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Advice You - Forums and Guestbooks - Are They Right For Your Website?
Are you wondering how adding a forum or guestbook to your website might help you attract and/or keep visitors?
Here are a few things you might want to think about.
Guestbooks
A guestbook is a place where visitors can leave comments about your site. Good hosting companies have part loaded Guestbook software wh
Here are a few things you might want to think about.
Guestbooks
A guestbook is a place where visitors can leave comments about your site. Good hosting companies have part loaded Guestbook software wh
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
ich you can easily add to your account such as the Viper Guestbook.
Is a Guestbook right for your site?
If you are not attracting many visitors you cannot expect a guestbook to help you attract more. You may be able to get friends and family to leave nice comments about the site, but you may be disappointed th
Is a Guestbook right for your site?
If you are not attracting many visitors you cannot expect a guestbook to help you attract more. You may be able to get friends and family to leave nice comments about the site, but you may be disappointed th
; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.
Examples of combination products may in
Examples of combination products may in
t you don't get too many off the cuff comments from your site visitors.
If you are thinking about adding a Guestbook think carefully whether it is appropriate for your site. If your site is giving information about a hobby or a place, your visitors may wish to add their own remarks. We run a very successful Gu
If you are thinking about adding a Guestbook think carefully whether it is appropriate for your site. If your site is giving information about a hobby or a place, your visitors may wish to add their own remarks. We run a very successful Gu
lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.
stbook for a riding stables, where people like to share their experiences, or to make comments about the site (requesting more pictures for example).
We have also tried adding Guestbooks on other sites, but have found that a Guestbook will be less used if visitors are simply going to the site to find out informa
We have also tried adding Guestbooks on other sites, but have found that a Guestbook will be less used if visitors are simply going to the site to find out informa
here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe
ion - the reason being that they do not yet have the experiences to share! Hobby sites are probably the most appropriate sites for Guestbooks.
Are there any cons to having a Guestbook?
Yes, there are. SPAMMERS! Spammers are the bane of all hard working webmasters. After your Guestbook has been live for a wh
Are there any cons to having a Guestbook?
Yes, there are. SPAMMERS! Spammers are the bane of all hard working webmasters. After your Guestbook has been live for a wh
d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.
Combination pro
Combination pro
le you will find that it will get innundated by spam. This usually appears simply as a long list of websites totally unrelated to your site. Often this list includes links to porn or gambling sites, which may be totally inappropriate if your site is looked at by children.
The way to manage this is to use a Gue
The way to manage this is to use a Gue
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
tbook which enables you to vet all the new entries before they are posted. You may find, as we did for one of our sites, that this gets to be so arduous that you end up taking the Guestbook down. It is a real shame, but you have to weigh up the amount of extra time going through the entries is taking you agains
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
the number of bona fide and useful comments you are getting.
Although there is nothing to stop you adding a Guestbook as soon as you put your website live, you should not be disappointed if you do not get any visitors. Remember to put a link to the Guestbook on your pages reminding people to leave a comment in
Although there is nothing to stop you adding a Guestbook as soon as you put your website live, you should not be disappointed if you do not get any visitors. Remember to put a link to the Guestbook on your pages reminding people to leave a comment in
nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically
the Guestbook, as this will help let them know it is there. If you don't get bona fide comments, don't take it as an indication that people do not like your site. If you are offering travel information, for example, people may be too busy finding out all they can about a place they are thinking of visiting to t
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
ke the time to add a comment.
Forums
Good web hosting companies allow you to use forum software for free (the popular phpBB2 discussion board which you can customise or SMF).
You will get people to visit and talk about things that interest them on a forum. The forum needs to be related to your site (otherwise
Forums
Good web hosting companies allow you to use forum software for free (the popular phpBB2 discussion board which you can customise or SMF).
You will get people to visit and talk about things that interest them on a forum. The forum needs to be related to your site (otherwise
ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi
it is difficult to sign post people to it), and the best forums are those that enable people to share experiences about hobbies. There are already hundreds of forums on the internet - you will need to find something which makes yours unique. Sometimes this is the luck of the draw - if you attract interesting me
ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.
Following aspects would a
Following aspects would a
bers (i.e. people who are knowledgeable and put over information in an interesting way) you will end up with a successful forum.
Forums do not develop overnight. They take time. Sometimes it is months before you get the first few members. But again, don't be disheartened. Expect it to take time, start off so
Forums do not develop overnight. They take time. Sometimes it is months before you get the first few members. But again, don't be disheartened. Expect it to take time, start off so
dd to the challenges in developing combination products:
Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod
Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod
e interesting threads yourself, and wait to see what happens.
As with Guestbooks Forums attract spammers. There are ways of managing these, but this does take time and management. You can make sure you authorise each new registration to your site, but you need to review your emails everyday to make sure there
As with Guestbooks Forums attract spammers. There are ways of managing these, but this does take time and management. You can make sure you authorise each new registration to your site, but you need to review your emails everyday to make sure there
cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin
s as little a time lag as possibe between someone joining the forum and you granting them access. Wait too long and they will have forgotten and lost interest! You can alter the sign up scripts so that people cannot add a website address when they register. This is recommended - if people are only joining to a
tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen
vertise their own website they will not be genuine contributors to your forum.
Forums are a great way of letting others generate content for your website - a successful forum will grow into a community where people chat to, share information with and help each other. Search engines spider forums, and can help b
Forums are a great way of letting others generate content for your website - a successful forum will grow into a community where people chat to, share information with and help each other. Search engines spider forums, and can help b
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
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
ing traffic to your site.
You will need to pay regular attention to your forum, as people can put on inappropriate entries. It often helps if you have a friend who will help moderate the site for you, as they may be able to go onto it to check the entries at times when you are not available.
The more successfu
You will need to pay regular attention to your forum, as people can put on inappropriate entries. It often helps if you have a friend who will help moderate the site for you, as they may be able to go onto it to check the entries at times when you are not available.
The more successfu
ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.
Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust
Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust
your forum, the more work you will need to do!
So, are Guestbook and Forums right for you?
There is nothing to stop you trying a Forum or Guestbook on your website - but be prepared for these to take quite a while to get off the ground. There is nothing more disheartening than setting it all up and sitting ba
So, are Guestbook and Forums right for you?
There is nothing to stop you trying a Forum or Guestbook on your website - but be prepared for these to take quite a while to get off the ground. There is nothing more disheartening than setting it all up and sitting ba
y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products
k and then seeing nothing for possibly months (except for spam!).
But if you are prepared to wait you may very well be pleasantly surprised, and you may find that it works for you.
Consider carefully though the subject matter of your website, and think if you were visiting this sort of site would it make you wa
But if you are prepared to wait you may very well be pleasantly surprised, and you may find that it works for you.
Consider carefully though the subject matter of your website, and think if you were visiting this sort of site would it make you wa
.
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
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
t to leave a comment, or ask a question on a forum? If you are simply selling something the answer is probably 'no', as you will simply be going from site to site looking for the best deals. If you are giving information as well, however, you may find a forum useful to attract people to your site.
The final wo
The final wo
elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.
Companies that provide selfless information through particip
Companies that provide selfless information through particip
d
Forums and Guestbooks are fun, but they can be demanding and extra work, especially for the part time webmaster who already has more than enough to do. If you don't want to have the ongoing commitment, our advice is don't bother with these extras. The more successful they become, the more you will have to do
Forums and Guestbooks are fun, but they can be demanding and extra work, especially for the part time webmaster who already has more than enough to do. If you don't want to have the ongoing commitment, our advice is don't bother with these extras. The more successful they become, the more you will have to do
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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