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Send us Fan Mail Jim is the founder and President of WeKnowInventing which specializes in coaching and consulting for inventors and consumer products start-up companies. My firm assists clients with product development and engineering of consumer products as well as sales and marketing representation to major retailers for our select clients. Recently, I was VP of Retail Distribution for TV Goods...

Send us Fan Mail Jim DeBetta founder and President of WeKnowInventing which specializes in coaching and consulting for inventors and consumer products start-up companies. My firm assists clients with product development and engineering of consumer products as well as sales and marketing representation to major retailers for our select clients. Recently, I was VP of Retail Distribution for TV Goods...

Send us Fan Mail Jason Boyce, began selling direct to consumer as an e-commerce retailer in 2002, and a third party Amazon merchant in 2003.  Together with his A+ teams, he has bootstrapped several of his own brands to success with the Avenue7Media, 7-Step Method developed over a decade and a half of real world trial and error.  These methods helped Jason’s company become a Top 200 Amazon Seller a...

Send us Fan Mail Jim is a Professional Member of the United Inventors Association, a member of the Georgia Inventor’s Association, Rocky Mountain Inventors Association, and was the former co-host of the Launch Hour – a popular radio program for inventors and entrepreneurs. He is also the author of The Business of Inventing and has written hundreds of articles for industry publications, newspapers,...

Send us Fan Mail Kedma Ough, MBA, is a nationally recognized business development and business funding expert, innovation and entrepreneurship thought leader, award-winning champion of small business, and business advisor for independent inventors. She is also a proud fifth-generation entrepreneur, whose great-great-grandfather peddled various products across Ireland.

Send us Fan Mail Design Edge is your one-stop shop for bringing toys and games to market. For over 30 years, Design Edge has been a leading toy, game, and collectable development, marketing, manufacturing and consulting agency. Design Edge is the backend support to dozens of toy companies both big and small. Design Edge is well-equipped to help get any company to the next level. As your design hou...

Send us Fan Mail Andrea Pass ​Andrea Pass of Andrea Pass Public Relations is a 30+ year public relations veteran with expertise in national, regional and local media relations outreach for clients in such categories as consumer products, lifestyle, B2B, education, authors, non-profits and more. Her strength in relationships coupled with her knowledge of the ever-growing media base results in secur...

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Send us Fan Mail Michael Miller Michael leads the Product Partnership Program for three companies within NCH corporation; Retail Products Group with a focus on pet products (Brands: OUT, Simple Solutions, Vets Best, Bags on Board, Totally Toddler) and Plumbing Products Group which includes Danco and LSP companies( Brands: Danco, Go Bidet, Disposal genie, MJSI, Rapid Fit, Pull stop Box, Aqua- Flo)....

Send us Fan Mail Andrea Hence Evans, Esq. is a member of the Texas bar, a registered Patent Attorney, and a member of the US Supreme Court Bar. Having worked at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for approximately 5 years as both a patent examiner and a trademark examining attorney after graduating from law school, she then launched the intellectual property law practice, The La...

Send us Fan Mail Brook Drumm is the founder and CEO of Printrbot, Inc. Brook is an American maker who set out to start a side business in his garage. After a wildly successful kickstarter in 2011, Brook was catapulted to the white-hot intersection of crowdfunding, 3d printing and the exploding maker- culture. Printrbot is an example of what blood, sweat and tears can produce if you set your mind a...

Send us Fan Mail The Inventors Launchpad Network – Is proud to present Go Big, Go Bold, Co-Hosted by J.D. Houvener, Registered USPTO Patent Attorney of Bold IP and Carmine Denisco, Managing Partner with Inventors Launchpad. His background in business and experience as an engineer and patent attorney empowers him to clearly communicate to a broad range of inventors about their immediate and long-te...

