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I recently spoke at a national convention of real estate brokers and agents. After my talk to the hundreds of real estate professionals in the room, I had a wonderful conversation with a new real estate agent, attending one

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

of these conventions for the first time. It was clear that he got the message of my talk, but he wasn’t sure he was happy. He cornered me as I was leaving the meeting room, scratching his head murmuring, “Andre, are you sayi

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

Examples of combination products may in

g that I just went into business?” I had to reply honestly; “Yes, That’s exactly what I’m saying.”

Each year millions of individuals decide to go into the fields of real estate sales, insurance sales, and financial service

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

sales. You can also add travel agents, and many other professionals to this group. Attracted by the income potential, working with an established brand name, and great initial training, these new recruits assume that in a sh

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

rt time they’ll be “rolling in the dough.” But what many of these individuals do not know is that they’re not salespeople, but they’ve decided to become entrepreneurs. Their future will come down to how quickly they realize

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

Combination pro

that they’ve started their own businesses and how quickly they can adopt the mindset and actions of an entrepreneur.

Real estate, insurance sales, and financial sales have very high turnover rates. A person will spend month

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

, interviewing, studying to become licensed, and receiving initial training. Then the day comes when planning mode ends, and the person takes a seat in front of an empty desk and stares at the telephone. That’s when they mus

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

t move with the intensity of a passionate entrepreneur nursing a start-up. And that’s where many new recruits become disillusioned and are prepared to call it quits.

During this period you have to prospect, fill your pipeli

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

e with leads, and persuasively present the benefits of your products or service repeatedly. And yes, you have to do this under pressure, often with little or no income, and in a hyper-competitive market. There are prospects

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

just “kicking the tires,” quite indecisive, and those that ignore you entirely. As you look around, you may see your colleagues land a big deal or two, or drop like flies because the task seems so hard. Meanwhile weeks and m

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

nths go by and your dreams of big earnings begin to fade, feeling like pure fantasy. If you make it through the first year, your earnings are modest at best and you’re totally exhausted. Many will walk away from their new ca

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

Following aspects would a

eer, determined never to go down that path again.

When I have an opportunity to give guidance to professionals in these industries, I always offer these five points:

1. Realize that you’ve decided to become an entrepreneur

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

. You must learn the elements of running a successful business, which include selling, marketing, delivering the product, servicing, and accounting.

2. You must become an excellent marketer and go far beyond the typical gui

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

ance you receive as part of your licensing and corporate training. If you do not create a unique business, you might as well get out of the field.

3. Next to the skill of marketing, you must develop the skill of delivering

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

an extraordinary customer experience. That means service, service, service.

4. In your first year or two, be prepared to work like mad, and despite your frenzied efforts at the end of the year, you might feel like you’ve ju

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

t moved an inch, gaining only modest returns.

5. If you stick it out, and really do these things, you’ll make fewer and fewer mistakes, as time progresses and success will become natural to you. If you’re committed you’ll b

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

egin to succeed beyond your initial expectations.

The best sales organizations help their recruits understand these facts. The management of these companies know that despite working with a well-established brand name with

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

ffices across the country, you must learn how to make the business your own, differentiating between your offerings and the many other individuals that have gone into your field.

The big secret in selling real estate, insur

.

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

ance, and financial services is that there’s no secret about what it takes to succeed. Whether you know it or not, you have started your own business and you must bring to this endeavor the same thinking and discipline as a

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

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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