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This is an amazing, true story about my friend and new business partner; Joe.

Just 2 ½ years ago, Joe bought an Inte

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

rnet Travel Service; actually a travel web site, like Expedia, Orbitz or Travelocity, for $500 and $50 monthly. However, his

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

Examples of combination products may in

site was not from one of those big guys, it was a from a small start up. OK; it was actually a network marketing company sel

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

ling Internet travel service. You know the drill. Instead of paying Billions of dollars on massive advertising campaigns l

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

ke the big guys, they paid their Associates to spread the word about their services. Like any good net worker, Joe started t

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

Combination pro

elling friends, family and co-workers about his new Internet travel service.

When they booked travel on his Internet travel

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

service web site, he made a travel agent’s commission. He liked the fact that he could make money from his Internet tr

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

avel service while he played, slept or worked his day job with no overhead or employees. Joe was getting excited with his e

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

rly results as people from his job, his church and his family booked their travel, theater, concert and sport event tickets

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

through his web site. Why shouldn’t they? Since his site was actually a “Private Label” version of one of

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

he big sites, his prices were just as low. He could see a huge potential for his new business.

He built a marketing team, j

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

Following aspects would a

st as I did when I was National Sales Manager for a small computer peripherals company back in the 1980’s. When one of

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

my salesmen sold an optical scanner, he was paid a commission. The District Manager he reported to also made an override

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

ommission on that sale as did the Regional Manager and so did I, the National Manager. That is how most sales organizations

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

are structured.

Joe started signing up other people who wanted a piece of the $7 Billion travel market on a part time, pass

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

ve basis for only $500 and $50/Mo. Unfortunately, I was too focused on my personal financial consulting business to join Jo

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

e, at that time.

To make a long story short, I just ran into Joe last week at the Trump/Kiyosaki real estate convention in

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

ew York after not seeing him for two years. Joe is now making over $30,000 per month from his Internet travel service!

Th

.

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

is is as he is traveling the world, especially the resorts, spas and vacation hot spots; receiving all the perks, privileges

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

and discounts accorded to the CEO of a major Internet travel service with 6,000 agents. Actually, 6001; including guess who?

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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