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Previously in Part I of How To Exponentially Increase Your Brand Awareness, we have witnessed that by identifying the building blocks of your business brand, knowing what your customers want by asking them directly, you wil

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

l have a firm grasp of the basics of increasing your brand awareness.

In Part II of the series we learnt that to be successful in creating brand awareness you should firstly Get Inside The Heads of Your Customers and have

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

Examples of combination products may in

n understanding about their lifestyle and preferences, then Empathize with the Feelings of your Customer. Then you Create Focus Groups to get deeper into specific topics and issues that is pertinent to your customers, your

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

roducts and your brand.

So let’s move along to part III!

Step 7: Analyze Industry Trends

A further extension into the survey format is by buying readily compiled statistics and figures on the industry. This gives a trend

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

and often times provide clarity on the next action or the right direction that has to be taken by the company for sustained competitiveness.

By knowing what the industry price for your product, the number of sales per cust

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

Combination pro

omer segment and many other related statistics, you would be able to work out which markets are still untapped and lack competition.

This may lead to new opportunities and new grounds for investment, and could further prop

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

l your brand awareness.

Step 8: Put up a Challenge on All Critical Areas!

Sometimes, by just focusing on one single aspect of your brand or product will bring success. Although initially you can focus on that aspect and e

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

cel in it, eventually your product must be able to compete on all fronts that are the cornerstone of your brand.

What happens is that the areas that are lacking would automatically be a stumbling block to the exponential b

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

and awareness that you are craving for, and hence it would be labeled as the rate limiting step.

To avoid this, it would be vital to put up a challenge on all of the vital fronts of your brand, and that differs for every p

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

roduct and brand.

An example would be a restaurant: What are its Critical Areas?

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

ol> This would represent the critical factors for the restaurant, and if it is lacking in any of these critical areas, then the brand of the restaurant would no doubt be diminished or would not grow to its full potential.

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

Following aspects would a

If the restaurant has great car parking facilities, excellent customer service, fantastic atmosphere, but lacking in food quality and lacking in perceived value for money then that restaurant would only be as successful as

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

ts food quality warrants. And that is a definite critical area of the restaurant. In fact, it would probably be its number one priority.

Step 9: Evaluate Your Product Branding

It’s time to evaluate your branding strategy.

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

Sometimes a product does not take off due to wrong positioning. Sometimes the product does not fit the profile of your company, hence preventing the expected exponential increase in brand awareness from happening.

Evaluat

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

if your product brand fits into the profile of your company. Do you think if Apple Computers suddenly changed its emphasis from beautiful and trendy computers to the traditional, uninspired shape and ugly design of comput

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

rs and instead focused on making powerful computers that their raving customers would follow their lead and still purchase from them? Does that strategy align with their catch cry of ‘Think Different”? No. They would be be

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

ter off changing it to “Think Traditional or Think Ugly”.

Would customers of Dell be following their lead if Dell Computers decided to sell their PCs via brick and mortar shops instead of selling it online? Would this acti

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

on violate the customers expectations of Dell and of their promises? You bet it would.

So does this scenario happen to your company? Do you have any products that are not aligned to your overall company business strategy?

.

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

ts time to clear up the mess and begin re-focusing your efforts to build a congruent brand image.

The next part will show you even more advance ways to exponentially increase your brand awareness. So, don’t miss out on the

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

fourth part: How To Exponentially Increase Your Brand Awareness Part IV

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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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