Is Marketing a bad word in healthcare? I don't think so. Marketing has a Noble Responsibility! Governments spend billions of dollars on marketing health awareness to safeguard people against deadly diseases. It’s all about the rightful use of marketing that matters. why do they depend on marketing? Because they know only through the rightful use of marketing, these life-saving messages can reach the masses in no time and save them. If one can dig deeper and understand, it is not marketing, which is bad but human greed. The real nature of marketing is pure - it has all the essentials in making good, reach people faster. Then, where have we gone wrong - its the approach that matters. Hospitals using retail formats in marketing communication is not a welcome move; in fact, it degrades their brand when people start observing discounts, camps & master health checkups as baits, they lose faith in the hospital. Hospital Marketing is not to create hype but to genuinely help people. No one lives in this world without needing healthcare, but what has to be understood is how you build trust with your marketing communication so that they come to you when they are in need. This book aims to throw light on the true nature of hospital marketing, which is not revealed to hospital owners/ administrators/ marketers before in this format.

Is Marketing a bad word in healthcare? I don't think so. Marketing has a Noble Responsibility! Governments spend billions of dollars on marketing health awareness to safeguard people against deadly diseases. It's all about the rightful use of marketing that matters. why do they depend on marketing? Because they know only through the rightful use of marketing, these life-saving messages can reach the masses in no time and save them. If one can dig deeper and understand, it is not marketing, which is bad but human greed. The real nature of marketing is pure - it has all the essentials in making good, reach people faster. Then, where have we gone wrong - its the approach that matters. Hospitals using retail formats in marketing communication is not a welcome move; in fact, it degrades their brand when people start observing discounts, camps & master health checkups as baits, they lose faith in the hospital. Hospital Marketing is not to create hype but to genuinely help people. No one lives in this world without needing healthcare, but what has to be understood is how you build trust with your marketing communication so that they come to you when they are in need. This book aims to throw light on the true nature of hospital marketing, which is not revealed to hospital owners/ administrators/ marketers before in this format.

Ethical Branding and Marketing: Cases and Lessons provides current perspectives on fascinating global cases focusing on the specific combination of the two fields of "ethics" and "branding," on their relationship, and on how that joint perspective shapes brands, companies, business strategies, and the market itself. In a contemporary environment of "truthiness" and fake news, it is more important than ever to review core principles of ethics and to reassess how these principles apply to today’s branding and marketing practices. This book addresses practices in ethical branding and corporate culture. It includes such topics as truth, integrity, value, vulnerability, and differentiation. Collectively, these cases provide a contemporary overview of intriguing scenarios and best practices in ethical branding. The book provides the reader with real, updated insight into ethical decision making; helps students integrate ethics, branding strategy, and real life, complex situations into an effective learning process; and provides the reader with up-to-date ethical branding cases from around the world.

Essentials of Health Care Marketing, Fifth Edition provides students with a foundational knowledge of the principles of marketing and their particular application in health care. Offering an engaging and accessible approach, the Fifth Edition of this highly current text offers new content on social media and digital marketing, a thorough consideration of ethics, and additional multimedia to add relevance and further engage students. New to the Fifth Edition: New chapter on social media and digital marketing to fully explore marketing for the modern college student who is constantly engaged by social media. New chapter on ethics that covers areas of topical interest and debate in health care marketing. Coverage of the most current, cutting-edge developments in the field including: invigorating discussions in marketing theory, the new concept of “Customer Empowerment,” wholly revised discussion of pricing in relation to trends in value-based payment, new pricing and payment models,

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