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1. Launching a product or service nobody really cares about.

Often we get excited over a product or service idea before we learn whether others will care about it. Do your research and save yours

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

elf thousands of dollars and months of wasted effort. Start by discovering if others have already implemented your idea online. If so, what kind of web site traffic do they receive? (see Alexa.com for the answer to tha

; 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 question) Do they appear successful? How busy does their site seem?

Next, talk to friends. Tell them to be completely honest with you, otherwise they will just tell you what they think you want to hear. Think of all

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

the ways you can gauge interest in your idea and test as many as you can. You could go so far as to paying for some advertising and driving users to a site with nothing more than a logo and a "coming soon" message and

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

possibly a "leave a message" form for users to leave you comments. Count the number of people who click to get to your site and ask them any burning questions you have to determine what they think about your "coming so

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

Combination pro

n" website.

2. Overbuilding your first version site. If version #1 is successful, upgrade it to a bigger and better version #2.

Start with a less expensive first version of your site and includ

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 just the basics your users will need to use the site. Find out if you can get traffic and build up clients or interest. If it starts to take off, budget your version #2 and get busy adding to the site until it meets

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

all your users' needs.

Often web entrepreneurs will invest everything they have in a fully tricked-out site before they know if people will have interest in the site. Don't make that mistake. Don't put all your eggs i

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

one basket until you are sure users care about your site.

3, Hiring programmers who lack experience in ecommerce business sites.

Web designers and programmers come in all shapes, sizes and leve

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

ls of experience. Spend the time talking to any programmers or developers who you are enlisting to build your site and make sure they have developed sites of similar caliber before. Make sure they have a handful of nic

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

looking sites under their belts already. Trust me on this one: the last thing you want to do is hire an under-qualified programmer or designer.

4. Building a site that you can't maintain inexpensively.
ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a
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There are always 10 ways to build a web site. Make sure your site is built so that you don't need to pay a programmer to make all the daily changes, edits and additions that will be required. Managing products
dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod
, changing prices, editing pages and text copy are all things you should be able to do with little more than general website and computer knowledge if your site is built well.

5. Programming the site from scr
cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin
tch unless absolutely necessary.

These days there are a lot of ecommerce web site hosting and building companies like Yahoo Stores, MonsterCommerce, or Storefront.net. These companies have very full fea
tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen
tured ecommerce store builders and they will help you complete your store if needed. Building a solution from scratch, that is similar to the ones they already have, could cost you 10-20 times what you'll pay these com
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
anies.

The limitation is that these stores might not provide absolutely everything you want - and if you have a custom product or service, they might not be suitable for your needs. Strongly consider a "ready to use"
ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust
solution if this is your first store and you are selling typical goods or services.

6. Blowing your entire marketing budget by overspending on Google advertising.

After your store is built and
y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products
ready for the world, you'll go to Google or Overture and invest in some advertising. If you are not careful, you could blow your entire months' budget in a couple days by overbidding for clicks. Spend the time to learn
.

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
what you should be spending and what your return on investment will be if you make only 1 or 2 sales per hundred or so clicks.

Good luck

Hopefully these tips will save you time and money as you
elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip
embark on your website journey. Remember, it will ALWAYS take you twice the time and energy you originally planned for and it will end up costing more too. With that in mind, good luck with your project. You can do it

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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