When you set out to build a medical device marketing plan, you’re not really starting from scratch. Though you may not have thought about these strategies in terms of marketing, your sales team is already implementing an approach they’ve honed based on experience with your prospects and customers.
Your first task in creating your new marketing plan is to gather the knowledge your sales representatives have acquired through years of contact with your market and determine how best to incorporate that information into your marketing plan.
Although the online sales process differs in some ways from the one your sales team engages in, the core is the same: the same triggers apply, your prospects have the same problems to solve and perceive the same obstacles and the stages of the sales cycle are the same.
Because most of that sales cycle now takes place before a prospect ever makes contact with your company, you must recreate the steps on the path your prospects follow to become customers.