Take Your Product International Increase your sales by up 95% written by Maxwell Stewart Note"  this article is from Mr. Checkout which is always looking for new products.  http://mrcheckout.net/submit The title of this article is “Increase your sales by up 95%”, because that is what we will … [Read more...]

One of the biggest barriers to bringing innovation to the medical field is summed up in the “inventor’s dilemma”: not only must the invention or product improve health outcomes, it must produce a healthy return on investment for investors as well, according to a recent article in the Journal of the … [Read more...]

How to find contacts for licensing The key to licensing is approaching a key contact at a target company. To me the key contact is the marketing manager or sales manager. They are always interested in new exciting products and they will push your idea if they like it. R&D directors and … [Read more...]

Crowd Funding Can Help Inventors Find Investors Monday the 16th was the first day that crowd funding investor financing can start. Inventors and entrepreneurs can raise money from investors from crowd funding sites.  Up until now inventors could only do reward based fund raise, which is where you … [Read more...]

Simple Market Testing - How to Know if you Have a Great Idea I’ve seen many articles over the year that talk about the need for inventors to have a big “wow” factor, a compelling reason to buy and unique and valuable features. Sounds easy enough. But wait a minute. Here are four very successful … [Read more...]

Patent Troll Legislation is Bad for Inventors President Obama is proposing legislation that would help companies defend against others that sue them for patent infringement.  The legislation is targeted at patent trolls, which are companies that patent ideas but then do nothing or little to … [Read more...]

Creating a Great Distribution Plan Spread It Around Find the best way to distribute your product, and you'll rake in the profits. I featured Wayne Willert, founder of Gutter-Bolt Inc. in Port Washington, New York in 2004, highlighting the efforts Willert went to get his product into … [Read more...]

Finding Industry Insiders Inventors will have a far easier time striking a deal with a marketer or distributor when they have a strong supporter inside the potential partner company. You want to find the supporter early before you make any formal sales calls. The contact can then help you fine tune … [Read more...]

Inventions Need Obvious Benefits Benefits should be recognized by end users and distributors in two to five seconds.  How do you know you have an obvious benefit?  When you can give it to someone and they immediately recognize the benefit without you telling them anything.  The more you have to … [Read more...]