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CRM Reach & Frequency

anonymous

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It's finally happening, the inevitable pivot to reach/frequency for a buy and bill product.

Good idea? Hell no.

Tragic mistake? Just another in a long-line.

Senior management thinking they can get out of the corner they painted themselves into by pushing field sales in a completely inappropriate direction? Absolutely.

You could try to explain to them that R/F doesn't even work for Entresto, let alone account-selling/buy and bill, but they wouldn't even begin to understand.

It's big pharma's hail-mary: once senior management and marketing have completely burnt it to the ground, tell field sales to go out and make twice as many calls, as though that will fix everything.

It would be worth a laugh if we didn't know what comes next.

That's right, this is the last step before layoffs (most of you have seen this before).

Take it seriously and use this time to protect yourself and your families. It's coming.
 




It's finally happening, the inevitable pivot to reach/frequency for a buy and bill product.

Good idea? Hell no.

Tragic mistake? Just another in a long-line.

Senior management thinking they can get out of the corner they painted themselves into by pushing field sales in a completely inappropriate direction? Absolutely.

You could try to explain to them that R/F doesn't even work for Entresto, let alone account-selling/buy and bill, but they wouldn't even begin to understand.

It's big pharma's hail-mary: once senior management and marketing have completely burnt it to the ground, tell field sales to go out and make twice as many calls, as though that will fix everything.

It would be worth a laugh if we didn't know what comes next.

That's right, this is the last step before layoffs (most of you have seen this before).

Take it seriously and use this time to protect yourself and your families. It's coming.


This was mentioned on another thread. It seems to be the same in all business units right now. From those who sell pills to those who sell a biologic - the same R/F model of the 1990’s that may have worked a long time ago but doesn’t now. Especially when doctors want to have alternate ways of communicating with reps, don’t want to see them as often and want to see one/two max per brand. When you move people into senior leader roles foe the wrong reasons they fall back on what they know which is to bomb customers with activity