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Medical IoTCase study · Echonous

Reaching cardiologists without a conference booth.

Echonous makes a portable ultrasound device for cardiologists, with its own software that helps physicians analyse scans and diagnose. The team wanted physicians to learn about it without going through conferences and distributors.

Growth Rhino wrote to US cardiologists directly and asked each one for a short introductory meeting.

USA
◇ Snapshot
  1. 100+Cardiologists engaged
  2. ~70Introductory meetings booked
The brief
Educate physicians and cardiologists directly, outside the conference and distributor route.
Who they needed to reach
Cardiologists and physicians who would use the device.
Market
United States.
Channels
LinkedIn and cold email.
Timeline
Six months, 2021.
Before
  • Awareness dependent on conferences and distributors
  • No direct line to the clinicians who would use the device
  • No messaging written for a medical audience
  • No way to reach physicians outside the conference circuit
After
  • Cardiologists identified directly from public databases
  • Direct outreach to named cardiologists on LinkedIn and email
  • Messaging written in the language a clinician uses
  • Introductory meetings as the route to a clinic or hospital order
◇ What they had

The challenge

The goal was brand awareness with US physicians. Echonous wanted a partner who understood the device well enough to write the messaging itself, so the outreach would read right to a clinician.

◇ What we ran · Target Account Pipeline

We wrote to the physicians who use the device.

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    How we ran it

    Our team built the list of US cardiologists from public databases. We wrote to each of them on LinkedIn and by email, in the language a clinician uses. Every message asked for one thing: a short introductory meeting, after which the physician could order through their clinic or hospital.

◇ What changed

What six months of outreach produced

Over six months in 2021, our team engaged more than 100 cardiologists in the United States.

About 70 of them agreed to an introductory meeting. From that meeting, a physician could place an order through their own clinic or hospital.

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◇ In their words
"The GR team was very flexible to answer questions and support as I needed. Their team became an extension of my team, was very attentive and always provided suggestions to improve the setup. The initial challenge for me was getting used to this new process and understanding what to expect. Their process is scalable and I've grown my setup significantly since starting."
Mira Wattar · VP of MarketingEchonous
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