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The Structure Problem

Structure is an issue that most self-employed service providers struggle with. ADD coaches, in particular, often suffer from self-imposed pressure to always "be

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

there" for the client. ADDers frequently need accountability and follow-ups, and many coaches fall into the trap of thinking that in order to be a good coach, they have to be available all

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

he time.

This is simply not true. The first rule of being a 'good' coach is to be a 'good' person!

In order to be a 'good' coach, you must feel good about yourself and your life. You must

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

e a happy, fulfilled person who has a surplus of positive energy. You cannot serve your clients well if you are overwhelmed and over-scheduled. You have to have a life outside of work. And

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

n order to do this, you must have boundaries in the business.

Business boundaries come in the form of schedules. The business is OPEN certain days of the week, and CLOSED other days of the

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

eek. On those OPEN days, the business has certain operating hours.

No matter how great a coach you are, no matter how many people you are helping, and no matter how much good you are doing

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

in the world, you cannot forget that your ADD coaching practice is a business, and businesses need boundaries.

If you forget this fact, you will struggle both emotionally and financially.

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easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

>What To Do

First, decide what your working days are. What days of the week will your business be OPEN? What holidays will you have off? How much vacation time will you allow yourself?

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

Then, decide what your working hours will be. Establish your operating hours for each working day.

Next, figure out which days you will actually be coaching in your work week. Don't forge

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

that you need time every week for administrative, marketing, and planning tasks.

Finally, stick to it! If a (potential) client calls on Sunday, and Sunday is not a working day for you, wai

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

until the next business day to return the call. Clients won't respect your boundaries if you don't respect them.

A Living Example

Many self-employed service providers fear that lim

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

iting their availability means that they will lose clients. I have found the opposite to be true.

Here's my favorite example: A former client of mine is a massage therapist. When we began

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

working together, he was working 7 days a week, taking clients any time of day or night. If a client called and wanted a massage at 6:00 AM, he'd do it. If another client wanted a massage a

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

10:00 PM that same day, he'd do it! He was so scared of losing a client that he burnt himself out being on call all day, every day. To make matters worse, he could barely make ends meet.

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

e simply wasn't getting the number of clients he needed to sustain himself and the business.

We both knew that he needed to decrease his working days and his operating hours, but it was hard

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

for him to get over his fear of losing clients. Eventually, he did. He cut back to 6 days a week, started attending exercise classes in the mornings, and decreased his evening hours.

To hi

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

s surprise (but not to mine), business picked up. Most clients were happy to book an appointment within his new operating hours, and he let go of clients that weren't. His stress level decr

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

ased, and he found himself giving better massages, which led to more referrals.

This former client checked in with me about a week ago, and he was happy to report that business is booming!

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As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

e has been booked and making great money.

While this client is not a coach, I have seen this scenario happen over and over again with myself, my colleagues, and my clients who are coaches.

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

hen you let the boundaries blur between yourself and your business, you will struggle with stress, overwhelm, and anxiety. When you take care of yourself, your business will take care of you

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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The second you quit being the 'best deal' for your customer, he'll drop you like a hot potato. Regardless of how many lunches you've bought him or birthdays you've remembered.

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