If you have a good idea for a new invention, product, or service, this book will give you all the tools you need to take your ideas and turn them into profitable businesses.

* Market your ideas and profit from them

* Understand what to do after you get the patent

* Learn how to take that all-important next step

If you have a good idea for a new invention, product, or service, this book will give you all the tools you need to take your ideas and turn them into profitable businesses. Take Your Invention to Market shows you in a step-by-step manner how to develop your ideas, take them to the marketplace, and profit from them! It’s not enough just to patent your invention. You’ve got to turn it into an actual product or service and sell it in the marketplace. This book shows you how to take this next step.

Take Your Invention to Market is written by an experienced product designer who has advised numerous others who have come to him claiming, “Someone else took my idea and made all the money.” As Dale Davis points out, most of these people were waiting for the world to discover them. Now with this book, you’ll learn how to take your ideas to the marketplace and earn an income from your creativity.

By reading this book, you will learn how to:

* Evaluate your ideas

* Research the competition and opportunities

* Protect your ideas with patents, trademarks, and copyrights

* Prototype your invention

* Develop optimum design processes

* Test your products for potential liabilities

* Market your idea or product

* Finance your invention

* License your product

The CD-ROM contains contact lists to help you get in touch with people in the field, such as designers, marketers, product researchers, and more.

Dale Davis has been in the marketing business since elementary school when he sold candy at a premium price to his classmates. Ever since then, Davis has invented and marketed a multitude of products, many of which started out in his garage and went on to be licensed internationally. He still works in marketing and product development and continues to help inventors through Quest International, which he formed to aid in new product development and intellectual property protection.

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