Why Marketing Must Change

Loyalty in healthcare and empathy for all

August 26th 2021

Over the last few months I’ve been working with our healthcare team to help clients think about customer loyalty, trust, and the ways brands earn this and measure their progress. This is likely the start of a few posts to our work on this.

Why This Week’s Roblox IPO Should Be of Interest, Even to Non-Gamers

March 8th 2021

Roblox should be on your radar as a force in culture, creativity, and consumerism. Its direct listing IPO, scheduled for Wednesday, shows how highly relevant companies don’t need a flood of promotional dollars to position themselves as valuable brands.

Doing the Healthcare Rap: talking marketing innovation with Jared Johnson

June 5th 2020

Jared Johnson is a prolific interviewer and keen watcher of innovation in healthcare marketing. We had a twenty-minute talk which has dropped as the latest episode of the Healthcare Rap.

Connecting healthcare marketing experiences after COVID19

May 19th 2020

If you love at-scale healthcare marketing, content strategy, and the idea of making life after COVID19 more innovative and productive — then you’ll want to join me with Derek Phillips and Jeff Cram from PK on next week’s eHealthcare Strategy webinar.

The week when voice assistants were hacked and I worked from a villa

November 9th 2019

Get the scoop on Design Ethics, the hacking of voice assistants, an odd wellness product, and my work life living in Orlando with 20 coworkers in ‘the Big Brother house’.

Marketing truth: 99% of customers don’t care, until they do

April 20th 2019

On my commute home I saw this fellow waring a shirt that said: “There’s a 99% change I don’t care.” Yes, he posed for this photo – and agreed its a message that could set a lot of people in business free.

Framing stronger hypotheses with elaboration, iteration, and a Mad Lib

August 1st 2018

Meaningless A/B tests are pervasive because they’re so easy to run. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Roy Rosin, the Chief Innovation Officer at Penn Medicine’s Center for Healthcare Innovation, and Ryan Summer’s of Connective DX have some ideas that can help turn your tests in to durable assets. And it starts with a MadLib.

Delighting Kids in Childrens Hospitals: A Valentine for Creative Caregivers

February 14th 2017

Kids have to be kids, even in the hospital. Doctors, parents, friends and even other patients who act on this impulse, create amazing moments – and telling their story to bring out our better angels for Valentines Day seems like a good way to keep the holiday. Check it out, this could start a new Valentine’s day tradition.

Free Webinar Tuesday: Scoring Patient Experience On The Top US Hospitals’ Websites

November 13th 2016

The Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development is hosting a free educational webcast featuring my friend Jared Johnson of Phoenix Children’s Hospital and me discussing the Hospital Digital eXperience (HDX) Index — and how to use baselining to prioritize your digital road map.

The Market Basket strike: valuing people builds a brand

January 28th 2016

In this video from the Delight Conference, I pull out some stops to tell the story of Market Basket which has become one of New England’s most storied brands and a frequently cited case study in public relations, negotiation and designing for delight.