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More than half of all new businesses fail within the first few years. I believe that this is due in part to the fact that these businesses never seek out

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

their target audience and ideal clients. If you try to serve everyone you most likely will end up serving no one, so it is better to find a niche that y

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

Examples of combination products may in

u can market to directly. By marketing exclusively to these ideal clients you will end up with more work than you could ever have dreamed of getting.

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

ave a client who runs a handyman business. He works alone and does excellent work at a fair price. When I first began to work with him he told me that he

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

could help anybody so everyone was his target audience. He was getting work but he was driving over three hours a day and having difficulty with many of

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

Combination pro

he jobs he did. We sat down together and talked about his work. I asked him to tell me about some of the jobs he had done recently.He told me about a job

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

that he had recently done installing tile flooring in a bathroom of a condominium that was on the second floor. It had been difficult to park inside of 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

he complex and impossible to get his tile cutting machine upstairs so he spent many hours over a two day period going up and down the stairs to cut each

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

ile. After some discussion he agreed that it was not in the best interest of his business to work in condominium or apartment complexes or to do tile wor

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

upstairs. He then told me about some work he had done for some very nice people about 40 miles from his home. They had been very accommodating with thei

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

time, purchased all of the materials in advance, and paid promptly when the work was complete that day. It took him over an hour to get home because the

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

Following aspects would a

e was so much traffic in the area where he lives. He told me a third story about a woman who lived alone and needed odd jobs done at her house from time

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

o time. She lived about 5 miles from him and needed someone who could work on Saturday or in the evenings, which he was glad to do.

After working with t

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

is handyman we came up with his ideal client: It is a woman living alone in a home that she owns, or a couple where the man is unable or unwilling to do

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

needed work around the home. They earn more than $50,000 per year and make repairs and upgrades on a regular basis. They live no more than 10-15 miles fr

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

m his home. They live in a home that is at least five years old.The handyman told me that he did not believe that he could get enough work from this grou

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

of people alone and that he didn't know how to reach them. I showed him a simple marketing plan, both online and offline, that he could use to target on

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

y this group of people. After just two months he has almost doubled his income and is happier about his work. He only works for people who fall into his

.

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

arget audience and are ideal clients. He now turns down work from everyone else, allowing him to focus only on the customers that meet his criteria.

Def

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

ning you ideal client and target audience works. It will enable you to maximize your time and efforts for greater profits and a better working experience

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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