Marketing for Pharmacists presents new marketing techniques and ideas that will make pharmacists, student pharmacists, and pharmacy managers more effective in meeting their patients needs and wants.

Marketing to Pharmacists: Understanding Their Role and Influence will help pharmaceutical marketers better understand pharmaceutical practice in order to develop better relationships with pharmacists and effectively market products. This book examines important trends in pharmaceutical health care, including patient education and compliance, quality of life assessment, disease management, and cost containment strategies that assist pharmacists in providing better care to patients which results in increased sales for your business. From Marketing to Pharmacists, you?ll learn how pharmacists influence product selection, monitor drug therapy, and serve as a primary source of patient education in order for you to create successful marketing strategies for your company. Recognizing that cost control is a key goal for all members of the health care system, Marketing to Pharmacists provides you with advice and strategies that emphasize working together with pharmacists. This will help you determine demand for a specific product so you can devise your own marketing strategies to meet the needs of both the pharmacist and patient. With Marketing to Pharmacists, you?ll improve your marketing skills by using innovative techniques and suggestions, including: understanding pharmacists’influence in prescription product selection to help develop effective marketing strategies asking for pharmacists’assistance in designing care management programs, participating in the development and negotiation of care management contracts, and offering knowledge as pharmacotherapeutic experts to emphasize patient advocacy and accessibility to patients understanding the dimensions of the quality of life and other aspects of pharmaceutical care to design effective sales tactics to pharmacists communicating with pharmacists to learn about the needs of certain patients in order to create effective marketing strategies that will lessen the occurrence of unclaimed prescriptions and decrease the loss of revenue to pharmaceutical companies developing a positive relationship between pharmacists and pharmaceutical companies by displaying genuine customer interest, providing pharmacists with useful and accurate information about products, and establishing ethical guidelines Containing charts, tables, and graphs to give you a comprehensive look at techniques and data, Marketing to Pharmacists will help you create marketing strategies that will successfully meet the needs of your customers and result in economic benefits for your company.

Based on the authors' experiences of working with a wide variety of retail pharmacies, this book is designed to provide pharmacists with a clear understanding of the nature of marketing, and the ways it can contribute to the effective management of their business. It explains how marketing techniques can benefit retail pharmacy, and includes questions and checklists, examples and case histories.

Global Issues in Pharmaceutical Marketing presents a balanced, research-based perspective combined with a practical outlook on the current issues faced by the ethical, biotech, and generic segments of the pharmaceutical industry. It integrates an analytical approach with a global view to examine such issues as market access, digital marketing, emerging markets, branding, and more. The book covers not only the North American and Western European markets, but focuses on non-Western markets, such as Latin America and Asia. Each chapter is written as an individual essay about a given issue, and where relevant, original cases are provided to illustrate how these issues are currently managed by the global industry. This book offers a thoughtful and thorough description of the industry’s current situation and integrates the latest scholarly and industry research from different disciplines in one place for convenient reference. It may be used in the following ways: To stimulate class discussions and inspire new streams of research for academics and graduate students; To introduce the industry to those interested in a career, to orient new industry hires, or to provide experienced practitioners with current research that will enhance their knowledge; To provide an understanding of the industry for those in the healthcare sector, such as physicians, pharmacists, as well as medical and pharmacy students; and To present recent and relevant research for those in government, public or private payers, and public policy environments to facilitate their decision making. This book will prove to be a useful resource and an important source of information for academics and their students, professionals, and policymakers around the world.

Marketing for Pharmacists, Third Edition, presents new marketing tips and techniques to help pharmacists more effectively serve their patients and customers. Highlights Gain appreciation of the need to market pharmacist services Learn methods for designing and managing pharmacy services Understand advantages and disadvantages of different marketing, segmentation, and promotional strategies Plan innovative business models for pharmacist services and design profitable business plans to succeed in a competitive health care marketplace This third edition includes extensive updates and new chapters on pricing, marketing channels, marketing communications, and innovation strategies. New topics include discussions of shopper marketing, new pharmacy business models, social media marketing, and service design.

Marketing Pharmaceutical Services discusses nearly every aspect of pharmacy patronage, the quintessential element of a successful community pharmacy practice. With recent trends showing availability and quality of both traditional and professional pharmacy services as key factors in patronage of a pharmacy, there is a greater need for understanding types of services customers desire in their community pharmacies. This anthology of research, gleaned from journals published over the past decade, with helpful interpretative comments by Smith and Coons, is the most complete resource available on marketing services. This unique volume provides data from which practicing pharmacists can develop a service programdesigned for its patrons and marketing strategies for promoting those services. Whether chain or independent drug stores, managers above the store level will find practical, relevant marketing hints in this one convenient source. Special topics covered include: defining and classifying patronage factors and motives characterizing consumers as related to pharmacy patronage assessing consumers'attitudes and perceptions concerning pharmacists'roles in counseling patrons on their use of drugs, private consulting with patrons, and prescription price strategizing marketing for special markets, such as elderly in housing communities and long term care facilities The variety of topics covered will interest all involved in the field of pharmacy from graduate and advanced undergraduate students and professors, to marketing and sales specialists, especially managers in the wholesale industry.