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2wo: The pharma product website is a living entity. Content that’s not being read needs to be removed and added as the noise around your product increases. Agencies should persuade clients to use their DTC budgets to reach their target market better, whether in the doctor’s office or online. What do they read?
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billion annually in healthcare and productivity losses. The FDA should require every pharma product website to devote part of its content to prevention and the importance of exercise. Why don’t doctors have the “the talk”? Lack of exercise costs the world $67.5 billion and 5 million lives annually.
Patients are finally returning to their doctors, and some DTC people really believe they will go to their doctor and ask for an Rx. DTC marketers need to better understand what’s being said about their product on social media as people tend to trust each other more than pharma company ads and websites.
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Safety pages on Pharma product websites continue to have high utility. Only requirement in TV ads should be for “boxed” products. To portray patients, mindless people who blindly believe DTC TV ads and rush to their doctor to ask for a product are inaccurate. That’s pretty telling.
While most offices remain closed pharma is preparing for the launch of new products and has to have the infrastructure to ensure a successful launch. Sure patients are staying away from doctors’ offices now but do we know for sure that trend will last? The answer to that is yes, and no.
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