What’s New at Onspire Health Marketing

Exploring the Advanced TV Ecosystem: Options for Amplified Targeting

TV and digital media consumption are on the rise, particularly right now as social distancing and self-isolation takes hold across the country. Advanced TV, which has been steadily growing in popularity for the past few years, is well poised to help consumers fill their time and escape from topics like COVID-19 and the 2020 election by watching what they want, when and where they want

Level the Competitive Landscape for Your Health System

Bring your local market into focus with data-driven insights During my career as Vice President of Marketing for a large academic medical center, we were considered a marketing machine. As the market leader, we owned share of voice and grew our share of market year after year, consistently outpacing our competition in customer engagement. As brands with the greatest market share, market leaders typically enjoy

SOViews

The Secret Behind Share of Voice

What does your voice say in 8 seconds? With brands vying for consumer attention, a clear strategy for share of voice in market is critical. Studies show the average consumer is exposed to up to 10,000 brand messages a day, and the average person’s attention span is now just eight seconds. What does your brand say in eight seconds?  Having spent 15 years as

Picture of triumph on a mountaintop to represent making the ascent from brand challenger to brand leader (healthcare marketing)

From Brand Challenger to Brand Leader

Three Strategies for Hospitals to Take the Lead Like any competitive environment, hospital markets include two key types of players: Brand Leaders – The most dominant or recognizable brand in the market typically enjoys the greatest market share. Also known as a market leader, a brand leader usually drives the largest profit margins, making this spot highly coveted by competitors. Brand Challengers – Challenger brands

Share of Voice-Share of Market

The Dynamic Between Share of Voice & Share of Market

An Infographic for Hospital Marketers Share of voice is a critical metric for consumer marketing. Quite often, when hospitals evaluate share of voice and competitive positioning in the context of the full competitive landscape, they find their ad spend is not enough. Why? Because increasing share of voice is essential to market share growth. For example, if your hospital is the local brand leader, excess

soviews - competitive market profiling for smart advertising

Breaking Through the Noise

Optimize your share of voice to grow market share As a hospital marketing leader, you know how noisy the competitive landscape can be. As the industry shifts toward a consumer-centric healthcare marketplace, it seems every hospital and health system is vying for the same patients—and they all have advertising dollars devoted to buying the largest megaphone. In today’s hyper-connected world, consumers are bombarded by advertising

The Sandwich Generation comprises Gen Xers and Boomers who are providing care and support for parents as well as children/teens.

Healthcare Marketing & the Sandwich Generation

How to Reach Consumers Who Make Healthcare Decisions for Many Like most wives and mothers, I have a say in all healthcare decisions for my husband, my teenager, and myself – but my influence doesn’t end there. As my 80-something mother becomes increasingly reliant on loved ones to take the reins for her well-being, I now play a role in her healthcare choices as well.

color psychology

Color Psychology in Healthcare: Choosing the Right Colors to Represent Your Healthcare Brand

In marketing, as in life, first impressions matter. Research shows it only takes about 90 seconds for a customer to form an opinion about a product—and a surprising percentage of his or her assessment (62-90%) is based on colors association with the product. When it comes to healthcare branding and marketing, color psychology is an important part of defining and communicating your brand identity. Pink

soviews - competitive market profiling for smart advertising

How Competitors Can Fine-Tune Your Advertising Strategies

Must-Have Information for Effective Hospital Marketing What advertising messages are being launched in my local market? What do those creative campaigns claim, show and say? What share of voice (SOV) do they hold and what is their reported market spend? In my former roles as a healthcare advertising professional and VP of Marketing for a major academic medical center, questions like the ones above were

Pro Tip 5: Step Outside Your Comfort Zone

Healthcare Marketers: Step Outside Your Comfort Zone

“I solemnly swear to not do dumb stuff around trains.” Melbourne Australia’s Metro Trains is here to tell you not thinking about train safety is dumb. The campaign, Dumb Ways to Die, pulls no punches and gets the message across loud and clear. Instead of using traditional messages to promote train safety, the creators of the campaign stepped outside their comfort zone to spread a