Become a professional inventor : the insider's guide to companies looking for ideas

You have decided the job of your dreams is to be able to share your creativity with the world while creating a nice income. You long to see your product idea come to fruition so you never have to work for anyone else again. Stephen Key has been living this dream for over 30 years and has provided the roadmap for others in his best-selling book about licensing inventions, One Simple Idea. One Simple Idea has helped thousands license their product ideas. Stephen has reinvented the inventing process. Forget the patents, forget the prototypes, forget starting a business. Sell the benefit first instead! Today its all about selling first and selling fast. His roadmap for licensing success is now being taught in major universities. Become a Professional Inventor is the follow-up to One Simple Idea because people are now asking... I love being creative and I want to do this for the rest of my life, how can I become a full-time professional inventor? How can I go from amateur to professional full-time inventor? What industries create the largest revenue? What is the best way to work with these companies so I build a successful long-term relationship? How can I license even more products ideas? Why arent companies getting back to me? How do I get the highest royalty rate? Why are my product ideas getting rejected? What type of protection do I actually need? What is the best way to submit my product ideas? How can I tell if a company is truly inventor friendly? How do I use non-disclosure agreements? How do I license ideas without any intellectual property? How do I negotiate a licensing agreement to make sure I get paid regardless of intellectual property? For the first time ever, Stephen has uncovered the consumer product licensing industry from the inside. He has interviewed 28 leading experts across 17 different industries, as well as professional inventors, to share their knowledge with you so you too can now become a full-time professional inventor. Here are a few industries included in this Title Page Dedication Preface Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction PART ONE 1. Companies Are Looking for Your Ideas! 2. Licensing: The New Business Model Licensing Versus Venturing PART TWO 3. Behind the Scenes of the Invention Submission Process 4. Submitting Your Idea to The Right Company PART THREE 5. rotecting Your Ideas 6. What You Need to Land a Licensing Deal 7. Reaching Out to Potential Licensees PART FOUR 8. The Dreaded Silence 9. Reasons Why Your Product Idea Was Rejected PART FIVE 10. Preparing To Answer The Hard Questions 11. From Initial Interest to a Deal: Negotiating Licensing Agreements PART SIX 12. Where's the money? 13. Fighting to Get Paid PART SEVEN 14. 28 Interviews With Industry Insiders INTERVIEWS Toys Brian Chapman Ben Dermer David Small Sara Farber Bob Ruginis Jesse Faunce Hardware Corey Talbot Health and Beauty, Massage Apparatus, Travel Accessories Lawrence Cruz Pets Jonathan Zelinger Amanda Hutton Ward Myers Cannabis Jonas Matossian Arkady Grigoryan Juvenile and Baby David Contract Dental Mike Parlante Novelty Gift Sam Hurt DRTV Trish Dowling Hospitality David Middleberg Sports Medicine Donald Bushby Music Justin Norvell Bob Kasha Kitchen Brendan Bauer and Hilton Blieden Automotive Atul H. Patel Golf Simon Touma Ed Holda Organization Jeff Gawronski Packaging Barry McKillip Product Development Louis Foreman 15. Increasing Your Chances of Success How to Be a Pro: A Case Study PART EIGHT