The One Thing No One Wants to Talk About It is about time we talked about the “I-word,” or inflation, for as a pharma motivational sales speaker and pharma sales consultant, it concerns me when any industry, especially pharma, prides itself on being inflation proof. I am hardly alone in that opinion. Between…
A Slow Down, Means more Hustle in 2023 As a pharmaceutical industry motivational sales speaker, I understand that statistics can be misleading. According to the latest pharmaceutical industry projections, in 2023 the U.S. industry’s share of the entire industry’s sales worth should be in excess of $685 billion with a nearly 44-percent market…
There will always be challenges, and always visionaries to overcome them “A clear challenge of the pharmaceutical industry has been highlighted by the recent pandemic, and that is the overreliance on single-sourced materials and vulnerabilities within the global supply chain. Like any other manufactured product, pharma and biopharma products are a sum of…
Have You Given in to the Second Pandemic? As a pharmaceutical sales speaker with a passion for what sales reps face each day, I was interested in an article by development and burnout writer Rachel Montañez in her article for Forbes magazine. Though the piece was written as the COVID pandemic had first…
Resilience in Pharma Sales: Now More than Ever As a motivational sales speaker for the pharmaceutical industry, I tell my audiences that COVID-19 might also be characterized as the disease that changed an industry. It is kind of ironic. While the pharmaceutical industry has changed the way medicine has treated nearly every disease…
Going from Sixty to Zero is Not a Good Look To the world that lies beyond the pharmaceutical industry, I know that as a motivational pharmaceutical speaker, the projected 2022 revenues of $8.7 trillion seems proof positive that the industry has it made. In fact, the headlines, are trying to convince the world that…
There are Bigger Obstacles than Price When I deliver pharma keynote presentations to sales reps, I sometimes point out that there are much bigger sales obstacles than overcoming objections to price. My comment may be met with disbelief and denial. My concern is that the pharmaceutical industry has been so inundated with negativity about…
2022 is a Year of Resilience and Strong Customer Service. Be Warned. “We should see an exceptional level of activity across all sectors in 2022 as companies look to further their growth agenda. Biotech and smaller medical device deals should continue in the first half of the year, with the second half poised…
Nothing is a Given in Healthcare Sales, and That’s a Good Thing Remember the old slogan, “There are no guarantees?” As a medical device and pharmaceutical sales speaker, I started 2020 speaking in-person to groups, then switched to virtual, and now the entire healthcare industry is somewhere in-between. One common thread from the sales…
I’m Tired of the “Bitter Pill” Jokes – You Too? As a pharmaceutical sales speaker, who has a broad background in sales and motivating pharma sales teams, I am tired of the “Bitter Pill” jokes. What I mean by that are people minimizing your professional background and efforts. If this past 18 months has…