Healthcare Media Marketing Assessment

Healthcare Media Marketing Assessment

Healthcare Media Marketing Assessment

Purpose: Increase awareness of types of media directed in healthcare industry. Spend time during the week monitoring the print media (e.g. newspapers, magazines) and electronic media, (e.g. radio, television, social media) for commercials promoting healthcare products. Prepare a written summary for class that assesses the following:

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• Image vs. service marketing
• The “product” being marketed (e.g. good, service, idea, organization)
• The medium being used (e.g. newspaper, magazine, radio, television, billboard, internet)
• The placement of the promotional piece (e.g. location in newspaper, time of day for radio spot, cable –vs. network television)
• The apparent target market
• The ultimate objective (e.g. improve image, attract new business, increase sales volume)

Media Assessment Grading Grid

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.