HealthLeaders Media Marketing Weekly - January 20, 2010 | Coakley's Failed Senate Bid: Four Lessons for Healthcare Marketers
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Coakley's Failed Senate Bid: Four Lessons for Healthcare Marketers
Gienna Shaw, for HealthLeaders News
There are lessons aplenty for marketing, advertising, and communications professionals from the Massachusetts U.S. Senate race that put conservative Republican Scott Brown into the seat previously held by the late Ted Kennedy, a liberal Democrat who couldn't have lost a race in this state if he tried. Democrat Martha Coakley's communications strategy (if you could call it a strategy) helped her lose a seat that hasn't been held by a Republican in decades. Here's what went wrong and how you can avoid making the same mistakes in your own marketing and communications efforts. [Read More] |
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