Healthcare marketer planning and strategy guide
A health care marketer definitely has his or her work cut out for him. This individual needs to be able to market goods not just to consumer marketers, but eventually to consumer goods. Convincing consumers from a need-based and psychological standpoint that a given product or service is crucial to their health takes a planned and cohesive strategy. Consider the following: "Fewer than 10 percent of all new products are truly innovative and new; for example, a new chemical entity in the pharmaceutical sector or an innovative device to treat a previously incurable condition" (Kotler, et al., 2011).