A sales pilot is a short-term experiment that tests a product’s sales performance or a new sales approach. The value of a sales pilot is that it’s restricted to a particular geographic area for a limited period of time and in that way, it helps sales executives to discover what works best and what doesn’t […]
The profession of medical sales has clearly faced a decline during the last years, making many professionals feeling anxious about the prospect of their careers. Pharmaceutical companies of every size, cut on their medical sales teams to achieve economies and reduce their costs. Many medical reps worry that the best days of their profession are […]
Learning how to build a successful sales force is critical for every pharmaceutical company in order to achieve profits and win significant market shares. Without a profit generating sales team every company is destined to fail and be overtaken by competition. Therefore, all organizations who take themselves seriously must master the art of successful sales […]
The Growing Importance of Sales Force Effectiveness For many years, Sales Force Effectiveness (SFE) has been an important subject of discussion among many pharmaceutical companies. That is because the largest costs for big pharma have to do not only with research and development for new therapies but mainly with sales and marketing. Undoubtedly between these […]
Coping with sales force attrition and its effects is a major challenge for many pharmaceutical companies in Greece and in Europe. Even in the face of recession effective sales reps move from one company to another in hopes of a better salary, improved work environment and better prospects. Of course professional reasons are not the […]
Time and again I meet with pharmaceutical sales reps who either because they don’t achieve their sales quotas or because they try to find new ways to improve their already high performance, ask me or their team leaders in what areas they need to improve, how can this improvement happen and if there are any […]
Many pharmaceutical companies operating in Greece decide to outsource several aspects of their operations for a number of reasons. The most common operations outsourced by pharmaceutical companies include sales (medical detailing and sales to pharmacies), promotion (merchandising, in-store promotions) and regulatory (as well as pharmacovigilance, R&D and clinical trials).
An increasing number of sales managers in Greece report to their companies incidents of pharmacists who “switch” doctors’ prescriptions and bypass their recommendations. In these cases the patients end up buying a competitive product recommended by the pharmacists instead of those recommended by the doctors. As a result the company invests in the doctors’ line […]
