Internet Marketing
The Internet Marketing Operations Practices (IMOPs) benchmark looks at the range of issues and tactics for Internet marketing across consumers and health care professionals:
- Budgets and Marketing Mix
- Organizational Structure and Resources
- Relationship Marketing (see also our RMOPs solution)
- Media
- Sponsorships
- Websites
- eDetailing
- Specialized Portals and Unbranded Initiatives
- Performance Metrics and ROI
IMOPs provides benchmark information compared with similar pharmaceutical brands. The IMOPs database began in Spring of 2006 and currently includes 36 brands across 12 different pharmaceutical companies. The brands and companies range from the small to the very large, for a good comparative sampling of data. Comparative data used for cohorting include:
- Brand revenue, budget size
- “Black box” warnings, scheduled substances, formulation
- Target physicians
- Patient prevalence, value
- Brand goals (awareness, trial, retention)


