Key Criteria for Selecting a Pharmaceutical Speaker Bureau Company (Part II of II)

Read Part 1 for the first three critical criteria to consider when selecting a pharmaceutical speaker bureau company. Find the next three critical criteria for making a prudent and long-lasting vendor selection below. #4: Pharma Aggregate Spend Data & Reporting One of the primary reasons companies seek out PharMethod is dissatisfaction with their current vendor when it comes to dutiful …

Selecting a Pharmaceutical Speaker Bureau Company

Key Criteria for Selecting a Pharmaceutical Speaker Bureau Company (Part I of II)

After nearly 20 years in the industry and a myriad of pharma, med-device, and biotech speaker bureau launches, it has become apparent there are six key criteria that are ideal for one to take into consideration when thinking about bringing on a new pharmaceutical speaker bureau company. Whenever PharMethod engages a potential new partner, we make it clear at the …

Five Tips for Building Business Relationships

Running a successful business – or being successful at helping someone else run theirs – is about more than closing sales and expanding mailing lists. Interpersonal connections are the often-missing piece that can get you closer to achieving your goals. But establishing and maintaining business relationships doesn’t come easily to everyone. These suggestions offer guidance to simple actionable approaches to …

Four Questions for Success in Balancing Business and Life

Success is one of those words that can mean totally different things to different people. However, no matter what business you are in, success is definitely not all about the money. Rather than trying to pin work-life “success” down with a definition so vague as to be meaningless, let’s approach this elusive unicorn from another angle. Finding the Intersection The …

Keep Your Virtual Meeting Momentum

In the matter of months, the business world has shifted from conference rooms to remote offices and traded in-person meetings for online conference calls. While at first the notion of working from home seemed appealing to many, sitting isolated in front of a screen for the duration of the day has impacted the interaction between companies’ employees. The slumped feeling …

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Five Core Principles to Help Strategic Leaders Ask Good Questions

Leaders succeed or fail based on their ability to scan the horizon from a 50,000-foot viewpoint as well as their strength to execute on the ground level. Strategic leaders know that to achieve these potentially conflicting goals, the right questions must be asked of the right people at the right time. The specific questions, which will differ according to circumstances, …

How Patients Can Make the Most of Telemedicine

Telemedicine provides a dose of around-the-clock healthcare convenience for people who are too far away, too busy, or too sick to travel to see a doctor in person. The concept of using telecommunications technology (such as phone and video) to conduct medical consultations was originally developed as a way to connect practitioners with patients who lived in remote, rural areas. …

Harnessing the Power of Home Health Tests

The first home health test was the now-iconic, stick-based pregnancy test, which first hit drugstore shelves in 1976. Despite several changes over the years (such as substitution of +/- results with smiley faces), the simple DIY assessment has remained popular. Since then, we’ve seen the rise of more sophisticated at-home tests, including genetic sampling that maps your DNA and can …

Protecting Personal Wellness During Business Travel

These days, if you travel for work, you may find yourself in a region wracked by forest-fire-related “smokestorm” or suffering a wild heat wave – even in December. As a business traveler, however, you must persevere wherever you are. Luckily, there are easy and effective ways to make the trip less stressful on your body and your mind. Bring Your …