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The distance between marketing consultants and the real world can truly be mind boggling. When a marketing consultant te

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

lls someone to send out 10,000 postcards in order to get a 3% response rate and that the actual sales will be something

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

Examples of combination products may in

ess than that ...and then asks the client to pay him for that golden nugget... there has to be a problem!

One subject I

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

have heard precious little about is the process of building badwill as opposed to goodwill. When consumers were being ri

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

pped from the dinner table by long distance phone companys' telemarketers they did not consider the badwill they were sp

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

Combination pro

eading until the no call list came out.

I for one have several companies on my "never-do-business-with-list". Is it bec

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

use they have bad products? No. Are they over priced? No. Do they have a bad reputation for customer service? No.

I sim

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

ply will not do business with them because of their aggressive marketing. Feeling like hunted prey does not make me want

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

to do business with the predator.

The badwill that is caused by ad campaigns is a huge factor that is seldom considered

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

and the fact the consumers in America are tired of feeling like prey is rarely factored in to a marketing plan.(Companie

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

are still trying to figure how to work around the no call list!)

I have made it a mission to discover what marketers a

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

Following aspects would a

re telling their clients, and I have checked out hundreds of selling books, marketing books and business books and semin

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

rs to find out what the current trend is in marketing wisdom. Although many marketing gurus do preach a kinder and gentl

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

r method of marketing I rarely found any that mentioned badwill and how it affects a company's image and sales. Here is

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

my short list of badwill generators.

1.Flyers stuffed in mailboxes or thrown on front porches making a home look like

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

andfill and inviting thieves when the homeowner is on vacation.

2.Junk mail advertising/email advertising which is obvi

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

usly mailed at the cheapest rate possible( if I'm not worth 37 cents then you don't need me as a customer)

3.Automated

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

customer service...cheap for the company,hell for the customer.

4.computer pop-ups especially those with annoying sound

.

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

that hide their close buttons( talk about feeling like prey!)

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

o http://lastingimpressions2.com and check out marketing tips

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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I’ve recently been working with a small business close to where I live. It’s an accountancy practice. It’s a great little business. Super people, working very hard and really trying hard for their customers. However, every once in a while they get a customer complaint. And, when they do, I see some interesting things start to happen.

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