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As vice president of S & L Store Fixtures, one of my job responsibilities is online marketing

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

and increasing the visibility of our web site in the search engines. After making a substantial investment in an ecommerce storefront, twi

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

Examples of combination products may in

ce, I came to understand that ecommerce is like a mannequin.

A mannequin, like any of the store fixtures and retail displays that we sell,

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

is intended to both augment the visibility of product and the conversion rate. A mannequin doesn't actually make the sale for you – it on

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

ly assists in the presentation of the wares which are offered for sale. A well designed ecommerce module should do the same.

As our searc

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

Combination pro

h engine performance continued to be mediocre at best, I began to investigate the situation. After speaking with a number of SEO professio

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

nals, I came to understand that a well designed ecommerce system will not only present the goods to the consumer, but also assist in making

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

the sale – both through increased search engine visibility and increased conversions.

The two – visibility and conversions – are often und

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

erstood to be the same thing. This misconception leads many businesses to make fundamental errors in the selection of an ecommerce system.

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

Let's briefly examine the two so as to better understand that which each term encompasses.

A Mannequin Increases the Visibility of Your

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

Product

Just like a mannequin torso, or any other retail displays for that matter, a properly designed ecommerce module will increase your

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

Following aspects would a

catalog's visibility in the search engines. Factors affecting visibility include:

1. Use of session id's (these should be avoided)

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

2. Perpetual, durable URL's
3. Customizable metadata
4. Customizable image ALT attributes
5. Customizable H1 tags
6. S

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

earch engine readable product titles and descriptions

A Mannequin Increases Conversions

Mannequins and other store displays increase conv

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

rsions in that they allow the consumer to better visualize how the product will look when put into use. Similarly, a well designed ecommer

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

ce system should take into account human factors, such as:

1. Ease of navigation
2. Clean, intuitive presentation of product
3.

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

Easy modification of shopping cart contents
4. Smooth, seamless checkout with integration to online payment gateway

What I came to re

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

alize is that most ecommerce systems are designed with only one of the above aspects in mind – conversion rate – and almost completely igno

.

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

re search engine visibility. After replacing our ecommerce system twice, we were able to implement a system that would present our retail

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

store displays to consumers in way that would both maximize search engine visibility and increase the rate of conversion.

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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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