Dean H. Stanton · Selected Work

Direct-to-Patient E-Commerce Turnaround & Digital Sales-Funnel Program

An early direct-to-patient commerce program that turned a website into an operating sales channel connected to digital acquisition, analytics, checkout, and legacy order execution.

Results

Results and contributions.

01>300%Direct-to-patient Internet revenue grew more than 300% in total across approximately 2007–2009.
02~$1M since redesignA 2012 internal management summary reported approximately $1 million in additional revenue since the 2006 website redesign.
03~$250K/year when activeThe same 2012 summary described Internet sales of approximately $250,000 per year when marketing was active.

These historical measures cover different periods and should not be added together.

01
Situation

Operating context

PPI needed its Internet presence to function as a real direct-to-patient sales channel rather than a brochure site.

02
Challenge

What made the work difficult

The channel had to connect digital acquisition and measurement with account creation, checkout, payment, shipping, and reliable handoff into the company's legacy order environment.

03
Dean's role

Responsibility and authority

Dean led the operating design, Internet-sales analysis, digital acquisition and analytics configuration, and backend order-integration requirements for the direct-to-patient channel.

04
Actions

How the work moved forward

  1. Defined and operated the end-to-end direct-to-patient commerce workflow.
  2. Connected account, cart, shipping, payment, and order-confirmation steps to internal operations.
  3. Used Google AdWords and Analytics to support acquisition and channel measurement.
  4. Integrated Internet orders into the legacy PPI order environment.
  5. Managed the channel as an operating business process rather than a standalone website.