Four Barriers to Successful Physician Sales

Author: Kriss Barlow, RN, MBA This article appeared in Healthcare Marketing Advisor, January 2007 and was updated by the author in 2009, to provide readers with the most current market reflections. What makes some physician relations programs so successful, whereas...

Important Sales Rules Not to Live By

Author: Kriss Barlow, RN, MBA Anyone who’s ever sold anything to anyone has learned the lessons of what not to do. Conversely, those negative experiences can teach us to do things the right way-and how to build solid relationships with our customers. Consider...

Communication to Keep Physicians in the Loop

Author: Kriss Barlow, RN, MBA For almost every healthcare executive, managing change seems to be a daily obligation. Change means that people and departments are in a state of flux. What is all of this change doing to impact communication? Tremendous energy is being...

Physician Sales Tool Box

By David F. Zirkle, PhD As with most sales efforts, effective physician relations begins with well-developed prospect lists to direct field activity and allocate resources. The process and tools described below focus on growing key strategic service lines. The...

Communicate – and Relate – with Physicians

Author: Kriss Barlow, RN, MBA This article, updated in 2013, provides a simple list of suggestions to ensure that meetings to gather physician input and provide marketing insights are well managed, meaningful and get you the outcome you and the physician desires....