That's Nice is a full-service agency in every sense. We provide an incredible breadth of capabilities, encompass everything a global company typically needs plus some unique additional value drivers.
FTE / PTE Market Research
With our FTE or PTE service, our scientific researchers serve as an efficient, outsourced extension of your business and respond to queries from your company, conduct relevant research quickly, and deliver intelligence back to your team.
Lead Generation
We are able to structure research to accelerate the growth of your business by delivering sales leads directly to your pipeline and sales process. Your sales people / CRM get names, titles and contact information (based on availability) for each contact.
Competitive Intelligence Reports
Support your business goals with research on CDMOs across all segments and phases in pharma, particularly in drug substance, oral solid dose drug product / fill-finish, biologics and parenteral markets. We have tracked data over more than a decade.
Business & Market Trend Intelligence Reports
Nice Insight tracks hundreds of CDMOs across the industry to provide quarterly insights into business and market trends. This provides continual benchmarks to measure the performance of your company, supporting optimization of your positioning and growth.
Qualitative Research
We can set up interviews with your own team, customers and/or segment KOLs gain valuable internal and external insights, define gaps in awareness, potential misperceptions, buyer wants and needs, and industry trends, so you build an informed strategy.
Quantitative Survey
We will build a survey deployed to a pool of relevant respondents, which will deliver unbiased market intelligence covering audience behaviors, industry provider awareness, drivers in partner selection, and quantified market perceptions of your company and competitors.
Competitor Research & Analysis
We can define a range of strategically selected competitors to your business, and provide benchmarking data and intelligence, so you have important awareness of what others are doing in the market and what your potential customers are exposed to.
Market Report & Pricing Study
We offer complete reports in key markets that provide comprehensive insights into segment trends, competition, products / compounds, capabilities, and, most invaluably, pricing:
– 2019 Biologics Market Report & CDMO Pricing Study
– 2020 OSD Market Growth, CDMO Report & Pricing Study
Thought Leadership Development
Our Ph.D. content developers, editors and SMEs will develop thought leadership articles for you, for placement in our Pharma's Almanac publication and online community, reaching over 194,000 viewers. This is one of the most powerful ways to engage your audience.
Press Releases – Strategy, Development & Distribution
Leverage the power of PR to circulate newsworthy content and promote awareness and traffic for you. We cover individual or fully integrated steps, including content development, asset gathering, review and approval, distribution across targeted channels, and media representation / tracking.
PR Management
We support the development and distribution of press releases to optimize their pick-up using our extensive industry media relations. We can also set up exclusive interviews, press days, press conferences and unique PR opportunities to support your business.
Public Relations Training
We can provide a range of support and training services to orient your management to the nature of public relations, working with press and media contacts, and strategic participation in various editorial opportunities.
Special PR Events
We can set up, manage and support special press events to optimize a signficant announcement, product launch or similar need. This includes everything from strategy and story development, materials preparation, inviting / hosting of editors from relevant publications, photography, and publicity.
Social Media: LinkedIn Management
Utilize the power of LinkedIn – the dominant social network in business – to fuel your brand awareness and leads. We will create and manage your company's LinkedIn presence and develop a strategy encompassing your key staff to optimize results.
Business Strategy Based on Business Goals
25 years of experience and our continual depth of market research support effective consultancy for your business. Experienced consultants will work with your team on a project or ongoing basis to help you define and achieve key business goals.
Strategic Messaging Development
We use our unique knowledge of market needs, combined with investigation of your business strengths, to build a robust, consistent messaging framework based on methods that have supported some of the best performing brands in the industry.
Naming and Tagline Development
If you need a new name for a business or product, we can apply a process developed over many years to deliver shortlists and an ultimate pick that provides the best foundation for your new venture / direction.
New Logo Development
Having been a leading agency in life sciences for 25 years, we have designed logos for a wide range of companies. Make sure your new logo meets proper professional requirements and also differentiates your brand in a competitive space.
