According to Inc.com, Laura Silverthorn runs Mother Ink, a company that makes temporary tattoos for expectant mothers. Her online sales are great, but retailers aren’t buying. She wants to know how to get stores to step out of their comfort zones? Product packaging matters less on the Web, but in stores, life-size products jam the […]
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More than 2,500 attendees are expected at Response Expo, the Inventors Pavilion, May 11-13, in San Diego, California. This show gives exhibitors the unique opportunity to get in front of the target audience needed to manufacture, license and market their product. Learn More Here. Photo by Response Expo.
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Here is an interesting story by Jerry Osteryoung over at HELPING SMALL BUSINESS about making sure people want your product. Marketing 101 demands that before you introduce a new product or start a business selling a new product, you need to make sure there is a solid demand for it. While this sounds so elementary,
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For those not willing to stuff their jeans with electronics–however well-suited those jeans might be–the Bandee is a multifunctional sash designed to hold mobile phones, iPods and all sorts of other gadgets that otherwise fill up pockets or get lost in handbags, according to a story at trendspotter Springwise. The award-winning Bandee is a “multifunctional
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The Web Urbanist has put together an interesting collection of items made of duct tape. Pretty impressive. Photos by Web Urbanist.
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The BIG Idea Group is crowdsourcing names for two different product concepts on behalf of their client, Jarden. Concept 1: Professional Salon/Barber Clipper (for humans) The first product is a heavy-duty hair clipper ideal for barber and salon (people) “all-day-use.” The clipper is ergonomically designed and features detachable blades. Advantages: It performs non-stop, is powerful,
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The Star Tribune‘s Neal St. Anthony writes in his column that after Sarah Dillon sold about 2,000 of her “GoGirls” every day of last summer’s Minnesota State Fair, a friend offered that Dillon was a threat to become the “Betty Crocker of the ‘pee business.’” That remains to be seen. To be sure, Dillon, who
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It was just an idea tossed around the dinner table a few months ago, reports ABCNews.com. Jenny Tyler, 32, was out with three iPhone-toting friends who wished that their phones had a camera flash like Tyler’s BlackBerry. So, throughout the evening, the group played armchair inventor and came up with the concept of an iPhone
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“Gadget Nation” author Steve Greenberg presents offbeat innovations.
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After Paul Sadowski’s wife died and he remarried, he and his new bride realized that they both had boxes and boxes of family photos. They agonized over how to display them, but every conventional method of storing and displaying photographs they tried left them with too many memories stored away in boxes. They decided that
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