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Your colleagues are extremely interested in cold calling company presidents-like you, everybody with business savvy wants to reach the executives, quickly to close top dollar sales.

In this business environment w

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

ith collapsed organizational structures, the elimination of middle management, and the increased workload for executive assistants-it's even more challenging to break through to the inner-circle of decision-makers

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

Examples of combination products may in

So consider this--stop making the cold-call process more complicated (and considerably more painful) than it needs to be. Quit agonizing over the writing of pre-approach letters and searching out friends who can

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

provide warm introductions that'll break you through, get you into the hallowed halls of the executive suites.

Sure pre-approach letters and warm introductions are a good mix to add to any sales strategy-but eve

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

big time local and long distance phone companies are finally catching on to the fact that the product they market, the telephone, is the most direct, effective tool for increasing sales by leaps and bounds. Now,

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

Combination pro

ou don't wanna miss out on use of a proven, effective sales tool. Do you?

Of course not!

Here's What Sales Pros Attempt

Now, this is interesting … a recent client survey revealed that most sales professionals f

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

eel pressed to accomplish a lot during a prospecting call. With each executive-level cold call most professionals take a big breath and in one, great big, run on sentence try to establish rapport by being friendly

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

gain credibility by giving company history, learn about the prospect with probing questions, introduce and sell products/services-all within the parameters of one brief make-it-or-break-it telephone call to the e

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

xecutive suite.

You'll Never See It Coming, Here's Why

Here's a news flash … it can't be done! Even bigger news … this kind of approach actually signals executive assistants that you don't belong in the presiden

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

's office. The assistant will simply smile, refer you down to a lower level-and you'll never know why or how you got booted down the ladder so quickly.

So, let's go to the heart of the matter, take a close look a

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

the structure of the phone call itself. In the 35 to 90 seconds that'll you'll have to spend on the telephone at the president's level you've gotta be prepared to take the call down the straight and very narrow p

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

Following aspects would a

ath in which you want it to go. And there is one absolute, positive, no doubt about it, purpose of your call. Any hint of a deviation from this purpose will result in fewer executive-level appointments.

So here's

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

the secret ... cherish it and know it's extremely valuable.

THE amazingly simple secret to successful cold calls to the offices of presidents is to be certain that every single one of your prospecting calls has o

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

ne crystal clear purpose and one purpose only. Each word you speak during your prospecting phone calls directs and redirects the conversation toward that one goal-scheduling an executive-level sales call. It doesn

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

t matter whether you schedule a meeting in person, or schedule a phone meeting-every word of the initial phone call must direct the conversation toward getting that meeting booked on the calendar. Period.

Write D

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

wn the Words of a Successful Call

A technique that'll catapult you forward is to write down the words exchanged during your cold call. Identify what words, statements, and questions, keep the conversation on trac

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

k towards an appointment and what words cause you to lose the appointment.

You'll become consciously aware of the words that flow between you and your prospect-and their impact. Won't be long till you realize tha

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

your words either get you what you want or take your cold calls way off the path down some obscure rabbit trail.

I guarantee your competition doesn't have a single-minded focus on high level calls and is unwitti

.

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

ngly, forfeiting a whole lot of potentially lucrative business. Yet, they hold onto their ill-advised, accomplish-a-lot-in-a-little bit-of-time approach to prospecting at the top. You on the other hand will find t

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

at keeping your prospecting calls on one laser-like focus will bring in more executive- level sales calls than you ever imagined possible. Now, go get ‘em.

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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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