Healthcare SEM in the midst of a pandemic.

One thing that we can depend on is change. It’s a constant. But the massive change we’ve experienced over the past two weeks has been unsettling. Marketers are beginning to second-guess all their marketing strategies. Many are fielding nervous questions from executive teams and wondering if they should put a hold on their advertising budgets—or scrap their digital marketing completely.

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WILMINGTON, Del. — March 26, 2020 — Aloysius Butler & Clark (AB&C), one of the region’s largest full-service marketing communications agencies, emerged as a four-time winner at the 2019-2020 Philadelphia Metro American Advertising Awards, also known as the ADDYs. Sponsored by the American Advertising Federation, the ADDY Awards honor excellence in advertising.

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By Lenny Prosser, Account Services Intern

As a recent college graduate, I often reflect on the lessons I’ve learned over the past 3 1/2 years. Aside from the many lectures I’ve sat through, late hours studying in the library and weekends spent with friends, I have one major takeaway: the value of relationships.

Agency teams up with DoubleStar, Inc. to offer nursing managers and recruiters an unprecedented online tool for assessing the cost of staffing vacancies, identifying areas for savings and formulating strategies to support profitability.

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Acquisition turns AB&C into the largest full-service independent marketing communications agency in the Delaware Valley.

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After 18 years, the unemployment scales have finally tipped, and we’re seeing more available jobs than unemployed individuals. According to the Wall Street Journal’s Eric Morath, “U.S. job openings rose to 6.7 million at the end of April [2018], compared with the 6.3 million Americans who were unemployed.” It’s the first time this has happened since the U.S. Department of Labor began keeping records of such statistics in 2000.

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WILMINGTON, Del. — Nov. 8, 2018 — Aloysius Butler & Clark (AB&C), one of the region’s largest full-service marketing communications agencies, was awarded 17 MarCom Awards in the 2018 competition, including eight Platinum and five Gold awards.

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While many healthcare providers have been late adopters of digital marketing (as compared to other industries), it is fair to say that, as of 2018 it is now a cornerstone of most healthcare marketing programs. And that prominence comes from success and lessons learned—some good, some not so good—about both general and digital marketing.

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Marketing dashboards are an essential deliverable for any marketing team. Senior leaders want to know what they are getting for their investment in marketing, and how marketing will advance their strategic plan. And for marketers, it is important to document how effective you were in achieving your stated goals. So, where to begin?

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Inevitably at some point during your healthcare marketing career you will be faced with bringing a new brand to market. As you do, it is critical to stay focused on the strategic and business objectives of your organization, while also protecting the equity of your brand. The following scenarios describe bringing a new brand to a market, assuming you currently have standing or brand value. The goal in both cases is to leverage the equity of all the brands to enhance your brand, differentiate you from competitors and better serve your customers.

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David Brond, David C. McBride, Randy Farmer and Tom Trezise join Delaware’s only public media news service.

WILMINGTON, Del. (June 12, 2018) — Delaware Public Media (DPM) announced that David Brond, David C. McBride, Randy Farmer and Tom Trezise have been named to the organization’s board of directors. DPM, Delaware’s only public media news service, is dedicated to covering the unique issues, events, personalities and cultures of Delaware. As an NPR member station, DPM presents high-quality statewide news in a rich combination of audio, video and text.

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Over the past four-plus decades, AB&C has worked with some of the most premier healthcare systems across this country—large and small—and we greatly value those relationships. But great agency-client relationships just don’t happen; they take true commitment by both parties to be successful. And over the years, we have learned what makes a great working relationship and want to share that knowledge with you, because agencies, while a source of expense, are also an investment, and have a key impact on your organization and your ability to meet patient and provider needs, delivery quality care and build your brand.

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Every once in a while, a campaign comes along, and you know that it’s special. Maybe it’s a cause that you strongly believe in, a story that needs to be told or the creative is just really unique. I guess that’s how I felt from the very beginning about MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute’s “Living Donor” campaign. For me, it was a combination of all three.

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Agency Takes Home Six Golds and Two Silvers at Awards Show Honoring Creative Excellence in Healthcare Marketing.

WILMINGTON, Del. (May 11, 2018) —Aloysius Butler & Clark (AB&C), one of the region’s largest full-service marketing communications agencies, was recognized by Healthcare Marketing Report with six golds, two silvers and five merit awards presented during its annual 2018 Healthcare Advertising Awards. Now in its 35^th year, the national competition is known as the oldest, largest and most widely respected healthcare advertising awards program. This year, AB&C received 13 recognitions for having the most outstanding work from a pool of 4,000 submissions. Collectively, the agency’s winning submissions demonstrate a diversity of strategic and creative executions.

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In my experience as a hospital chief marketing officer (CMO) and in working at AB&C with healthcare CMOs, I’ve found a number of attributes that serve a person well in this role. On Innovation Enterprise, which provides leading-edge ideas and information on a variety of key business channels, Rose Johnstone identifies a number of these attributes from the business world that apply to the healthcare industry.

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