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How many times have you met with a customer and started telling them about the wonderful things about your products, services and your business p

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

rogramme only to get one objection after another?

By the time you finished, they said NO and you left the sales call feeling low and down.

Ther

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

Examples of combination products may in

e is a place for offering features and benefits in a presentation but it is NOT in the beginning.That will cause objections.

Before you can offe

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

r solutions (benefits) you must know what your customer/prospect’s motivations are.

Who Cares About Your Product? Customers Want Solutions.
here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe
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Usually your customers will remain proud. They don't appreciate the glories of your product's reputation, the sheer practicality of its desig
d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro
n or the cleverness of its title.On the contrary, they're focused on their personal needs and motivation.

Maybe it's a jacket that needs mending
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
. Or a Hi-Fi system gone haywire.They want a solution to their problem, not a product.

They want something to keep themselves warm and they want
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
to enjoy interrupted music. So you've got to present your product as the satisfaction to the need.These motivations are usually “problems” that t
nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically
he prospect will not talk about without asking them some well thought out questions.

Here’s how you do that:

Ask “exploratory/bridging” questio
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
ns focusing on their "problems":

Examples:

1. “Are you satisfied with your old TV set,is it giving you screen discolouration problems?”
2
ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi
. “How do you feel about the noisy fan at the corner of your room?”
3. “Do you ever worry about payment,delivery?”

Study your product or s
ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a
ervice with this in mind, and then train your entire organisation to appreciate the differences in perception.

For example,a car engineer will b
dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod
oast of how many much horsepower the engine outputs or how fancy the car looks, but family types will only focus on self-serving factors like big
cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin
ger leg space, less fuel consumption,larger boot for groceries.Whenever you list a product's benefits, you're answering an age-old question: "Wha
tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen
's in it for me?"

Not All Customers Are Equal

All too often,business owners have trouble understanding that the same product has differe
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
nt appeals, depending on the type of customer.

Some ad companies often get instructions when creating a brochure to make it speak to two audienc
ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust
es, such as to both men and women, when promoting a unique credit card.(there's the men's credit card and the ladies' credit card)

Though both m
y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products
en and women are looking for the same final result, their perspectives are unique. You must appeal to them differently, using different language.
.

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

Once you master this distinction, you are halfway to becoming a marketing guru.

In closing,get your customers talking about their emotional co
elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip
ncerns BEFORE you give your sales presentation. They will then be far more receptive to your proposal when you do bring out features and benefits

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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