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AGENCY: Healthcare Demand Generation

Healthcare Demand Generation

Yourinnovationdeservesmoredemand.

That’s what we fix.

Most healthcare teams have only one way to build demand: train the sales force and hope. We build the demand first, so your reps walk into rooms that already want what you’ve made.

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20+
Years in healthcare
47
Launches across healthcare
5
Continents

Pharma  ·  MedTech  ·  Biotech  ·  Diagnostics

Trusted by

Zimmer Biomet
Pharma client · EU
Arthrosamid by Contura
Sodexo
BCB Medical
University of Bath
Micrima
Sermo

Good products. Good people. Not enough demand.

Feeling frustrated getting your innovation in front of the people who need it most? You’re not imagining it.

The access window is closing

80%

2008

44%

2021

24%

today

The share of clinicians a rep can still reach, a quarter of what it was in 2008. Differentiation does not buy back the time.

Source: ZS Associates rep-access study.

The gap between building something good and getting it adopted has never been wider.

Are you generating the demand you expected?

285

patient enquiries in one month at a £29 blended cost per acquisition, one system across the UK, Germany, and Sweden

Arthrosamid case study

128

patient referrals in a single month for a non-surgical option most GPs were not yet aware of

nSTRIDE case study

NHS London

named commissioner funded the engagement, and a stalled NHS launch became active

HepCARE case study

Live numbers from current engagements, not a highlights reel. Read the case studies.

Michael Colling-Tuck, founder of AGENCY. He takes every triage call himself.

The person behind the numbers

Michael takes every triage call himself.

Twenty years in healthcare commercialisation. Ex-Zimmer, 47 product launches across five continents, and the author of It’s Not a Sales Problem. If we can help, he’ll say how. If we can’t, he’ll say so.

I first discovered AGENCY when I was looking for a confident, capable and medical-marketing experienced agency to support us with our product launch strategy. AGENCY continually surprise me with their dedication. Put simply, they consistently overdeliver.
Tom Wintrip·Business and Partnerships Director, BCB Medical

The diagnosis

When the door is shut, the middle decides who gets in.

So buyers do what any of us do when time is short: they form their view long before a rep is in the room, from the information, proof and insight they can find for themselves. That view is built in the middle layer, by demand generation, which is why the decision now forms before the conversation does. Awareness and lead generation still matter, they are simply no longer where it forms.

Top of funnel

Awareness

Getting known. Visibility in the market and in the mind.

Necessary, but it only gets you known

Middle layer

Demand generation systems

Where a buyer makes up their mind about you, with or without you in the room.

Your buyer is forming a view about you right now, and you are not part of it. The middle layer is the only place you get to shape what they conclude before they ever take your call. Every part of it is measurable.

Explainer videosKOL videosCase studiesPodcast seriesRoundtable events

Where the decision now forms. Our specialty.

Bottom of funnel

Lead generation

Turning formed intent into conversations and pipeline.

The reward, if the middle did its job

We run all three. We specialise in the middle, because that is where the access problem is solved.

How we work

Agency.
So you don’t
need one.

Most agencies create dependency. The more you need them, the more successful they are. We take the opposite approach: training, a single deliverable, or a full programme. Whichever tier you pick, you end up more capable, not more dependent.

See the three ways to work with us

Where are you?

Where does your
work sit?

Most teams sit across more than one. Start where it stings most.

01

Marketing teams

You're producing campaigns and content. But healthcare has dynamics that general marketing doesn't prepare you for.

See what good looks like
02

Marketing leaders

Your board wants pipeline attribution, not impressions.

Build strategies that hold up
03

Business leaders

Your reps are expensive and your pipeline is unpredictable. It's a demand problem wearing a sales costume.

Find your situation

Not sure? That’s what the first call is for.

Learn from us, no commitment required

It's Not a Sales Problem, by Michael Colling-Tuck

The Book

It’s Not a Sales Problem

The methodology behind the method. Read the first three chapters free, no sign-up required.

Read the book
The AGENCY Podcast: healthcare commercial strategy

The Podcast

The AGENCY Podcast

Healthcare commercial strategy, discussed. Real situations, real decisions, no filler.

Listen free

One hour.
Name the gap.

We learn your situation, you learn how we think. If we can help, we’ll say how. If we can’t, we’ll say so.

We take on a maximum of 10 clients at a time.

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No fee.

No pitch.

No obligation.

Healthcare innovations deserve recognition. We help them get it.