Stand Alone, Inventor!: And Make Money with Your New Product Ideas!

by Robert G. Merrick

From the creator of four successful inventions, each posting sales in the millions, these step-by-step lessons and real-life experiences will help aspiring inventors move ahead and succeed with a new product idea. Beginning with the basics of what to invent, how to test it cheaply to see if it will sell, and how to protect and distribute it, "Stand Alone, Inventor!" also offers guidelines on manufacturing and merchandising products from the ground up. Advice on gaining store acceptance, writing a press release and sales material, and getting services for less than what the big guys pay make this book a valuable reference for anyone who wants to turn a simple idea into a million-dollar seller.

310 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 1, 1997

Reviews

[Paula]

I read this many years ago, when I was working with a team of inventors. It was helpful with respect to understanding when it's appropriate to go to the considerable trouble and expense of protecting your invention with a patent and when it's wiser to just go ahead, make and sell and take the market by storm. (Some things will return just fine on your investment under trade secret level protection in which you simply don't disclose your secret method of doing whatever it is, and some things you'll do better patenting and licensing the manufacture to others, perhaps. And other things, which are shorter lived, you'd be better off just going forward and making the money from them while the need or the fad lasts). It's easy to read and conversational in tone.

[Raja Santosh Panda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic book to learn about the world of "Stand Alone" Inventors and how to make money out of it. The inspirational stuff is to realize that not all invention have to big with absolute world altering experiences and yet make good money out of utility provided to a set of customers.