TRAILBLAZER INTERVIEWS
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Understanding The Amazing Benefits Of Organoids With Samsung's Dr. Alexis Santana
Organoids are one of the tools the FDA identified as a way to reduce animal testing in pre-clinical studies, but they do much more. Dr. Alexis Santana discusses Samsung Biologics' organoid services: what they are and how they are used, their ability to grealty reduce time from discovery through commercialization, and how they will shape the future of drug devlopment.
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Jeremy Victor On Becoming More
An interview with Jeremy Victor, CEO of MoreScore XPERIENCE, author of The MORE Effect, and the host of the Speed of AI Podcast. We discuss his new book, the impact of AI on business and people, his origin story, and how to become MORE by helping others get what they want in life.
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Being Your Client's Valuable Travel Companion In Their Drug Development Journey
Northern Spain is one of the fastest growing regions of the biopharmaceutical industry in the EU. Elena Erroba, Chief Commercial Officer, tells us why and how 3PBiovian is making an impact as biologic technology scouts and helping innovators navigate the complex journey of turning a drug innovation into a commercial reality.
GUEST CONTRIBUTORS
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When creating your customer persona there are two main camps that organizations fall into. Those that have customers and those do not have customers or at least very few. If you fall into the group with customers that is great, but it still does not mean you are finished, in fact it could be the recipe for disaster.
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Business-to-business sales professionals are no strangers to innovation. The last decade has seen a shift to Zoom meetings, the rise of hyperscale data vendors, and modern RevOps. The days of smiling and dialing and wining and dining aren’t over, per se, but things are markedly different. Enter the next disruptor: artificial intelligence and ChatGPT in particular.
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Today it seems that every business is engaged in some sort of content marketing initiative, which means that in addition to pitching products or services via traditional marketing methods, companies also are producing content to help inform, educate and even entertain their audiences. But because there’s some confusion about what content marketing actually is, many businesses aren’t as effective as they could be in their content marketing efforts.
TRAILBLAZER SHORTS
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Human-derived organoids are an exciting innovation in the drug development process that most drug developers don't know about. Dr. Alexis Santana from Samsung Biologics talks about how she helps make this technology understandable and meaningful with external audiences and potential prospects.
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Jeremy Victor explains his model of infusing kindness, curiosity and generosity into conversations, fostering trust & undertsanding, and contributing more to any given interaction.
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Edelmans's Thought Leadership Impact Study for the past 6 years has found that the best way to influence business decision makers is with thought leadership content, and that is the opinion of the business decesion makers. However, few solution provider organizations know how to develop effective thought leadership content programs. Annie offers advice!
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Customer-Centered Content Marketing - Part 2
It is important to understand that potential buyers are on a journey to solve problems, not necessarily buy something. If you want to be considered as a solution provider, you must be a helpful participant in their problem-solving journey, the entire journey.
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Customer-Centered Content Marketing Part 1
Here is the problem that many of us have. We define the B2B buyer’s journey in three stages: awareness, consideration, and decision. And we define awareness as when a buyer becomes aware of us and our solutions. We then develop content strategies focused on our own products and services which is what buyers seek in the late stages of their journey. We miss the opportunity to build trust with buyers when it is most critical. What we need is a content-marketing strategy that is aligned with the real buyer's journey.
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The Real Buyer's Journey
The single force that has disrupted the way B2B solution providers market and sell is also the most critical to business success, buyers. As buyers discovered and embraced on-demand, digital content to help them solve problems, not make purchasing decisions, they pushed long-held B2B marketing traditions aside, rendering them obsolete.
FYB METHOD
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Life Science Connect, the parent company of Follow Your Buyer, has had a front row seat for the past several decades for the evolutionary transformation of the buyer's journey. Here is what we learned!
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The single force that has disrupted the way B2B solution providers market and sell is also the most critical to business success, buyers. As buyers discovered and embraced on-demand, digital content to help them solve problems, not make purchasing decisions, they pushed long-held B2B marketing traditions aside, rendering them obsolete.
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Here is the problem that many of us have. We define the B2B buyer’s journey in three stages: awareness, consideration, and decision. And we define awareness as when a buyer becomes aware of us and our solutions. We then develop content strategies focused on our own products and services which is what buyers seek in the late stages of their journey. We miss the opportunity to build trust with buyers when it is most critical. What we need is a content-marketing strategy that is aligned with the real buyer's journey.
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
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Content is the entire back row of the chess board, the royal rank of king, queen, bishop, knight and rook. These are the most important and, except for the king, powerful pieces on the chess board that can change the outcome of the game with several strategic moves.
BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS & REVIEWS
At the top of my list of books-to-read this Fall as you plan for business success in 2025 is “Stop Starvation Marketing” by Christine Slocumb. This is a must-read if you are a B2B solution provider in life sciences, technology, or any space characterized by long sales cycles, high-investment solutions, and complex business relationships. It will change how you think about and do marketing, and the results you achieve by following Chris’ advice will be astounding
Is Your Business Dying Because Your Marketing Is On A Starvation Diet?