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If you have traffic to your website but you need more, one way would be to add a discussion forum, also known as an online community.

An online community could be a chat room, e-mail discussion list, discussion forum or other technologies that a

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

llow groups of people to communicate at your web site.

You have just built this great website, at least you think it's great, and your getting some traffic but you would like to get more and keep the present visitors longer. Well, why not try a

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

Examples of combination products may in

discussion forum?

When you have a popular discussion forum, you will automatically increase your traffic and sales...if you do it right. Below are ten ways to attract people to participate in your online community.

1. Bribe your visitors by

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

telling them that you are going to post a free gift every week or month in your forum. The gift obviously should be attractive to your visitors, something in relation to a popular thread just recently discussed would be appropriate. This should

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

get them returning on a weekly or at least on a monthly basis and if your clever enough, you should get them to participate in the forum.

2. Establish ground rules for posting and participating in your online community. It's your forum so

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

Combination pro

you get to make the rules so make them to benefit the whole group...no profanity, no blatant ads, etc. The main thing is to list the rules clearly so all are aware of them and your visitors can see that it's a business-like forum and they will

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

return often.

3. You (the owner of the online community) should participate regularly. Post information and answer questions, be active...your community will love you for it. Have you ever been to a restaurant where the owner or chef came ar

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

ound and talked to their customers? Everyone wants to be recognized and it's even better when the owner does it. Your customers will know you care and that you are approachable. They'll keep coming back, again and again.

4. Post all the bene

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

fits of participating in your online community on your home page. Let everyone know that your giving a gift away for those who participate. You can write it like your writing an ad...tell them what some of the subjects are...put in a link that

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

takes them there.

5. Submit your chat room, discussion board or forum to online community directories. You can find the directories by typing "the community type" with the word "directory" in any search engine. Do this to as many director

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

ies as you can find...get the word out. The more you get your website out and publicized on the net the more traffic you will generate.

6. There is nothing like word of mouth advertising. You're talking with your friend and she starts telling y

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

Following aspects would a

ou about this great restaurant she went to and you immediately know that you're going to try it out very soon. It's the same way online only they're called testimonials. You should post testimonials on your web site from people that have part

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

icipated in your online community. The testimonials should be about how friendly and helpful everyone is, how much you have learned and how interesting the threads are. This has got to get you more postings.

7. You could create an e-zine or

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

newsletter just for people who participate in your online community. You would do this for free and the content would be about certain subjects discussed on the forum or you could write about three or four different subjects that would make goo

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

d threads on the forum. People would post their thoughts and opinions on those subjects and possibly expand into related subjects. It's a good way to suggest subjects to discuss and when the users receive their newsletters, they will be more

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

inclined to return and participate.

8. You want to have plenty of people to help you monitor your online community. There are usually a few people who are interested in being involved with you and would gladly help you by serving as moderato

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

rs. It is necessary that the content of the forum be monitored in order to remove postings that turn away people with profanity, spam and other off-subject postings. The better the forum is run the happier your people will be and the more succ

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

essful it will become.

9. People love to have contests so maybe you could have one that rewarded them for starting the best topic or who participated in the most topics, etc. The prize could be an e-book or software or something that would be

.

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

relative to the interests of the posters.

10. Your online community should contain user friendly features, like a search option for archived discussions, easy posting or chatting options, email updates, or private messages. The easier you ma

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

ke it for your users the more they will participate.

So you see, there are tons of ways that can be used to build up participation in your online community and when you do it properly, you're more apt to keep your visitors coming back for more.

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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If you are the MD/CEO of your company(or a Senior Executive that never has to do chores like this i.e setting up presentations for others - at work), this article may not directly apply to you but it could benefit you if you passed it on to your Personal Assistant, Secretary or anyone responsible for setting up your presentations anytime you have to deliver them. If you are not an MD/CEO, but you sometimes have to setup presentations for such persons, you may find the lessons from this true story quite instructive.

For the sake of this article, let us just assume that you already have a subscriber list of several thousand, and have been mailing them regularly. Initially, your list was relatively responsive, and you were making a nice sum from your list each week. Unfortunately, though, as your list has grown,

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