institutions, The Jackson Laboratory and the MDI Biological Laboratory, successfully passed bond measures (Question 4 and Question 5 on Maine’s 2014 Ballot) to fund their facilities and research into the future. These success stories are largely due to the…

Measuring Your Biomedical Nonprofit’s Social Media Health

Key performance indicators for measuring and optimizing your social media efforts I am revisiting a great article by Jacqueline Zenn from Social Logic about how to evaluate your brand’s social media health. This is a summary of the article along with some of my own Leadership Marketing tips for effectively using social media for networking…

Regular brand health checks can help your biomedical nonprofit market like a leader

3 Reasons to Revisit Your Biomedical Nonprofit’s Core Brand Branding a biomedical nonprofit is a big undertaking and not a process that should be repeated often. However, as the competitive landscape shifts and your institution changes and grows, its positioning and messaging will naturally evolve, too. It can be helpful to perform regular brand health…

Demonstrating Leadership on Social Media Can Help Biomedical Nonprofits Speed Recruitment

3 Online Marketing Platforms for Attracting Talent to your Institution. Social media can make recruiting much easier and more effective by enabling you to target your next employee and communicate your opportunity more extensively. It also provides a great opportunity to showcase your biomedical nonprofit’s expertise and achievements to promote your company as an industry…

Effective Fundraising Materials for Your Biomedical Nonprofit

4 Leadership Marketing tips that can strengthen your donor presentations. Whether you are a biotech startup with very little funding or a long-standing biomedical institution with formal development teams, the fundraising materials that you leave behind after in-person presentations are critical to meeting your goals. Pitch materials can range from basic 2-sided Leave Behinds to…

Successful Fundraising for Biomedical Nonprofits

6 leadership marketing tactics for a successful investor development program. For any new biomedical nonprofit, attracting investors and securing early operating funds is critical. With the proper materials, you can help your development team hit the ground running. There is no shortage of breakthrough ideas in the biomedical industry, so as competition for venture capital…