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There are many reasons to start a weblog. You want to attract new customers. You want to build a reputation as an expert in your field. You want to comment on news and politics. You want to make money as a web affiliate. You want to communi

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

cate with others who share an interest with you. And there are more.

Whatever the case, there are 10 basic steps you need to take to get things going. And they are all very easy to execute:

Define your mission: Put simply, what

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

Examples of combination products may in

do you want your blog to do for you? Attract clients, build reputation, communicate with peers, inform employees, create confidence with investors, advance a cause, raise hell… what? Think about this long and hard before you start your blog

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

because your mission defines your blog. It affects every decision you will make: content, design, name, domain, tone, links, everything.

Choose a service: Since you are just starting out, I recommend Blogger.com. It’s free. It’s easy

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

to use. It’s owned by Google. All you need to sign up is an email address.

Choose a style: There are at least 25 styles of blogging, according to Web 2.0 guru Rohit Bhargava. He summarizes these styles in a free report you can downloa

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

Combination pro

at this web address: http://rohitbhargava.typepad.com/downloads/ 25StylesofBlogging_RohitBhargava.pdf . I suggest you narrow these down to the most likely two or three, try them on and tailor them to your needs. Also, use the search engine

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

at Technorati.com to find the most popular blogs in your subject area, check them out and analyze what they are doing. The best ideas are stolen ideas.

Launch your blog: Once you know your mission and your style, get started. Developi

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

g a blog is a process. Choose a logical place to begin, and begin. Don’t get too hung up on getting everything exactly right before you write a post. The act of posting items to your blog will help you define what you need in the way of lin

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

ks, art, sidebars, tools and the rest. So get your blog up, start posting, and let the process begin.

Grab a domain: Blogger will give you a domain (or “web address” ). But it will be very long and hard to remember: www.sitename.blogsp

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

t.com. I suggest you check out GoDaddy.com and use its search engine to find a short, sweet, memorable domain name for your site. You can rent the domain from GoDaddy for less than $10 a year, and you can use GoDaddy to “point” the new doma

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

in name to your blog. Don’t fall for the myth that you must have a .com at the end of your address to succeed. Plenty of very successful sites use .net, .info or even .us.

Link, link, and link some more: Coaxing search engines to find

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

Following aspects would a

your blog and promote it to new audiences can be complex. But there are two immediate things you can do. One is to post often, at least three times a week, and preferably daily. The other is to link your posts to other sites. Look for every

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

excuse you can to create a link. If you mention a product, a report, a celebrity, a colleague, a media outlet, a company, an organization, a web site, another blog … whatever … then find another mention on the web somewhere and link your po

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

st to it. Even if you just link to a Wikipedia.com entry, do it. Readers like links, and so do search engines.

Promote your blog: Create a free account with Feedburner.com. At no cost to you whatsoever, Feedburner will promote your blo

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

across the entire web. It also will give you a simple tool (called a “chicklet”) that will make it easy for readers to subscribe either with a newsreader or by email.

Measure your traffic: Feedburner offers free analysis of your web 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

raffic and subscriber base, and for a small fee will offer details on that traffic. You should also sign up for SiteMeter.com, which is also free and will show you how your readers are finding your blog.

Measure your links: Go to Techn

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

rati.com, create a free account, and lay claim to your blog. Technorati allows you to measure how many other blogs and web sites are linking to your blog. Links are a sign of success. If folks are linking to your blog, then you are doing so

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

mething right.

Make posting a daily habit: You can’t attract an audience, you can’t rise on the search results, you can’t be successful as a blogger if you don’t post. Develop the eye of a news reporter. When you see something interest

.

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

ng, online or in your offline life, jot it down. Sketch out a few bullet points. Think of a way to link to another site. Then write a short, pithy, interesting article. A few paragraphs are plenty. And then post it. If you get something wro

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

ng, or if you think of a better way to phrase something, you can always fix it. Don’t get too clever. Write clearly and directly. And make sure your headline tells your reader what your post is about. Good headlines attract new readers.

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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National accounts, by definition, have significant size and buying power which provide leverage in demanding lower prices. In addition, because of their complexity and demographics, they are often more difficult and expensive to service. Consequently, most national accounts are the least profitable.

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