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Conversations with an Invention Marketing Shyster – Part II

by Alan | May 29, 2017 | Invention, Invention marketing companies, Shysters

  In the previous Part I post, I role played a story where an inventor, named Sam, had a conversation with a shyster invention marketing company (IMF) with the fictional name Intergalactic Marketing and Patents (IMAP). Unfortunately, the legitimate IMFs are very...

Conversations with an Invention Marketing Shyster – Part I

by Alan | May 29, 2017 | Invention, Invention marketing companies, Shysters

It seems practically every week, I speak with an inventor with a promising product who has fallen victim to the charms of a invention marketing firm (IMF). There are two types of IMFs – the legitimate ones that render services intended to help inventors to license...

Inventor Financial Blunders – and How to Avoid Them

by Alan | May 15, 2017 | DRTV, Due diligence, HSN, Invention, Invention failure, Invention marketing companies, Patent Search, Patents, QVC, Sell on TV

Inventing is a challenging profession: it is capital intensive and many big costs occur in the beginning and the profits, if any, may not come until years later, if ever. Who wants to sign up? Obviously, I ‘signed up' or I wouldn't be writing this blog....

New Inventor with New Invention: Now What?

by Alan | Dec 11, 2016 | Behaviors of success, Due diligence, Invention, Invention marketing companies, Prototypes, Research, Why inventors fail

Every day across America, across the globe, thousands of new inventors have their first aha moment: an idea for a new invention to solve an old problem. In March, 2002, I dreamed up an idea for a thin, flexible wallet to solve the ‘rump bump' problem. A flood of...

How to Avoid Inventor ‘Bear Traps’

by Alan | Dec 3, 2016 | Behaviors of success, Due diligence, Invention, Invention marketing companies, Lambert & Lambert, Paths for your product, Pursue your passion

What are biggest barriers that prevent inventors with great products from achieving success? Interestingly, the biggest barriers to inventor success are not what immediately comes to mind for most people: money, competition, or lack of connections. Why? While those...

Looking for a ‘Few Good Men & Women’

by Alan | Nov 6, 2016 | Invention, Invention marketing companies, Keys to Success, Leverage, Licensing, Product development

William Jones, captain of Marines in the Providence (the 28-gun frigate, not the 12-gun sloop) then at Boston,  advertised in the 20 March 1779 Providence (R.I.) Gazette the need for “a  few good Men” to engage in “a short Cruize” and gave the...
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