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THE ONLINE
INVENTOR –
(c) 2010 Market
Launchers, Inc.
http://www.marketlaunchers.com
Editor:
Paul Niemann
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Welcome to another year of THE ONLINE INVENTOR ! We first
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Paul Niemann
Paul Niemann
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CLEVER QUOTE: “The
budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, public debt
should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and
controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest
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“Have doubts about your invention? Then
you’re in good company”
Paul Niemann of MarketLaunchers.com
In case you’ve ever had doubts about whether or not your
invention can succeed – and who among us hasn’t? – here are a few other
examples of products which the “experts” rejected BEFORE they became
successes.
Dr. Suess’ first children’s
book, “And to Think That I Saw It on
The pair of Chicken
Soup for the Soul authors were also rejected by publishers. Since then, they
have sold more than 80 million copies to date, with no end in sight.
The Beatles –
yes, the Beatles – were rejected by
Decca when the producer said that guitar bands were going out of style. Many
other record labels also rejected the Beatles.
What does this prove?
That it is hard to accurately predict the future; likewise,
it is very hard to predict which products will succeed and which ones will fail.
The people who you pitch your products to at the big companies cannot predict
with 100% certainty that your product will succeed or fail. So don’t get
discouraged whenever someone tells you that your product will fail. It may be
that they’re just too short-sighted or that they don’t want you to succeed
(misery loves company).
Here are a few more examples of people getting it all wrong
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When Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated his new telephone invention to
President Rutherford B. Hayes at the White House in 1876, the president
remarked, “That’s an amazing
invention, but who would ever want to use one of them?”
Robert Milken, the
Nobel Prize winner in physics in 1923, once said that “There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom,”
while Lord Kelvin, President of the Royal Society, said in 1895 that “Heavier-than-air
flying machines are impossible.”
Back in the good
ole U.S. of A. around 1912, Harry Warner, president of Warner Brothers Studios,
asked, “Who the hell wants to watch
movies with sound?”
And one of the
all-time favorite infamous baseball quotes is this … “Ruth made a grave mistake when he gave up pitching. Working once a
week, he might have lasted a long time and become a great star.” That
expert really was an expert when he made that prediction about Babe Ruth’s
future in 1921. It was fellow major league baseballplayer Tris Speaker.
One caveat that’s worth mentioning, though, is this: You
still should do your market research to find out if you have a product that can
succeed. Who would I suggest talking to?
That would be people who work in your industry (retailers,
wholesalers, sales reps, and manufacturers of other products that are sold in
the same types of retails stores where your product would be sold), as well as
potential customers who would be buying your product. You might want to avoid
getting the opinions of your friends and relatives because they will be more
likely tell you what you want to hear than what you need to hear.
Also, be sure to protect your product with a patent,
patent-pending or a non-disclosure form before revealing too much info.
# # #
Paul
Niemann runs MarketLaunchers.com, building web pages
for inventors. He can be reached at niemann7@aol.com
or at (217) 224-8194
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