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To promote your brand, you first have to be clear what it is, or what you want it to be. In essence, your brand should be uniq

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

ue. In a nutshell, it is what can be associated with your business and no other. Think of any hugely successful brand and you&

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

Examples of combination products may in

rsquo;ll know exactly what I mean.

To identify what it is about your business that you should be promoting, take a piece of p

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

aper and make a list of the key points of your business operation that you’d like to be known for. Whether you’re

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

selling a product or service, there will be elements of your operation that distinguish you from competitors.

Your Un

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

Combination pro

ique Selling Point

Identifying your unique selling point involves also studying your market. What are your customers

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

looking for?

Remember that they will likely be looking for authenticity and originality. Often, they’ll pick your prod

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

ct over others if it, or your selling point, meets a need or solves a problem for them. We are emotional creatures. Selling is

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

all about feelings. Knowing how your customers feel, what they want and how they think is critical. You simply can’t st

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

udy this too much. You may even consider commissioning an expert to create a “Persona” for you. A Persona is profi

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

le of a “typical customer,” that you would sell to. Persona’s are exceedingly detailed. They should include

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

Following aspects would a

every aspect of your “customer’s” lifestyle. Of course, for some products or services, you may have to creat

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

e a range of Personas in order to accurately fine-tune your brand.

Identifying Your Overlap

The points wher

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

e what your customers want and what you are most proud of overlap is your unique selling point. Of course you can have more th

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

n one selling point, but try to identify the major USP and focus your campaigns on that.

Developing an effective brand strate

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

gy will give you credibility. It will make you more attractive to customers, and if you do it right, you will knock out all yo

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

ur competitors with the least effort on your part. Focusing on your brand is an essential part of marketing. You can’t w

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

in without your brand.

Once you’ve worked out a brand strategy, you’re work is not quite over. It’s importa

.

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

nt to involve everyone in the process of “branding your business.” Every member of your staff should know about th

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

e process, and should be aware that everything they do has the potential to impact your brand, either negatively or positively

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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