Campaign “Big Idea” Development
The 'Big Idea' is an intangible combination of strategic messaging and visual key art, but it makes a fundamental difference to the performance of your brand and marketing. Energize your next campaign with the Big Idea.
Creative Visual Development
Key art is either a single piece or a series of unique, defining visuals that make your brand recognizable and memorable. Key art resonates with your target audience and promotes your company's objectives and message.
Advertising Creative Development
Whether it's a single ad or a campaign, we develop advertising that grabs the attention of readers / viewers / visitors, conveys your message, and resonates so your audience recognizes and recalls your brand at vital decision making moments.
3D Illustration & Modeling
Illustration and realistic 3D modeling is the fastest way to tell a story. We develop visually engaging models that resonate with the scientific community and are unique to your brand, including medical animation tied to therapeutic areas of interest.
Print Collateral / Literature
Many people still like the tactile experience of print material and some customers feel most comfortable presenting off this medium. We use all of our brand development experience and efficient production to create brochures, folders, and modular literature.
Sales Presentation
We create flexible sales presentations that engage the intended audience while concisely navigating through key information only, avoiding common pitfalls and leaving you with the time and attention span from the other party to share what they are looking for.
Brand Style Guideline
As your company grows and your brand with it, maintaining brand integrity is critical. The solution is a guideline document that ensures whoever is working on material or promotion, internally and externally, sticks to rules and keeps everything consistent.
HR - Staff Recruitment Support
Working with your HR department, we can support your recruitment efforts to attract the right talent that will further the growth of your company, using website content and integration, digital and multimedia campaigns, and other areas of help you may need.
Podcast Development & Distribution
Over 30% of the U.S. population listens to podcasts monthly (Source: Cision PR Newswire) and similarly high numbers worldwide. We can conceptualize, write, record, and edit a custom podcast, and promote it among our Pharma's Almanac community of content consumers.
Webinar Development
We will develop and produce webinars to attract your audience and promote your services. In addition to developing content and assets, our team can help with the appropriate format, appropriate speakers, and the best outlets to book the webinar.
Media – Strategy, Buy & Management
With 25 years of experience working with life sciences media, we bring expertise to planning and relations. We ensure you get the most for your money with a print and digital media plan, and buy all media for you at pass-through cost.
Media – Ad Production
We offer the fully integrated service to execute your digital and print media, completing production on ads for all your placements. This is normally done in conjunction with handling of your messaging and creative but production can equally be done standalone.
Video / Photoshoot & Production
If people come to your facility, you win business, right? Photography and video is the opportunity to get people there virtually and move them further down the due diligence pathway. We offer absolutely comprehensive services in terms of asset capture and management.
360 Virtual Facility / Site Video Shoot & Production
Using our state-of-the-art 360-degree recording technology, we can document your facilities and create a video experience that puts your audience in your space. There's no better way to sell them than by having them literally visualize working with you.
Live Virtual Facility Tour
Overcome the challenges created by pandemic-related travel restrictions. We will create the basis for your company to seamlessly deliver high quality, live virtual facility tours, exposing your prospects to your site capabilities, culture and message – sustaining the opportunity to win business.
Animation Development
Animation is the perfect way to tell a story in a unique way, or to convey a process that is otherwise difficult to show. Our medical animators, character animators, modelers and other unique skill sets will produce the perfect style for you.
Website Development
Your website is vital, representing permanent connection to your audience and a conduit of all marketing and other activity. It should function as a lead generation engine, and the architecture, content strategy, engagement and use of technology should embody best practices.
Website Maintenance / Update
Your website is a living thing and it needs to give your audience reason to visit often. Updates of news, information, images and other assets, continuous functionality for your visitors, and focus on engaging content should all be part of monthly maintenance.
SEO Strategy, Buy & Management
Our team will review your website and content to formulate a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) strategy that optimizes your website performance in relevant searches. We can purchase Google AdWords and provide ongoing management to meet your goals.
