HCB Health Increases Reach & Influence With Opening of New Jersey Office

HCB  |  November 18, 2019

HCB Health Increases Reach & Influence With Opening of New Jersey Office HCB’s third office focused on serving large-scale pharma clients in the tri-state region; staff expected to grow to 25 in next year. PARSIPPANY, NJ, AUSTIN & CHICAGO; (November 13, 2019) – HCB Health, one of the country’s leading independent healthcare communications agencies, has opened a third office in Parsippany, New Jersey, to serve new and existing clients. The office will also draw local high-caliber talent and provide dedicated local resources to HCB’s new East Coast-based clients. HCB expects the current 10-person staff to grow to a dozen by the end of 2019 and to 25 by the end of 2020. The firm is actively recruiting to fill positions in the NJ office in account services, creative, project ...

The Road to Expert: How to Become an Analytics Specialist

Jennifer LoMonaco  |  June 5, 2019

Teachers often say it’s important to have a well-rounded education. Diversify your learning. You never know how the information you learn today will be applied in the future. Let’s be honest…teachers usually are right, but even my former math teachers would probably be shocked to learn that I work with numbers daily. I was never a math whiz, often sought extra help with algebra and geometry, and never dared to enroll in trigonometry. So, how did I stumble into an analytics job? I graduated with a double major in public relations and Spanish and then went on to get my master’s in public policy and administration. Math degree? …

The Power of Why

Jennifer Yost  |  May 31, 2019

By nature, I’m a pretty curious person. I’ve never really been afraid of asking questions. To the annoyance of many at one time or another, I’m sure. Now, as a mom to two toddlers, I realize (daily) what it feels like to be on the other side. Did you know that preschool children ask an average of 100 questions a day? That’s a lot of questions. Like, a lot of questions. “Why are we holding hands?” “Why is the sky blue?” “Why do you have that funny look on your face?” “Why do I have to brush my teeth?” “Why?” “Why?” “Why?” They’ve tested my knowledge. They’ve made me laugh. They’ve surprised me. And, let’s be honest, …

The New Genetic Testing Frontier

Gabriel Cangiano  |  May 28, 2019

Many years ago, a smart man from my first agency where I began a significant portion of my healthcare marketing career talked about the frontier of personalized medicine. The idea of personalized medicines giving targeted therapies to “cure” patients was a main driver of my desire to build my entire career in healthcare marketing. While I knew full well that I started a pathway of my career working with big pharma, where friends at parties would challenge how I could work for corporate entities …

Transforming Digital: Domino’s Pizza?

Taylor Watson  |  May 24, 2019

Last Friday, I was able to crash Modern Healthcare’s Healthcare Transformation Summit here in Austin. Our Chief Digital Officer Colin Foster sat on a panel with some outstanding industry peers to discuss healthcare’s digital transformation. The conversation hosted by David Chou was extremely interesting and insightful, but it’s the opening statement that I continue to think about. What company has transformed digital? The obvious answers come to mind: Amazon, Google, Facebook maybe? Sure, those companies have all changed the digital landscape in some way. But Colin, David, Neil Gomes and Anthony Nguyen, MD all seemed to agree on an out-of-the-box answer: Domino’s Pizza. I did not expect four senior-level digital healthcare professionals to praise Domino’s Pizza, but yet they did. I was still associating Domino’s with large group gatherings, a back-up dinner option after a failed …

What Escher Taught Me About Analytics

Amy Hansen  |  May 22, 2019

As an agency, HCB Health has been thinking — and writing — about analytics a lot lately. Even though it’s been a core competency at our agency for several years now, I admit I’ve struggled to fully wrap my arms and head around what it means and how to effectively use it. It has always felt Escher-like in its complexity and infinite possibilities. Where do you start? Where are you going? And how do you know when you’ve arrived? I never imagined that analytics would be the trigger for my existential crisis. Yet here I am, metaphorically frozen in place in Escher’s “House of Stairs.” Of course, I’ve since learned that the reality of analytics is much less dramatic. While you cannot overestimate the vastness of information analytics has to offer, like …

What Healthcare’s Changing Media Landscape and Battle for Revenue Mean to You

Dave Russell  |  May 16, 2019

At HCB Health, we take great pride in being the listening agency. Listening to our clients, consumers, and the broader marketplace helps us get perspective about where things are headed in our industry. And from what I’m seeing and hearing, there is a storm brewing in healthcare (HC) publishing. The storm is disruption, and it’s the same storm that’s been pounding consumer media for many years. The similarities I see are shocking. The outcomes will be very similar if the HC publishers do not make the necessary adjustments to weather the storm. Shift to digital spending only is increasing in speed and mass eMarketer tells us that B2B print spending growth has come almost to a standstill. Clients continue to increase spending in digital tactics and less in …

Data and Analytics: Changing HCP Media

Dave Russell  |  May 13, 2019

We’ve heard a lot about disruption in the media world. All the disruption is the result of a proliferation of digital media tactics, big data and platforms. This disruption has mostly happened in the consumer media world, but over the last couple years, we’ve started to see major changes happening in the world of …

Challenging Goliath: Media, an Interview With Dave Russell

Dave Russell  |  May 6, 2019

Recently, Francesco Lucarelli teamed up with eyeforpharma to write about being an underdog in our industry. The piece sparked conversation amongst the agency regarding how underdogs can fight goliaths in specific areas like digital, media and creative. We sat down with VP Media Strategy Dave Russell to talk through the age-old David vs. Goliath tale and how it relates to paid media within the medical advertising space.   What are the biggest advantages of being …

Build Your Bottom Line through Effective Listening, Tapping Emotion, & Strong Engagement

Kim Carpenter  |  April 30, 2019

This article was originally published by DTC Perspectives on April 30th, 2019. http://www.dtcperspectives.com/build-bottom-line-effective-listening-tapping-emotion-strong-engagement/ Health and wellness, pharmaceutical, and medical-device providers must navigate an ever-evolving and consistently complicated healthcare landscape. Agencies (and corporate marketers) serve a key role in helping their clients problem solve, understand their challenges, and identify critical success factors. How is this best accomplished? Through the power of thorough, intuitive and intentional listening, and strong engagement – with both the client and consumer. It’s critical to tap into that certain something that bridges the gap between what agencies (and corporate marketers) think they know and what a client (or brand manager) needs to understand. The reverse is equally true. What does the client (or brand manager) and …

Staff Takes: How Will we Look at Analytics Differently in the Next Year?

HCB  |  April 29, 2019

We asked a handful of people within the agency to think about the constantly changing world of analytics. From digital to creative and everywhere in between, analytical data touches nearly every sector of our business. We wanted to hear what our HCBers had to say about the future of the analytics space. See what some of our staff had to say about the subject below. How will we look at analytics differently in the next year? I think the lens through which we look at analytics is ever changing. Between this and the amount of data available, it can be difficult for companies to choose and stick with their KPIs, which then defeats the purpose of even having them. I would also add that, largely due to the highly …

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