What do U do with an Idea
Great question, with a multitude of answers…
Depends really on where you’re coming from and what sort of idea it is?
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Is it a new way of making bread?
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Is it a better method of how to teach our kids in class?
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What about old fogies learning to walk on their hands when their knees are on their last legs?
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Is it a better way to do something that normally costs a bomb, but can be avoided in a very simple way?
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What about opening the airways in a simpler way for asthmatics?
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Or maybe it’s a new recipe for making a favourite plonk?
As you can see, there are endless approaches you may have to that question. So, let’s narrow it down a bit…
If you are looking at ‘What do U do with an idea’ from an inventors point of view, although this can be applied from many other aspects, there needs to be much consideration before even doing anything about it.
Sure, you may have had that bolt of lightning idea when you’ve been fixing things in your car, sat on the toilet or in the middle of a sleepless night. It matters not…
The seed is planted.
It is filed away in your subconscious mind and every now and again it keeps popping up in your thoughts until it’s the one thing you can’t get out of your head, but maybe you are still unsure what to do about it.
You’d be turning the idea over in your mind. That thought of yours is yours. It’s there for you to play with, imagining all sorts that it would help you create, whether it would sell if you started to produce them, could it help improve your lifestyle.
The imagination is unbounded initially, but the doubts start to root themselves in once you’ve considered getting it into the shops.
- Has it already been produced?
- Has it had a patent applied for?
- Where do I find out?
- Will I need a working model?
- How do I produce one?
From there, thoughts move on to:
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Should I produce it myself?
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What about the costing?
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What about shipping? Would I need a container full before shipping?
It starts to become a nightmare once all the problems you’ve built up in your mind surface, and that’s only the ones you can immediately think of.
Scaling comes into the equation and this is where most ideas are abandoned, left on the shelf. The expenses involved can become colossal, and that’s even before a patent is considered properly.
So, let’s look at costs for the inventor in the next blog and we’ll see where that takes us…
George Hughes
If you’re looking for anything in particular regarding coming up with products, especially inventions needing help regarding business contacts, just drop me a line on the email link below as I’m looking to help stifled hard-up people get their ideas seen by producers, while wanting to test the market interest for minimal cost’
