Retail Traffic magazine used me to do a number of short profiles of retail real estate movers and shakers, like this one. I have a way of teasing out what’s interesting about almost any business person, in any business, from real estate to cigar manufacturing.
viewSometimes you start writing a story about hospital advertising and end up threading your way through a tangle of state politics. This was the case when I began writing about a hospital advertising campaign launched when Minnesota’s Governor Tim Pawlenty slashed a state teaching hospital’s budget. The result: a story for e-Healthcare Strategy & Trends that discussed both marketing ingenuity and a governor’s ruthless budget cutting.
viewI regularly write case history stories about interesting hospital advertising campaigns for this publication, which is aimed primarily at hospital marketers who have to stretch small budgets. The articles each tell a story, but they also instruct readers.
viewInstead of a ho-hum report on an advertising campaign, this became a narrative story with lessons for other hospital marketers.
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