Send us Fan Mail If you invent products or have a start-up that's ready for retail, the Get Retail Ready podcast is THE place to hear stories and gain knowledge with the Get Retail Ready guy Jim DeBetta!   Jim is a renowned retail selling expert having sold over 100 million dollars worth of products to the world's leading retailers!  Knowing the ins and outs of preparing to and selling t...

Send us Fan Mail You are probably wasting time and money on advertising and promotions. If you have ever wondered if your marketing efforts are effective, you are doing it wrong. Your return on investment or ROI should be measurable. The days of throwing advertising money at radio, television, newspaper, and online ads are over. So, are you asking yourself… How do consumers discover your products...

Send us Fan Mail Dara Trujillo has more than 28 years of retail and theme park (Walt Disney) experience creating worldwide concepts and products. While at Disney, she created products and experiences that are still enjoyed today by Guests. They include the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique, Goofy’s Candy Company, expanding the Pin Trading experience and creating Duffy the Disney Bear. Most recently Dara wa...

Send us Fan Mail Marc Portney, celebrity entrepreneur and angel investor, brings his no-nonsense business approach to the podcast world.  Through interviews with high-performing people at the top of their field, and live pitches from entrepreneurs to get direct investment from Marc, if you are interested in bettering your business skills, this podcast is for you. 

Send us Fan Mail My name is Robert Bear and I am the owner of InventionStories.com and the Invention Stories Podcast. In 2007, I invented eyewear with removable arms. I built my prototype and gave it to a local company to improve on, which they did. I performed a preliminary background check and discovered there were four other patented products, two of which were better than mine. Curiously, I co...

Send us Fan Mail If you invent products or have a start-up that's ready for retail, the Get Retail Ready podcast is THE place to hear stories and gain knowledge with the Get Retail Ready guy Jim DeBetta!   Jim is a renowned retail selling expert having sold over 100 million dollars worth of products to the world's leading retailers!  Knowing the ins and outs of preparing to and selling t...

Send us Fan Mail Charles Sauer is the President of the Market Institute, and the author of Profit Motive: What Drives the Things We Do. He represents small inventors on Capitol Hill and holds numerous pro -inventor events on Capitol Hill and around the country. He is a frequent contributor to the the Washington Examiner, and writes for Forbes, Investor’s Business Daily, Fox News, http://bit.ly/2LX...

Send us Fan Mail Warren Tuttle is known to many throughout the industry as the long-time President of the  United Inventors Association . Tuttle is also Open Innovation Director for both Lifetime Brands (the largest non-electronics housewares company in the United States) and Techtronic Industries NA, (the nation’s leading producer of power tools). As Open Innovation Director, Tuttle focuses on ex...

Send us Fan Mail The Inventors Launchpad Network – Is proud to present Go Big, Go Bold, Co-Hosted by J.D. Houvener, Registered USPTO Patent Attorney of Bold IP and Carmine Denisco, Managing Partner with Inventors Launchpad. His background in business and experience as an engineer and patent attorney empowers him to clearly communicate to a broad range of inventors about their immediate and long-te...

Send us Fan Mail Christina Daves It all started in 2010 when I broke my foot the day before I was going to New York City, Fashion Capital of the World . The doctor put me in one of those big, black, awful medical boots. I searched for anything to make it fashionable. The experience motivated me to design fashion accessories to make them look better. This resulted in the immensely popular CastMedic...

Send us Fan Mail Kris Paul has served as the President of the Inventors Network of the Capital Area since 2015, and has become a critical facilitator for many independent inventors, with contact resources, methodology guidelines, consultation, and some inspiration for the disheartened.  As an inventor himself, and active advisor for several independent inventor projects, Kris has navigated many of...

Send us Fan Mail Marc Portney, celebrity entrepreneur and angel investor, brings his no-nonsense business approach to the podcast world.  Through interviews with high-performing people at the top of their field, and live pitches from entrepreneurs to get direct investment from Marc, if you are interested in bettering your business skills, this podcast is for you.