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On Saturday evening October 28, 2007 I learned a very important lesson about Internet Marketing.

I returned home from a pumpkin carving party with my two sons and checked my email only to discover 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

n email from one of my joint venture partners Ellen Violette, The eBook Coach. In the email Ellen mentioned that one of my domain name for TheArticleGuy was going someplace very strange.

As I checke

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

Examples of combination products may in

it out, I discovered I had forgotten to respond to several reminders from GoDaddy to renew my domain name. Because I had forgotten, it had gone back on the market and, due to all the traffic and bac

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

links I had built, it was quickly snatched up by one of the companies that does such things.

I was more than I bit panicked.

Survival Tips

1. Seek and accept the support of those around

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

you – As I was freaking out my 12 year old son made me really proud of him. He walked over, handed me a Bible, and told me “swearing doesn’t help Dad.”

2. Turn to those with more experience a

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

Combination pro

d cooler heads – I called my Internet Marketing mentor Tom Antion who was available at 10:30 on a Saturday night! Having been through this before, he guided me through the next steps to take.

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

3. Take immediate action steps to take care of those affected – Right away I did three important things 1- Got a similar domain name, www.TheInternetArticleGuy.com – actually I already owned it a

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

d had forgotten that I did - 2 – Transferred my files to the new domain name – 3 – Let all my members, readers, students and mentees know what had happened and to use the new domain name until furthe

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

notice.

4. Decide whether to get your domain name back – Because of the traffic rankings and back links I decided it would be worth trying to get my domain name back. I discovered that a com

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

any had purchased the domain name that I had been paying $9.20 for a year would gladly sell it back to me for $1500. I negotiated the price down to $1000.

5. Keep you head and attitude right

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

The problem was due to a divorce the year before and being in the middle of a move to Atlanta from Tallahassee there was just not $1000 laying around to use for this purpose. Once I decided to get m

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

Following aspects would a

domain name back I created a very special deal on my Article Marketing Mentor Program and offered it to my subscribers. Not only did I get my domain name back, I gained several really great mentees

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

hat are out there making a difference with their writing and I made several hundred dollars.

6. Create systems to prevent this from happening again – You can buy your domain name for up to te

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

years at one time. You can pay attention to the reminders sent to you. You can mark your calendar for when to renew. You can buy the right to be the first informed if your domain name does go back o

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

the market. All these steps keep this from happening again, or better yet, ever happening.

7. Be prepared for pleasant surprise gifts in the middle of the crisis along the way – While dealin

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

with this little crisis, there were several unexpected and wonderful results and blessings along the way. In addition to actually making money from this mess, I gained several new and great mentees.

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

When I let my members and subscribers know what was going on, I was surprised and very touched by so much support and so many suggestions for new domains names. As one subscriber put it, “Remember Je

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

f, they took your domain name not your brains.” Though I sometimes think the other way around would have been better. One of my biggest worries was what to do about all the articles on www.EzineArtic

.

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

es.com about article writing and marketing with links back to my domain name now owned by someone else. This would have taken DAYS to change by hand. Before I could really even think about how to acc

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

mplish this, Chris Knight of www.EzineArticles.com stepped up and volunteered to put his staff on the changes first thing on Monday morning. Another class act among many to whom I am so very grateful

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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