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Is timing everything? Your message needs to get to the right person at the right time. And if you miss the narrow time span when it passes your prospect's attention, they'll never connect. It's easy to send your marketing message too early or let your prospects get it too late. Your prospects live within their own particular time horizon. Your message exists in a different time horizon. They have to somehow pass each 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 other at the correct time to connect. When the timing is just right, you'll attain a qualified lead. Many times, you'll have the right product, know your prospect's exact desire, and have crafted the right message to convert the prospect into your lead. But you may still get less-than-expected response if the timing is off. Think of it this way. Think of the many unexpected events in your life. There are some events ; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug. Examples of combination products may in n your life that you make happen. But there are many more events that seem to happen on their own. This is where fortune plays a major part in what happens. For instance, think of all the coincidences in your life. Pretend you're on your way to a conference. You're waiting for your flight, minding your own business, and reading the paper. All of a sudden, you look up as someone is passing you by. You instinctively smi 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. The other person smiles back. All of a sudden, you’re talking to each other. You connected. How many other people passed without you looking up? How many people passed by, but you looked up without smiling? For some unknown reason, this particular person made you smile. And the other person smiled back. What made the other person smiled back? What created the connection? The timing was right. The only difference w here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe ith your marketing message is that you've worked on making it ready for your prospect. Now you simply need to catch your prospect in the right time horizon, so they’ll smile back at your message. In your case, you're hoping to find your prospect agreeable to your message, but they’re not necessarily looking for you at the same time. In this case, there are a few tactics you can use to get your message in sync with you d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations. Combination pro prospect's time horizon. Consider these time tactics before you send out your message, and you'll get more qualified leads. Consider the past, present and future of your message from your prospect's time horizon, and more of your messages will pass by your prospects just in time. The Past Time Aspect and Your Tactics to Lift Response What do I mean? Here are some considerations to help you time you 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 message right. Let's start with the past time aspect. These are considerations and tactics I learned from the legendary copywriter Gene Schwartz. The first set of tactics considers the past history of your message in relation to your prospects. To find out what tactic to use, ask yourself two time questions:
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 l> When you ask the first question, you're asking how aware your prospects are of your product. In other words, have your prospects been exposed to your marketing message in the past? It could be that your prospects are already fully aware of your product, know what it does, and know they want it, but they haven't gotten aroun nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically to buying it yet. In this case, you want to find out what's holding your prospects back. Is it the price? Then your headline and message need to address this issue head-on. All you have to do is state your product and price offer. For instance, Hewlett-Packard is currently running a full-page ad in several magazines. Here is the headline: HP – It's Not Expensive to Look Expensive HP Color LaserJets Starting at $29 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 It’s also possible that your prospects know the product, but don't want it yet. The problem is that you haven't persuaded your prospects about one particular aspect of your product. Find out what's holding your prospects from believing you and try persuading them again. Are your prospects persuaded by how well your product takes care of their desire, or do they know how much better yours can do it than any other prod ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi ct? Finally, your prospect may have never heard of your product. You need to make sure to introduce your product to your prospects. Your approach must be different. Your prospects may recognize the desire they have, but don't yet know that your product will meet that desire. All you have to do is make the desire or need clear, prove that your solution can be accomplished, and show that your product contains the mechan ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it. Following aspects would a ism that accomplishes the solution. Here is an ad from Kell Systems that does that: You don't need a server room anymore . . . Deploy your hardware directly in the open office using Kell Systems' Portable Server Environments, the low cost, self-contained alternative to computer rooms The second question asks about your prospects’ previous encounters with products similar to yours. For instance, have your prospect dd to the challenges in developing combination products: Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well? Which combination prod heard or read about your type of product from many other companies? Let's say you offer knowledge intelligence software. The question becomes how familiar is your prospect about knowledge intelligence software? The answer is important because it tells you how tactically you need to differentiate your product. When your prospects are acquainted with the type of product you’re selling, it becomes more difficult to conv cts are meaningful and rational? Which therapeutic categories to select? Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients? Do combin nce them that your product is what they need. When your prospects are completely unsophisticated because they’ve never heard about a product like yours, then you can be “… simple. Be direct. Above all, don't be fancy. Name either the need or the claim in your headline—nothing more. Dramatize that claim in your copy—make it as powerful as possible. And then bring in your product; and prove that it works.” But if your tions increase the patient compliance? What would be the developing cost? How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen prospects know of many products like yours, and know the variety of approaches to solving their problem, then you need to look for a new and improved mechanism to solve the problem. You need to sell your product with a new promise: either it solves the problem more quickly, more surely, solves new peripheral problems, overcomes old limitations, or promises added benefits. A good example is a current ad by Sage. Here, 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 age is promoting their services with a new promise. Managing Everything From Payroll to Paper Cuts. 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You can see how important your message tactics, the past history of your prospect's awareness and sophisticat y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products ion with your product really are. Get these right and you're closer to catching prospects agreeable to your message. Remember that your prospects also have present and future aspects that you need to consider. If you sync all three “time” aspects with your message, you'll lift your response. In upcoming ezines, I'll cover the other two time aspects and tactics for you to consider accordingly, so that you can get more . 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 ualified leads. In Brief:
elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements. Companies that provide selfless information through particip other messages similar to yours in order to maximize the power of your message.
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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