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As entrepreneurs, we are faced with wearing many hats. Some hats fit us beautifully while others are not quite as flattering. However, as the “stylist” of your business you must find a way to wea

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

r the cap of sales, marketers beret, promoter fedora and the list goes on and on. While you can outsource some of these functions, the one hat you MUST wear, and wear with flair, is that of Ch

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

Examples of combination products may in

ief Boundary Officer.

Because your personal brand is the unique recipe of YOU it consists of many ingredients that make up ALL of the parts of your business, which translates into an experie

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

nce that your clients and customers can grow to expect from you consistently. The boundaries you set for your business are a part of your brand mix of ingredients and leaving just one ingredient

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 chance compromises your success potential.

So slip on your chef hat and let’s create a whole new set of boundary recipes for your business:

Define Your Role

Not clearly defining your

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

Combination pro

role can leave you open to an office line or cell phone that rings non-stop, clients that have unreasonable demands and expect you to jump through hoops (the hat of circus master works best under

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

the big top not in your business!) making you feel like your business is running you instead of you running your business. Sound familiar?

An unclear role can also lead to some confusion about

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

your brand and brand expectations. In many ways, the boundaries you set creates a standard in your business that makes up the overall experience your brand is intended to convey. The question is

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

what standards do you wish to set about your brand.

Some questions to consider:

What days of the week do I choose to work directly with clients?

Did you know that making yourse

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

lf available 24/7 will actually keep you from attracting MORE clients? We’re talking about the perception game. If you’re accessible any day of the week, time of week, etc. what does that say abo

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

t your brand? Always here to serve you or really need your business?

If you made yourself a little less accessible, identifying specific days of the month that you’re available for consultations

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

Following aspects would a

, coaching, etc. without compromising the integrity of your service, what message would you convey about your brand? In high-demand?

There is no right or wrong answer here. There is only the ans

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

wer that best communicates what you want to say about your brand and that makes the most sense for the market you serve.

What days of the week are devoted strictly to marketing and

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

promoting my brand?

Once you’ve identified the answer to the question above, you’ll then know the answer to this one. No matter what your product or service, your #1 role is that of

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

Chief Marketing Officer for the brand called YOU. This means you must consistently build time to market and promote your brand each and every week. When you can automate some of this activit

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

, it makes this hat that much easier to wear.

What subject(s) will I specialize in?

Your specialty ties in directly with your self-brand strategy. Deviating from this special

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

ty can cause confusion about your brand position. For example, are you a business consultant that also offers dating advice? This strategy only works if you can link your two passions (busine

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

ss consulting and dating) seamlessly in the eyes of the market you serve. For example, corporate sales-pert shares rainmaker strategies to close the deal in dating.

To specialize in your field,

.

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

you must choose your niche then market and promote yourself as an expert in that area.

Personal branding isn’t just about your logo, tagline, moniker or website. It’s also not what you do. Your

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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