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...
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....
by Alan | May 3, 2017 | Career choices, Creativity, Ideas, Innovation, Invention, Licensing, Marketing, Patents, Setbacks
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost The above poem,one of the most oft quoted from poet Robert Frost, resonates with millions more than 100 years after it was written. Inventing...
by Alan | Apr 22, 2017 | Invention
Every day thousands of inventors have that ‘aha' moment when they wake up, take a shower, or are driving to work: that next great invention – the world awaits! Your inspired idea might truly have the makings of a great invention: Offers a new, innovative...
by Alan | Apr 17, 2017 | Invention
I apologize that more time has elapsed since my last post that I usually allow. It has been almost three weeks. Yikes! But, I have good reason. On April 3 I left for an almost two week vacation with my kids (Victoria – 25 and Michael – 29) to southern...
by Alan | Mar 25, 2017 | Attitude, Behaviors of success, Benefits are easily demonstrated, Criticism, Critiquing ideas, Dealing with rejection, Disappointments, DRTV, Invention, Paths for your product, QVC, Sell on TV, Strategy, Turning setbacks into success
For over fourteen years, I made a living, first part-time and now full-time, from creative endeavors, most especially, inventing. It took me a few years to realize that many of foundational values of the corporate world, don't work well at all in the inventing,...
