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If you stay in sales long enough, you realize that you can’t fix low sales activity. This is as blunt as I can put it.

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

Sales activities drive opportunities which lead to sales. If salespeople don’t do the sales activities, the opportuni

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

Examples of combination products may in

ies won’t develop and sales won’t appear. This is a predictable, yet simple equation. I believe it was Zig Ziglar who

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

aid, “If you do the things you ought to do, when you ought to do them, the day will come when you can do the things yo

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

want to do, when you want to do them.”

Last month I was reminded how some sales people try to bypass the sales activ

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

Combination pro

ty with clever tactics, personality and networking. Sales can either be the hardest low paying job or the easiest high

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

paying job there is. I also believe that success comes from the right mix of being smart about what is done and doing

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

the right things.

Managing Sales Contacts and Action Plans

Waiting at the desk for the telephone to ring is n

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

t selling. Salespeople must be pro-active and make contact with prospects and customers. If you employ a sales system

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

hat records sales activity, the numbers and action plans will predict your sales growth. In sales, you need to know wh

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

t the success metrics are. This requires an examination of your sales activity results and keeping track of the ratios

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

Following aspects would a

of success.

When a salesperson monitors the number of sales calls they make to the number of appointments they get,

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

his is an important success ratio. Keeping this data will help anyone analyze the sales activity. When the success rat

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

os drop, or rise, you can often remember what you changed and learn from this. Unfortunately, you can’t discover the r

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

tios, if you don’t have the sales activity numbers. Accurate sales activity numbers are critical to sales activity ana

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

ysis. If you change a sales script just a little, it might change the outcome of your activity results. This is import

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

nt.

Analysis of the Sales Activities

One of the reasons salespeople don’t like documenting sales activity is

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

ecause they don’t understand the value from the analysis. Additionally, if sales activity numbers are inaccurate, they

.

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

don’t help. The important metrics in managing sales is the success ratios of where success and failure is taking place

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

Correcting and improving these metrics is where a smart salesperson can further improve and become a star salesperson

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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