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When you start a small business and you want to expand the number of customers quickly enough to pay for your expenses and payroll with a little excess it may take several weeks, months or even years depending

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

on the size of the business and the industry you are in. In this article, we will show you how to shorten your timeline by a matter of weeks, or months and increase your cash flow which will help you to sustain

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

Examples of combination products may in

your new business goals or expand beyond what you initially expected. Three things you need to remember are:

1. Sales Target

Initially you will have created a business plan, financials and determined

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

onthly sales targets, as well as expenses and profit summaries. However, you must look very closely at your sales targets, some people think that well if we can get .5% to 1% of the local market in the first ye

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

ar or few months we will be okay and expand from there. But getting that initial 1% may be the hardest, because there is no traffic flow to your door. Nobody knows who you are and why they should go to you unle

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

Combination pro

ss you have spent enough time previously working with friends, relatives and potential customers to show them a potential reason to choose your business over the current one in the market and give them incenti

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

e to initiate that decision.

2. Customer Base

You will need to develop your customer base, but if you have no customer base you will have to gain a customer base, 1 customer at a time. How can you do t

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

his quicker to increase sales to cover expenses and provide a greater profit?

You must offer initial incentives better in the market than other companies in the beginning or provide a greater service so that i

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

t spreads word of mouth quickly. Several companies have done this successfully, others have not. For example, in Canada, a company called the Brick, started in Alberta did so through offering great service and

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

ollow up, then great prices, then massive weekend sales with T.V. advertising. They did it slowly with 2 generations, but they did it continuously expanding and in a planned growth manner. The customers they de

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

veloped told other customers, and they got good deals on items that were new to the market and something families needed and used whether it was electronics or furniture. It takes time initially, but you must h

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

Following aspects would a

ave a good program or plan in place that drives incentives for customers to use your business, and then tell others and then come back to purchase more.

3. Product Comparison, Quality, Service, Selection
dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

This is the nuts and bolts of the plan to market your business! What price are you going to charge, and how does that compare to others in your local market. If your prices are higher do you provide extra ser
cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin
vice, extra quality, extra guarantees? If you are offering better pricing, can you still cover your costs and make a profit?

Imagine a tale of two stores, one no longer in business and the other called Wal-Mar
tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen
t. Wal-Mart was not always the biggest player. Sam Walton had to help others drive and develop the business too. How was that done? Well they started to drive prices lower. How does that help? Well they increas
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
d the volume in buying and demanded and got better costing. Then increased the volume and drived down prices that brought in more customers. Then they started to advertise this using T.V. and it became their mo
ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust
tto, mission to bring lower prices, all along increasing their volume and the number of stores. Sound familiar? Easier said than done, but attainable with the right amount of knowledge in business and team deve
y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products
lopment.

In summary, you must understand your businesses potential sales and expenses before starting to determine what type of potential profit that will keep you in business. Then you must grow your customer
.

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
base offering incentives that drives potential consumers and their friends to your business. After this you must continue to offer advantages: price; quality; service; selection that bring repeat customer and e
elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip
xpand your business with new customers. Given these three things as well as alot of industry and specific business knowledge you will be better suited to develop, maintain and expand your business in the future

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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