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As a small business owner and marketing coach, I'm always looking for ways to market my business and my clients' businesses that don't cos

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

t a lot of money. Why? Because we simply don't have a lot of money to spend on marketing.

There are many ways to start getting the word o

; 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 about your products and services - that's all marketing is after all - getting the word out to the people you think would be interested

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 people you would love to have as clients.

And yes, there are many ways to get the word out for free, or very little cost.

One o

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

my favorites is Ezine Publishing.

What's an Ezine? It's an electronic newsletter you write and distribute via email.

Here are 1

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

Combination pro

0 steps to help you use Ezine Publishing to market your small business:

(1) Ask yourself, "What am I am expert in?" or "What do

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

I know a lot about?"

(2) Research other businesses in your same area of expertise to see if they are publishing an ezine. Subscrib

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

e to all the ezines you find in your same area of expertise.

(3) Find a unique spin or approach that no one else is using and that

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

you feel your ideal clients would be interested in. For example, will you publish a quick weekly tip, recaps on industry news and happeni

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

ngs or how-to articles?

(4) Decide if you want to publish a text ezine (looks like a normal email) or an html ezine (includes graph

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

cs and color).

(5) Find an email marketing/list management program to help you publish your ezine and automatically manage your li

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

Following aspects would a

st of subscribers. There are free and paid services you can use. You'll find a few options at dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

ting.com/helpfullinks.htm"> the 10stepmarketing Helpful Links Page

(6) Put an opt-in box for your free ezine on every page of

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

your website. Include a reason why someone would want to subscribe to your ezine - give it a little promotion.

(7) Offer a free gi

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

t to anyone who chooses to subscribe. This could be a Special Report, a small e-book or any other no-cost item you create, and gives them

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

more reason to subscribe.

(8) Decide how often you're going to publish. Weekly? Biweekly? Monthly?

(9) Schedule a regular t

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

me to write and publish your ezine each week, or month.

(10) Get your ezine listed in ezine directories on the web to help you gene

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

rate subscribers. Search for "ezine directories" on Google to find places to submit your ezine.

An ezine gives you the opportunity to bui

.

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

d a list of people who are interested in your expertise and what you have to offer. It also gives you a captive, targeted audience to mar

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

ket your products and services to. And it can be done for free, or for very little cost.

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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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