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    This literally can be the most profitable thing you'll ever do for your business and that is to understand exploiting the actual value of your
    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
    customer. It's been called the Marginal Net Worth and the Lifetime Value.

    What is the current worth of one of your customers or prospects? It'
    ; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

    Examples of combination products may in
    the total profit of an average customer over the lifetime that they do business with you. That includes all subsequent sales minus advertising
    lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

    /marketing and your fulfillment expenses.

    Let's say the average customer brings you $75 per sale. They re-purchase 3 more times in a year. The
    here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe
    r average order amount is $300. On each $300 reorder, you make $150 gross profit The average life lasts 2 years. Every new customer is worth $9
    d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

    Combination pro
    5.

    You reach the 975 by adding the $75 initial profit to the 3 other purchases each year of $300. Only $150 is profit, so $150 times 3 equals
    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
    $450. If they do that for 2 straight years, that's $900 plus the original $75.

    If this is our average customer and they're worth $975 in profi
    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
    and it only costs you $30 through your advertising/ marketing expenses to get them, every time you spend $30 you receive $975 back .

    You woul
    nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically
    be foolish not to increase your advertising/ marketing and promotional budget to produce as many of these $30 cost customers so you would spen
    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
    d $30 over and over and over again to get $975 back

    Theoretically, you could spend $975 to get that customer because you know they will come b
    ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi
    ck and spend $975 and you will break-even. Of course, we don't want to do this. Remember, this is an average customer. Some will buy more and s
    ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

    Following aspects would a
    me will buy less This is an average number.

    Now you "know you can spend up to $975. You could just as easily be spending 100% of your $75 prof
    dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

    Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
    Which combination prod
    it just to get that first sale because that's just the first sale's profit, and you'll still end up with $975 over the next 2 years.

    If you of
    cts are meaningful and rational?
    Which therapeutic categories to select?
    Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
    Do combin
    ered to give that $75 service for free and it doubles your customers, it "would double your profits over the next 2 years.

    One in 100 business
    tions increase the patient compliance?
    What would be the developing cost?
    How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen
    owners think about this You want to spend everything you can justify to bring in a customer as long as that customer costs you less than they e
    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
    arn you. If you can't afford to spend more than the entire profit from the first sale, remember you'll be making money just in a few months fro
    ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

    Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust
    them. Start out spending what your cash flow can justify. After a quarter or several months after their re-order profits come in, then you can
    y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products
    step up your ad budget

    Copyright © 2005 Abe Cherian

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

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