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Knowing that buyers have different agendas to sales people is half the battle. Like any relationship, once you know how the other person likes to make decisions, and you react appropriately, then that relationship becomes

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

stronger. To be a successful in sales or business, you must create strong relationships. This article, brings you one step closer to understanding yourself and your customer or prospect.

First; how do you know when you go

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

Examples of combination products may in

t it right

You may have heard of the phrase – “what pushed your buttons”. In other words, what sorts of things motivate you or make you happy? Given we do most things in life because we want to, and moan about the things

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

we hate, it is important to understand yourself in this context.

What this is actually telling you about yourself is whether or not your own opinion matters most to you, or other people's opinions.

I want you to answer t

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

he following question truthfully – without peeking at the explanation.

How do you know when you have done a good job?

How you answer this question, will tell you a lot about yourself. In particular, you will und

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

Combination pro

erstand whose opinion is important to you.

Some of you may use phrases such as;

“Well I just know”

“It feels good, when the work is finished to a high standard”

”I always do a good job”
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
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For others you may have responded;

“Well I am in sales, and the commission check is all the proof I need”

“When I get public recognition”

“When people come up and tell me”

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

“When I get a good grade in my appraisal”

What this is actually telling you about yourself is whether or not your own opinion matters most to you, or other people's opinions.

So what could go wrong if

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

you said the wrong thing?

Let's assume you meet someone who has a very strong internal representation, and you on the other hand need other people's approval, before you will make decisions.

You are trying to sell person

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

al coaching to when you looks at things externally and they look at things internally, and you say. “if you do this course, your friends will be amazed at the transformation that has taken place”. The probability is that t

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

hey will look at you blankly, and maybe even offer a response such as; “If I took the course, and it is a big IF, then what would my friends have to do with it?” You are then going to have to start playing catch-up!

On th

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

Following aspects would a

e other hand if you said something like; “Only you know how you would benefit from this course, and of course, the results that you mentioned you wanted would enable you to achieve your dreams.” Then you would have a bette

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

r chance of getting through to them

What questions to ask, to unlock their buying code?

Without knowing a person's strategy, you could be emphasising all the wrong points. It is therefore vital to ask the person some que

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

stions, so as to elicit their strategy, so that you can emphasise points that match their way of thinking.

So how do you determine a person's frame of representation? As you will have gathered by now, it is by asking the

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

correct questions. What worked for your friends, may not working in a business situation.

If I was trying to find out a potential buyer of my value proposition workshop's way of thinking I would ask the following question

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

;

“If your company was to attend this workshop, how would you know if the day had been a success for you?”

I would listen carefully to the answer, because not only would I know their strategy, I would also get a

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

good idea of what success measures they would be looking for, and I would ensure that these were achieved during the workshop, to produce another delighted customer.

Conclusion

Know they self! If you can't determine how

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

you make decisions, how could you determine other people's methodologies for arriving at conclusions? Once you know how you get feedback, then you start checking out your friends. Doing this in relaxing surroundings, will

.

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

help you become proficient, so you can start using these questioning techniques in business circumstances

Translating these insights into questions that you can then use to move buyers closer to your products can still s

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

eem a challenge to some people, maybe then you could do with some help.

This series of articles will explore the different psychological buying patterns or your customers, and help you to identify how they make decisions.

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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