A clear strategy gives you direction for where to invest scarce resources. In the dynamic landscape of health care, marketers face a pivotal choice: Should we invest in our brand or our business? If you put it in simple terms like this, the answer is: both. Marketers need to allocate resources to promote services while Read More
// By Susan Dubuque // Static brands result in static organizations. Dynamic, forward-leaning brands break through the noise and unleash the real potential that can change not only your organization but the industry as a whole. Discover a practical and scalable approach to formulating a dynamic brand strategy for your organization.
// By John Marzano // The goal for any hospital and health system is to successfully activate and operationalize the service trio of brand, culture, and experience. Here, we share LCMC’s approach to embedding brand in the organization’s culture to drive better experience for employees, patients, and the community.
// By Susan Dubuque // In early 2022, the Centra marketing team recognized the need to evolve the look and feel of the organization’s advertising. The health system marketing team created the “It’s My Life” campaign based on personal, lifelong relationships Centra caregivers have with patients they serve. to learn the strategy behind this campaign.
How do you craft a cohesive message platform that makes sense for an expanding organization comprising three separate religious congregations with hospitals and health care facilities spread across Texas, Louisiana, and New Mexico? The answer? Build from your mission and stay focused on purpose. Jeff Stewart, vice president of strategic marketing for CHRISTUS Health, and Read More
// By Matt Cyr // In the dynamic landscape of health care, marketers face a pivotal choice: Should we invest in our brand or our business? If you put it in simple terms like this, the answer is: both. Marketers need to allocate resources to promote services while building enduring brand visibility.
// By Susan Dubuque // CHRISTUS Health has been committed to the health and well-being of individuals and communities for generations. Today, it remains true to its original mission and purpose. See how CHRISTUS Health’s brand promise is reflected in its broader advertising initiatives, while also responding to the needs and opportunities of each of its markets.
When brand promise rings true for employees, organizations have a competitive advantage when it comes to recruitment, retention, and engagement. In health care organizations, the relationship between corporate strategy, culture, and brand is vital, complex, and often overlooked. But it holds immense potential for driving success. Across all industries, successful businesses achieve this relationship by Read More
// By Marcos Irigaray // In health care organizations, the relationship between corporate strategy, culture, and brand is vital, complex, and often overlooked. But it holds immense potential for driving success. Across all industries, successful businesses achieve this relationship by connecting their corporate strategy and external market-oriented brand management with complementary and equally focused and institutionalized internal brand management (Burmann, 2005).
A recent report on philanthropy trends in the U.S. describes giving as “getting bigger and wider.” The proliferation of big-ticket donations continues, with billionaires pledging to give away their wealth. However, growth in donations is not limited to the super-rich. Online donation platforms and social media campaigns along with the can-do attitudes of younger generations Read More
// By Susan Dubuque // The foundation that supports philanthropy at Virginia Commonwealth University Health deploys the same advertising strategies and tactics used to market service lines with the added benefit of building trust and reinforcing the mission and brand. Learn how you can apply your advertising know-how to support fund development for your organization.
Marketing technology (MarTech) is changing fast. How fast? Twenty percent of MarTech innovations available today didn’t even exist in 2016, according to Tom Hileman, CEO and president of the Hileman Group. In health care, Hileman says conversational marketing technology and marketing compliance platforms lead the way with 70 percent growth over the past five years. Read More
// By Brian Griffin // The growth of MarTech is revolutionizing health care marketing. In this article, you will learn how marketing experts at leading health systems use the latest MarTech tools to communicate more effectively with key audiences, grow patient volumes, and demonstrate marketing’s value to the C-suite. Marketing technology (MarTech) is changing fast. Read More