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Did you ever hear the story, "Drop in me Dubuck(Iowa?), and in 2 days I'll have 5 new customers for your new 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 roduct or service!". The idea behind the story is that a real sales pro can be put in any new situation and w ; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug. Examples of combination products may in ithin a short period of time, sell product and start making a difference. Well, the story is over 30 years ol lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together. (I actually don't remember the specifics.) And times have changed.
Businesses are bigger and more sophistica here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe ted. You have to make sure you are adding the right type of customers. Meaningful customers. Recently a fr d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations. Combination pro end of mine was hired as a sales engineer for a job shop sheet metal manufacturer. He had just relocated to 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 a new area of the country. He was hired by this company to create MEANINGFUL SALES. That is, find accounts 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 at can contribute at least $500,000 in sales to his new company. (Current revenues of the company exceeded $2 nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically 5 million, any new account less than $500,000 wouldn't contribute to profits.) So he called me to discuss str 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 tegies about attacking the territory. After reviewing the company's core competencies, we defined who should ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi be our prime TARGETS. The list was then developed. After searching through several industries - medical, d ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it. Following aspects would a efense, instrumentation and business machines, we
came up with a list of 75 companies to be contacted. We w dd to the challenges in developing combination products: Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well? Which combination prod re quite confident that within that group of
companies, 5 companies would stand out as the ones to work with. cts are meaningful and rational? Which therapeutic categories to select? Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients? Do combin Remember, timing is everything. I reminded Roger that even though he may be selling for the best and a ver tions increase the patient compliance? What would be the developing cost? How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen competitive sheet metal company in the area, most companies are not necessarily looking for a new vendors. T 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 he complex sale has a longer sales cycle than ever before. So it is very important to find the prospect that ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality. Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust s most likely to select your company. The key strategy for success was to limit(10 at the most) his prospects y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products to the ones that are most likely to do business with him. And then find reasons to talk with them, meet wit . 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 them, mail them stuff. So that when they are looking for a new vendor, they only think of you. If you make elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements. Companies that provide selfless information through particip your target list too big, you'll never spend the time with each prospect to ever gain enough MEANINGFUL SALES 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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