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There has been a mild controversy of late as to which is best.

(1). A web site that is built on selling a product Or.....

(2). A content-rich site that is used to provide visitors with

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

valuable and useful information.

There is a lot to be said for both points of view, after all it has been proven that they both can be used to develop a successful web site.

Internet

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

Examples of combination products may in

ntrepenuer Marlon Sanders believes in developing a web site designed to sell.

Ken Evoy, of the best selling e-book "Make Your Site Sell" advocates a content-rich site as the priority.

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

he late marketing expert, Cory Rudl, believed in both.

All of these men were (and are!) extremely successful. All did things according to their own ideas.

The Advantages and Disadvanta

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

es of Sales Only Approach

As I have said, there is a lot to be said for both points of view. The sales page is effective enough if done right. The sales page is after all, probably the

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

Combination pro

astest way to make money in a way. When selling a product you have nothing to delay or distract visitors from your objective, which is to sell that product. Especially if you have a high

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

priced product of high quality .

Also, if you sell one product at a time (which is reccommended) on your site, there will be little confusion because you are able to focus on sales and

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

ales alone. And for the natural sales person, that is just fine.

Or course there is a downside to this as well. If you do not get the sale, and do not have an adequate method to follow

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

up on that visit, you could lose the visitors entirely. It takes a real marketing expert to overcome this obstacle, although you can used pop overs and other follow-up devices to help yo

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

get their e-mail address.

To make a long story short, it is still a hit or miss proposition and sometimes takes weeks, months, and even years to perfect.

The Advantages and Disadvanta

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

es of Having a Content -Based We Site

What about a content site? Well the main advantage of operating a web site that concentrates on giving visitors to your web site valuable content

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

Following aspects would a

is it gives you the opportunity to develop relationships to those who visit your web site.

It draws prospects and customers in time.

But there are examples of online businesses that ha

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

e been financially successful, by giving away free content and developing relationships with customers. They have used a method called "viral marketing" which gives away free information

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

such as ebooks, reports, and newsletters which contains links to their products.

My own personal experiences have proven that this is a good way to do business. For one thing, it does n

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

t require a lot of salesmanship or marketing know-how. It does require a lot of work and I do not reccommend it to the "get rich quick crowd".

With a content focused web site, you can

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

build credability with your customers, get their e-mail addresses, and market to them. And you don't have to worry if you do not get a sale right away.

You can also build your rankings

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

n the search engines valuable content and bring more traffic to your site. Good content builds up your credibility as well.

In time you can develop a large mailing list and sell to tha

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

list. It increases your chances of long-term success.

But it also takes a lot of time and study of your market. But most of all it takes a lot of patience. One well known marketer ref

.

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

red to marketing as "watching the grass grow"!

So in conclusion, both of these methods can help bring traffic to your web site.

You could try both ways.

But decide what is best for yo

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

. Good content can be added to a sales site and a sales page can be added to a content site.

Of course, in the end, the choice is yours. After all........

It is your business; isn't it

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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