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Invention of the Week #16: Rock, Paper, Skissors

This week's featured invention is "Skissors", invented by husband and wife Dawn and Bob Kenny. The Kenny team works with our invention commercialization partner, Invention Home, to help them find marketing/licensing opportunities for their invention. They created, developed, and patented their unique product to assist children with...
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Innovative Idea: Give Tours

I sign up for a lot of newsletters because I like to know what's going on, what people I used to work with are up to, and it helps spark the Idea Mill. I worked...
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Mark Amtower’s Success Secrets 2

On Tuesday, we heard from Mark Amtower, a marketing consultant specializing in business-to-government marketing strategy and tactics, for both large and small firms. Here are some more of Mark’s secrets to success: What tips do...
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Mark Amtower Offers Success Secrets

Have you heard of Mark Amtower? If not, you will probably read about him somewhere soon. Mark successfully uses publicity to increase awareness about his business and is on BtoB’s “Who’s Who,” https://www.btobonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080714/FREE/128490100/1194/whoswho. Recently, I...
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Get Lucky with Targeted PR and SEO

Since it's St. Patrick's Day, I thought I'd check in with you on your luck factor when it comes to business. How lucky are you when it comes to publicity placements in major media venues?...
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Invention of the Week #15: Making Peace with Pills

This week's featured invention is "Rotatable Pill Splitter", from inventor Walt Cheney.  Walt works with our invention commercialization partner, Invention Home, to help him find marketing/licensing opportunities for his invention.  Walt created, prototyped, and patented a unique product to ease...
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Lose your job? Start a business!

After having her corporate, IT vice president position terminated, Ronnie Fliss spent the next six months searching for a new job.  She was told she was either overqualified or too expensive for what was available so she decided to...
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Invention of the Week #14:

This week's featured invention is "PODillow", from inventor Anthony Calvert.    Anthony works with our invention commercialization partner, Invention Home, to help him find marketing/licensing opportunities for his invention.  Anthony created, prototyped and produced a unique...
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Austin Rocks with Friendliness

I just got back from my first trip to Austin, Texas. And as excited as I am to share all of the new insights I learned to help my clients with their Web copywriting, PPC,...
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Robert Kiyosaki Interview-Part 2

On Tuesday, you heard from Robert Kiyosaki, investor, entrepreneur and author of The New York Times, international bestselling book, “Rich Dad Poor Dad,” with 26 books in the Rich Dad series. Here is the continuation...
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Invention of the Week #8: The Doodle Daley

This week's invention was created by Susan Drexler, who decided she needed a better way to clean up dog messes in the yard. If you're tired of stepping in your dog’s “Doodle” or cleaning it up...