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Type
Research
Know Your Stuff
Name
When to Make a Gaming Site
Content
Design
Content Management System
Advertising
Revenue
Press Contacts
Keeping Up with the News
Getting Staff
Gimmicks

Type / Research. There are 5 differ

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

ent types of gaming sites.

Multi-Console : Covers all aspects of gaming. Eg - PS2, Xbox, GameCube etc
Single-Console : Covers just one console. Eg – Nintendo Wii
Single-Company : Covers everything to do with one company. Eg – Nintendo
Single-Series : Covers whole series of games. Eg – Legend of Zelda
; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in
Single-Game : Covers just One (1) Game. Eg – Metroid Prime 2

It is simply personal preference to what type of site you want, they can all perform equally, though there is the possibility of a wider audience for multi-console sites, but some may argue that your audience will be less wide due to the fact that it is a saturated market.

Research.

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

se a tool like this one from SeoBook.com to see what people are searching for – this is more useful in the smaller gaming sites (Single company, series, game) as you will need to target a lot smaller audience. Also, check out what related-sites are doing, if you’re the first site in the field try to make it as origin

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

l as possible – check out the Gimmicks section for more help with this.

Know Your Stuff. To make a good gaming site you need to be a good and active gamer. You need to be ‘in the know’ – know the lingo, the companies, the games, and what’s happening in general in the gaming world, if you know stuff you can give educated opinions, or thoughts.

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

Combination pro
g> Of course, it’s best for search engines to include keywords in your sites name, but since the market is so saturated, a brandable & rememberable name is what you should go for, so instead of MetroidPrime3Gaming.com, you would use MP3Gaming, MP3Gamers, or more simply MPGamers, of course you can buy the variations and see which is most effective.

When to Make a Gaming Site.
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
rong> There are points in the year that are prime times to open a gaming site, which will give you a better launch, and a boost of visitors.

Gaming Conventions: More specifically, E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo), this is when I’ve opened my gaming sites and it definitely helps. A lot of people will be looking for all the E3 goss and media, so if you have it, you w
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
ll get plenty of visitors.
Christmas: Everyone wants games at Christmas, so give them games! Christmas holidays are always the most profitable/trafficked months for gaming sites.
Content. Content really depends on what you want to offer. You want to be a news site, an editorial site, review site, cheat site, or a bit of everything. Of course it’s
nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically
best to open with as much content as possible, but if you’re doing a bit of everything, then try to have at least 5-10 reviews/articles, so your site looks slightly established, and people can decide if your site is worth visiting again.

Design. Gaming designs are usually bold, flashy, shiny, and high-tech, and it seems to be working, so try to get the most in-your-face
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
design you can, whilst still fitting a wide variety of content on each page.

Content Management Systems. Take a look at these very cool Content Management Systems, unless you want to go custom.

http://www.ncastercms.com/ - Free!
http://www.igamingcms.com/ - Free!
http://www.insanevisions.com/onecms.html - Free!
http://www.gamecms.co
ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi
/ - Free!
http://www.vgportal.com/
http://www.customcms.net/
OneCMS from Insane Visions is a little hard to get used to, but is probably my personal favorite, but if you have the money check out VG Portal or CustomCMS.

Advertising. Here is how I advertise new gaming sites:

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

Following aspects would a
Lists
Link Exchanges with Similar Sites
Digg.co
MySpace.com
Revenue. CPM methods, once you receive some traffic would be the best bet, so sign up for a program like Valueclick Media who have decent rates, and you can start earning some cash on the side. CPC ads pay very low on video game sites, so stay away from them. Better idea t
dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod
keep your visitors on your site. Press Contacts. The wonderful thing is, once your gaming site has traffic/user base you can get some press contacts. Most game publishers will have a person dedicated to Public Relations, so register at GamesPress.com to get a long list of these people & companies. Don’t go for the big fish at first, contact companies such as THQ, Viven
cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin
i, or Ubisoft, as they are known for supporting the newer sites. Now, if they have a press site, easy, just go their and register, if they don’t get their PR email and type something like this:

Dear Mr/Mrs CONTACTNAMEHERE,

I am the owner of SITENAME, which provides its users with high quality and informative……….

We are requesting to be added to your press release list so
tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen
we can further increase our news broadcasts. SITENAME receives X amount of unique visitors daily, and has been open for the past X days/weeks/months.

Thank you,

NAME

E-MAIL

SITENAME

ADDRESS

PHONE NUMBER

If you get accepted to their Press Release list, wait a few months, post their news, and then you can request F
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
ee Reviewable Copies of Games. You may not even need to ask, a lot of companies just send them out after X amount of days.

Keeping up with the News. Forums are the best source for news & rumors, big ones have thousands of people continually scouring the net for information, and when they find it, they post it, then you can simply post it on your site, simpl
ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust
e! So check out:

http://www.gamespot.com
http://www.ign.com
http://www.gamefaqs.com
http://www.gametrailers.com
If you check out their forums regularly you should be kept up to date with the latest news.

Getting Staff. Finding staff to work for free is usually hard, but if you can grow a decent sized gaming forum, there should
y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products
e at least 2-3 people who would be glad to post some news or review a few games. The best way to get staff is, once you start receiving free games agree to send a few to your staff for them to review, and then send back, a lot of people will gladly review a game if they are one of the first to play it. Getting staff mainly takes a lot of patience, if your site grows, so will the number o
.

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
people who’ll want to work for it.

Gimmicks. Here are the gimmicks I usually use to get extra visitors:

Userbars: People love userbars, and use them on many forums, so if you make some, then use basic html to make them a link, you will get extra visitors/exposure. Just in case the user removes the linking part, add your URL into the actual images.

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip
ck out http://www.userbars.com to see examples of userbars. ]

Flash Games: Have gaming-related flash games on your site, your visitors will surely love to play remakes of some of their favorite games.
Wallpapers: A section for wallpapers never hurts, some people may even submit their own, so it’s good for community involvement.

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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