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You probably already use the Online World for many things. Whether you use it for entertainment, research, sending E-mail to friends and family, or just discussing numerous subject topics with others.

Of all things you can do online, there is one that you

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

should definitely know how to do. MARKET ANY BUSINESS ONLINE!

That's right, with the power of the Online World to reach millions of people, online marketing is definitely an awesome tool that no business should be without. Just because of the simple fact a

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

Examples of combination products may in

one that advertising is practally FREE. The ability to get the results of thousands of dollars in free publicity is practically unheard of in business today. Only recently have more and more people figured out how to utilize the ever exploding online world to marke

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

their business efforts.

Think about it, there is probably no business in existence that could not benefit from free publicity! And the fact that properly utilizing free advertising raises net profits to unbelievable levels! Using any or all of te major on

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

ine services, or the INTERNET, can help you market your business efforts.

Let's start with plain old advertising. On America Online, for example, they let you place classified advertisements for FREE! They have a variety of classifications to choose from.

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

Combination pro

y placing these small free ads you can generate some very quality leads that can turn into sales. Or if you are a really good marketer you could sell something straight from your free ad. Wouldn't that be something, using the actual free ad to do all of the selling

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

The other services offer free advertising from time to time. When they do charge for classified ads it is usually very inexpensive, and still a great deal considering how many people those ads can reach. When you place any advertisements you should always

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

“code” your ads. This means put something in each individual ad that will tell you, if you get any business from it, which ad it came from. This way, you will probably find that some sections are better producers than others, and you will want to concentrate on the

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

e sections and not the ons that weren't making any money.

To code an ad your could make them request a certain “report” on more information. You should give each report a different code for each ad. Such as: “ask for report #1tv” , this way you would know

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

hat this request came from the ad in the televisions for sale category, and so forth. If they send you an order straight from the ad, make them give you an order#, which would be different for each ad. THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE WHO ARE ADVERTISING ONLINE ARE NOT USING

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

THESE AD CODES!!! THIS IS A MAJOR MARKETING MISTAKE!!!

By not tracking exactly which ads are making money, they are wasting their time by continually placing ads in loser categories. The actual code can be anything you want to assign to it. ALWAYS keep tra

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

Following aspects would a

ck of every ad you place. Make a not of what it said, where and when it was placed. You will be pleasantly surprised when you analyze your “ad data” and see some positive trands developing. Just repeat these trands and it will help you make more money.

How

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

would you like to find a name list of several hundred ( or even thousand) people who might be interested in the particular product or service you are selling based on their jobs or interests? Wouldn't that be great!? Well you can and the online services supply this

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

service as part of your regular membership.

This little unknown tool is called a “Member Directory!” You can do searches in the directory for other users with certain characteristics. For example, if you were selling fishing equipment, you could do a searc

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

by “fishing”. All of the people that were registered in the directory and had listed fishing as one of their hobbies would show up on that search list. You could now send each one of those people an e-mail message telling them about your product or service, it's j

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

st like using a mailing list, but you have no postage! (WARNING: Be careful how you go about this, it could be spamming or unsolicited e-mail.)

You could also get the names of several prospects by doing some “browsing” in the different topic forums. Using

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

he earlier example of looking for people who fish, you could look under sports until you found a discussion on fishing. You could then take note of the users' names that were participating in the discussions. You could do the same thing on the INTERNET with one of

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

he many newsgroup tops that they have.

The bottom line is that you “test” and record the results of your online marketing efforts. Then just repeat the steps that are making you money and expand on them to reach more people.

Doing simple research

.

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

n the internet. The internet has several mailing lists that are dedicated to marketing on the internet. You will also find hundreds of articles on the World Wide Web. By searching one of the WWW search engines like Webcrawler you can find all the information you ca

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

read. Use search strings as: “online marketing”,”internet advertising”,”selling online”, and so on.

You can also find many books on the subject at your local bookstore or being advertised online.

Mark Heading

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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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