For us, the objective of communications is to inform, educate and entertain. How one goes about achieving that over digital media, and in particular social media, can be as simple or as complicated as one wishes. The heart of any communications is content, and in pharma, it must be compliant. What one then wishes to…
Social Media Strategy in Pharma – Solutions to Challenges
Applying the Guidelines In our previous blogs, we discussed some of the challenges faced by pharma in using social media, how social media metrics indicate that pharma must produce more content and improve engagement, and the various guidelines that pharma must adhere to when posting on social media. However, there are solutions to help overcome…
Social Media Guidelines in Pharma
Understanding the Guidelines Understanding what we in pharma can and cannot post about on social media is central to any strategy. In our industry, we must adhere to various and particularly stringent compliance guidelines when marketing and communicating. We have various do’s and don’ts from a range of different food and medicinal health agencies regarding…
Pharma Faces Many Social Media Challenges
Fear of Social Media Companies are only one or two incidents away from a crippling catastrophe. Various public customer service disasters, especially those caught on film, have led to people airing their grievances over social media, costing companies hundreds of millions of dollars in lost stocks and share values, and compensation and settlement fees. Pharma…
Social Media in Pharma – Knowing The Numbers
Where is Your Audience? Knowing which social media platforms your audience is on is the first place to begin. Statistics for January 2018 listing the most popular social networks worldwide, ranked by the number of active accounts, shows Facebook (2,167 billion people), as the most active, followed by YouTube (2nd), Instagram (7th), and Twitter (9th)1.…
Is Pharma Socially Inhibited?
The Power of Social Media Social media is one of the quickest and most direct ways of communication currently available. Whether people have questions and queries, or things go wrong, we should be able to have reasonable conversations over social media with any company. Social media has the power to build up and bring down…