CORPAK MedSystems, based in Wheeling, IL, is a leading developer,
manufacturer and marketer of innovative medical devices focused on the
enteral feeding and bedside location technology markets. The Company has
established the leading market position in premium branded, adult, long-term
nasogastric ("NG") feeding tubes and offers a broad portfolio of other high
quality, branded enteral products, including gastrostomy feeding tubes,
gastric relief devices and enteral feeding safety devices.
Integrated Web Solutions built an online CE Education and Evaluation Program
for CORPAK Medsystems in August of 2009. The goal was to allow a select
group of users the ability to access an secured area of the company web site
through which they could receive online training and eventually be tested on
what they learned. Upon a successful completion, users would be granted a
certificate.
Later in the same month, IWS was called upon again to recommend, design and
build an email marketing tool for CORPAK which would be able to send highly
targeted e-mail messages on an ongoing basis to a list of prospects that
CORPAK Medsystems had built and was growing. "It was important that the
list itself be self-managed, in terms of users being able to unsubscribe
themselves but through our extensive ongoing marketing efforts, we also
needed the ability to add new names into the list ourselves," said Jill
Lazar, Senior Product Manager at CORPAK Medsystems. IWS advised an approach
that took the ongoing email marketing efforts outside of the primary CORPAK
domain in order to reduce spam concerns that may adversely impact the
business operations of CORPAK. The system itself was built in just under a
week and is currently being considered for expansion into other uses.
"CORPAK is at a stage in their growth where they are now utilizing the
internet in the best ways possible. Training and direct marketing and
customer interaction are all phenomenal uses of basic web technologies with
the intent of better serving and soliciting feedback from the end users. As
our clients us the web more in this manner, their site becomes more than a
simple online brochure. It becomes a core portion of their business which,
in turn, drives more revenue, reduces costs and improves service. We love to
see this type of transformation in our client," said John Schwarberg,
president of Integrated Web Solutions.