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One of the strategies I've been nagging everyone about lately (yes, I do mean nag—with a smile of course!) is to quit focusing on features and start relishing results. So far,

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

so good. But where a lot of Service Professionals pull up short is when they try to describe their packages. All of a sudden, features tumble out like kittens running amok.

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

Examples of combination products may in

Yes, you need to create packages. Yes, those packages will include a list of features (think the "mechanics" of what you do here). But that's not what your clients are buying.

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

What your clients are buying is a result. So...what result does your Package A deliver? What result does Package B deliver? And Package C?

You see, if you're a coach, your c

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

ients don't really care if they get three, 30-minute sessions a month with you, or four, 45-minute sessions.

If you're an organizer, your clients don't care if they get thre

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

Combination pro

e hours of your time or four.

If you're a designer, they don't care if they get eight hours of your time or ten.

What they care about is getting what they want!

The coaching

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

client wants to achieve their goals or make important decisions in their life/business. The organizing client wants to see their floor and desk top for the first time in mont

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

s. The design client wants a marketing package that grabs attention.

For example, when I designed my HorseWise Brilliance Unbridled V.I.P. program and the Success Circle Coac

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

ing Club, I looked carefully at the results each one delivers. Both offer similar strategies but the Success Circle is more of a do-it-yourself program (with an abundance of

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

my mentoring and coaching) while the V.I.P. program delivers a very specific result in a very specific period of time (and a pickup truck load of my time, attention, and expe

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

tise).

The difference between these two offers is distinctive enough to warrant an equally distinctive difference in the investment, and that's precisely the point. When your

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

Following aspects would a

packages clearly offer distinctive results your prospective clients are equally clear as to which one is right for them. Suddenly, their decision becomes easy to make -yeah!

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

My request for you this week is simple...and profound. I'm asking you to visit your packages with your "results glasses" on. Spell out exactly what is different for your clien

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

ts as a result of purchasing that package (for the time being, please ignore the mechanics of how you deliver these results). Do this for each of your packages.

I bet you'll

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

easily create a list of results each package delivers, which is step #2. Start writing each result each package will become famous for.

Now, take one more look at your packag

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

s. What is distinctively different about one over the other? Think in terms of tiers, meaning that each package builds on the one before it, up to your "platinum" or "V.I.P"

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

ffer.

Congratulations! Now that you're clear about the distinction in results between each package, you'll find gaining the attention and interest of new clients tons easier.

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

Really!

Oh, and in case you're wondering about those pesky features. Yes, you can talk about them, but ONLY after your client has told you which package they are excited abo

.

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.

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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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Your business may be making you a profit, but are there things you can do to make it better? Do you offer your customer the best possible transactions? Taking the time to get to know your customers can increase your business. That doesn’t necessarily mean getting to know each of them on a personal basis, rather knowing their needs, their wants, predicting the goods or services they will purchase, and being prepared to keep up with changes in the market.

Back in the stone ages, medical bills were submitted by paper. Today, they can be submitted electronically. If you're curious as to how this is done, we'll give you a brief overview of the process.

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