Time, Money, and Santa

Over at Gandolf’s Marketing Magic blog (Medical Marketing, Internet Marketing and Other Fun Stuff) Stewart has been pondering the delicate relationship between TIME, MONEY, and successful healthcare marketing.

If you rule out alchemy and the tooth fairy, everyone working in health care marketing knows your investment is one or the other, or both. They are the common denominators of medical marketing for healthcare organizations, hospitals, manufacturers, physicians and surgeons, dentists, pharmaceuticals and other corporations and entrepreneurs.

The strategy challenge is: How to produce the highest and best results with the available—and often limited—resources available.

Click through to Stewart’s thoughtful post about the problem of weighing strategies, tactics and expectations; and using a system grid to help guide a reality-based decision process.

Hint: Santa Claus is probably not a good option. You’ll want to read Stewart’s blog: Healthcare Marketing Costs Time or Money (or both). You Choose.

Stewart Gandolf

Chief Executive Officer & Creative Director at Healthcare Success

Over the years Stewart has personally marketed and consulted for over 1,457 healthcare clients, ranging from private practices to multi-billion dollar corporations. Additionally, he has marketed a variety of America’s leading companies, including Citicorp, J. Walter Thompson, Grubb & Ellis, Bally Total Fitness, Wells Fargo and Chase Manhattan. Stewart co-founded our company, and today acts as Chief Executive Officer and Creative Director. He is also a frequent author and speaker on the topic of healthcare marketing. His personal accomplishments are supported by a loving wife and two beautiful daughters.

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