-- -- "Tomorrow never comes." "Grasp the moment." "Run, - don't look over your shoulder - 'cause somebody might be gainin' on ya." - Sachel Page "Stop your fritterin' and hop to it!" "If not you, who?"

-- "Intellectual Property Today - New Uses for Patent Pools" --

-- -- "Total know-how for small business." --
-- -- "Getting Financing for Your Business"

-- -- National Association General Merchandise Representatives "NAGMR" --
"A Professional Association Representing Leading Manufacture to the Drug, Mass Merchandise and Food Trade" --

-- -- "Free Resource - Investors - Business Entrepreneuers - Consultants - Opportunities - Distributors - Financing" --

-- "Enter Missouri Enterprise, a nonprofit group partially funded by the Missouri Department of Economic Development and the U.S. Department of Commerce to help small and midsize manufacturers." -- "Originally designed for big businesses, the program, called "Eureka! Winning Ways," has been retooled to help smaller manufacturers develop new ideas."

-- -- OWNING MEMORIES -- --

-- -- Come in. -- You've waited so long that I'm surprized that you're still here. -- Let's cast off. -- You bring with you a fresh breeze that's billowing the sails of our adventure. -- We'll hold steady the course. -- See, around that buoy ahead -- we'll set sail -- outward and away, heading onward. --
By catching the spray of knowledge, we'll venture forth and this day will be remembered for the rest of our lives.

-- "Survey: More Homes Ask 'What's a Land Line?' - Technology News --

-- "The Associated Press: Esquire magazine unveils cover with electronic ink"

-- -- Thought of the day --

-- "Great minds have great purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them."

-- "Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties" -- Doug Carson

-- -- WHAT'S RIGHT WITH A PATENT? --
1. PRIORITY. You have exclusivity..20 years to market idea.
2. PRESTIGE. Your family will be proud of you.
3. PASSPORT to manufacturers & bankers, now they will listen.
4. Putting your house in order. Thinking straight - goal-setting.
5. Placing a "Patent Applied For" or
"Patent Pending" notice on product fends off competition until patent is awarded.

-- "By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher and that is a good thing for any man." -- Socrates

-- -- INVENTORS, STAND UP FOR YOUR GENDER and tell it like it is. This is your moment to speak out:
-- --> Call or E-mail to:
Ms. Pamela Riddle Bird: 1-305-903-1007
-- --> http://www.independentinventor.com

-- Pam definitely wants to hear from you. She is doing her dissertation on gender-inventor-differences and has almost a thousand references. She would include your information and fellow inventors within her fact count.

Pam said that many in our invention community do not use the Internet in any way and she wants to include them as well in her survey. -- Let her know, if you know anybody, anywhere that will fulfill this study?: "What is the difference in the commercialization success ratios between male and female inventors?"

-- A little girl asked her mother, "How did the human race appear?"
-- The mother answered, "God made Adam and Eve and they had children and so was all mankind made."
-- Two days later the girl asked her father the same question. The father answered, "Many ages ago there were monkeys from which the human race evolved."
-- The confused girl returned to her mother and said, "Mom, how is it possible that you told me the human race was created by God, and Dad said they developed from monkeys?"
-- The mother answered, "Well, dear, it is very simple. I told you about my side of the family and your father told you about his."

-- "Welcome to Mom Inventors founded by Tamara Monosoff for Moms Helping Moms" --

-- "With smartphones, Cher Wang made her own fortune - International Herald Tribune" --

-- -- "Thought of the day" -- --

-- "Many people today live their entire lives on the basis of "seeing is believing." That is to say, the only images they get emotionally involved with are the ones they can discern with their physical senses. But the individuals of real "vision," down through the ages, have always known the overriding principle is, "what you see is what you get."

-- Expressed somewhat differently, what this means is that the images in people's minds, actually precede the concrete images, which pervade our material world. Therefore, you should be aware of the fact that the fascinating physical world we see before us, with all of its conveniences for making our lives more comfortable, has been built largely by image-makers - men and women of vision who knew what they could do, and EXPECTED everything else to "fall into place," regardless of what their critics might say to the contrary.

-- "Remember, you will only receive what you truly expect, not what you only wish for." -- Bob Proctor

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THE ONLINE INVENTOR – April 21, 2008 issue
(c) 2008 Market Launchers, Inc.

Dear Inventor –

There are 2 things which I want to clear up, especially to those who are new to our site or new to this newsletter. This is in reply to the 2 most common questions I get asked from inventors …

1. NO – I don’t know of anyone who will “take your invention and run with it” or “Get it on the market for you.” As I constantly tell anyone who asks, the best person to do that is usually the inventor. There might be a few exceptions to this, but for the most part, it is your responsibility.

2. I build web pages for inventors. That’s all that MarketLaunchers does for inventors, and I am a one-person shop. I do NOT represent individual products to manufacturers. Please see # 1 above. I also give FREE consultations to MarketLaunchers customers once they have purchased a web page from me. And I am very easy to work with – just ask any MarketLaunchers customer.

Best Regards,
Paul Niemann

www.MarketLaunchers.com
800-337-5758 217-224-8194
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I received 2 calls this past week from inventors who said that they read about my web site in a story in Newsday magazine. It was good publicity apparently (I still haven’t seen it yet), and I didn’t even know about it until these 2 inventors called me. One of them is planning on becoming a new customer.

What’s the benefit of gaining publicity like this, and how can you benefit from it if / when it happens to you?

Good publicity has more credibility than even the best ad, plus it doesn’t cost you anything. That’s right – publicity is free. Ever notice how people tend to skip the ads and read the stories instead? Well, publicity is printed as a story rather than as an ad.

The down side to trying to get publicity for your product is that you cannot control whether they will print it, or even if they change the story around. In the Newsday story that I mentioned a minute ago, they did not contact me prior to running it, so I obviously had no control over it.

How do you gain publicity for your products?

While it would take too long to explain the details in one newsletter, here are a couple ideas to get you started:

First, find the trade magazines that serve your industry. You can find them by either using Google or The Encyclopedia of Associations in the reference section of your local library. Trade magazines will sometimes run feature stories on new products.

Next, read a few issues to get a feel for the style they use; if you can’t find any stories online, then call the magazine and ask them to send you a copy or two. This will help you become familiar with the magazine’s style, and it will also show you who writes these kinds of stories for them so you’ll know who to contact.

Then write a “News Release” about your product. Make it newsworthy rather than making it sound like an ad; otherwise the editor might tell you to contact their advertising department. Does it cover the 5 W’s: Who, What, When, Where and Why? You might want to have several friends or colleagues review it for you at this point.

Next, contact the appropriate editor or writer at the magazine. Ask if they accept story submissions and, if so, make sure you got the right person to send it to.

You might also want to contact my friend Todd Brabender, who gains publicity for his clients for a living. He does a good job, and that’s why I’m comfortable recommending him. His contact info is:

Todd Brabender
Spread The News PR, Inc.
Generating media exposure for innovative products, services and experts.
785.842.8909
todd@spreadthenewspr.com
www.spreadthenewspr.com

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Paul Niemann runs MarketLaunchers.com, building web pages for inventors. Having your own web page allows you to show your invention to companies when you’re unable to present it to them in person. It serves as your “online brochure.” Plus, it can be seen by companies who search the internet for new products.
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-- "If we all did the things we are truly capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." ~Thomas Edison