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It matters very little whether you are a selling rookie or a seasoned professional, soo

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

ner or later, you will find yourself mired in a selling slump. There are a number of ac

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

Examples of combination products may in

tions you can take to shorten the duration of the slump, lessen the financial impact an

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

d reduce the emotional drain that a slump can cause you. This is 'Tip 1'
here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe
> in a series.

Selling slumps are as perennial as the seasons but they don't need to d
d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro
estroy your career. Understand that they are part of the marketplace and they always wi
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
ll be. They are caused by a variety of factors but always keep in mind that you didn't
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
ust wake up 'dumb' one morning. When you understand that fact, it will be easier to rec
nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically
ognize that the situation is temporary. In old writings authors often used the term, "i
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
t came to pass". They didn't use the term, "it came to stay".

Tip #1: K
ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi
ck up your prospecting efforts. This might seem obvious, however for
ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a
many salespeople who find themselves in a selling slump, the exact opposite occurs. Sel
dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod
ling is always a numbers game. Adding more prospects creates more selling opportunities
cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin
which will give you the chance to end the slump quickly. If you are in a slump and not
tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen
selling, it stands to reason that you will have more than the normal amount of time on
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
your hands. Use some of that time to find extra opportunities. Not all those opportunit
ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust
ies will bear fruit immediately. Many will pay you over the next weeks and months which
y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products
will lessen the chance that another slump will visit you again in the near term.

When
.

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
you stay busy you will be less likely to create and revisit those destructive negative
elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip
mental movies that will drain your emotional energy and hamper your valuable creativity

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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