First Anniversary of Pharma Veterans – Blog Post by Asrar Qureshi
Dear Colleagues! Today is Pharma Veterans Blog
Post #142. Pharma Veterans
shares your wealth of knowledge and wisdom with others for the benefit of
entire Pharma Community. It aims to recognize and celebrate the Pharma Industry
Professionals. Pharma Veterans Blog is
published by Asrar Qureshi
on WordPress,
the top blog site. Please share your
stories, ideas and thoughts. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com
for publishing your contributions here.
Pharma
Veterans idea was born about a year ago. It was somewhat vague in the beginning
but became clearer as I kept tossing it in my head.
The number
of people associated with Pharma Industry now runs into hundreds of thousands.
The sales teams have seen the highest growth. The average number of sales team
in a medium size company runs over a thousand. Those who joined in the 60s and
70s have retired already. The number of Pharma Veterans who spent several years
in the industry is quite large.
Starting in
1975, I have completed 43 years already and am going into 44th. I
and other Pharma Veterans like me saw the industry evolving and changing and growing.
We saw many new ideas coming into practice; some became successful and others
perished.
Based on
this background, the first idea is that the Pharma Veterans should have a forum
to share their experiences and learnings. This sentiment is echoed at the
beginning of every blog and Pharma Veterans are invited to share their wealth
of knowledge and wisdom.
I booked a
publishing space on WordPress® for Pharma Veterans Blog where it is published on
every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Over 90% Blog Posts are written by me;
others contributed by Hasan Jamal, a longtime colleague and Pharma Veteran. I
do take pride in the fact that the publishing of post was always on schedule (except
two occasions) during one year of Pharma Veterans.
I would
share with you some stats about the blog.
·
Posts
published in 2017 18
·
Posts
published in 2018 127
·
Views 7,442
·
Comments 63
·
Country Wise
Views
o
Pakistan 4,950
o
United
States 461
o
Vietnam 220
o
Canada 169
o
Saudi Arabia 113
o
United Arab
Emirates 90
o
India 75
o
United
Kingdom 52
o
Ireland 47
o
Kazakhstan 39
o
Bahrain 25
o
China 25
o
Nigeria 25
o
Italy 12
o
Germany 12
o
European
Union 10
o
Rest of
World 114
·
Follows from
other bloggers 23
It is
extremely encouraging to see the range of countries from where the posts were
viewed.
Pharma
Veterans has a Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/PharmaVeterans/
Pharma
Veterans has a Linkedin group https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10358817/
Pharma
Veterans has a Twitter handle @PharmaVeterans
You can see that
Pharma Veterans is quite widely distributed.
Another idea
is to do profiles of Pharma Veterans. Some profiles were published and more
will be done.
Future plans
include Pharma Veterans Foundation and Pharma Veterans Mentor Program.
I sincerely
thank all colleagues who have been following Pharma Veterans Blog, have shared
it with others and have kept me going. Thank you very much.
I invite other
Pharma Veterans to come forward and share this space. Come join the community.
You are enthusiastically welcomed.
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