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Ahhhhhhh. The trial and error of internet marketing.

Several years back I ran a website located at thefreeadnetwork.com. I spent a great deal of my time working on the site and learnin

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

g how to promote it. I soaked up every bit of information I could. I spent two years learning and applying everything I got my hands on. Some of the techniques worked some didn’t. There

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

Examples of combination products may in

was even one situation where I lost my ISP for spamming using a site to blast my ads to millions of sites. You have seen these types of sites, right. I truly believed, or hoped, that th

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 site would help me. It didn’t.

I tried many techniques until I finally settled on a few simple but effective techniques that really did drive traffic to my site. Some of these techni

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

ues were article distribution and viral marketing. Neither of which caused me to lose my ISP or anger anyone. Both techniques worked.

As my site actually began to generate significant s

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

Combination pro

ales I created a resell rights package called Ebook Monster. Do you remember it? This package began to gain popularity so all of the links back to my site were being used frequently and

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

driving more traffic that generated sales for me. Outstanding!

At this time I had to undergo a tremendous transition in my life. I divorced my husband and moved to another state. This t

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

ansition was a difficult one but I continued to work on my site. I finally found a great apartment to move into. Things were looking up. During the move my car was stolen. It just happen

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

ed to be stolen while I was moving my computer and backup files. All of my work was gone! My website, articles, ebooks, everything.

With all the money that I was spending on moving to a

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

nother state and what not I could not afford another computer. For sometime after that I tried to upkeep my site on a friends computer. To make a long story short- with all of the major

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

changes and stumbling blocks I was eventually no longer able to keep up my site. I apologize to my customers at the time.

After working and trying to get by on a day to day basis, I fin

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

Following aspects would a

ally purchased another computer. I had missed working on my sites and keeping ion contact with my customers. Five years later I discovered that my Ebook Monster package is still in circu

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

lation. I couldn’t help but wonder about all of the return links to my site. I found myself actually repurchasing eooks that I had written myself to investigate. I discovered that these

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

ebooks basically contained an enormous amount of links to a site that was no longer active.

How come no one had purchased the domain to use all that return traffic to their benefit? I

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

went about the process to try to repurchase the domain. What I found was that you could not purchase my old domain name for less that $1000. It was now a most wanted domain!

!KABLAM!

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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

“Pammy brains everywhere!”

Since then I have pout together a new site and I continue to use the tried and true techniques to promote. Article distribution and viral marketing. I suppos

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

e things happen for a reason. I have learned from all of my marketing mistakes and promotion is much simpler now. I intend to share information of all my trials and tribulations with the

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

world in the hope that I can save someone from all of the mistakes that I made myself. My new packages will reflect that.

I could kick myself to think about all of the traffic then and

.

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

still that I can’t take advantage of. This is just one extreme example of why you must persevere. Your efforts really do pay off.

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After the tremendous strain of trial

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

and error, I have finally figured it out. You know what? You had no idea it was that simple. http://www.just-that-simple.com

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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