Digital Marketing Strategy and Implementation
We will create a targeted, integrated digital marketing strategy using channels including web, search, email, social media and display to drive awareness, traffic and lead nurturing on your website. We will benchmark where you are today and build an approach that drives ROI.
Lead Nurturing Strategy
We can build a strategy to create, automate and manage all your sales & marketing follow-up activities so an inquiry never goes cold. Nurture programs are designed to engage customers at all stages of the sales funnel, moving them along the path to conversion.
Marketing Automation
Track, manage, and automate your marketing initiatives, website, and leads with a marketing automation platform. The right solution will link your digital channels, CRM, and sales tracking together with marketing campaigns for real-time insights and adjustment.
HTML E-Blasts Campaigns
Digital direct marketing campaigns (HTML emails) communicate key messages to a targeted audience. We will develop campaigns focused on sharing your story, increasing awareness and brand recall, and increasing inquiries and meetings. Deployment and management is also part of the service.
Mobile Application (app) Development
Our team can design and build a mobile application (App) that can serve as a dedicated portal for your company's content, provide a service to customers, and provide another connection to them. We will conceptualize a strategy to fulfill your vision.
Game Development
A game is another unique way to engage an audience and connect them to your brand. We will brainstorm an initial concept for a game, and go on to develop the entire thing for you to deliver a valuable asset.
Exhibit Space Purchase
We purchase exhibit space as a convenience for our clients and to deliver benefit through our relationships with show owners and negotiate the best deal and space for you. We provide this service as a straight pass-through cost without additional fees.
Exhibit Structure Design
We have been a leading exhibit designer in life sciences for over 20 years, and we'll bring this experience to the creation of your booths and displays for all your show needs, blending knowledge of your brand with optimization of space.
Booth Fabrication & Show Services
We can take away your headaches by managing all your show / event needs. Our experience designing, fabricating, installing, storing and equipping turnkey booths – both rented and owned – combines with planning, logistics and project management to make life easy.
Special Customer Events (Global)
We can help you promote your business and foster sales by creating a unique experience for customers, prospects and others at trade show or event-linked parties, customer appreciation events, hospitality, open houses, roundtables, and consultant awareness days.
Branded Promotional Giveaways
Maximize recall and recognition of your brand among your target audience using a better standard of branded products and promotional giveaways. Our team will conceptualize, develop, and deliver almost any product you can imagine at an optimal price.
Special Projects (That's Nice)
Special Projects create new and innovative ways to promote your brand, products and services. Examples like The Road to 2021 offer a very different marketing and / or sponsorship opportunity that can deliver incredible exposure alongside your regular activities.
Nice Match 2.0 Service
Nice Match 2.0 is a business development service that provides you with qualified service-level agreement opportunities directly suited to your company's specific expertise, technologies, equipment, and capacity. It's a no-brainer source of additional leads for your pipeline.
Organizational, Financial, & Productivity Review and Expansion Opportunities
Understand your real cash-flow, costs and margins for existing technologies and headcount. Prepare your business to take advantage of new modalities and drug lifecycle trends. Drive growth with your production line strategy. Maximize market upsides and mitigate effects of downturns.
M&A Service
With 25 years of exposure in the market and knowledge of potential buyers, industry trends, and growing technologies, we support client objectives in M&A, growth strategies, PE / VC funding, referral-based growth, capacity utilization, and equipment utilization / asset management.
Sales Staff Recruitment / Training
Our extensive network means we can assist you in finding the right candidates for Executive BD and Sales positions. We will refer candidates we know that have an excellent track record and the appropriate experience and knowledge to meet your needs.
FTE / PTE Corporate Strategy & Marketing Executive
Our highly experienced, partner-level staff will work directly with your management team to support the implementation of programs and activities to drive organizational strategy, growth and other corporate objectives. We can integrate all of our experience alongside yours.
Strategic Site Acquisition Support & Exclusivity
Serving as a liaison with specialty real estate agents, liquidation firms, and other strategic resources, That's Nice can assist in your next site or business acquisition (region, specialty, capacity, etc) in pharma and biotech or related markets.