Posts from ‘April, 2009’

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Don’t Miss Out! Peggy Mckee will be a key presenter April 16th in a Dark Report live Audio Conference titled:
Staff Your Clinical laboratory with Big Performers: How to Recruit and Retain the Best Med Techs
Recruiting and hiring big pharmaceutical technologists may be the single biggest issue facing laboratories today. And it’s [...] Related posts:

1. PHC Loves the Dark Every day The Dark Daily is very informative, up-to-the-minute FREE e-briefing for everyone in…
2. Dark Daily: Huge Molecular Asteroid on Track to Smash Planet Pathology and Planet Radiology Today’s Dark Daily - predicts Giant Molecular Asteroid on Track…
3. Big Brother lives (and he is in your neighborhood)…. So many times we hear that employers are tracking us…checking…

The Rule of 78-As it applies to the reagent/consumable business sales goal attainment.
Before beginning this article, I Googled “The Rule of 78” and reviewed a few of the articles. All of the entries I read focused on using the rule as a means of calculating how much of your monthly payment goes towards interest [...] Related posts:

1. The 80/20 Rule The “80/20″ rule is very important in sales:  clinical sales,…
2. Selling Power: Great mag for laboratory sales managers and all pharmaceutical sales professionals Selling Power magazine delivers fantastic advice on creating revenue success -…
3. Company Car Allowance vs. Mileage vs. Company Car for Sales Reps in Clinical, Laboratory or Healthcare…. One of my hiring managers (a client) wrote this (and…

Are you interested in breaking into clinical revenue, medical sales, biotechnology sales, pathology device sales, clinical diagnostics sales, imaging sales, hospital equipment sales, lab revenue, surgical supply sales, DNA products revenue, or any other kind of healthcare sales?  Do you have musings?  Click on the comment section below and type it in.  At the end [...] Related posts:

1. Big 5 Posts from the Pharmaceutical Sales Recruiter I get many hundreds of visitors every single day to my…
2. Should college students pay for internships to get into medical sales? [caption id=”attachment_780″ align=”alignleft” width=”150″ caption=”medical, sales, recruiting, pathology, hiring,…
3. Job Search Tip for Clinical Sales: It’s a Personal Branding Thing… [caption id=”attachment_717″ align=”aligncenter” width=”425″ caption=”medical, medical, sales, job, recruiter,…

Here’s a very informative article from http://www.amednews.com/ that reports what’s going on with pharmaceutical revenue reps jobs, and what the future looks like:  Doctors increasingly close doors to drug reps, while pharma cuts ranks It’s a great article to go to for more detailed information, but the upshot is that doctors are increasingly averse to allowing sales [...] Related posts:

1. Pharmaceutical sales rep in major 20 career opportunities list CNNmoney.com posted their list of big 20 career opportunities for the young…
2. Did CafePharma put medical sales reps out of work? No. Doctors did. If you’ve read this blog for long, you know my…
3. Should Clinical Sales Career opportunities Require a Credit Check? Recently, I ran a poll to see what you think…

While I’m on the whole Andrea Nierenberg kick, here’s some more advice:  Andrea’s “Power of 3.”  Every day take 15 minutes at the beginning or end of the day and write three short goodwill notes: one to a prospect, one to a client and one to a friend. Just say “Hi,” send an article, or [...] Related posts:

1. Part III - Pimp Your Network Welcome to my 4-part “Pimp Your Career” series. In part…
2. Thank You Notes for Clinical Sales   [caption id=”attachment_850″ align=”aligncenter” width=”425″ caption=”medical, revenue, headhunter, hiring, pathology,…
3. Major 5 Posts from the Pharma Sales Recruiter I get many hundreds of visitors every single day to my…

  Andrea Nierenberg often offers some of my favorite pieces of advice.  One of the latest I’ve found is “Eight Key Ways to Say Thank You to Customers.”  Worthy manners are always important, and they have always been an essential part of worthwhile customer service and relations.  (They’re not just for job interviews.)  And in our [...] Related posts:

1. Positive Thinking for Medical Sales Success [caption id="attachment_871" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="medical, revenue, headhunter, hiring, pharmaceutical, economy,...
2. Job Search Tip for Clinical Sales: It’s a Personal Branding Thing… [caption id=”attachment_717″ align=”aligncenter” width=”425″ caption=”medical, laboratory, revenue, job, headhunter,…
3. Should college students pay for internships to get into clinical sales? [caption id=”attachment_780″ align=”alignleft” width=”150″ caption=”medical, sales, recruiting, laboratory, hiring,…

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April 1, 2009
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New FDA Draft Guidance Aims to Improve Health Information Obtained via “Social Media” Websites
The Food and Drug Administration today issued a draft guidance document designed to improve communications to consumers and health care practitioners about health conditions and laboratory products that they obtain on “social media” Websites [...] Related posts:

1. Job Search Tip: Too Much Information on your Social Networks I get a lot of great comments from my readers,…
2. What’s your brand? Employers and recruiters do research clinical sales, healthcare sales, pharma…
3. MySpace killed the candidate….critical position interview tip Another candidate with inappropriate material on his myspace…who is now…