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Idea to Invention

What You Need to Know to Cash in on Your Inspiration

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Discover the tricks of the trade that helps ordinary people learn how to look at their world through the eyes of an inventor.

You don't have to be a mechanical genius to be an inventor. Chances are, you're already at the all-important starting ground every inventor begins at—wishing you could find a clever solution to an everyday challenge. The far-too-complicated baby swing. Slick-soled running shoes. Computer cords constantly tangled up...there can't be a solution unless there's a problem.

Author and inventor Patricia Nolan-Brown has turned many common annoyances into ingenious and money-making products, and she believes you can do the same. In Idea to Invention, you will learn the six simple steps it takes to go from idea to invention, and discover:

  • Creativity habits that spark invention
  • The power of tape-and-paper prototypes to refine their vision
  • How to navigate the ins and outs of licensing and patenting their product
  • The pros and cons of finding a licensed manufacturer vs. running a home-based assembly line
  • How to promote their invention
  • Product enhancements that add years to shelf life
  • From the everyday challenge and your initial concept to resolve it, all the way to the explosion of your thriving business, Idea to Invention simplifies the invention process and gives creative thinkers the competitive edge they need to achieve the success their amazing ideas deserve.

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      • Publisher's Weekly

        November 11, 2013
        In her informative and accessible first book, motivational speaker and consultant Nolan-Brown—the inventor of the rear-facing carseat mirror—offers step-by-step instructions for turning abstract ideas into real products. After guiding would-be inventors through a quiz designed to uncover their creative style, she enumerates her I.N.V.E.N.T. principles: (being) inquisitive, (having) nerve, voice, and energy, nourish (dreams), and tenacity. Next, she tackles everything from designing a prototype, obtaining patents and trademarks, and utilizing nondisclosure agreements to creating a sell sheet, explaining how to write a press release and how to obtain meetings with potential retailers. Nolan-Brown also explains the pros and cons of licensing one’s idea to a larger company and how critical social media and Internet presence are for launching new products. The author helpfully offers tips on how to avoid being scammed by unethical people looking to benefit off the dreams of others. “Most people will pay anybody who claims to be able to help them,” she notes before relating the example of a trade-show acquaintance who was bilked out of $10,000 for a provisional patent that should have cost $100. The author’s friendly tone eliminates much of the intimidation surrounding the creation, patenting, and marketing of a new product, and her encouragement will inspire wannabe inventors.Agent: Sheree Bykofsky, Sheree Bykofsky Associates.

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