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Are you like many enterpreneurs who are afraid to choose a niche for your offerings? I know there can be the fear that you're limiting your business if you narrow your nic

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

he down too much, but that simply isn't true. Believe me, it's so much easier and profitable to market to a smaller portion of the market (just think how many people there

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

Examples of combination products may in

are in the world!) than to try to be all things to all people. And you'll be amazed to find out that you actually open yourself up to possibilities that would not have co

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

me up had your focus been all over the map.

Next let me say that lots of (particularly new) business owners struggle with this issue. All you want to do is give your gift

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

s to the world, and making decisions that make you feel as though you are saying "no" to a segment of the world may not feel right to you. But by choosing to focus on a ce

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

Combination pro

rtain segment of the population, you are ensuring that your work actually gets out there, and you will be astounded at what comes your way.

For example, even though my ni

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

che is solo professionals, once I started defining my offerings for and to coaches/consultants, my business took off. Currently, I have about 50% coaches, and 50% other so

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

o professionals as clients. Once I started focusing my marketing efforts on my niche, all these other potential clients (who are not specifically coaches/consultants) show

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

ed up. I promise this will happen for you.

And my niche is still too broad. That's another point I want to make. Your niche will continue to evolve until it hits a tippin

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

g point, where everything is clicking, including your bottom line. You'll know it when it happens.

In the meantime, if you keep in mind the infinite Abundance of the Univ

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

erse, understanding that you can't (nor should you) serve everyone is a bit easier… :)

Think about the billions of people in the world. Even if you wanted to, you couldn'

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

Following aspects would a

t possibly serve all of them - and you certainly couldn't please even the smallest percentage. Trying to do so really dilutes your genius work, your best work, instead of

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

allowing it to truly help those people you are meant to serve - your niche.

As I said earlier, many business owners, when they are just starting out, are concerned that t

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

hey are going to cut themselves off from other opportunities, or that they are going to limit their success by only focusing on a small segment of the population.

But aga

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

n, the opposite is actually true. When you focus your efforts:

1. Your marketing gets a whole lot easier.

2. It's much easier for people (your clients) to talk about you

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

because they understand that you do one basic thing for one group of people.

3. It's much easier for clients and colleagues to refer you for the same reason as #2.

4. I

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

t's much easier to build strategic alliances/joint ventures/partnerships.

5. It's much easier to become and be considered an expert at what you do.

6. Other opportunitie

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

s WILL present themselves.

When you focus your efforts and energy on one target market, you are directing the Universe to help draw those Ideal Clients to you. When you c

.

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

ontinue to put yourself out there with one clear message, those Ideal Clients will hear it and seek you out.

And the end result is a flourishing business, serving exactly

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

the people you were meant to serve.

Exciting, isn't it?

Copyright 2006 Alicia M Forest and ClientAbundance.com

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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