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One of the most successful methods of Internet marketing is the building of a large list of readers, who have opted in to receive mail from t

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

he marketer. This allows the marketer to send out special offers to a targeted list who they know is interested in their product. The benef

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

Examples of combination products may in

its of this are obvious, they are more likely to get sales from people who have requested information from them, and they are less likely to

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

et complaints about the commercial nature of their mailing.

Maintaining a list can be a time consuming job, as it does come with a certain a

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

mmount of responsibility. The members have trusted the marketer with their e-mail address, and have done so under the assumption that they w

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

Combination pro

ll not recieve irrelevant mailings, and that their address will never be sold on to other marketers(or flat out spammers).

I recently receiv

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

ed a message from a marketer who did almost everything wrong. I promptly emailed him pointing out his errors, unsure if I would come across

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

s helpful or pompous. Evidently it was helpful as I received an apology email and a free product(e-book) from him. Here's a quick rundown o

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

f what he did wrong:

1. I never opted in to receive e-mail from him. His first message was a marketing message. As such I could rightly c

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

ll it spam, and probably would have done had I not recognised the e-mail address. To be honest I was surprised it got through gmail's filter

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

s (Had I bought his product with my primary email I doubt it would have got through the SpamWasher filters I use with Outlook Express). A mo

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

Following aspects would a

re professional approach would have been to send out an opt in email once I had bought his product (he received my email address after I made

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

a purchase) and only THEN add me to his opt-in list.

2. The subject "Special Offer" was very generic. Infact, the two words are amongst th

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

e most likely there are of being picked up by a Bayesian Filter as Spam. I always encourage people with mailing lists to use a special ident

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

fier in their subject line. My own mailing list uses [STOPSPAMNOW]. This identifies the message immediately to the recipient, identifying i

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

t as coming from you.

3. The worst error was that the marketer had put all his addresses in the to: field. AGGGHHH!!!! Especially conside

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

ing the nature of the product this is a disaster! Every person who has bought his product from him now has access to my email address. That

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

's a bit scary for me. Never, never NEVER give out your e-mail list to ANYONE. And this is exactly what this marketer did, albeit unintenti

.

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

nally. Any member of that list now knows exactly how many sales he has made and to whom. They can steal the list and use it for their own p

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

romotions.

I sincerely hope to those of you who legitimately mail opt-in lists, that none of these errors will hamper your marketing efforts

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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