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When I started freelancing, I had great experience and solid skills, but very little in my portfolio to help me get work

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

. Rather than wallow in self-pity of the “I’ll never be a successful freelancer!” nature, I built up m

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

Examples of combination products may in

y business -- and my résumé -- with jobs I found on Craigslist. Now that I’ve got several years of f

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

eelance experience under my belt and some regular clients, I still use CL when my calendar is empty, and even sometimes

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

when it’s not.

I hear a lot of freelancers complain that CL jobs are all low-paying and, thus, a waste of their t

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

Combination pro

me. Frankly, a lot of them are -- but not all of them. I do only CL jobs that pay well. My very first one was for $40 an

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

hour, and that’s the absolute lowest I’ve ever gone. Since then, they’ve been mostly in the range of

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

65 to $85 an hour and higher. The jobs are there -- you just have to know how to land them.

Check hotspots (places wher

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

e you typically find a lot of good possibilities) every day or every other day and respond immediately. If you’re

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

esponding to ads that are more than a few days old (or, in some cities, even a few hours old), the position has already

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

been filled-- or they’ve gotten a ton of responses and there are 500 people ahead of you in the advertiser’s

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

Following aspects would a

inbox. You can also get leads on CL jobs without having to wade through the listings yourself, by visiting job sites li

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

e Deborah Ng’s Freelance Writing Jobs or subscribing to a newsletter like Anne Wayman’s Abundant Writing New

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

s. Several Yahoo! Groups and Google Groups also provide job listings for various areas of expertise. Once you get a feel

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

for how the whole CL thing works, you’ll find a system that’s right for you. Although I do use shortcuts lik

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

e Deborah’s site and Anne’s newsletter, I also visit CL myself to hit up the listings under the major cities

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

Once I find something that sounds good, I use the “e-mail this posting to a friend” option to send any poss

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

ibilities to myself. Then I sit down for 30 minutes or an hour and blast out the replies using a couple of form letters

.

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

’ve created for various types of work.

Now that you know how to find the jobs, do you know how to snag them? Be s

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

ure to check out "Send Your Freelance Career Through the Roof With Online Job Banks: Part II, Landing the Gig."

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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Imagine a river. Then visualize all that the river carries with it. Apart from the water and fish, there are other elements which form the river. Processes are very much like a river. They flow in a natural direction and carry information with them from one point to another. The process of Value Stream Mapping is a by product of the Lean Manufacturing process pioneered by Toyota and the core fundamental is to identify the areas of waste which can be avoided within a manufacturing or office process.

One of the best ways to promote your business is to speak to groups. It’s an effective way to generate awareness of your company product or service and to begin developing relationships with people who might be interested in what you do.

How can one promote Mind Mapping to Grade School and High School students to help them in critical thinking skills? Well, you might say why not use Power Point Presentations, videos and overhead slides.

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