Navigating the landscape of 1:1 meetings in the healthcare events industry
1. THE LANDSCAPE OF 1:1 MEETINGS
IN THE HEALTHCARE EVENTS INDUSTRY
Parth Mukherjee
Head of Marketing & Evangelism,
Jifflenow
2. Today’s Session
• About me
• Why are 1:1 Meetings relevant to events?
• 1:1 Meetings & the Healthcare Industry
• Best practices in 1:1 Meeting Management
• Proof of the pie
9. CMO’s Top Priorities
Going Digital
Innovation in Marketing
Converting Leads to Sales
Improvements in Customer Retention
Source: Gartner’s CMO Spend Survey 2015-2016
10. They also face Greater Accountability
of marketers own or share
P&L responsibility
say they plan to have a P&L
in the next 24 months
Only 9%don’t
expect to have P&L
responsibility
73%
Source: Gartner’s CMO Spend Survey 2015-2016
18%
11. How Are Events
Going Digital
Greater
Accountability
+
Contributing To CMO’s
Top 2 Concerns?
12. Digital Marketing
has all the answers
TRAFFIC
CONVERSION
ROI
BUDGET
In the CMO’s Office
Event Marketing
Metrics?
# BADGES SCANNED
FOOTFALL
SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT
SURVEY RESULTS
13. Exhibits Are At the Core of the SMMP
Branding
Traffic
Engagement
Meetings
Activities
Scanning
14. The Metrics Will Follow The Method
Survey results
Total Footfall
Press / Media
Coverage
Qualitative
Feedback
New leads
# Tweets
25. Buyers rely more on
relationships and trust
25
Buyers prefer sit-down meetings, in-person demos with sales
Healthcare Trends
26. Millennials-as-patients rely more on
tech and extenders
26
Meetings with influencers like nurses, assistants, pharmacists, online
resource providers
Healthcare Trends
27. Better NME research + Faster approval
= More frequent launches
27
More training and direct communication with HCPs
Healthcare Trends
31. 18%
Start meeting
outreach at least 4
months in advance
of the event
PRE-EVENT BEST PRACTICE
More meetings done
by companies that
start at least 4
months in advance
32. 68%
Publish list of
internal executives
who will be available
to support meetings
PRE-EVENT BEST PRACTICE
Meetings have more
than 1 internal
attendee
33. 16
Provide direct
executive & room
visibility to meeting
hosts
PRE-EVENT BEST PRACTICE
Avg. # of emails & calls
exchanged by Sales &
Events teams to
schedule 1 meeting
34. 94%
Integrate meeting
booking with CRM to
increase meeting
adoption
PRE-EVENT BEST PRACTICE
CRM users login to it
daily. 74% update their
records daily.
https://www.ebsta.com/blog/salesforce-usage-report/
35. 2/3
Schedule all
meetings in the time
zone of the event
location.
PRE-EVENT BEST PRACTICE
Meeting scheduling
errors are time zone
errors
36. 50%
Make a clearly
defined meeting
agenda mandatory.
PRE-EVENT BEST PRACTICE
Meeting managers act
as gatekeepers for
external meeting
requests
37. 7
Get attendees to
request meetings
with your executives
PRE-EVENT BEST PRACTICE
Average # of meetings
per executive at events
38. 23
Popularize pre-
scheduling:
• Email blasts
• Meetups
• Contests
PRE-EVENT BEST PRACTICE
Maximum meetings pre-
scheduled by a single
executive at an event
39. 2X
For Sales meetings
share pipeline &
background info with
internal stakeholders
PRE-EVENT BEST PRACTICE
Higher probability that
executive accepts
meeting if pipeline data
is included
41. 12
Easily consumable
meeting reports per
day (with HCP
background included)
AT-EVENT BEST PRACTICE
Trees cut to make 100
tons of 100 percent
non-recycled newsprint
https://www.quora.com/How-many-trees-are-cut-down-a-day-for-paper
44. 84%
Clear directions on
where the meeting
space is
AT-EVENT BEST PRACTICE
Attendees who miss a
meeting quote inability
to find venue as reason
45. 20%
Custom forms on
iPads for data
collection, make them
easy to fill
AT-EVENT BEST PRACTICE
Higher form fill rates on
reducing # of fields from
11 to 4
https://conversionxl.com/reduce-form-fields/
47. 1.5%
Encourage booth
walk-ins to sit down
for a meeting at the
event
AT-EVENT BEST PRACTICE
Event leads convert to
opportunities
http://blog.marketo.com/2015/08/marketo-data-tells-us-
what-is-the-top-conversion-rate-by-channel.html
48. Reporting ROI metrics to
senior management
Timely post-meeting follow up
POST-EVENT CHALLENGES
49. 1-3%
Put events through a
performance
evaluation (2x2 matrix
of hard & soft metrics)
AT-EVENT BEST PRACTICE
Difference between
YOY growth rates of
event costs & budgets
50. POST-EVENT BEST PRACTICE
90%
Hard metrics
• Number of meetings by type
• Number of HCPs / KOLs met
• Pipeline built
• Pipeline influenced
AT-EVENT BEST PRACTICE
Meeting space
utilization rates for
leading companies
51. 75%
Report meetings &
notes back to CRM
(Activity History)
AT-EVENT BEST PRACTICE
Companies report poor
CRM data quality
problems
Gartner report on CRM data quality
53. The metrics will follow the method
53
53
Pipeline built Top 10 New Opportunities
Total:
$450Mn
$209Mn
$241Mn
New pipeline
Influenced
pipeline
Overall Event Funnel
Representative image
55. 55
Booth designed to aid
1:1 meetings
• 8 Meeting Rooms
• 20 Demo Stations
• 8 Ad hoc Seating Areas
• 2 Check-in Desks
56. Thanks!
Session takeaways:
• 1:1 Meeting – the core of SMMP / Event
strategy
• Several types and flavors of 1:1 Meetings
• Healthcare industry trends underline the
need to be more meeting-focused
• Meeting best practices pre, at, and post
event
• Others are doing it already!