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According to Wikipedia, Viral marketing and viral advertising refer to marketing techniques that use pre-existing social networks to produce increases in brand awareness…it can harness the network effect of the

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

Internet and can be very useful in reaching a large number of people rapidly.

Apparently it can convince people that they should drink coffee processed from cat excrement, too.

No kidding.

While the behavior of these cat - poop – drinkers would provide hours of blogging entertainmen

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

Examples of combination products may in

t as a subject all its own, we are delving into this sensational stunner to speak to a larger point. Viral Marketing, when done right, can have wild implications for your business.

Okay, okay, first we’ll dish the dirt:

Jim Cone is owner of ‘Coffee and Tea Limited’ located at the Mall of Am

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

rica here in Minnesota. Jim is offering the most expensive (and arguably the most bizarre ) type of coffee in the world – java roasted from beans already partially digested from Indonesian Civet Cats. The beans are retrieved from the excrement, thoroughly washed and roasted at about 420 degrees. ‘Kopi

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

Kuwak.” Is the name.

Jim Cone told CBS News: “…It's a very rich, ah, cup of coffee, very chocolaty, ah, actually a carmelly taste around the bottom of your tongue."

No kidding!

I live in Minnesota. And I love coffee. Rarely seen without it, actually. But like the good search marketer, I retrieve my

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

Combination pro

news from Google, and am often times more interested in upcoming mergers in 2007 than I am in what my local news station has to offer. (Perhaps this simply means I don’t observe the news as much as I should…) in either case, I usually get a good amount of current events from my coworkers during the day

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

, and, needless to say, several of them came knockin’ on the coffee lady’s door today with ‘You won’t believe what I heard this morning….’

Again, like a good search marketer, what do you suppose was the first thing I did?

Technorati.

How many people have blogged about this? And

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

…how did they find out about it?

Google.

What news stations reported on this besides the one in my home town?

Digg.

Who read these news stories and submitted them?

Is this a case of viral marketing, and could it become a mark

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

ting pandemic? We’re not sure yet. But by asking these questions, the evolution from simple story to marketing pandemic can be tracked, analyzed and recreated in order to harness the power of viral marketing.

Let’s take a look at how this viral marketing fairy tail begins…

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
trong>Like most brand awareness, It starts with PR. Once upon a time, a local news station reports this story on the evening news. This of course is not viral marketing per say, rather public relations, but could arguably called the ‘first falling domino.’

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi
ong>Mainstream Media Teams up with Word of Mouth. I’m not a fan of radio in Minneapolis, but that doesn’t mean other people aren’t. Apparently the KS95 served up this steaming hot cup of a story on their morning show, and two of my co workers caught the whiff. My interest is pee
ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a
ked. I’ve caught something.

The most powerful and far reaching media giant grabs hold…the Internet! No medium has grown faster than the Internet. With an estimated 175 billion users online, and with 90% of those being search engine users, the internet

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

has become the bloodline that carries these marketing viruses. Like the rest of America, I turned to the internet and found that:

Technorati returned 1,458 results for blogs containing the term ‘kopi luwak.’
Of those 1,458 results, just under 2

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

were posts directly relating to this purveyor out of Minnesota, and 11 were submitted just in the last 2 days since this story broke.

Most of these 11 bloggers cited word of mouth as their information source.

Apparently out of those bloggers,

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

none are search engine marketers or savvy web 2.0 techies, because as yet, no social content sharing network has picked up this gem.

This is where the story becomes on-belay. If web 2.0 decides they like the story, (that’s content sharing networks personified) if its worth

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

haring, we just might have even more to report on. I’m sure Hubby, who also works in web, will have plenty to say to his coworkers after he finds out his his Lady was home from work late because she was at the Mall of America drinking a cuppo-cat-poo.

No kidding.

We are go

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

ing to follow this story, and we want you to participate. Email this story to two people. Submit it to Digg. Think we’re self interested? Find the news story on CBS and submit that. Drop us a line and let us know how many people you infected. A few quadratic equations later, we’ll be back to d

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

emonstrate the exponential power of viral marketing, the internet, and web 2.0

*Author’s Note: Even if you’re convinced that viral marketing can do wonders for a business (just ask Jim Cone – I’m going to when I patronize his Coffee shop tonight.) the larger question remains: “Yes, sure…but how can I

.

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

make viral marketing work for my business?”

Although most e-businesses are have launched or are planning to launch viral marketing campaigns, there is one obstacle that prohibits marketers from reproducing them successfully.

Many marketers have trouble identifying what kind of information r

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

ivets audiences, and more importantly, what prompts that audience to pass along that information either by word of mouth, or via the internet.

For a list of helpful tips, visit about.com Viral Marketing Page

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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